Ludus Carcerum

The Drow. Drizzt Do'Urden. Synonymous with Mary Sue. But "Mary Sue" isn't actually quite exactly what I'm talking ab...

So it's well-known (by me) that 3.5e's biggest flaw is balance between classes. (This flaw is slightly lessened but not really entir...

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

Recently, a Pathfinder DM I play with instituted the Removing Iterative Attacks rule from Pathfinder Unchained . A player immediately objec...

Have you ever encountered or used an ettin that was anything other than two male heads and an implicit penis (or two)? I don't think I h...

The internet hates critical fumbles. Home games tends to love them. There are various rules of thumb for telling you that your critica...

Originally posted on my other blog on this day (August 14th) in 2010, early in the 3.5e v 4e edition war. --- A few weeks ago, I had an ...

Half caster level (Ranger, Paladin, etc) is no longer a thing. Such classes have a caster level equal to their class level. Their class leve...

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...

I have written a brief handbook for the Renegade Mastermaker, a 3.5 Eberron prestige class that allows you to become a steampunk magitek cy...