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These are scans of old magazines, so it's possible that's a crease in the cover.

I ran an entire D&D 3.5E campaign that was King in Yellow (good gods, TWO DECADES AGO): Arcanis: Gonnes, Sons, and Treasure Runs (COMPLETED) I really had to scramble to find KIY content, and cobbled it together from Call of Cthulhu, Freeport, and Arcanis materials. Of course, I had KIY be...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. What Do You Mean You've Never Heard of Me? As Dungeon Masters, we invest heavily in our bad guys. We craft intricate backstories, devise cunning schemes, and anticipate the look on players' faces when a past foe steps back into the spotlight with a flourish. It...

I love this!

Ahh right, this is basically a more practical bag of holding: Roll20 - Compendium and Rule Set Directory

Gandalf's argument is "old man needs his staff to hobble around" so of all the potential stave weapons, I imagine "walking staff" is the most socially acceptable to lean against your chair. It's the other stuff that isn't. Polearms are just right out, and it may not even fit in the ceiling...

This is the magic item I couldn't remember! It's probably the primary one specifically for this sort of use case besides a bag of holding.

Staves are probably the least problematic of the "polearm" types. My legionnaire took a lot of plot-wrangling to make sense with his tactics, which fell apart when in dungeons or with small groups of allies who weren't similarly armed and armored. Ironically, he was better against bigger...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Fantasy narratives often imbue characters with powerful staffs, portraying them as tools of authority and magic. From Gandalf's iconic wizard's staff to Marcille Donato's staff Ambroisa from Delicious in Dungeon, staves are as much tools as part of their identity...

This. As a corpo myself for 20+...I've now seen people leave, come back, and have entire career cycles AGAIN. It happens and unfortunately it happens in waves.

There was at one point a trend (probably AD&D 2nd Ed with the Monstrous Manual days) where "stuff" you could make from a monster were commonplace -- eating wasn't mentioned much but it was there occasionally. It feels like we're swinging back to this crafting stuff more and more, because at...

I think most adventurers approach this as "if you try to eat me, nobody can be mad if I try to eat you" and it's hard to argue. Also depends on where things take place. A dog attack in a city is very different from a two-headed death dog in a dungeon.

In a monster-filled world, what's okay to eat? Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Drawing inspiration from the book Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, let's explore the often-unexamined categories of creatures that adventurers in Dungeons & Dragons might consider off-limits, acceptable...

There's been a trend for a while now in video games and anime: crafting what you kill. D&D is finally catching up. Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Dungeons & Dragons has always supported the concept of collecting stuff, with detailed inventory lists and encumbrance rules. Despite this, the...