There is one secret to making realistic NPCs: treat them like real people.  That doesn't mean every innkeep, dirt farmer, and bandit thu...

Continuing from last time (before I was interrupted by an amor of rampaging cupids )... I am on a quest to make polearms more appeali...

Playing D&D on Valentine's Day is like being a grizzled cop who doesn't play by the rules - to work properly, you either need th...

Polearms are just about the most ubiquitous and varied category of weapon to have ever existed.  Heck, spears alone have been in use aroun...

Bernard grabbed another glass from the bar, dipped his rag into a bucket of beer-colored water, and polished the glass to no obvious effect....

Today's Monster Monday entry is the Tsuchigumo, a truly frightening Japanese monster with the body of a tiger, the legs of a spider, an...

The Fishpool Hoard: British Museum.  Photo: d20 Despot Treasure.  It's a big part of playing D&D.  It is often one of the primar...