Planar Adventures for Dummies

A collection of my ramblings on fantasy physics, game mechanics, and planar adventures as they apply to Dungeons and Dragons and its retroclones.

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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Why are some elementals immune to poison? Who cares!

A strange thing I noticed while browsing the MM is that some elementals are immune to poison but not others. For example, azer, gargoyles an...

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Subverting the green-skinned space babe trope

Those of you who frequent TVTropes may be aware of the " green-skinned space babe " trope, popularized by Star Trek 's Orion, ...

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Orc lives matter (too!)

Psyche! I could go on a rant about how the portrayal of orcs in fantasy role playing is politically incorrect , but I decided to sidestep th...

Racial hierarchies

Fantasy gaming has a fairly detailed racial hierarchy, but for this post I will break it down into its most simple. Humanoid races may be gr...

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Resolving the paradoxes afflicting elementals

The MM entry on "elementals" is riddled with contradictions and plot hooks that go nowhere. In this post, I will examine those mis...

Monster intelligence, part 1: beasts

As an exercise, I decided to look up and compare the intelligence scores of the monsters in the MM. I was aided in this by a brief analysis ...

Undead hunger

5e does not have any rules for undead hunger, but it is a neat concept. I decided to use a twist on the idea: All undead are subject to phy...

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