Hypnotoad is a large toad-like creature that has large oscillating multicolored eyes and emits a droning hum. His eyes glow all the time. The toad apparently uses these as a power of hypnotism on surrounding people and animals. Hypnotoad hypnotizes sheep into a pen at a pet contest and then hypnotizes the judges and the audience into […]
Jason Voorhees is the main antagonist and center piece of the Friday the 13th franchise and one of the two main antagonists of the crossover film Freddy vs. Jason, along with Freddy Krueger. He was an almost completely silent, undead and seemingly unstoppable killing machine. Jason was an iconic madman who haunts Camp Crystal Lake and the surrounding area, driven to slaughter […]
Castiel, often shortened to Cass, is a powerful angel of the Lord who was responsible for saving Dean Winchester from Hell, on the archangels’ command. It was his job to help prevent Lilith from breaking the 66 Seals that, once broken, would release Lucifer from his cage in Hell. Once Castiel learned that the angels wished to free Lucifer anyway, he defied his angelic brethren and died trying to help Dean […]
The Time Lords were inhabitants of the planet Gallifrey, who were most famous for the creation and attempted monopolization of time travel technology. They created and upheld the Laws of Time. Time Lords were sensitive to timelines, being able to see “all that is, all that was, all that ever could be,” but also “what must not [be]”. They had an instinctive urge to […]
The Winchester Family are Men of Letters and hunters. The Winchester bloodline goes back to their ancestors Cain and Abel. Mary Winchester comes from a family of hunters, while the Winchester line was traditionally Men of Letters. Sam and Dean Winchester were destined to be the vessels of Archangel Michael and Lucifer. Dean Winchester (b. January 24, 1979) is a human and hunter as well as a member of the Men of Letters with his younger […]
Do you sometimes find making NPCs your players will enjoy frustrating? In this video, I tell the story of Gary the Intern, a beloved NPC that has made an appearance in all of my D&D games. Along the away, perhaps we’ll discover some secrets to making awesome non-player characters in Dungeons & Dragons. (And if […]
Okay, I caved. Here’s the hunter class based on the TV show Supernatural. Yes, I’m fully aware it’s a reskinned and altered UA ranger, but hey–that’s basically what a hunter is, right? A hunter is a being, usually a human, who hunts down the supernatural and saves people from monsters, demons, ghosts, and other creatures. The Hunter Level Prof. Bonus Feature […]
It is a shape-shifting creature known as a Glamour who is billions of years old. Although It lived on planet Earth for many years, It originated in a void/dimension outside the regions of space known as the Macroverse. Since Its true identity is unclear, due to its shape-shifting abilities and being from another universe, It’s real name and […]
Readers will quickly identify the inspiration behind this adventure. It involves an “alien predator” that hunts the adventurers in a dark, primordial forest. As an incredibly dangerous foe, their only recourse is to escape the creature. But how can you flee from a malicious creature such as this? This adventure is still in editorial mode […]
Having recently downloaded Dyson’s amazing Dyson’s Delve: The Original Mini Mega-Dungeon and read through a few old Dungeon magazines, I was inspired to cook up a quick dungeon using one of Dyson’s Maps. If you didn’t already know, Dyson Logos has a super useful list of dungeon maps he’s created that available for commercial use. […]
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