I'm back in the DM saddle, putting together a Pathfinder game on Google+. Monte Cook worked on Pathfinder, updating the D&D 3.5 rules to be more in the spirit of what came before ( Read more... )

Bantam, level 1 halfling druid from the town of Pleachy Hawthorne ( Read more... )

(For an Exalted game ( Read more... )

Sunlight shines through a skylight overhead, filtered and refracted by a blue diamond as great around as an aged tree. The crazed patterns are broken by a woman inside the diamond, suspended as if she had just stepped from a height but had not yet begun to truly fall ( Read more... )

Well, once you've figured out what the monster is for, you can pick out some abilities.

For Horror Monsters, there is a strong tradition of things like blood draining, bites that turn you into another monster, and mind control. To go along with the idea that horror monsters make safe things unsafe, powers given to horror monsters tend to be ( Read more... )

Ever since the disappointment of the "How to create a monster" panel at Marscon, I've been chewing over my thoughts on the matter in the back of my brain ( Read more... )

After my walk yesterday, I spent some time writing up Improbable NPC. This is for a 2nd Ed AD&D game. If I'd been writing it up for 3e, she actually would be a little tame ( Read more... )

While sitting at work today, waiting for our network to have its outages resolved, I had a thought struck me. I mentioned it on Twitter so I wouldn't forget it, but couldn't go into specifics there because of the 140 character limit ( Read more... )

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So, 4th edition D&D is out. It's not AD&D anymore.. that went away with 3e. I hear from people who like 4th and people who don't. I haven't seen the rulebook yet, so I don't know. Maybe I'll give it a look the next time I'm in a bookstore. Because of that, I'm not going to talk about 4e, except in a "if they do X, I might pick it up," or "I ( Read more... )