Tag Archives: D&D 5E
What have I been up to RPG wise?
So when I last wrote this blog a year ago I had started on some Marvel Multiverse stuff. I have played a game with some friends and their kids but that’s as far as that went. We finished out D&D rotating DM game before last summer. that is, I finished my story, Brian didn’t and […]
D&D – New DMsGuild title!
I haven’t written any new content for DMsGuild in ages but for the last few weeks I’ve been working on this: Elves are a fascinating race and show up in many examples of fantasy (and other) fiction. But Elves are an ancient and varied race and there are many more subraces of Elves. I present […]
Horizon D&D 5e: Races, Carja and Banuk
So here’s the next 2 races from Zero Dawn. As in the previous post, gain +2 to one attribute and +1 to another. You can pick any, but the suggested attributes are listed below. It’s also worth pointing out that the traits may not seem equal, but Banuk would be frowned upon by most tribes […]
GMLess D&D 5e Session 5
Pretty short one this, lots of combat… So after overthrowing the King and taking 2 weeks of downtime Igne had done some research and found clues to the “Elder Crypt of Power, located in a Tanglewood 100s of miles to the north east of High Stone near a town called Dermondale. Igne and Lyv took […]
Horizon 5e: Races, Nora and Oseram
As mentioned in the original thoughts post, I was unsure about whether to just use backgrounds or to use races as well. Considering all PCs will be human, having the different tribes be different races makes some sense. We’ll start with the first 2, Nora and Oseram. Standard Horizon 5e race rules: I am assuming […]
Horizon D&D 5e Combat changes
So before I can look at races, classes, monsters and equipment I need to work out what changes are needed for rules and mainly combat. The basics will stay exactly the same. However I need to account for elemental attacks and machine components as these are two key components of Horizon combat and without these […]
D&D 5e Horizon (Zero Dawn & Forbidden West) Thoughts
I just started playing Horizon Forbidden West and I’m loving it. And I’ve been thinking how it would quite well as a D&D game. So I had a look at other Horizon Zero Dawn references for D&D and I found a few monsters and a hunter subclass but that was about it. Someone was running […]
GMLess D&D Session 4
Look here for previous episodes So having found the relic they wanted AND recovered the would-be girlfriend we were pretty sure the rebellion would really want Igne and Lyv’s help now, but we also weren’t going to wait around. The King had legalised Slavery, blocked movements and was generally being a massive dick! So we […]
GMLess D&D Session 3
So having taking a week off we picked up where we left off (see session 2) having recovered the Armor of Heroism. When we returned to the rebels we thought they would be super impressed, but they weren’t (bad roll) and they gave us another filler mission (card flip), “Acquire Love” (oracle roll). We decided […]
How are we playing GM-Less D&D?
So as written about in session 0, 1 and 2 we are playing a GMLess D&D Campaign. Why are we playing a GMLess D&D Game? Simple enough, because there’s only 2 of us. My regular group is myself and 2 players, but One of my players (Brian) and I have been meeting, just the 2 […]
Co-Op D&D 5e Session 2
We did a bit of world-building to start. We had intended the session to be more high magic and high tech and ended up in a farming community delivering a mcguffin to a tribe. (see here) Not quite what we had planned. So we added a City to our map and decided to get skyship […]
Co-Op D&D 5e Session 1
So we had worked out our World (not) and our characters and were ready to go (see here) The plan for the solo stuff was as follows: Use the Oracles from Ironsworn to get started and create locations (and NPCs) Use the Card system from Twilight 2000 (Free League version) to answer yes/no questions and […]
Co-Op D&D 5e Session 0
So having just started listening to Critical Role properly (Campaign 3 – I go between Youtube and Podcast) and watching the first 3 episodes of Legends of Vox Machina I’ve got the itch to play D&D. But we’ve just started a Tales from the Loop game, which has at least 3 more sessions to go […]
D&D 5e threat and momentum from 2d20
One of the rules I love about 2d20 is momentum and Threat (although Threat is sometimes called other names like Doom). Spending momentum lets you get extra dice to improve the chance of succeeding at rolls, or grant combat effects. Momentum is earned by rolling well. Threat can be given to the GM if you […]
The State of D&D 5e in 2022
5e is basically the longest edition since 2e. 2e lasted 11 years (cos it was awesome!) 3e was updates to 3.5 after 3 years which then lasted 5 years 4e lasted 6 years 5e released in 2014. I was super excited when it released but my interest waned over the years. So what is the […]
D&D 5e Roll Dice for Bonuses Rule
So one thing that sort of bugs me about D&D (and any like game that uses a d20 for rolls and the other dice for damage) is that I have all these cool dice but I mostly only use the d20 and my damage dice. If you’re playing a non caster you might only get […]
Do I even want to run a League Game? Part 2 – What happened in the League games I did run
One of the problems I’ve had in running a League game other than system is Adventures. Over recent years I’ve found it harder to have decent time to plan good adventures and have relied on pre-written ones. Even with these I have struggled to find the time to read them. So In this short series […]
Do I even want to run a League Game? Part 1 – What games I have actually run in recent years
One of the problems I’ve had in running a League game other than system is Adventures. Over recent years I’ve found it harder to have decent time to plan good adventures and have relied on pre-written ones. Even with these I have struggled to find the time to read them. So In this short series […]
Arcane / Legends of Runeterra RPG – What system would I use?
I have wanted to have an RPG system to run a game in Runeterra (the setting for League of Legends/Legends of runeterra/Arcane) and we even dedicated a FluffnCrunch episode to it (Links: Anchor / Spotify). Now having watched Arcane (which was awesome by the way – check it out) I wanted to start having a […]
Pathfinder Classes in D&D 5E
So one of things i really like about Pathfinder but don’t have in 5E is all the classes. Not so bothered about the archetypes. They are nice to have, but most are pointless or are just themes. Have statted most of the races i want, monsters are pretty easy to convert or re-skin and i […]
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