Opportunity Actions: Races of Athas – Gnomes Revisited

Here I am, once again diving into a series. I want to go back to my Races of Athas series, and clean things up a bit. I’ve had some time to think about a few of these, and I think I can improve on what I’ve written. I hope you see these as improvements, too. […]

The Recycle Bin – Tell me your fears, little PC.

(Note, this post will have a slight spoiler for Batman:Arkham Asylum. You have been warned.) It’s Not Being Lazy, It’s Being Efficient Creating a set of encounters for a group week after week can be a bit exhausting for a DM. Make a map, find or make some monsters for that map, place them so […]

Opportunity Actions: A Roleplaying Primer

Lately, I’ve been looking into the way people role-play. There are many different ways of doing it. Some are great. Some don’t work as well. Some rely on the player in question making the most of the conditions. When one is getting into roleplaying, or looking to inject a little more color into the game […]

A Strange Devil in the Details

On Twitter a while back, I tried to start a conversation and RPG resource trending topic called #rpgoddities. My goal was to have little strange things that could serve as things that could creep players out, be the seed for an adventure, a complication to an ongoing adventure, or be a red herring to mess […]