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Note: Except for the artwork, the content of this article is designated as Open Game Content. (Click here for the license.) Part 3.5: Apotheosis Items In my previous piece on creating magic items that grow in...
The first elven culture I’m attempting to engineer is a version of the wood elves, based on my previous discussion about what the game mechanics tell us about elves in the new edition. I...
Part 3: Enhanced Attunement Items I’ve now written about Reconstructed Items, portions of a larger item that carry minor powers and that have to be reassembled to reach their full potential, and about Mastery...
Part2: Mastery Items In the first part of this series I discussed the problems that result when magic items become disposable once better, more-powerful versions are acquired. For me, at least, the practice of churning magic...
Part 1: Reconstructed Items In my last article, I introduced a way to rethink attunement and possibly make it more interesting by connecting it to proficiency. Graham Scott followed this up with discussions about how to...
Short and Sweet Overview: If an Attunement limit in 5th edition seems arbitrary, one solution might be to tie a character’s number of attunements to the already existing mechanic of proficiency. You would then be able to attune...
Last time, in the final installment of my discussion of the Four Principles for Game World Design, I discussed the non human races of D&D and how the demi-human races in particular failed to...
This column rounds up the fourth of four principles of fantasy world design. You can read the other three here, here, and here. 4) If D&D “Isn’t even human,” then what is it? Alien,...
“Now father, you’re living in the past. This is the fourteenth century. Nowadays …” – Walt Disney animated feature Sleeping Beauty (1959) The “Get Medieval” series of articles we have been releasing are designed to...
“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty” – Quintilian At first I thought I’d be clever and not write anything for this article, seeing as it would fit the sin in both...
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Welcome to The Ludus, the School of Games We’re writing The Ludus for players and game-masters of tabletop fantasy role-playing… Read more…
