Last time we visited the kuo-toa we talked about their changing existence throughout the history of D&D and their relationship to cosmic horror literature. Because they are D&D IP, other games must find or create different creatures to act in their stead. Today we will look at some examples of that. Skum This is an interesting one. Skum started off in Dungeons & Dragons as a slave race. Like so many of the horrific, aberrant races of horror the aboleth…
Hello all, today I have an adventure review from a publisher whose work I have looked at before (and really love!). The adventure Whispers from the Void is one which you can get for either 5th Edition or Pathfinder and continues on the story from the previous adventure the Claws of Madness. While I have a copy of Claws of Madness, I have not yet had a chance to go through it. Instead of going through both, I decided to…
Mines, Claws, & Princesses is an OSR / Classic D&D style adventure module that is compatible with 5E and I have many feelings. Okay, this is probably the hardest review for me to write yet. For the most part I have looked through modern, indie games and adventures. I am on board with the more modern trends in tabletop gaming, but I do recall the things that initiated me into this world. Monsters are evil, treasure is good, and dungeon…
Hello everyone! This week I released Lovecraftian Spells, a 5E supplement focusing on adding some cosmic horror to your spell lists. It has almost 30 new spells, guidelines for reskinning spells for your own needs, ideas for making the Madness rules a little more harsh, and ideas for spell themes. In the coming weeks there will be updates to wording and clarifications and in the coming months I hope to continue expanding the spell list. Below are a couple preview…
Hello everyone and welcome to another self-imposed challenge! When I had the Twitterverse vote on these, which feels like months ago, I was very happy that the Oni-Blooded sorcerer came out as one of the things I should try to do. In the time since then I have managed to produce an entry of the Libris Monstrum that talks about oni and come up with some ideas on what I might do with this class. We’re going to start with…
Here we are friends, a little late but that’s okay!! Today we have a special double reskinning article (complete with me giving up on the hyphen because I don’t know if it was necessary anyways!). Because we are focusing on two different topics, these are gonna be a little shorter. That being said, today’s topics are going to be tieflings and liches. First we will look at some alternatives for players who want to play interesting or unique tieflings. Then…
Hey everyone! Today I have an interesting review for you that features a collection of adventures for 5th Edition. This product was developed as a little bit of a competition and judged by a couple DMs from the community. The competition would result in a small monetary prize for the winner and the adventures would be included in a bundle on the DM’s Guild. The guidelines included a few things that had to be in the adventure and a two…
Greetings everyone! Today we finally get back to working on some class-based stuff. If you recall a recent subclass article, I discussed using the bard college of lore as a simple way to make a plague doctor character. If you haven’t read it, you can check it out here. For the TL;DR I concluded that, while possible, the plague doctor really deserves its own class. To this end I decided to skip the attempting to build another subclass this month…
Welcome back to the Libris Monstrum and the revisit portion of our second series! Today we are going to talk about golems, those lumbering magical constructs that guard many a dungeon and wizard sanctum. Last time we touched upon a lot of the real world myths surrounding these things and where the D&D version seems to stem from. In looking for stuff to talk about today, I discovered a few things I had not realized. Golems that appear in various…
Hello everyone! Here we are at the start of the second revisit series! We begin to take a look back at the last 10 entries for the Libris Monstrum and some of the things I was unable to fit into our original outings. First up is the gorgon or, as we discovered is the more common name at table, the medusa. If you missed out on that entry go back and take a look. We talk about what gorgons are…