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Will you walk the line between life and death, or will you choose a side, against your own nature? Even among the planetouched races, the reapers are outcast. The children of psychopomps and humans, reapers see the world from both the perspective of the living and the dead. Book of Heroic Races...

Thank you. This thread has gone drastically off course. I understand people discussing their experiencs with 4E (and some of those experiences have been helpful as far as when I design a skill challenge for 5e), but I am looking for constructive feedback based on the skill challenge I posted in...

At one level, I agree with you. At another level, I don't. I fully agree that non-combat encounters need to be really fleshed out in the DMG, and the intricacies should be kept hidden from the players, in much the same way players shouldn't be reading the MM, but the basic framework should be...

It was just a quick example. If I was writing up a skill challenge for an adventure, I'd put in considerable more possibilities. That is, IMO, exactly what skill challenges are meant to avoid. One check, if you roll bad, oh well, you lose. If you have a series of rolls, you can figure out...

One thing I have not seen much talk on is potential of skill challenges in D&D 5e. I really liked the idea of skill challenges in 4E , even if the execution needed some work. Click here to read why I think skill challenges would be good in 5e and one that I designed for the current version of...

Fair enough. Well, that's just things like weakness to bludgeoning weapons reskinned.

Change elites to kobolds and flood to zombies?

Originally posted at the JonBrazer Blog at Wizards.com As I have with so many other posts, I'm going to start this with an embarrassingly honest admission: I made fun of mixing video games with table top RPGs during the runup to 4e's release. I remember one time in particular asking my GM if we...

I think you're reading it (or perhaps I explained it) backwards. I mean if your character is rough and tough, muscles bulging from every part of your body, it is highly doubtful that you are going to be using a dainty rapier. Why, because mechanically it is not a good choice for the character...

Last night my gnome mage asked if he can wear a turtle on his head and it got me thinking. Read my thoughts on equipment and my hopes on equipment in D&D 5e.

Today at JonBrazer.com, we are posting a few Favored Class Options for Non-Favored Races. What do I mean by non-favored races, I mean races that do not get the same amount of love as humans, elves, dwarves, or even gnomes. So today, we are sharing with you few of the options you can choose for...

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I'm glad you liked that. I've thought of a number of others since writing this blog that have a similar hook or twist. i.e. Deposed Noble, Orphan, Fire Scarred​ are just a few.

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I gat that a fair amount.

As a small company that has made missteps, I can say that not alot of people hate/dislike/gripe about something I do when I make a misstep. Mostly people just ignore me. They forget I exist. Frankly, I'm not sure which I would rather have. Sometimes I want someone to complain about something I...

I posted a blog post at Wizards.com, talking about backgrounds. Read it here. All About Backgrounds I'm really liking backgrounds. I like the idea of making a mage that use to work as a bounty hunter or a priestly monk. But the current list of backgrounds is far too limited. There are alot I...

Thanks Jester. The whole blog post: I have a confession to make, it was not until a few years ago that I even read an adventure, let alone used one to run a game. Oh sure, I played in a campaign that was a series of Goodman Games adventures strung together. And I am quite certain that I played...