XENOBLADE: Battle Angel Combo

I am a fan of the Xenoblade series though the latest version left me a bit cold – great combat but its very much a “press X to go to next cutscene” game and the cutscenes are very very long. I still think XCX is the best of the lot. My 14 year old daughter […]

More Animal Machine Traits

Here are more traits for your biomechanical animals inspired by Horizon Zero Dawn. Use the guidelines in the DMG or your gut feeling as a DM to determine how much of a CR increase, if any, this adds to the base monster. TRAIT Corrupted Machine. Machines are infected with a virus that is both digital and […]

Biomechanical Wildlife

Since playing the Iron Gods Adventure Path I have made sure to include some kind of technological treasure or encounter in my game. For example, I am currently running Tomb of Anhiliation and have converted the atropal into a demon-robot-Orcus and the Soulmonger is as much a technological device as magical (no real difference to the […]

Merry Christmas all

Hodie Christus natus est: Hodie Salvator apparuit: Hodie in terra canunt Angeli, laetantur Archangeli Hodie exsultant justi, dicentes: Gloria in excelsis Deo. Alleluia.

Oriental Adventures for 5e live on DMs Guild

A collection of all the oriental work on this blog in one place. Meant to act more as a reference as opposed to a sourcebook at such – plug and play for your OA campaign. 5e Oriental Adventures Reference.

Warhammer Lizardmen in 5e (yes, lizardMEN not lizardFOLK)

Playing Total War: Warhammer II recently and I really like the mythos around lizardmen (they are a single gender race – all male – since they spawn and don’t biologically reproduce) – Aztec lizardmen who live in a jungle. I replaced the natives of Chult with lizardmen and moved it to Lustria (amongst other changes) […]

Alien Bestiary

A new science-fantasy kickstarter (full disclosure I will be working on some of the monsters that may appear in this book… MAY 🙂

Koliada, the Winter Witch for 5e D&D

I ran my party through the 4e adventure Winter of the Witch ending my third 5th edition campaign. Revenge of the Giants only got the party to level 15 and they wanted to get to 20 so capped the campaign with Winter of the Witch. The picture of the Winter Witch that goes with this adventure […]

The People of the Dying Earth

As a big fan of Jack Vance I was recently reminded as I worked my way through Tales from the Dying Earth that magic in Jack’s world is essentially math and anyone with the brains and tenacity to study can learn magic. Here is a 5e optional rule for humans in any Vancian type […]

1e Psionics in 5e

Thinking more about 1e I figured it would be a nice option to allow the chance for latent psionics as we did in the old days (I recall having 1 character who rolled the required % number over decades of play). Here are the 5e updated rules. PSIONICS Psionics are various powers derived from the […]