The Red Box of Westmarch

Zak Smith once make the analogy to me that D&D campaigns are similar, in one way, to rocket flights. If you can reach a certain amount o...

A Drill City is an entire city worth of Morlocks in the form of a giant drill, making its way through the underworld. The culture of a Mo...

I've recently been taken by an idea that won't let me go, which is to run a D&D campaign as if it were a Superhero setting like ...

Magic Item Decanter of Endless Air. Like a Decanter of Endless Water, but breathable Air. Useful for creating air pockets in flooded cav...

Here's the Gazetteer to my Forgotten Realms. It's not Ed Greenwood's FR, and certainly not R.A. Salvatore's. The only parts ...

What are "the most important rules" in D&D? This is a question I have asked myself recently because I'm trying to boil the...

This is a post about rhetoric, but you may need a bit of background first. (Or if you know already know all about #5EConsultancyGate, skip t...

Table 1: Marks of the Beast (d100) If on any roll you get a result that is contradictory to a previous result (skin is both scaly and furry)...

I love rules which are both useful game rules (they provide a system for players to interact with that has risks and rewards) and explanatio...

Fleshing out the X-Dice Mechanic. I. Tables.  Here they are . II. X-Dice:  Rules for all Characters How many dice do you have? Char...

This is a continuation of the conversation initiated by Brendan S. on Proceduralism  and continued by Arnold K. on the difference between Pr...

This is a rough sketch of an idea, not a full implementation. Just putting it down here. Hit Dice. Every character in D&D, no matter...

I am somewhat astonished that the D&D Next playtest packet has no rule for Surprise. It simply says "The DM determines who is Surp...

Before Numenera or Ptolus, Monte Cook released Iron Heroes , a game I have some fond memories of. Iron Heroes was a d20 engine game, and its...

(1). Should energy drain take away one level of experience points from the character? Yes or No? If no, what should level drain do? I have h...