Ludus Carcerum

A D&D test kitchen.

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Random D&D-Historical Adult Death Table

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I have long desired to make and/or have, along with the random reign-length table and the random regnal nickname tables : a random cause of...
Friday, October 16, 2026

For The Knock-Out

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Consider: defeating a foe without killing them. Knocking, as it were, them out. 3.5e In 3.5e, all damage was lethal, unless you had a weapon...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Un-Downgrading Backgrounds

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So, of course, Backgrounds were completely garbaged in the change to 5.5e. In terms of interestingness, in terms of roleplaying hooks, in te...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Dynastic New Game+

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Family Tree I've long desired to run a dynastic campaign, importing something like Pendragon 's "after every session/adventure/...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Truly Lovecraftian Beholders

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(Alternate title: "Heyeward Peepers Lensscleraft's Cat") Disclaimer: I do not unreservedly endorse using any of this in actua...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Take a Downside to Solve the Accomplishing Nothing Problem

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The Accomplishing Nothing Problem : If you are in combat and get hit by an effect that temporarily takes you out of the fight and you fail y...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

Age Categories in 5.5e

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So, 5e and 5.5e doesn't have Age Categories. I'm on the record as enjoying aging effects, but admittedly, it does get a bit fiddly, ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Maus Yi Yos!

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"Maus yi yos!" was, of course, the traditional Driftmas greeting, in Ilya of old, before Archbishop Usla of Banor waged the War fo...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Origin Ability Points in 5.5e

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So, a thing that 5.5e does: it decouples ability score bonuses from species (previously known as 'race', in PF2 known as 'ancest...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

On Bringing Back Ability Damage

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In D&D 3.5e, we had Ability Damage. Things (especially poison, but also other stuff, especially various creatures) could deal damage dir...
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Malimar is a neurodivergent and queer English Language Arts 7-12 teacher, living and teaching in Buffalo with their partner, four cats, and some fish, snails, and plants. They enjoy language and its subtleties, teaching, philosophy, nonhuman animals, and tabletop roleplaying games – a collection of interests which may seem eclectic but which fit together like a jigsaw puzzle in their brain.
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