A Taste of Things to Come

The PCs discover a magic sword, a wicked blade with jagged teeth lining its 6-foot length. The enchanted blade proves incredibly powerful and useful to whichever PC uses it.
Not long after discovering it, the PCs are ambushed by what would best be described as ninjas. Dressed in simple black wrappings, they are skilled and swift […]

Steal This Setting: Ravnica, Part 2

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Please download and install the D&D 4e Attack Icons font to see the stat blocks below correctly. Without it, the 4th edition icons, like the recharge dice and basic attack icons, won’t […]

Steal This Setting: Ravnica, Part 1

Today I’m posting the first in a 3-part series on using the Magic: the Gathering plane of Ravnica in RPGs. In this series I’ll also be giving some sample rules components for D&D 4th edition. At the end of the series, I’ll also release a PDF with all the stat blocks used in the series […]

Dynamic Domains: Taverns

Hey guys, sorry today’s post is so late, had jury duty yesterday and that kinda screwed everything up.
So today I’m just going to brainstorm different things you can do to make the requisite barroom brawls a bit more interesting. Probably not a whole lot originality here, but this is as much to explore a new […]

Friends & Foes: The Stargazer

The man known as Corlan Stargazer always tends to stick out in a crowd. In the dead of summer when the temperatures have everyone else stripped down to their skivvies he can be found wearing a thick parka. More strangely, everywhere he goes, he carries a lit lantern, day or night.
Years ago, while traveling through […]

Random Encounters: Fourteen

I’ve just released version 2.0 of my Monster Maker. There’s been some bug fixes and changes made (I’d missed, for example, the option to give monsters regeneration), as well as a brand new UI that should be a bit more organized and easier to work with.

Learn more or download Monster Maker 2.0
Now, regarding Dynamic Domains. […]

No post for today

Sorry, no post for today.
In the mean time, may I suggest Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a new musical by Joss Whedon starring Neil Patrick Harris? It’s free to watch until, I think, the 20th. The first 2 acts are about 13 minutes a piece, and the third and final act is being post tomorrow (Saturday).
It’s […]

Dynamic Domains: The Hive

A massive beehive, bloated with tens of thousands of the venomous little insects, hangs precariously from a tree branch.
Description: The hive is an active* feature suitable for forests, plains, ruins, and other places a hive of bees or other insects might be found.
Setup: Try to place the hive somewhere which combatants are likely to pass […]

A Sobering Situation

For as long as anyone can remember, the ogres to the north in the Catclaw Mountains have been nought but an occasional nuisance. Once in a while they’d steal a couple goats, and every few generations a particularly charismatic leader would emerge and whip the ogres into a drunken frenzy, bent on conquest. These raiding […]

Random Encounters: Thirteen

Some links courtesy of Wikipedia.
A damn-near comprehensive list of legendary creatures, sorted alphabetically. Best thing about this list, in my mind, is the brief description given for each of them. You don’t even need to click the link to get a preview of what an unfamiliar monster is!
Of course, such a gargantuan list can be […]