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A collection of 88 posts

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Community Spotlight - Places to Grab Your Dice

I wanted to take this month for Community Spotlights to show you some of the great people in our community. For this week I wanted to show off some of the smaller dice makers that my goblin heart lusts after all the time. But I wanted to do it in

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Monster of the Month - Mimics

Okay so this one is going to be an interesting one for a Monster of the Month post for a couple of reasons. A big one being that there are only 2 cannon D&D mimics in the current RAW. In reality that's all you need... sort

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Spooky Monsters: Pumpkinfolk Stats Set 5

Yo spooky DMs! Here is the last time we will be speaking to each other about some creepy pumpkinfolk monster stats. But for anyone just finding this series - I was really just super inspired by this set of monsters made by RetroGrade Minis and really wanted to shed some

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Spooky Monsters: Pumpkinfolk Stats Set 4

Hey ho spooky folxs! 3rd verse, same as the first two so ya'll know it by now. But for anyone just finding this series - I was really just super inspired by this set of monsters made by RetroGrade Minis and really wanted to shed some light on

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Spooky Monsters: Pumpkinfolk Stats Sets 2 & 3

Hey ho spooky folxs! I thought I'd bump it up and give you two sets at once for the good Pumpkinfolks. I was really just super inspired by this set of monsters made by RetroGrade Minis and really wanted to shed some light on the amazing talent they

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Monster of the Month - Trolls

So I grew up with movies like 'Troll in Central Park' (your first hint for the troll) but the 5e version of Trolls is decidedly not that kind of troll. These trolls are mean and don't mind attempting a TPK if disturbed. They are often feared

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Spooky Monsters: Pumpkinfolk Stats Set 1

Hey there ya'll and welcome to the Spookiest & Best month of the year! To celebrate I was really just super inspired by a set of monsters made by RetroGrade Minis and really wanted to shed some light on the amazing talent they provide for the community. These

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Preparing For Your First Session As A DM

Eventually at some point in our TTRPG career we decide to take the wild leap from player to DM, stepping into the Narrator and facilitator role. This move can seem daunting and anxiety inducing even for those that have been playing in the system in which they desire to take

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OMG Shops - Armor

These items rule. THESE ITEMS SUCK. These items rule. THESE ITEMS SUCK. Welcome to Part 2 of the OMG Shops series, I suggest you check out the first one all about Magic Items. For naming a shop and aesthetic, you can check out part 1 as I went over all

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Monster of the Month - Basic Humans NPCs

We are all familiar with the Bandit, the Pirate Captain, the Thug, etc. All variations on the Basic Human combat encounter. But we don't have to have what is broadly a very diverse group come off so bland and boring in our games. Which is why I do

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Mombarian - Not So Fun House Pt 2 & Magical Frustrations

Look I know you all have been dying to find out just what happened when we did finally make it back into that dreadful house from our minor jaunt to the otherside of the world. I am more then happy to fulfill that wish now. If you are just joining

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Playtest Diary: GeneFunk 2090

Okay so before we get into it this playtest diary is just from my perspective and the notes I took cause it was a couple of weeks before I was able to sit down and read this. Apologize to the other players out there if I get something wrong! In

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Dogs of D&D

UPDATE: If you'd like to have the Death Dog and other 5e canines in your party check out the Animal Sidekicks book on the DMs Guild and my Death Dog personality freebie! Every dog is a doggo and every doggo is a good doggo! If you don'

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Gotta Get That Healing

Part 4 of Series "Medicine, Malaise, Herbs & Healing" See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 for more goodies! If you've played a TTRPG for any length of time you are very familiar with the concept of magical healing. This can be a life saver

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The Tea on the Monsters of D&D

So look if I made a major career change it would be to either a writer/designer full time or I'd become a Tea Master. Now you might be thinking Tea Master is a fake thing but I can assure you after countless hours of researching the best

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OMG Shops - Lets get some Magic

These items rule. THESE ITEMS SUCK. These items rule. THESE ITEMS SUCK. One of the many tried and true DM's laments, your players want magic items but just not those magic items. So you populate the world with shops and magic items galore. But how do you keep

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Mombarian - So Family Drama and Side Trip

You may remember that we were in a house of horrors in my last entry. While we were going to push through since we were down a Cleric, our Ranger had healing (he has never used) and our Fighter back and try and finish out that mission a last minute

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Monster of the Month - Mephits

It comes time for my favorite post of the month, our dear monster that will receive the TLC it needs to be revitalized and brought back to our games without the resounding sound of groaning players. This month we are tackling a monster that I recently almost TPKed my PCs

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The Practice of Herbalism

Part 3 of Series "Medicine, Malaise, Herbs & Healing" See Part 1 and Part 2 for more goodies! We have tackled alot about wonderfully terrible ways to bring in disease into your game and also terrifying ways to up the tension during an outbreak. We now come to

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Mombarian - Not So Fun House

Hey yo~! Its ya girl Nakon Dayfist Kolakavi the Mombarian up in here with an update.  So I had so much fun at our last session for alot of reasons, the biggest being that our DM had his young daughter in to co-DM with him. Also we were going through

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Modernly Medieval Medicine

Part 2 of Series "Medicine, Malaise, Herbs & Healing" Now with a disease on the loose, thanks to Part 1 of this series all about magically mutated disease outbreaks, the next thing we need to look at is how would the party go about investigating that. What ways

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Monster of the Month - Ettercaps

Now dear internet readers if you remember my first Monster of the Month post on Spiders then you remember my distinct feelings on the creepy crawlies. IRL they creep me out and we have an understanding that as long as I don't see them they can go about

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Spell vs Counterspell

The wild west of magic is full of dueling  casters slinging their spells all over the place. These duels can quickly become rough going as magic is flung around all willy nilly. How do you survive in a world like this? Well today we will be talking about not just

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Magical Malaise

Part 1 of the "Medicine, Malaise, Herbs & Healing" Series Yup you saw that right folks this post was going to be so long that I instead had to break it out into a series. Something which those who have been reading this blog for awhile know must

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Monster of the Month - Kobolds

Welcome to another Monster of the Month post, I apologize for falling off the map in April but work and life just went crazy for awhile (it still kind of is but back to the internet word mines). But I'm glad to be at it with some of