Tips about naming your characters
From the Easy Button to using Athletes for Inspiration a couple paths on how to create names for your Dungeons & Dragons characters.
Adding Culture to Your Game: A new tool
Get rid of languages; replace them with Culture: NAME.
DC 0 Checks
Originally posted on ThinkDM:
As a matter of adventure design (or when improvising as a DM), you shouldn’t lock mission-critical information behind a skill check. Because if the characters fail the check, the plot line is dead. But, the solution isn’t to get rid of skill checks. The solution is DC 0 checks. “Isn’t that…
Queen and Konstruct: A Goblin’s Lyfe
There are two important things in a goblin’s lyfe. I’m talking about all of us, the gobkon, the hobkon, the mulkon — all of us. Your relationship to the Queen and your Guild. This is hard for you humans, with all your divergent nations and cities and faiths and disgusting menagerie animals to understand. I’m…
Thunder Monkeys and Other Remarkable Beasts for Your D&D Campaign
Remarkable beast companions with the ability to cast cantrips expand the memorable moments during your D&D games.
Five Shops along Moonset Street
Originally posted on Dyson's Dodecahedron:
Here we have a collection of five mercantile businesses along the south side of Moonset Street. These are fairly traditional business designs – in most cases there is no access to the interior of the business for shoppers and they instead interact through the long shop windows. Moonset Street…
Seven Additional Backgrounds in World of Everflow
All of these backgrounds vary from the system as outlined in the Player’s Handbook (2 skills and 2 languages/kits/games/instruments/tools). They are slightly more powerful, but also have limitations in regards to origin kingdom and maybe negative features. The bonuses include an extra non-damaging cantrip, a bit more equipment, a single weapon or companion points. A DM running…
Uprising & Rebellion: One Sheet
This campaign is set five years after the Lorebook Hunters. With the call of magic strong in the Western Wildes, the kingdoms of the Everflow are stressed by magic. The New Peoples (Ken and Kon), the Offspring of Chorl, the elementals in The Ferments, the Haunting of the High Hills, truce at the River Crinth…
The Marching Tankard Coaching Inn
Originally posted on Dyson's Dodecahedron:
A lovingly maintained coaching inn, the Marching Tankard is more than most travellers expect along the back roads servicing a few small settlements. the Marching Tankard – Ground Floor – Tagged While the Tankard’s history goes back a few generations, the current ownership brought it up to the standards…
Monk: Way of the Frayed Knot
The Way of the Frayed Knot is a Monk subclass that attempts to feature some Western fantasy tropes. The most common of these is Friar Tuck from Robin Hood, but there are other studious, religious types that fought alongside rogues and pirates. Some ignored their ideals. Others felt that the ideals of the gang or…
