Homebrew rules part III: Lingering injuries and natural healing

Let us dwell further into the homebrew rules for my ongoing Storm King’s Thunder D&D 5e campaign. Last time I wrote about our modified critical hit rules, so it’s only fitting that I’ll write about injuries this time. Combat is an essential part of any D&D campaign, and is easily the most complex part of

More Dungeondraft maps

I’ve playing around some more with Dungeondraft, and this has resulted in a couple of more pretty generic maps (they just might turn up in my upcoming D&D campaign).

Testing Dungeondraft

As a DM you are often tasked with finding suitable encounter maps, and even more so as most sessions happen online over a virtual tabletop. I’ve used a couple over version over the years, either premade and converted to use digitally, doing in the vtt itself, photoshop or programs more designed to create rpg maps.

30 years of Drizzt Do’Urden

30 years ago, the novel The Crystal Shard was published, the first book in the Icewind Dale trilogy and the first novel by the since prolific fantasy author R. A. Salvatore.  Set in the D&D world Forgotten Realms it introduced a character that has grown into one of the most recognizable icons of D&D, namely

RPG Monsters: Owlbear

We had our second Kingmaker session on Sunday, and so happens again encountered a classic RPG monster. The first session we encountered some kobolds and that made me write the Kobold-post. This time around we had a random encounter with an owlbear. It actually was rather hilarious as we earlier in the session had joked

RPG Monsters: Kobolds

Last session in Kingmaker (which still is the only session we have gotten around to play) the party encountered a group of kobolds. That got me thinking about these classic RPG monsters that seem so familiar for most players. So here’s a closer look at the background of kobolds known from D&D and Pathfinder campaigns.

Stranger Things 2 and D&D (part II)

Time for the second and final part about the various D&D references in Stranger Things 2, the sequel to Netflix hit show from last year (If you missed it, here’s part I). The first season dealt with a monster the group quickly labelled as Demogorgon (see my post about the first season for more information).

Stranger Things 2 and D&D (part I)

On October 27 the second season of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things was released; 9 episodes of more horror and 80’s homage. For most part it was a worthy sequel even though it does include some side plots and sets up a few characters that probably will be more central in the upcoming seasons*.

RPG confessions: I don’t like high-level characters

I love roleplaying games, and while I probably still prefer the old-school pen and paper approach I see the benefits of things like Roll20 or the DM having the information on his laptop and not in a chaotic pile of paper. On the other hand, there are things that really irritate me when they crop