My homebrew world where tales of animal companionship, forgotten magic, and the question of who controls information are told.
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…
An entry in Phatha Phioxa Baroness-flagged of the Guild’s diary after she left on First Flight to the Lands of Kin
Remarkable beast companions with the ability to cast cantrips expand the memorable moments during your D&D games.
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…
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…
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…
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…
A work-in-progress for a Monk subclass.
In the World of the Everflow dragons hoard knowledge, and much more. For most gold and treasure are meaningless.
Originally posted on Chris S. Sims:
In the first entry of this short series, I wrote about the philosophy of passive skill or trait use in roleplaying games. That piece focused on information exchange and the use of passive skill to determine the baseline of what a character knows in a game. There, I claimed…
Full Moon Storytelling 