So D&D 5E is about to put out a new monster manual... Volo's Guide to Monsters   it might be awful, and it might be really cool.  It...

A PRELUDE TO A REVIEW My readers may think that I have absolutely no time for the tabletop products produced by Wizard's of the Coast ...

Lately the HMS Apollyon is drawing me back in, I've started doing some doodles and here are a few. This first is of the vessel from a ...

 If animated corpses, ghouls, wights and wraiths make up the common undead, D&D has always had room for more dangerous abdead foes, and...

Looking through an old folder I found some notes on the last few seven session of the ASE campaign that started this blog back in 2012.  I...

It's perhaps long overdue, and really this document has been sitting about, mostly edited, mostly complete for some time now.  I've ...

FALLEN EMPIRE ON THE PATH TO ADVENTURE PDF OF WITH LISTS HERE The Fallen Empire is a place where the lives of the citizenry are constan...

SETTING RULES FOR FALLEN EMPIRE Thinking about settings and the generic assumptions of fantasy games and where I want to place "F...

OH THE CREATURES OF THE NIGHT... I'm not sure if this is a review or a mediation on adventure design principles, but I've recently...

SKELETONS AND ZOMBIES I'm not sure if the animated skeleton is the most iconic Dungeons & Dragons monster, but it's certainl...