Ludus Carcerum

A D&D test kitchen.

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...
Friday, January 12, 2024

The "Every NPC Is Miles O'Brien" Principle

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My best recent session in terms of player engagement was one where NPCs (whom the players like) suffered a bunch. You can inflict all sorts ...
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Thursday, January 4, 2024

Ettin Newcanon

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Ettins, ubues, and other giants with extra heads or limbs, are all results of a semi-rare disorder in trolls, sometimes arising spontaneousl...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

On Fish-People

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I have long complained that, of all the array of fish-people and seafolk available in D&D, they're all kind of samey . Let's see...
Monday, October 30, 2023

The Year Hoobynoob Unaccountably Contrived to Come on Freday the 13th of Octember

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Through some celestial mishap or accounting error, for some reason, Hoobynoob falls on Freday the 13th of Octember, in this, the 47th year o...
Monday, January 2, 2023

How the Bonelord Stole Driftmas

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On the last day of the year, three Guildmasters of the Endeesy Adventurer's Guild -- Ruthmin Tern the Assassin Rogue, Christopher the Pa...
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