The Case For Mystara in 5e D&D

I was a guest on the Round Table podcast last night and we speculated about future published settings for D&D 5e. There are various and sundry reasons for and against every setting we discussed, but I don’t want to go into those today. What I want to do today is make a quick case in […]

Thoughts On Building A Homebrew Setting

Arguably, the most fun I have when I’m running a game is world building. I love it. I get to let my creativity flow and throw all the fun ideas I have into one pot where it can melt together into something I can share with other people by way of my campaign. It’s just […]

When a GM loves an NPC

Few things are more dreaded when it comes to tabletop RPGs than when a GM pulls out a pet NPC. Such NPCs are cool, awesome, and probably destined to take over a campaign because the GM loves them so much. Such foul creatures are usually frustrating to deal with because as a player you then […]

When Setting and Rules Don’t Mix

I love RPG settings. I love the worlds that are given to us by writers and designers to play around in. I enjoy the fiction, I like background material, I like feeling like I’m playing in a world that could be real. World building is arguably the most fun for me as a GM and […]