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If he was detached and neutral, then he wouldn't gloss over key information. And he and Musk were criticizing a history book for...covering the history of D&D, including its creator's worldviews at the time. If talking about such material in history books isn't the time and place, then when is...

I talked about this guy in a post a few months ago. Professor DM is also an Elon Musk stan who sided with him in going after WotC and also downplayed why people were saying that Gary Gygax was bigoted by selectively quoting Gygax's statements to obfuscate the worst parts. So besides his...

I'm unsure of what would need to be "fixed," as my biggest criticisms of the setting's generic nature is tied to the presentation of Solasta itself. As a video game using the 5e rules, that's actually its strength, as it gives a clear baseline for which the majority of gamers will be familiar...

Chapter Eleven: Getting Paid This short chapter covers magic items and a new subsystem, the Wealth score. Magic items in the world of Xcrawl are divided into two categories. Artifact class items, which include permanently enchanted items whose methods of creation are mostly lost to history, and...

Chapter Eight: Xcrawl, aka the Games Comprising the first real outline of the setting proper, this focuses on Xcrawl’s history as a game, its impact on the entertainment industry, and various broad rules and regulations common to tournaments. Before recorded history, a great Cataclysm destroyed...

Echohawk made a very comprehensive collector's guide in this old thread. RPGnet has an index of KoK material sorted by Edition/system. KenzerCo looks to be selling all of the Kalamar products on their store, also separated by Edition/system. Including a few that aren't on Drive-Thru RPG, such...

Allemagnian D10 Encounters Artwork is Road to the Shire by Sofiia Bondareva on ArtStation. These encounters are designed specifically for the Kingdom of Allemance. Conflict A ghost or similar incorporeal entity is haunting an inn the PCs are staying at (Tier 1: 1d4 Shadows; Tier 2: 1d2...

Scarred Lands The world of Scarn is a land of dark fantasy, still reeling from a war between the primordial titans and their godly children. Although the titans are dead, the continent of Ghelspad finds itself facing new threats, from the tyrannical Calastian Hegemony expanding its territories...

Chapter Seven: Magic The longest chapter in the book, spells in the [Title] Crawl Classics series are known for their diverse, random effects. Much like how a warrior has to make an attack roll with their weapon swings, a caster must make a spell check in much the same manner, adding a d20 +...

Chapter Two: Skills A rather nasty power outage put me offline for most of yesterday, so to make up for it I have write-ups for two more chapters than I initially planned for tonight. As they are quite short, it wasn’t too onerous of a task. Much like Dungeon Crawl Classics, Xcrawl Classics...

Very cool! Permission to repost this elsewhere? I maintain this thread on other forums and the Beast World discord as well (and yes, I plan on doing a writeup for that setting when I get enough time).

Drive-Thru RPG store page. Goodman Games store page. During the early Aughts, a third party setting for 3rd Edition D&D was released. Its production schedule would be sparse, interspersed with long periods of time between system updates. In late 2014 it got an update to the Pathfinder system...

As someone in that Reddit thread said, Streisand Effect in action!

Thank you. Hearing these words of encouragement helped me press on in writing more for it.

Image From Monster Manual Expanded II Deep Scion (Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse): Deep scions are made, not born. Each one is a person modified by the fell magic of a powerful undersea entity. Krakens and aboleth in particular rely heavily on servants who can move and...

Barghest: Natives of Mabar, these wolflike fiends slip into Eberron when that plane’s coterminous and also via linked manifest zones. They are fond of hunting mortal and fey souls, taking on the forms of goblins to lull people into a false sense of security by posing as a weaker creature. They...

Image from Heroes of Baldur's Gate Gibberling (Heroes of Baldur’s Gate & Quests From the Infinite Staircase): Calling themselves the zarsh, the gibberlings’ more common title by outsiders arose from their non-stop chatter. Much like how a dog won’t get tired or a sore throat from barking all...

This can be an interesting public works project for the PCs to support. Such a thing will need lots of funding and cooperation, particularly if it's done beyond the local level. I sort of hinted at this with my entry on mephits and some debates on whether or not to make contracts with the...

Sea Spawn (Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse): When Droaam united as a single nation and declared independence from Breland, it served as a beacon for various people deemed “monsters” across Khorvaire who hoped settle in a more welcoming environment. While this dream doesn’t...

With the revised Monster Manual coming out next month, I became inspired enough to return to this older project of mine. Hopefully any new and modified stat blocks won't invalidate my prior workings, but I doubt that WotC will make any particularly substantial changes in the core themes and...