Tomb of Beasts 3 from Kobold Press came out. Here’s the 5 monsters that caught my eye for your roleplaying game. Rapscallion. I’m not certain whether it’s the most clever name for one of the onion folk known as Alliumites — or if it was a pun the designers could no longer resist using. This dapper...

Recently I’ve been writing a few articles that highlight some of the homebrew changes I make to D&D5e to make it more epic and open (Simpler Currency System and Point Buy Feats). The current game I’m running is in a Final Fantasy world and I’ve wanted to make sure things felt...

Players never like to feel unprepared when it comes to situations in games. If there is a way to have an upper hand or even to “hovervan” past an encounter, the players will usually take that as a win in their book. That desire to be ahead of the game can often lead to massive slow...

I’ve been a bit absent lately because of a lot of personal stuff happening all at once in my life. It’s been a difficult year. I was stressed out, and even considered putting a stop to all the Game Design aspects of my life. On July 11th, I received a mail from the great Mario Ortegon...

I recently wrote up an article detailing the simpler setup I use for my FFXIV x DND game for currency. In that setup, I distill costs down to ranges for various categories of items and just figure out the appropriate cost within the range on the fly. Part of that concept is based on using the...