Ludus Carcerum

So it's a long-known problem that rust monsters, which eat metal, are difficult to justify in an ecosystem containing, say, locks, iron ...

Druid/ranger animal companions and paladin special mounts gain hit dice as their master levels, and so gain all the benefits of hit dice, in...

This post is aimed primarily at a lay audience, and therefore I'll be defining a lot of terms that many of my readers will already be fa...

So most tables I've played at use the house/variant rule that you can't level up in the middle of a dungeon; you only level up if yo...

So, there's the mechanatrix race from Fiend Folio . They're kind of neat, because they're descended from robots  constructs. A...

Extra Spell . The feat that launched a thousand arguments, once upon a time. To wit: does it allow access to spells that aren't on your ...

Alright, so there's actually more ways to identify a potion than there are to identify other things. A simple DC25 spellcraft check  wil...

So D&D gives an elaborate set of procedures for identifying items -- detect magic plus a Spellcraft check, examine it for helpful clues...

So, I kind of like  my solution  to the problem of how annoying  negative levels  are to to be inflicted with: But I also kind of like an ...

The Dungeon Master's Guide/Monster Manual mentions basically two options for determining who in your campaign world is powerful and who ...

The joke that always goes around this time of year is that Jesus is a zombie and will eat your brains. But if you actually read the Gospels...

"All true dragons gain more abilities and greater power as they age. (Other creatures that have the dragon type do not.) They range in ...

I've always kind of liked the idea of playing half an ettin . Get another player to play the other half, and be two characters sharing...

An incompetent DM will only ever say "you hit" or "you miss", when you hit or fail to hit, respectively. This turns comb...

You may have heard the virtues of "Yes, and" extolled. If not at DMing school, then perhaps at improv comedy school. The thinkin...

Even though I've concluded that the standard way of handling initiative is flawed and a group initiative system is better , I'd like...

High Seas has warforged originally designed for mining operations deep beneath the ocean , what with not needing to breathe and all. The ...

The Leadership feat (and, by extension, the Thrallherd prestige class, which is effectively "Leadership but better") is commonly ...

So, looking back on my myconid monster class , it really looks like the level adjustment given by WotC is preposterously high. Let's rec...