Recent content by Kabouter Games

Ah, Gies & Gies. For decades the standard of "lies to children" descriptions of medieval life. That's not a dismissal; they made a complicated subject very approachable. For post-medieval, but still broadly applicable to fantasy worldbuilding, I heartily recommend Alison Sim's "Life in a Tudor"...

It's really not that hard. This is the first real controversy that's come up since I started publishing on the Guild 18 months ago. That's a pretty good track record, all things considered. Publishing on the Guild is remarkably easy. They don't care about formatting, because the Guild doesn't...

Yeah. Good luck enforcing it. OH WAIT - they've admitted they don't have the ability to enforce it anyway. :erm: I share that concern. That is unclear. Nobody has answered that question. I don't know if that question has been asked. There's been no activity on that thread today.

Yeah, and according to their new FAQ entry and their Facebook comments, using Modesto Bold and the red slash is perfectly acceptable. How on earth that isn't worse than having a small non-Guild, non-WotC logo in a corner of the cover is beyond me, but that's what the OBS chaps have said. :hmm...

FWIW I don't use my own logo on the cover of my Guild stuff. I only use Guild-branded logos. Exactly. They're already getting 50% of the cover price. If they'd give me DTRPG returns, I'd have no problem with this. But this, this is too much. You want to cripple my branding, give me a larger...

It's worth noting that, irrespective of what the OBS employees say on Facebook, the FAQ says you can't use another logo in your product at all. Read it again: "The only logo you can use in your title is the DMs Guild logo." [emphasis mine] I really wish they'd get their act together.

THIS RIGHT HERE. They're noobs. This is a golden opportunity to drive home some subtle (or not-so-subtle) lessons about not just being murderhobos.

Brand new on the Guild - Spells from Kara-Tur! 28 pages of spells from the 1E AD&D Oriental Adventures book, updated and converted to 5E. New magic - what's not to love?

As I recall the AD&D DMG, that's precisely what GGG meant - until your foe lands the killing blow, hit points are an abstract, the wearing down of your stamina and defenses. Being reduced to zero hit points means your foe landed the killing blow. Before then, you get knocked about, nicked up...

Now available on DMs Guild: Blacktide Cove (The Cult of the Fish-Men) From the Ship's Log of the Sprite: "...I can hear them fish-men. All the time with their chanting and hissing and whatnot. There's some kind of religion going on here, down below. We can't understand what they say, but it's...

As a creator in this space, I take a very dim view of pirated material (as you might imagine). I will not have it used anywhere near me, unless the user has also purchased a copy of the printed material. I don't have a problem with using the SRD or Basic Rules. If that's all you need to play...

When I write adventures, I design encounters around the traditional "core four" roles - warrior, wizard, rogue, priest. I've found I can waste a lot of time chasing after other classes, and that 99% of encounters devolve to one of the core four roles anyway. (I'm doing a top-down rewrite on my...

I've been thinking about this one a bit more. If anything, the high-level adventuring cleric is a direct threat to a non-adventuring prelate. The adventurer directly and obviously manifests the immense power of the deity, where the prelate sits in a room somewhere and, unless something dire...