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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Thursday, May 17, 2018

Revising the great wheel: exemplars

The problem with the exemplars in Pathfinder is that there are 1) too many of them, and 2) they generally lack signature motifs. Here I aim ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Renaming true giants

As I mentioned before, words like athach and ettin are synonyms for "giant" that were co-opted by fantasy gaming for completely ...

Friday, May 11, 2018

Dragon types? Drakes, dragonets, lindwyrms, wyverns, lyzards, oy vey...

One of the more frustrating aspects of fantasy gaming is the obsessive compulsion to classify things. Like dragons, for instance. Dragons ar...

Revising the elemental fauna to be interesting

Let's face it, elementals are boring. When Paracelsus first devised the idea of elementals, he considered them to be analogous to humans...

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Of Beastmen and Beastfolk

World mythology and fantasy gaming is full of creatures and races that may be described as "beastmen" or "beastfolk." Br...

The diversity of kobolds

Kobolds are one of those monsters that changes noticeably in different media.

Friday, April 27, 2018

Revisiting the morality of undeath

In past editions the undead were heavily involved with positive/negative energy and associated planes. These distinctions no longer exist in...

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