Wands of the Fungal Lord are not crafted so much as they are grown by myconid sovereigns and half-mad druids in lightless caverns suffused with mystical darkness and swirling luminescent spores.
Men & Monsters of the Aegean: Olympian (D&D 5E Race)
Olympians are people who can trace their bloodlines back to one or more of the deities associated with the Olympian pantheon. They tend to be attractive, well-formed, and generally pleasing to look at and be around, and to exhibit characteristics associated with the gods from which they are descended.
Charon (D&D 5E Epic Fantasy Monster)
Charon is a Lich-like undead monster who dwells on the banks of the Styx in the underworld and is tasked with ferrying the souls of the dead from one side of the gloomy river to the other. His vessel is an ancient Egyptian-style funerary barge that is propelled by a half-dozen animated oars on each side.
Werehyena (D&D 5E Monster)
Werehyenas are tough lycanthropes that are somewhat scrappy in appearance and who tend to keep to themselves, living either solitarily or in small, close-knit communities.
New Epic Boons for D&D 5E
Official boons are very generic and this article includes some new and more exciting examples that apply to specific classes, races, backgrounds, and alignments.
A Brief Guide to Heraldry
Painted shields and devices, and later additions such as embroidered surcoats, crests, and horse trappings, were an important means of identifying fully armored — and therefore anonymous — friends and foes on the battlefield.
Sandstorm (D&D 5th Edition Environmental Hazard)
While sand and dust are frequently blowing around the deserts and semi-arid farmlands of Aigyptos, a true sandstorm can rise up in the wake of otherwise regular bad weather, on its own, or as the result of potent magic, and can be quite dangerous.
Variant Rules for 'Castle Risk'!
With an eye to giving people something fun they can use to punch up one of their old boardgames, gamedev Michael O. Varhola has created some variant rules “Castle Risk” version of the “Risk”!
Getting Older: Aging in D&D 5E
New rules for age progression, be it the normal progression of time, the abnormal progression of time in another plane, or accelerated aging caused by a curse of other supernatural effect.
Amulet Armamentarium: An Alchemical Adornment for 5E
This necklace is adorned with brightly colored glass beads that bear a striking resemblance to potion bottles.
Dead Space Conversion Collection
This catch-all index for all of game developer Chris Van Deelen’s Dead Space RPG conversions, including weapons and armor.
The Ophidecimo: A Serpentine Spell Book for 5e
This well worn 3 lbs tome is made from fine vellum pages bound in a cover of gleaming snakeskin with an image of a winding serpent emblazoned on the cover in hammered copper.
Robe of Useless Items
This robe is adorned with cloth patches of various shapes and colors resembling a normal robe of useful items in all ways, except the items summoned from the patches are shoddy at best and dangerous at worst.
Gates of Hell (D&D 5E Artifact & Monsters)
This artifact inspired by the description of the Gates of Hell in the "Inferno" of Medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri is based on the similarly-inspired bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin.
Starfinder Creature Index
This index for all of game developer Chris Van Deelen’s conversions and original creations for Starfinder contains 246 free creatures for your game!
What Would Buddha Play?
While doing researching games played in ancient and Medieval India, I stumbled across what is apparently the earliest known list of games, dating to the 5th or 6th century B.C.!
'The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles'
This short story was originally published in 1950 by author Margaret St. Clair (aka,IdrisSeabright). It appears in an expanded edition of Skirmisher Publishing LLC's A Brief History ofGnolls:Anthropophagyand Emeralds from Wales to Wisconsin and Beyond, a book by author Paul Haynie that traces the history of the title fantasy creature in literature and gaming.
Oddities for a Ren Faire
What could be more amusingly odd than Renaissance Faires, whose quirkiness starts with that extraneous “e” that they somehow need to have? This post contains some of the weird things, some truer to life than we might like to admit, that one might find at places of this sort …
Starfinder: Ahl
Ahl are creatures who originate on an alternate plane of existence. The home of these creatures is pure black, where no light has ever reached. It is cold and anything that manages to find themselves in this dimension quickly succumb to the environment, dying a horrible, lonely death.
Variant Size Giant Scorpions (D&D 5E Monsters)
Oversized scorpions are especially common in places that are warm, particularly areas with active volcanoes or other geological activity, and are almost omnipresent in subterranean locales.