Back Screen Pass - A DM's Secrets

Up until 50,000 years before the present day of my new world campaign , the landscape of the new world was considerably different.  A basalt...

The Archaeology of Minoan Crete by Reynold Higgins I bought this $2.25 hardcover at the St. Vincent's thrift store and this bad b...

There is an old maxim in D&D: Never split the party.  You usually hear this from the player perspective, in the context of survival advi...

I usually just steal maps from other sources and repurpose them when I am doing DM prepwork.  I do enjoy drawing  my own maps but it is rela...

Every now and then I come back to combat in D&D and want to fiddle around with it to make it more "realistic".  Of course I re...

I got a fun present over the holidays, a set of Rory's Story Cubes ("Voyages" edition). These are a set of nine regular (...

Back on December 29th of last year we played a session where the PCs had traveled back in time 4 million years before the current timeline t...

I have a longstanding dissatisfaction with D&D magic.  It is not that I don't like it.  I loved playing illusionists when I was a ki...

Last Tuesday's installment of my 4e game ended with our heroes in very perilous straits.  We ended the session with Beautiful Bob the ...

This is a post for the benefit of my players, so they have the stats of the two cambion NPCs they now control.  I based these off the Cambio...