House Rules for the Skull & the Eye 2020

My home game of Dungeons & Dragons just surpassed session 51 of our campaign (about 6- 8 hours a session), The Skull & the Eye. Part of this campaign was honing in on what house rules we wanted to play with to make the game fun and interesting, while having elements that made the game feel …

Reexamining & Revising Damage Resistance in 5e

Sorry it has been a while, but life has been a bit wild. During the last few months I have taken to reconsidering a few elements of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. While I have listed and explained the house rules we use in my home game, these have evolved a bit and some have …

Review: Artifacts of the Guild

Community compilations on the DMs Guild are becoming more and more frequent. What is interesting is that they are not sticking to any one sort of content. Some are adventures, others are compilations of all kinds of rules, massive lists of NPCs, etc. Today's entry is Artifacts of the Guild, compiled by Emmet Byrne & Terry Herc. Releasing …

Review: The Scholar

Look, I try not to fan boy, but here we are. Benjamin Huffman has returned with another fantastic homebrewed class: The Scholar. This class has been previewed on Huffman's blog and Patreon, it has been out for a while to those paying attention, but now is ready for prime time. As mentioned in previous posts, …

Review: Uncaged Volume 1

Twitter is a constant convention. Conventions are places for those with similar interests to come together, trade on-goings, and spawn new ideas and possible projects. The Dungeons & Dragons base is not exempt from this as Ashley Warren has shown with her D&D fifth edition module anthology project, Uncaged.  Stemming from an idea about "mythology-themed one-shot …