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Have three new Backgrounds: Three New 5E Backgrounds to Enhance Your New PC If you use D&D Beyond, we also linked the Backgrounds to the homebrew published entry, so you can add it to your fresh new PC and have at it! Thane Hardlock, Royal University Scholar

Sometimes you need some simple tables, other times a DM just has to get crunchy. Click here for two 2d10 Encounter Tables for Traveling on a Road in a Fantasy RPG.

The Indiegogo campaign for our next adventure module includes a 14-page gazetteer, from a chapter of the henceforth unpublished campaign setting. Clickie the link in the signature or the graphic. Once we reach critical mass with our Tales of Lothmar line of products, we'll release the campaign...

Yeah, their Alexa rank page speaks to... something. Never used tvtropes until today's link. My Nentir days are behind me--we have a commercial campaign setting, and I run my campaigns exclusively in that. --anthony

That sure is an interesting site. I can't tell if the cross-links are the honest efforts of creating zeitgeist references, or Ye Old SEO Pimping. In any event, I liked the Nentir Vale for its compression of the game world. I also found the "Ruler of Ruin" to be a delicious apocalyptic engine...

Two things going on here: 1) Players don't want to explore the surrender option because the game was too easy, and now that the game is really hard, they wonder how the DM cheated. Show me a table with multiple PC deaths and difficult encounters, and I bet you the players will take the...

I suggest making his CR attributes/abilities CR 13 AND add minions, specifically guys that can attack any PC making death saves, for the kill.

Where did the spell permanency go, I wondered when I read the 5E PHB and DMG for the first time. How and the heck do I explain this permanent magical effect? Do I just handwave it? What if the PC wants to do the same thing? Wrut-wro, I found a significant flaw for my own campaign world—or did I...

I don't know anyone who played Descent and didn't like it, so that's an excellent target to tweak. I haven't played/read it myself, so I don't know what the end conditions of the module are. They guys who made D&D so long ago were both wargamers and pulp fiction fans. When you combine the two...

Not too sure what I was thinking with that word salad. I changed it in the Excerpt and SEO description but missed it in the opening paragraph. Whoops. Fixed!

Here at Griffon Lore Games, we’re big fans of grim, gritty hard fantasy. That isn’t navel-gazing, nihilistic, and “subverting expectations.” In other words, heroic fantasy. Genuinely heroic fantasy is all about choices and the consequences of decisions. Decisions made by what players believe is...

4E. I KID I KID. OSR I like to go AD&D, but DCC is great.

That sounds fantastic!

Let’s depart the campaign and adventure philosophy and dive into encounters. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, the Lothmar meta mimic for Pathfinder 1E. Yes, it’s a mimic of a mimic. Ha. Ha, ha, ha, AH HA HA AH MWA HAHAHAHAHA! Clickie here: Ghost Wagon Encounter: Introducing the Lothmar...