It was OSE Month over at Backerkit and the theme was demons. Demons have a weird history in D&D. BECMI excluded them almost entirely, with only some odd creatures slipping through the barrier between systems. They were famously written out of AD&D 2nd Ed in an attempt to appease unappeasable people, then written back in …
Category: Design Work
Blog Prompt Potpourri 4
Continuing with the prompts from d4 Caltrops’s d100 Table of Topics to Blog About, ever onward into the blog mines. 27 - How difficult is it to be brought back from the Dead? Is such a thing even Possible? I stuck the Scarlet Citadel under Ptolus (because, again, it says there’s a megadungeon down there …
System Matters (plural noun, not verb)
Continuing with the prompts from d4 Caltrops’s d100 Table of Topics to Blog About, I’m going to keep going through some of the rules-oriented ones as they pertain to my Iron Fist of the Hobgoblin King setting. In our Sunday morning Ptolus game, we play things pretty much straight as written. At the moment, I’m …
Critical Exploders
Continuing with the prompts from d4 Caltrops’s d100 Table of Topics to Blog About, today I’m going to start going through some of the rules-oriented ones as they pertain to my Iron Fist of the Hobgoblin King setting. In our Sunday morning Ptolus game, we play things pretty much straight as written. At the moment, …
Wizard Carriage
There’s a contest on DndBeyond promoting the new Stranger Things box set, “What’s in the Bag of Holding? A Welcome to the Hellfire Club Homebrew Item Contest.” The gist is, make a thematic magic item with a description of 50 words or less, and publish it to DnDBeyond with the tag ‘BagOfHolding2025.” I took a …
Proving Grounds of Folkvangr 
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