Exemplary Elves Part 3 High Elves
This is a continuation of a series that seeks to re-imagine the standard races of Dungeons & Dragons as more unique and fully developed cultures. The last article dealt with the Einolar, a Wood...
Category: Settings
Goatlands GL1: Spiders on the Storm An adventure, in a village, in an abandoned aqueduct, in a new campaign setting
Last year, I was recruited to be part of a creative team for a new D&D setting published by Fainting Goat Games and led by Jason Tondro. Although gamers with broad experience may recognize both Fainting...
The Einolar, Part 2: The Treesmith’s Treasures
The previous article in this series introduced the basic features of the Einolar Wood Elf culture. These elves are animistic–and potentially cannibalistic–individualists with a culture based on democratic consensus and reverence for the forests...
Raicho the Recusant
An Experiment with Narrative Because character is best revealed through narrative, I thought I’d present most of this installment of Dice Unloaded in story form. It’s an experiment. Raicho the Recusant—fourth and most controversial in...
Artificer’s Workshop: Toying about with Minor Properties
Our previous two articles explored equipment themes for 5th edition, specifically some options for attunement and ways to handle high-quality but nonmagical items, respectively. For more cool trinket goodness, we highly recommend Sly Flourish’s article...
Serving a Divine Court, Instead of a Solo God
Past editions of D&D have permitted clerics to serve an entire pantheon, rather than a single god. The 5th edition Player’s Handbook is silent about this matter, but the new Dungeon Master’s Guide (p. 11-13) seems fairly...
Gazetteer for the Duchy of the Sept
This is the first of a series of Gazetteer entries for regions of the Basin Kingdoms in the World of the Vault. The duchy of the Sept comprises seven settled hexads (hence, “Sept”) and...
Pantheon of the Vorago
Ihave lately been creating clerics as part of a short series on the divine class. (To read the five clerics in that series, see Galatherina, Bettelfegne, Mitra, Raicho, and Arethkayn.) However, I’ve often been stumped about...
The Village of Mistmill
By Graham Robert Scott (Note: This article was written in response to a recent Ludi Magister article by Wallace Cleaves.) I have to admit that in my own campaigns, I have tended to be...
Introducing the Ludus Population Engine A smarter way to estimate adventure-class demographics
Your players have just made enemies of the local Thieves’ Guild. Mortal enemies. Whoops. As a result, they are starting to wonder how much trouble they’re in. “Is it possible,” a player wonders, “to...
