One big thing I see a lot of people talk about on Reddit, Instagram, and everywhere else RPGers lurk is how they want better stories on how characters meet. There’s also this idea of “0-level characters”, basically a Fifth Edition character before it gets all of its cool powers. As part of BroadSword magazine’s adventure […]
The Battle of Dragard Mine introduces new rules for mass combat in Fifth Edition. These rules can be added into your game with very little modification on your part. The system itself doesn’t change how combat works with the exception of adding in two new actions, commands and rally. The Command action allows leaders (described below) to […]
Today, I received the Tactical Maps Reincarnated pack from Wizards of the Coast. It’s a pretty cool little pack that comes with 20 different maps on 10 posters, each one measuring about 36″ x 24″. They got me thinking about the different types of advantages that terrain can provide creatures during combat to make much […]
If Jillian is a total bad-ass at CR 21 and she’s the just lieutenant, then how bad-ass is the captain of the guard himself? My guess would be CR 24 or so. Koroxon Medium fiend (demon), chaotic evil Armor Class 21 (natural armor, floating shield +1) Hit Points 237 (25d8 + 125) Speed 40 ft. […]
Jillian is part of the Bzallin’s Blacksphere adventure. The original Jillian was a CR 10 challenge, but I realized that I probably needed to beef her up a bit. Edit: I realize that I actually made her too low of a challenge at 16. So I had to beef her up even more to CR […]
Metal spiders are vehicles which can be piloted by a Small creature such as a halfling or gnome. Metal Spider Huge vehicle (15 ft. by 15 ft.) Creature Capacity 1 crew Cargo Capacity none Travel Pace 40 ft., 8 miles per hour (192 miles per day) Abilities Str 20 (+5), Dex 14 (+2), Con 19 […]
Yeah, I’m kinda on a kick lately with this series, but I thought I might tackle a few more armies before hanging it up. Next, on the list are the undead. Everyone wants to fight a skeleton army, right? Design Notes A couple of huge changes again to the ruleset. Chances are I’m going to […]
To really test my revised mass combat rules out, I thought I might build a couple army lists. The first army list will be humans. The other will be goblins (of course). Building an army with the mass combat rules is as simple as the two army commanders (two players, or a DM and the […]
To really test my revised mass combat rules out, I thought I might build a couple army lists. The first army list will be humans. The other will be goblins (of course). Building an army with the mass combat rules is as simple as the two army commanders (two players, or a DM and the […]
Thinking back on my Mass Combat Rules for Fifth Edition (and reading through the ruleset again), I was thinking up a couple changes I wanted to implement in the design. Well, one thing lead to another I ended up rewriting the whole damn thing. And I gotta say: it’s way better. Playtest Content The material […]
