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That reminds me, I need to create an ecosystem inspired by the Australian wetlands that is contained within a lunar crater for a Spelljammer campaign I’m working on.

Wow, I go away for a bit and come back to the granddaddy of all art drops! Thanks! Now, let’s see… I really like how the blue dragons appear to be focusing more on the sky than the desert. Seems much more intuitive to me. Ah yes, the red dragon. My favorite of the chromatics...

Human - Greyhawk Dragonborn - Nentir Vale (I like the Empire of Arkhosia concept) Dwarf - Dragonlance (the different dwarf-clans actually feel like different cultures and subspecies) Elf - Dark Sun Gnome - Mystara (sky gnomes of Top Ballista for the win!) Goblin - Pathfinder (pyromaniac...

Oh, boy. We uh, deliberately dropped a smoke bomb in a busy street to evade a gang of orcs, bought several pounds of tannerite (without a license), accidentally set off a flashbomb at the city gates, incinerated an entire bugbear camp with fireball-meets-tannerite, all which led the DM (who has...

What a difference a couple of years make. A couple years back, I said Numeria (itself part of the larger Golarion). These days, it’s either Scarred Lands or Crystalpunk.

Yes, I’ve seen a preview of the 2024 DMG’s table of contents. On this very website in fact. I admit I’m curious about the bastion system, but not enough to justify buying the rest of the book alongside the bastion section. Either in hardcover or digitally. There are elements of the 2024...

Welp, guess it’s official then. I really am sticking with 5e 2014. The monster creation and combat encounter balance sections of the 2024 DMG were the only parts of the new book that I was interested in.

I once toyed with the idea of basing blue dragons in my home game setting off of hoatzins, but ultimately decided not to include blue dragons at all (replacing them with brown dragons instead). It’s nice to see someone else had a similar idea but made it work for them. Given the fact numerous...

Pretty nice blog post. I’ll have to check out the rest of your blog later. As far as my opinion on Greyhawk’s return, while I am certainly happy about it, WOTC really should have opened it up the DM’s Guild following Ghosts of Saltmarsh’s release.

Aside from the seven individual pieces of AI art that I found via google image and showed to my players as visual examples of specific monsters or NPCs (but didn’t realize were AI until some time later), I will never use AI in my games. Not ChatGPT, any additional pieces of AI art, and...

Well, my dad once ran a game where the apocalypse was the result of the planet being exchanged between two stars in a binary system. One yellow and the other red. Basically it would orbit one star for about three thousand years before being exchanged. Might not sound too bad at first, but the...

Both of the other two DMs in my group barely hand out treasure at all. And absolutely none of the monsters they throw at the party wear any armor, including the humanoids.

Lord, I envy your D&D experience. Most d&d campaigns I’ve been a player in never saw any player have more than 200 gold on their character at any one time. Obtaining full plate by level 4? More like level never.

Keenan Taylor’s Permian Continent has them as a speculative evolution of dicynodonts.

Reply to OP. As far as a scientific mindset goes, I mostly use it to help with the “backstage” construction and expansion of the various campaign settings I use in my home games, usually with regards to the monsters. It’s still a fantasy game at its heart though, so magic and supernatural...