dungeons and dragons

  • [D&D] Just How Many Editions of D&D Are There?

    To keep track of how many editions od Dungeons and Dragons there have been, I made a chart. Click to enlarge.

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  • [D&D 4e] Amaranthus Hawkweed, Pixie Ranger

    It’s not his fault that the raid on Cripple’s Gate went wrong, but he’s fighting as best as he can to get back to the Feywild and get his rookie subordinate fixed up. Amaranthus has been doing this sort of thing for too long, and he’s getting too old for this shit. Amaranthus Hawkweed is…

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  • [D&D 4e] Lutums

    Another monster from the 2nd edition Monstrous Compendium – Spelljammer Appendix, updated to 4e. No added backstory this time. Lutum mudshadow Level 9 lurker Medium elemental animate (ooze, shapechanger, earth) 400 xp Initiative +14 Perception +7 HP 75 Bloodied 37 AC 20 Fort 20 Ref 22 Will 22 Immune petrification, resist 10 poison Move 7…

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  • Blackrazor

    A few years ago, I ran my wife’s D&D character through the classic module White Plume Mountain. During the game, she recovered the infamous artifact Blackrazor, which came to factor heavily into the campaign. This was in 3.5, but when Wizards of the Coast had a contest updating Blackrazor to 4e, I wrote this up.…

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  • [D&D 4e] Fractines

    Fractines are a mirror based monster that appear in 2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons’ Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium Appendix. Unfortunately, they are really lacking in any sort of backstory or flavor or story hooks. And that’s sad, because I really like weird mirror based enemies in my games (like the Nerra from the 3.x Fiend Folio).…

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  • Twisted Space

    A D&D encounter about actually using non-Euclidean geometry at the gaming table.

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  • Keeping on the Borderlands

    A Fiasco playset satirizing the classic D&D module “The Keep on the Borderlands”.

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  • A World of Fire and Sand

    While reading through old 2nd edition D&D stuff, I got so excited by the Dark Sun campaign setting‘s calendar that I wrote a totally different, weird hippy freeform game to play in Athas. It’s not in any particular way anything like playing Dark Sun using D&D. It’s also completely unplaytested. A World of Fire and…

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  • Yop, Kobold Battlemind

    My current D&D character is a kobold who may or may not have a dragon living in his head. Yop, Kobold Battlemind

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