Playable Race: The Hoglin
by Back in the days of Tudor England, there was no finer Christmas feast than a whole hog’s head braised in wine. I decided to treat …
Tag: D&D
Tabletop Lessons from Final Fantasy I
A while back, I finished playing through the first Final Fantasy game over on our Twitch channel. The game is such an odd artifact from …
Push Comes to Shove: Free 5e Encounter!
In my weekly D&D game, there’s a bit of a running gag. Our warlock has the repelling blast invocation, but unfortunately it almost never comes …
Sea Clergy
by You tell yourself that it’s just a story from men who have been at sea for too long, but they are so insistent about what …
White Mammoth Expedition
I’ve played through six of Wizards of the Coast’s hardbound D&D campaigns now. I can remember a number of locations, NPCs, and plot elements, but …
How To Fart Your Way Through a Kappa Fight
You reach a point where the river is broad and slow moving, a place that is beautiful and could possibly even be called idyllic. By …
Dwarven Cheese
I can’t help myself. I’m basically obsessed with what dwarves in fantasy settings like D&D’s Forgotten Realms would feast on. I’ve mused about it before, …
Some Kind of Scottish Sasquatch
As you scale the gray slope, summit obscured by fog, you can’t shake the feeling that something is wrong. It starts as a quiet nagging …
Do Scythes Make Sense in Combat?
In D&D 3.5e, there were 51 melee weapons. 4e technically an unlimited amount since all you had to specify was if the weapon was heavy …
It’s Dangerous to Go Without Snacks
As the sun sinks below the horizon, darkness creeps in, held at bay by the huge bonfires burning in the village. The atmosphere is a …