[Note: These rules/guidance/ideas come from our Hexploration Decks, currently out to backers to review before printing. These are most of the final 5 Reference cards from the ‘Into the Wilderness’ deck. Because they are cards of 200-225 words each, you …

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Continuing our series of previewing new 5e magic items… Hallowed Altar Wondrous Item, legendary This holy altar grants the same effect as a hallow spell until it is destroyed. Not less than 6 feet long, 3 feet wide, 3 feet …

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I love making these! Blurring Cloak Wondrous Item, very rare (requires attunement) While wearing this cloak, you can speak its command word as an action to gain the effect of the blur spell, which lasts for 10 minutes or until …

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Acid Arrow Bow Weapon (longbow), very rare (requires attunement) Any arrow shot with this bow magically transforms as it leaves the bow’s string into a magical acid arrow. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 acid damage immediately and 1d4 …

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About a week ago as I was falling asleep I somehow thought up a mini-game centered on how to start your next RPG campaign. Short description: A player declares a genre and each player gets six cards (two verbs and …

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As I wrap up the Pathfinder Creature Decks (we’re in final edits) it is time to pick the next set of decks back up.  Labyrinth Lord/1E was next and much of the work was already done for all creatures that …

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(Plus shipping.) The Overview of Tabletop RPGs Isometric Map Poster was posted on Reddit recently, and it attracted a lot of interest.  I posted a code there to get it for under $5 (plus shipping.)  I’d like to make that …

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Joseph Bloch is back with his latest volume in a series of books that imagines–based on Gary Gygax’s public comments and articles–what AD&D 2E might have been like. (So I personally like to think of it as 1.5E.) The new …

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A recent message board thread reminded me of a project I started a while back… (but I then shelved it for other things like the DungeonMorph Dice.) The core concept is to break down each Pathfinder class’s abilities and assign …

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While playing Munchkin a couple of weeks ago, a player got a “half-breed” card which lets him combine any two races.  Then it hit me: why does D&D (and Pathfinder, etc.) only list half-elf and half-orc as possible half-breeds? Why …

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