Ludus Carcerum

This ornately-decorated 12"x7"x4" wooden box is frequently used by guildmasters to send items to random places, so that low-r...

A good basic principle of cursed items is this: take a standard item, and make it do what it's supposed to do except not quite right, or...

One of the biggest problem in my dungeons is a lack of interesting locations. My dungeons were an endless series of bland, uninteresting roo...

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...

The following is a list of the current bounties offered at my megadungeon open game table, as they are presented to my players. Well, they g...

Because low-level characters being unable to carry all their gear is a recurring problem: here, have smaller bags of holding that even a new...

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

There is a golden rule of houseruling that everyone should always keep in mind when they decide to enforce a house rule, and that is: A ho...

So it was established that the best way to handle experience in the open gaming table is to just start everybody off at 0 and go from there...