Cantrips and Backgrounds Are a Perfect Match
Seventeen cantrips that the commoners of your D&D world should be using in their fantastic apocryphal lives.
Arise & Descend: Entering the Manor House
If we are to be heroes, we must act with in the faith of ourselves, our gods, and those that look to us for hope. This band of becoming-friends is strong willed and capable. We are willing to risk, a bit brash (that may be my fault). Those that oppose us are able to surrender.…
Exploring Additional 5th Edition Backgrounds
Many fantasy tropes are ignored by the background system. Let’s fix that.
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…
Arise & Descend Session Two & Three: Goblin Caverns
After being ambushed along the trail we learned of a cave from which these goblins raid the civilized folk along the merchant’s road. Within those caverns may just be Gundran and Sildar. So we headed out, an attempt to rescue the men responsible for paying us. We mount this rescue operation out of self-interest, revenge,…
Adding Culture to Your Game: A new tool
Languages in most Dungeons & Dragons settings is rather rudimentary. There’s the pidgin-trade tongue of Common (and sometimes Undercommon. From there, the typical known languages are based on races and the planes. A character might know Common, Elvish, and Primordial for example. This is bland, unnecessary, and lacks verisimilitude. Get rid of languages. It comes…
Arise & Descend Session One: Goblin Ambush
Awf Hornjaw et Loragwyn, a gold dwarf battleaxe wielding wizard, left his homes because he heard of a goblin threat near Neverwinter. In Neverwinter Awf met some industrious souls in the city. Karkom Hammerstone, that wonderful axe and hammer dwarf, knows how to share an ale and those massive arms look like they’d be strong…
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…
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…
Society of Veil and Shadows
The Society of Veil and Shadows are a group of rogues dedicated to obscuring and protecting their guild from spies — both arcane and mundane. While able to contribute to the uprising’s success via sneak attacks and other clandestine abilities their true power is their ability to cast a few spells, most of which help…
