Category: Fun Stuff

7-Day Challenge: Let’s Make a Monster

Hey all! If you haven’t heard, I’m at a work conference in Austin (by the way, the food is UH-MAZING here) until Friday night. When I get back on Saturday, I plan to knock out a bunch of content before my Saturday night session that’s at 5:30pm. One thing I’d really like to get caught […]

Stat Anything: The Power Stone, First of the Six Infinity Stones | Artifact for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition

We all knew it’d come to this. Eventually, I’d break down and create the Infinity Stones, the Gauntlet, and of course, everyone’s favorite purple villain, Thanos. To kick it off, I thought I’d start with the first stone that Thanos collected: the Power Stone. Playtest Content The material here is presented for playtesting and to spark […]

Olmec (from Legends of the Hidden Temple) | For Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (with Design Notes)

This is a great request. It comes in as part of a contest I held recently to pick a special attack for the blutgeist monster I created here on the blog. The winner got to put in a request that appeared at the top of the request pile. Whoop whoop! And here’s what he asked […]

Krampus | Monster for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition

Earlier, I asked folks on Instagram who I should create for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. And I got back a lot of cool ideas. But the one that I seemed to get over and over and over again was Santa’s demon-buddy Krampus. Who is Krampus? From Wikipedia: In Central European folklore, Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure described as […]

Jack the 7-Year Old | Monster for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (Happy Birthday, Jack!)

Tomorrow is the infamous DM Jack’s 7th birthday! Woohoo! Hard to believe that little peanut that appeared way back in 2011 is now a crazy, flippin’, reading’, joke-telling machine. To celebrate Jack’s birthday, I thought I might make a monster out of him. After all, he’s my monster. #mushydadstuff Oh, and he’s totally a monk/wizard. […]

The 12 Novice Adventurers | Challenge for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition

This request comes from another one of my Patrons, Brad. Here’s what Brad requested: I recently went through an escape room with some of my gaming group, and I thought that it would be interesting to put out characters through an “escape dungeon” during a session. Could you do that as a mini-dungeon? Challenge accepted, […]

Stat Anything: Gremlins (Mogwai) | Monsters for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition

This morning, while tossing and turning, I got the wild idea to create Gremlins from the 1984 Joe Dante movie. If you aren’t familiar with gremlins, they are small, lizard-like creatures that live to cause havoc. They spawn from mogwai that have eaten after midnight and they multiply when you put water on them. In […]

Busy Saturday! Updates Tomorrow! And a Big Congratulations to DM Jack (My Son!)

Hey readers! Thanks for your patience today. As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t put anything new up yet. Today, I was in Tulsa watching my six-year-old son at a gymnastics meet where he not just won one gold medal, nor two or even three, but FOUR gold medals, finishing first in all-around. Way to go, […]

Stat Anything: Creepy Things Somebody Asked Me to Stat | Monsters for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition

If you ever want to get a mention on this site, here’s the easiest way to do it. Send me a weird picture on Instagram or tell me a crazy story. Chances are if I find it weird, I’ll probably stat it up. And I mean weird. Not mean. Like, don’t send me a picture […]

Stat Anything: Michael Myers for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition

In the spirit of Halloween (and the movie Halloween is currently the #1 movie in America), I decided to cook up stats for that ol’ ’70’s horror icon, Michael Myers.  Michael Myers is a fictional character from the Halloween series of slasher films. He first appears in John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) as a young boy who murders his sister, Judith Myers, and then, fifteen years later, […]