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• Bastions: And How to Make Them Pay – Maximizing Profits for Bastions in the 5e 2024 DMG
• Do the 2024 5e Dungeon Master’s Guide XP Tables Work?
• What level is the leprechaun from Lucky Charms?
• D&D PHB 2024 – Ranking of all Origin Feats
• Monster math in the 2024 Players Handbook
• Dungeon Delver’s Guide is one of Polygon’s “best TTRPG books of 2023”
• chatGPT vs. D&D game design
• replacing the four classical elements with the five draconic elements
• New game: Quest For the Crown 20th Anniversary Edition!
• The Hack!
• The issues that need to be fixed with WOTC’s proposed OGL replacements
• unforced error
• 5e’s bounded accuracy is not bounded enough
• Dungeon Delver’s Guide finale
• The gates are open! Kickstart Dungeon Delver’s Guide now!
• grappling (and push) in 6e
• Dungeon Delver’s Guide kickstarter imminent!
• Dungeon Delver’s Guide: The NODES System
• Dungeon Delver’s Guide: It’s a Trap!
• unusual natures call for unusual solutions
• If D&D coins were solid gold gelt
• Monsters of the Multiverse: What About All That Force Damage?
• Monsters of the Multiverse MATH!
• skills breakdown of Monster Manual monsters
• Dungeon Robber works again!
• Battlezoo Bestiary is out!
• I made a little hex conquest minigame. Imperium!
• You can buy the Random Dungeon poster again!
• Hexer, my hex crawler map tool
• late backers can now order LevelUp5e books!
• Level Up Advanced 5E preview: the sea serpent, an encounter for any level
• Level Up: wizards and dragons
• A5E Kickstarter live! Go back it!
• Battlezoo Kickstarter almost done! And here’s one of my monsters
• Here’s the A5E Tarrasque!
• I’m working on the Battlezoo Bestiary!
• the Level Up: Advanced 5e kickstarter and me
• i’m writing the monstrous menagerie
• AI-animated Alias and Strahd
• Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
• The 5e DMG magic items that aren’t available for free – will I miss them?
• improving the 5e magic item tables
• What D&D edition has the best random treasure tables?
• why the 5e treasure tables aren’t very good (and how they got that way)
• 5e Inspiration android beta test 1
• the inspiration iphone playtest, and a new way to build encounters
• launching the Inspiration beta!
• why do wizards need to be rare?
• how the “odd detail” can make D&D traps way more fun
• on npc names
• inspiration: 22 magic item variants
• How big does a random generator have to be?
• here are some Inspiration cloud giants
• dungeon exploration in the Inspiration app
• 5e Inspiration: a DM app
• the missing dungeons in literature
• Game of Thrones and Groans, part 1
• Twelve country fairs
• Twenty city festivals
• hags: the missing monster manual page
• The so what factor in D&D
• 5e monster manual on a business card
• jeremy crawford talks about monster design
• How do you make a legendary monster? and more monster-math lessons from Mordenkainen’s
• the 5e monster creation guidelines are wrong
• How many magic items should the party have at each level?
• spellbook PDFs for all the Monster Manual monsters and npcs
• combined challenge-rating index for Monster Manual, Volo’s, and Tome of Foes
• horrifying goblin spells
• attack spells for dabblers
• recipes for every magic item in the dungeon master’s guide
• Reskinning magic items
• Encounters in the Unsettling Dimension
• How to play 5e D&D using GP = XP rules
• mass combat belongs in the monster manual
• Play Quest for the Crown 2!
• Repetitive battles in dnd
• encounters on the strangest sea
• d&d is anti-medieval
• i’m developing mobile games
• Running a Dragon Chess Tournament
• 45 vampire weaknesses
• There are twelve storm giants
• A return to the dark mysteries of the guilds
• the annotated adventure
• Proper-named spells must be treasure
• the red doctor
• My toddler’s campaign world
• Goblins and game theory
• vary your vampires
• In which I risk my life by revealing the mysteries of the guilds
• was gary right about gold coin weight?
• fairyland and scale
• spells for “csi: greyhawk”
• Wizard spells common to 1e, 3e SRD, and 5e SRD – and those missing from the 5e SRD
• A dungeon is a snake
• Fantasy map of the Bronx
• building the one page spelljammer rules: here are the complete rules!
• building the one page spelljammer, part 2: monsters of the deep
• building the 1 page spelljammer rules
• the cuteness rule
• hardcore mode d&d
• 5e bards’ missing songs
• making a city more like a dungeon level
• The problem with Tiamat
• Fief and business rules so simple that they REDUCE bookkeeping
• play this fighting game i wrote
• all trolls are scrags
• Exceptional leaders for every monster!
• some magic rivers
• using monster trophies to create magic items
• catastrophic psionics
• generate npcs in two dice throws
• best of the joesky tax part two
• simpler 5e mob attacks
• dungeon crawl, hex crawl… journey?
• best of the joesky tax
• underdark hex crawl chart
• dragons are pirates
• what divination spells are being used on the PCs?
• three zany D&D kickstarters and why I’m backing them
• some underdark geomorphs
• 5e DMG: page 250 as a complete mass combat system
• a random encounter chart that reminds you of the 5e hex crawl, wandering monsters, weather, navigation, and surprise rules
• the always and never rule
• cursed items turn into regular items
• 5e DMG: Every D&D city should be a metropolis
• 5e Dungeon Masters Guide: The Paradoxical Economy of D&D
• 5e DMG talks a good game about ancient dragons
• treasure acquisition rates in the 5e DMG (and the missing 1 GP=1XP rules)
• blank province, kingdom, and continent hex maps for 5e
• the world population of D&D: notes from the 5e DMG
• use this 17th century city map for your home base
• what’s this about a shakespearian D&D storyline?
• Which is your Viking race?
• how to make a magic sword that everyone hates
• diseases that make you stronger (and then kill you)
• the Great Stag – a stellar one-page dungeon
• random city charts for chase/exploration
• no, use THIS Monster Manual index by Challenge Rating
• Rory and I are credited in the Monster Manual!
• whoa, D&D 5e economy is compatible with ACKS
• 20 more trinkets
• surprising PC demographics from the 5e backgrounds
• a D&D player’s advice to DMs running mystery games
• 5e: Not enough rituals
• D&D 5e: The Many Shapes of the Druid
• D&D 5e 10th Level Bard Hack
• d&d worlds have orange suns
• Why you shouldn’t torture the prisoners
• 10th level wizard spells
• The Mike Mearls “Gen Con Challenge”
• Light Crossbow: Still the Weapon of Choice for Low Level Wizards in 5e
• Lifestyle and Downtime in 5e Basic
• the “implied setting” of the 5e basic spell list
• 3e’s level 8 and 9 cleric spells
• missing fields on the 1e character sheet
• the implicit DM’s turn in OD&D
• basic d&d will be the 5e SRD
• More 4e errata! Player’s Handbook art
• the first zombie apocalypse story?
• wild grassland encounters
• D&D analysis of some crazy ad in the subway
• a unified notation for ascending and descending AC
• stand up for the little guy
• forbidden chemical elements
• selenium
• WTF, Mentzer Red Box fighter?
• super-simple naval combat for any edition
• naval combat rules through the editions
• how big is stuff, and how much does it weigh?
• today is my dying day
• the second best barbarian is out of print
• moving the great wheel to the world map
• use pokemon for your exotic monsters
• astral plane: oh yeah, stars
• i figured out the astral plane
• guest post: over the top campaigns
• Dinner Rolls: or, this orc is the banana, this orc is the brandy
• forgotten 1e spells: part 3, high-level wizard spells
• random unusual steeds for low-level characters
• two creepy magic items from a dream
• forgotten 1e spells: part 2, mid-level wizard spells
• the 5e races redone as backgrounds
• the dungeons are in the mountains
• forgotten 1e spells: part 1, low level wizard spells
• some angels are fiends
• critical failures that lead to treasure
• a skull crucible is a real thing
• plundering Dragonlance: disarmed, save ends
• seas are better than oceans
• plundering Dragonlance: destroy the treasure
• somebody make this book please
• plundering Dragonlance: odd dialogue
• plundering Dragonlance: don’t steal these names
• plundering Dragonlance: how old are these rotted furnishings?
• bank of tiamat
• plundering Dragonlance: superstition and magic
• random treasure tables you can memorize
• plundering Dragonlance: fear is the shepherd
• Dungeon Robber 1.3: bugfixes, named pets, teleportation magic
• plundering Dragonlance: the stag sturm can see
• what dreams may come (until interrupted by baby cries)
• plundering Dragonlance: how to make first level characters seem awesome
• plundering Dragonlance: how not to do dwarves
• plundering Dragonlance: whistling in the dark
• dungeon robber 1.2: savegames that save! relocate your robber! More inventory slots!
• Play Dungeon Robber version 1.1! Fan art! Kings crowned!
• Happy birthday! Dungeon Robber web game is now available!
• the month door
• my funny dice
• tree of wisdom and other hazards
• mysteries of the clouded lands
• Random Dungeon video game
• witches are hobbyists
• pray for paris
• random forest monsters
• RPGTable and GameTable Online Kickstarter!
• when adventurers aren’t adventuring
• random village names
• metallic dragons are from the planes
• Forgotten doo-dads
• the ha ha
• our ghouls and ghasts are not as good as the originals
• en garde!
• unnamed Gygax and Grubb campaign setting
• why you want Domains at War
• a moment of dread on the Isle of Dread
• de vetula, the 13th century d&d poem
• how to get the PCs to the Isle of Dread
• what level is king joffrey?
• my poster on Wired
• Strategic Review 3: Gotcha!
• the art of titan: the fighting fantasy world
• an early bad review of D&D
• Mayor of Newark attacked by vampire
• Warriors of Synnibarr by Gary Gygax
• in praise of the funhouse dungeon
• Rangers! An Exciting New D&D Class
• interactive version of Random Dungeon Generator as a Dungeon Map
• the first grapple rules
• one difference between low- and high-level play
• jared, health, art
• randomly generate aeons of warring empires
• OD&D cursed items that are not that bad
• sherlock holmes is a vampire
• d&d is inspired by westerns
• OD&D cursed items that are horrible
• Haven comic book
• 6 magic inks
• healing poll
• we can all use the same d&d history
• D&D names from the 17th century
• D&D Next healing idea: the “Soldier On” rule
• hobbits are monsters of the week
• magic from the time of Newton
• why you don’t want to learn 10th level spells
• more magic and monsters from Quag Keep
• D&D Greyhawk magic items
• A year between levels
• magic and monsters of Quag Keep
• four Fire Balls (Jim!)
• how’s this for d&d timekeeping: it’s always now!
• treasure from Quag Keep
• revenant ankh, leveled
• Quag Keep: alternate-history D&D
• cursing the thoroughness of the caller
• At what level do these game elements become irrelevant?
• give me a hand with this chest
• od&d staves
• what constitutes an “adventure?”
• a trapped chest
• Gygax Hated Hobbits
• Holiday D&D Next Playtest Feedback
• dwarven cheer!
• berserk men
• what makes your decisions meaningful?
• prices for dungeonbuilding
• Last minute Christmas gift: the Random Dungeons kickstarter book!
• combined weapons
• just try to do business with the elves
• combat, exploration, interaction, logistics
• confirming crits
• d&d it up for christmas
• 5e skills suggestion
• when inches are inches
• here’s a two weapon fighting implementation
• have you read Playing at the World yet?
• here’s me for 35 years not knowing about snakewood
• run your own mearls!
• treasure you can’t spend
• new rules for building castles
• a history of 50 years of misrule
• real elves
• mearls map
• dresden files magic system
• dungeon dozen
• my D&D needs more ruins
• Spears of Dawn RPG
• mearls redesign
• wisdom of the mearls: good decisionmaking in crowdsourced D&D
• trading magic items
• play D&D with me right now!
• the little sisters of the sun
• jane austen as a D&D player
• world details from the Sword and the Satchel
• a place for cloud giants
• My 2010 Suggestions for Fifth Edition
• tenth-level cleric spells from The Faerie Queene
• the cycle of repudiation and reclamation, and the 2nd coming of 2nd edition
• 5 Metal Scenes From The Faerie Queene
• buy Paul’s Dungeon Master Notebook as PDF
• Buy Jared’s dungeon paintings! And help out Jared!
• Buy Paul’s DM Notebook. Here are some free pages!
• odnd encumbrance
• dark shadows
• ecology of the kobold
• downton and dragons 4: Titanic dungeon crawl
• downton and dragons 3: nautical nobles
• downton and dragons 2: shall we join the ladies for a melee?
• downton and dragons: backgrounds
• the ecology of the goblin
• war is the only word i know
• Bright
• who are the best of the best?
• cantrips for PHB2 classes
• OD&D: tax paradise
• dnd with mike mornard: next level
• the wight land
• flying carpet, leveled
• against the patriarchs
• paladins with expense accounts
• Dungeon Robber rules ready to download
• D&D is old-school, Chainmail is new-school
• treasure from Venus
• drow are from the 18th century
• stories from Mike Mornard’s game table
• biker gangs in the dungeon
• download the original random dungeon generator
• cantrips for every class
• art by gygax and arneson
• peasants with magic weapons
• dungeons and wyverns
• new 5e info from mike mearls’ q&a
• currency exchange between gold pieces, dirhams, francs, and dollars
• dungeons and dowels
• dragons in 5e
• i really WANT to look at the medusa
• a new schooler reads Chainmail
• D&D Next Playtest – Progress!
• jurgen’s rituals
• the trapmonkey cleric: basing perception checks on wisdom
• the night land and the tragic story of the D&D world
• the badass skeletons of the Fiend Folio
• posters and pandas
• the whimsical fairies of a dead sun
• D&D Next Idea: Cast Any Spell in 10 Minutes
• Random Dungeon pdfs sent
• What the 2e PR can tell us about 5e
• mr. meeson’s will
• The magic quantity: How to scale everything important in the D&D world
• kickstarter posters shipping this week! In the meantime, run a barony!
• in search of the unknown
• Portable hole, leveled
• Scans of some kid’s D&D notebook from 1989
• literary source of the brooch of shielding?
• look what i got in the mail
• try an easy rpg: d4 basic
• playing D&D with mike mornard: better to be lucky than good. third best: be amusingly incompetent
• Kickstarter reward progress!
• new category of magic item: magical map
• Mass Effect 3 and the plight of the Information Age
• Sign of the Labrys: Oh, so THAT’S where dungeon levels are from!
• you shall know the monsters by their traces
• A thousand (and more) thanks!
• 12 hours left! Second Burlew Point! Last-minute goal: catch James Mal for a Dwimmermount level!
• Jared von Hindman unlocked! D&D Game Table unlocked!
• $23k reward: Random Dungeon characters on D&D’s Virtual Table! Also, let’s review all the swag!
• $20k goal reached! At $22k, mind-melting dungeon art from Jared von Hindman!
• If we beat ACKS, we can take its stuff: $20,623 kickstarter goal
• Sarah Darkmagic joins the party
• dwarves are from the shadowfell
• $15k goals met! $20k reward: dungeons from Mike Mornard and Sly Flourish!
• question for old school D&D history experts
• Burlew Point Party!
• Where do you like your art: in a gallery or on a sticker?
• twins! and kickstarter cave art!
• at 1% of the OOTS kickstarter, everyone gets a Rich Burlew sticker!
• Dungeon Poster hits $10k! Prizes for everyone! Board game! New stickers! DM Notebook!
• John Carter: totally fun
• every book has monsters in it, if you read metaphors literally
• New backer rewards! New stickers! New notebook pages!
• Be Lawful Evil this Thursday!
• what’s the Armor Class of real-world geniuses?
• Dungeon poster kickstarter at 250%! More swag for everyone!
• Random Dungeon kickstarter: Bonus goal #2 and #3
• Dungeon poster: Bonus goal #1 reached! Bonus goal #2: free dwarves!
• Playing D&D with Mike Mornard: D&D as a loving pastiche
• Kickstarter: Random Dungeon Generator as a Dungeon Map
• do you want to play some Mazes and Monsters? what about Dwimmermount?
• Fixing the elemental planes
• feyswords
• My new poster project: Random Dungeon Generator as a Dungeon Map
• grading the planes: take your D&D players to Mars, Midway or Metamorphosis Alpha
• imagine if the guys in Night of the Living Dead had this
• dimensional shackles, leveled
• Grading the planes: the Great Wheel
• strange statues
• playing D&D with mike mornard: player skill
• grading the planes: 4e cosmology
• intelligent residuum
• playing D&D with Mike Mornard: how did this get in the manual
• fools rush in (and lose a leg to a bear trap)
• A canticle for leibowitz
• rolling for hit points in 4e
• playing D&D with mike mornard: henchmen and hirelings
• playing D&D with Mike Mornard: it’s all about context
• Feather boat, leveled
• is there such thing as too much D&D?
• hybrid roll and pointbuy
• 5e Playtest Report Generator
• changes for clerics in 5e
• the dwarf class in 5e
• Cool dungeons in books
• gaming with one of the original D&D players, part 3
• 5 Things I Want From 5th Edition D&D
• gaming with one of the original D&D players, part 2
• gaming with one of the original D&D players
• Dust of Appearance, leveled
• rituals and alchemy as daily powers
• Melancholia
• 7 feasts and 6 fasts
• Throwing off the Shackles of Challenge Rating and Encounter Level – How it’s not always the best idea
• christmas shipping for wandering monster posters, and new project preview
• 99 rites of fairy creatures
• Striker bonuses for every class!
• bunny wights
• sorcerers as wizards (and vice versa)
• Faster and More Deadly Combat – New House Rules for D&D 4e
• a team of iron horses
• the give and take of D&D and fiction
• one monster per dungeon
• escape the city within an hour
• how to sail
• crit cards and threat cards
• When to use Sunder in 4e
• 4e: spell scrolls for non-wizards
• 4e spells as treasure
• magic items Gygax forgot to steal from Zelazny
• the ships that sail the desert
• how to make a werewolf creepy
• there is no night without day! for serious
• 1001 Nights vs King Arthur’s knights
• search for traps as an encounter power
• fire has a lineage
• My simple XP rules: 1 XP per encounter
• that 5% or 10% XP bonus is pretty irrelevant
• conan has been consulting the random harlot table
• don’t make me refuse the ice cream
• More Thoughts on Magic Items!
• lowering shipping for od&d poster
• how my players rewrote my pantheon without me doing anything
• bulk wandering monsters posters 50% off
• buy this OD&D Illustrated Wandering Monster poster!
• real-world taboos and their d&d effects
• shoot the sea; play with me
• the ghost pirates
• dave tarneson
• The One Ring – A Quick and Dirty Review
• miles of gor
• princess in a treasure chest
• do you want to play some D&D in NYC?
• keoghtom’s ointment, leveled
• monte cook back at wizards
• The Dark Ride
• i just rolled up the best dmpc ever
• cheers, gary sold out
• The NOOOO! Rule
• identical advisors
• Sending Stones, leveled
• time as a pc resource
• buying magic items might cost more than money
• ritual candle, leveled
• How We Spent Our Ad Revenue: Alea Tools
• #1 thieves guild detective agency
• Buy “Cheers Gary” now!
• Rope of climbing, leveled
• How We Spent Our Ad Revenue
• clerics make house calls
• scripture as alignment language
• handy haversack, leveled
• necromancers: bring your own army
• Illustrated OD&D Wandering Monster tables poster
• our guess about WOTC’s upcoming support of older editions
• final thoughts from gencon
• DND product announcement
• Cheers, Gary at Gencon
• live from gencon: ask design & development seminar
• bag of holding, leveled
• you don’t need a memento mori on your way to the gallows
• Freestyling Skill Difficulties in D&D 4e
• The World’s Hardest Gary Gygax Quiz
• Cheers, Gary book at Gen Con
• suggestions for 5e: lose shift and opportunity attack
• magic sword +1, +3 vs. hijinks
• a flaws system for 4e
• When Theory Meets Practice – Character Flaws
• everlasting provisions, leveled
• wait, there are scarecrows that don’t come to life?
• a literal points of light campaign
• character sheet on a business card
• 1863 precursor to the Red Box
• here’s a solo monster that doesn’t get repetitive
• What’s at the center of your game world?
• the dungeon where everyone hears everything
• ancient junk in Gamma World
• Sweet Character Portraits for My Little Pony RPG
• or they could be robots
• The Shadowfell: Gloomwrought – Roleplaying with Candles
• don’t plan it, He-Man it
• what I learned from drawing the Monster Manual creatures
• Conquest or Nerath Review (from someone who just purchased the game)
• monsters in the palace of eternity
• d&d and men’s jobs
• When Theory Meets Practice – Magic Items
• the silliest-looking 4e monsters
• the Little Lord Fauntleroy D&D campaign!
• where did Iron Rations come from?
• When Theory Meets Practice – Character Death
• a picture of every creature in the Monster Manual 1, where they live, and their level range
• An Amiable Charlatan
• torches and lanterns
• coral is beautiful… but evil
• buying a 10 foot pole
• Printable Mazes and Monsters game board
• rogue male
• Christmas lights! Run!
• holy water in Basic D&D
• Use this race/culture randomizer to make your campaign completely original!
• The Pusher: an epic D&D campaign for you
• Critical hit! On my Religion check!
• flaming oil through the editions
• Finally you can have your own sweet Mazes and Monsters GM screen!
• Atta
• burning through your flaming oil
• Good Rules Don’t Mean Bad Roleplaying
• Complete Gary Gygax Enworld Q&A, all on one page
• treasure of the unicorn gold
• If you want to run an alchemist character, you probably want to roll on random tables
• alchemy makes you go bankrupt
• Heroes of Shadow – Vampire Review (Heroic Tier)
• a city map you can use
• Synnibarr Sunday: paradrakes
• picaresque adventure pitch
• evidence that the mid-80s was a bad time to be a fantasy reader
• Malcolm Gladwell vs. Ryan Dancey on the fate of TSR
• 3 Badass Haunted Rooms
• Mazes and Monsters: Monsters!!!
• Synnibarr Sunday: Steelbreeze
• The Key to Rebecca
• Ask an Atheist Day and D&D!
• Table Cost
• How to Design a Combat Encounter in Less than 1 Minute
• nervous giggling
• Synnibarr Sunday: evil mutant baby
• Crossroads Adventures: stats
• ozymandias
• The Infamous DMPC
• Mazes and Monsters: magic charms
• Synnibarr Sunday: adventurers
• Warhorn: a crossroads adventure
• upcoming D&D books I’m excited about
• Maze Controller’s Guide
• Synnibarr Sunday: Venderant Nalaberong
• the cave girl: earthquake fight!
• super simple mass battle mechanics: saving throws to save the world
• Mazes and Monsters manual: I wrote 40 spells
• Synnibarr Sunday: In the beginning
• the cave girl: turn that battlemat sideways
• How to build a 4e Subsystem: Saving Throw with Fumble and Crit
• mazes and monsters page 33: winning
• Synnibarr Sunday: INTO IMAGINATION’S FURY I PLUNGE THEE
• the Babysitter’s Club D&D pantheon
• mearls is hilarious
• 20 and 1 are Magic
• Mazes and Monsters Manual chapters 1-5
• the Babysitter’s Club D&D module
• A Comprehensive Review of D&D Fortune Cards (from a guy who just bought 4 packs)
• How much for a pitcher of ale?
• Leave it to Psmith: the D&D module
• Mazes and Monsters Manual, chapters 1 to 3
• two adventure ideas, one upside down
• Rory’s Pocket Guide to D&D – Make an Encounter in 5 Minutes
• trading with legitimate businessmen
• mazes and monsters playtest concludes
• solving puzzles with steel (not that way)
• Mazes and Monsters playtest: combat!
• cheating yourself is fun
• Mazes and monsters playtest!
• The Warlord of Ghandor is stuck in a tree!
• Why Ridiculously High Skills Ranks are Awesome
• squintspiration
• mazes and spells
• cities of Warlord of Ghandor
• the ruin at Henders Farm
• In Search of the Purrfect Villain
• character creation: dark elf vs dark knight
• traits in Mazes and Monsters
• Warlord of Ghandor
• the Hidden City
• Rites for everyone
• fantasies and scenarios
• interrupting spells in 4e
• the mountains are coming
• Rory’s Pocket Guide to D&D – Choosing the Right Humanoid
• level 1 nuke spell
• mazed in monsters
• African Civilizations: best sourcebook ever
• harvestmen
• The Completely Unofficial Errata and House Rules for Gamma World
• legal battles on the battlegrid
• blog of holding’s first year
• the elves of the ruins
• christmas ghost stories
• the magic king
• name day: Bright
• let’s drop the 4e level bonus!
• combat in Mazes and Monsters (including, of course, maiming and slaughter)
• how to DJ your own funeral
• Jump into the Soup!
• Ceremony is Always Rite
• hit points and damage in mazes and monsters
• clerics and The Curse of Chalion
• name day: Red Day at Redberry
• Rory’s Pocket Guide to D&D: Sucking up to the DM
• using the Ravenloft board game to make 4e less “board gamey”
• RONAs and monsters
• you find 400 gp and 50 cattle
• the bed problem
• mazes and monologues
• every book’s a sourcebook: Traps from The Ginger Star
• name day: Whisperwood
• the paladin’s steed returns
• mazes and monsters: pointless
• every book’s a sourcebook: Thieves’ World
• A Cavalier Analysis of the Cavalier
• bird mask
• mazes and monsters: holy man in manhattan
• Brother Cadfael: The Sanctuary Sparrow
• name day: The Monorthodox
• Dost I EYE a Beholder?
• separate combat and noncombat abilities
• Mazes and Monsters is a far out game
• how do you even mummify a robot
• jewels in The Jewel of Seven Stars
• The Jewel of Seven Stars
• 1e mummies
• the mummy’s curse in fiction
• Essentials Elder Dragon
• the curse of the mummy’s curse
• Mazes and Monsters: Halloween Episode
• Circumnavigate the D&D globe!
• More Gamma World? YES
• wading by torchlight
• blind decisions
• when to count ammo
• City altars
• Gamma World Gamma World Gamma World!
• a real photo of ents
• ammo rules from Gamma World
• Mazes and Monsters: mystery in the caves
• sometimes you gotta sacrifice a human
• Is Rapier the new Longsword?
• by Thor, that’s a lotta ewers
• antics
• Mazes and Monsters: leveling rules
• where do cities go?
• Rare item: Smoke Turban
• The Creature in Gray
• google adwords giveaway
• Mazes and Monsters: psychodrama!
• every book’s a sourcebook: The Ginger Star
• symbol of the Crossed Tree
• Skill Challenges and DCs in the Rules Compendium!
• the coming crisis: D&D edition
• Mazes and Monsters retro clone 7: beware of the sacrilege!
• D&Doubloons
• common magic items
• Feats from Heroes of the Fallen Lands
• Heroes of the Fallen Land Races!
• friends don’t disintegrate each other
• character sheet
• cantrips
• nimble fingers
• the utility of skill training
• in Essentials, it’s a dominant gene
• Essentials thief: don’t get MAD, get SAD!
• slayers and knight similarities
• slayer stances
• Knight Weapon Specialization: the good and bad
• knight stances
• fighter encounters
• race advice
• Where have all the rituals gone (sung to the tune of where have all the cowboys gone)?!
• class/race, race/class
• warpriest build
• roll d20 for languages
• House Rules!
• determining ability score
• evil knives
• ranging the forgotten kingdoms
• paladins of the forgotten kingdoms
• druids of the forgotten kingdoms
• tricked!
• Example of play
• never send a halfling to do a man’s job
• trade paperback manuals
• heroes of the fallen lands liveblog
• your job is to hit things!
• Ravenloft took my NADs
• Thirdhand science says: Randomize your treasure!
• problems with monster HP: prove me wrong! or right!
• hit point lessons from mm3 on a business card
• something is wrong with the wizard
• The No Win Scenario!
• and now a puzzle challenge!
• graverobbing over the Glyph
• how to be classy
• Essentials Red Box final thoughts
• Fighter At-Wills
• tokens
• Rogue At-Wills
• character sheets
• Cleric At-Wills
• magic item cards
• Wizard At-Wills
• power cards
• meet the kobolds
• rogue Weapon Finesse
• official 4e random treasure table
• warning: dungeon contains dragon
• talking to goblins
• Essentials Starter adventure on the 5 minute workday
• The Twisting Halls
• the real rules
• essentials skill DCs
• worgs!
• Your First Encounter
• Essentials Starter: Dungeon Master’s Book
• Essentials Players Book final thoughts
• D&D Essentials Appendix N
• roll for languages
• I’m every wizard
• kill the prisoners!
• how not to play D&D
• and i would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling adventurers
• section 42
• we all knew being a Holy Man was dangerous
• cleric: still the whipping boy
• so I CAN be a cleric of Jesus?
• D&D Immortals
• move actions
• maybe the wizard is wearing bracers +1?
• hold on, that bad guy has HIT POINTS?
• Essentials starter: ambushed by goblins!
• wait, I can be ANY color?
• who gets to be the DM?
• Back of the Red Boxes
• Red Box differences
• Elmore today
• liveblogging D&D Essentials Starter
• yams, 1cp each
• Ranger’s Apprentice
• D&D 4e Post Errata House Rules
• earn your magic perks
• Skills in D&D 4e – Some Simple Math
• Mazes and Monsters retro-clone 6: Live Action Maze Exploration
• every book’s a sourcebook: African Civilizations: Ethiopia
• trust me
• D&D 4e Item Issues
• D&D: vikings with ewers
• Mazes and Monsters retro-clone 5: It’s a Trap!
• Rory’s Pocket Guide to D&D 4e – Playing Combat
• every book’s a sourcebook: African Civilizations: Ballana
• gen con surprises
• Rory’s Pocket Guide to D&D 4E: Roleplaying your Character
• sea dungeons
• Mazes and Monsters retro-clone 4: love and character sheets
• Gen Con Design and Development seminar 2: design, minis, races
• Gen Con design and development seminar
• random fantasy book generator
• what not to read
• Mazes and Monsters retro-clone 3: meet the characters
• every book’s a sourcebook: African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective
• Monster Manual 3 on a business card
• Rory’s Pocket Guide to D&D 4e: Part 1 – Character Creation
• Rory and Paul on D&D Essentials
• Mazes and Monsters retro-clone 2: actual gameplay
• Every Book’s a Sourcebook: Mossflower
• The Ten Mile Tower – Mile 3
• Mazes and Monsters: retro clone
• gafiation
• The Ten Mile Tower – Mile 2
• RPG history: Midgard
• Every Book’s a Sourcebook: Little Women
• lankhmar linkhmar
• gaming with the bullies
• The Ten Mile Tower – Mile 1
• The Twilight Saga: Escort
• Every Book’s a Sourcebook: The Riddle of the Sands
• the storm’s dilemma
• The Ten Mile Tower – Ground Level
• Every Book’s a Sourcebook: The Fire at Mary Anne’s House
• Shoot the Sea!
• Embracing TPKs
• When A Player Misses a Session
• Why parties know everything but can get away with nothing
• Lankhmar levels 3: the first RPG
• Justifying Laziness!
• Lankhmar levels 2: Pulgh, the unpublished character
• Lankhmar levels
• My D&D DMing Philosophy in a Nutshell
• You only need to remember things that benefit you
• OD&D + 2 many classes
• Wealth by level in BECMI D&D
• May rules update highlights
• leveling magic items
• Mapping the Feywild
• Heroes of Hesiod
• Class
• Simple Campaign Idea
• it’s an important role
• Wilderness Survival Guide
• Wilderness Survival
• The Ten Mile Tower
• identify
• PAX East Dark Sun Preview
• disadvantages
• A Pleasant Sort of World
• background benefits
• The Essential D&D
• More Minions!
• Balancing Minions: An Experiment
• D&D 4th Edition House Rules
• Cumulative Chance
• Is this overpowered? Or, the Iron Weapon Expertise of Ruin Rule
• do NOT put this blog inside a portable hole