Old-School Magic from Illustrator Joseph Garcia
One of my favorite iconic books from D&D’s early days is the AD&D Rogues Gallery, and I don’t seem to be the only one nostalgic for it. Its long tables of essentially random character stats didn’t...
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Kaboomination Fuel: For the 5e Party, Everyone Gets to Bring Some Pain
The Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition group on Facebook recently enjoyed a long discussion about the damage output of rogues. In response to some concerns that the rogue might be unbalanced, Travis Marcum contributed...
A Death Domain Variant for Neutral Clerics
Note: The text of this article, including the Death domain presented here, is designated as Open Game Content. (Click here for the license.) I f you’re using a Death domain for clerics in your...
Mitra, Daughter of Masks
When I first proposed the idea of a cleric whose divine powers came from being a demigod — a half-deity — one of my good friends, also a long-time gamer, took exception with the...
Magic is Prevalent and Pervasive – Game World Design – The Third (of Four) Principles
The post below continues a series that started with an overview of the four principles Wallace Cleaves used in thinking about his world, the Vault. The first principle and second principle have been covered...
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...
Hey, Yeenoghu: Check Out My Flail.
A battle rages on a field of glacier-stripped limestone, uneven terrain, and large rocks. On that field, the half-ogre Brunt finds himself swarmed with gnolls, unable to see his human allies through the thick...
Meet Laura Bevon
by Graham Robert Scott I‘ve lately been struck by the fantasy art of Laura Bevon, a French illustrator who has been posting up a storm on the DeviantArt.com site.
Bettelfegne
The Book-Knight In his response to the first article of this series, Wallace Cleaves argued that Jedi may be better represented as clerics of The Force than as any other class (yes, including the...
Galatherina the Relic-Bearer Wielded by a Sword
Once you’ve chosen a deity, consider your cleric’s relationship to that god. Did you enter this service willingly? Or did the god choose you, impelling you into service with no regard for your...
