I just finished up Game of Thrones (yeah, I know I’m late to the party). In terms of Fifth Edition stats, most of the stuff in Game of Thrones is pretty self-explanatory (although Game of Thrones dragons aren’t really Dungeons & Dragons dragons, I digress). If there was one creature that stuck out in the […]
Recently, I was putting together an article around creating golems using the manual of golems from the DMG. But as I was trying to reverse engineer the entire process (and I still hope to release the info I came up with) it occurred to me that it just simply isn’t worth it due to opportunity […]
This is a continuation of my scalable NPC/monster series where, instead of just creating all new monsters for Fifth Edition, I create rules to make it easy for anyone (including myself) to scale them up or down. Lizardfolk in Fifth Edition Oddly, I haven’t used a lot of lizardfolk in Fifth Edition. However, I’ve gotten […]
The races in the Fifth Edition do a pretty good job of bringing balance and flavor to the game. However, they don’t make room for a whole lot of variety or special abilities. For example, if I want a drow rogue that has the Alert feat, I have to wait until that drow hits level […]
So, there’s nothing wrong per se with the rules in the Dungeon Master Guide about running chases in D&D. However, they are rather complicated. And the deal with complicated rules for chases is that since chases don’t happen so often in Dungeons & Dragons, when you do have one, you have to dig out the […]
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The Shadowfell gives rise to strange incarnations of the plane’s bleak nature. The sorrowsworn embody the forms of suffering that are inherent to the shadowy landscape, and they visit horror on those who stumble into their midst. Emotion Given Form. Each sorrowsworn personifies a different aspect of despair or distress. Some are manifestations of anger; […]
This is a continuation of my scalable NPC/monster series where instead of just creating all new monsters for Fifth Edition, I create rules to make it easy for anyone (including myself) to scale them up or down. Hobgoblins in Fifth Edition Hobgoblins definitely have to be one of my favorite monsters in D&D 5e. Although […]
Tonight, Friday, May 17, at 8 p.m. Eastern US time, we’ll be having a dungeon master question & answer live stream over on my YouTube channel, The DM Lair. For more videos to help dungeon masters run awesome games, check out the DM Lair on YouTube.
A while back, I started brainstorming rules for a modern Fifth Edition zombie survival setting called ZACS 5e–or the Zombie Apocalypse Campaign Setting (Fifth Edition rules). Since Dungeons & Dragons‘ Fifth Edition ruleset lends itself so well to different scenarios, I thought it was a bit of a layup. Of course, like many things I […]
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