When a theme park isn’t big enough and an attraction isn’t immersive enough, how do you take your guests to the next level? You buy a gas giant with dozens of moons and terraform them until they are exactly...
Hello again! The last two installments literally broke ground by describing how the western valley formed in a giant crevasse. This time, let’s cover some ground by looking at the forest to the north. The overall shape and layout...
Deus Ex Machina, Generic Cleric, or a Gentle Nudge? To some players and groups the mere mention of GM PC causes them to hiss like cheesy vampires at sunlight and wooden crosses. Some are completely baffled by the concept,...
Welcome back. Now that we know the layout of the rainforest, we can take a look at some of the life, and possible unlife, that we will find inside of it. A series of small human settlements near the...
Welcome back! We have a pretty good handle on our central mountain, and the lake and village inside. Instead of breaking ground today, how about we cover an area that broke up long ago. What happens when you take...
Welcome back for more Groundbreaking. Last time we took a good look at how the mountain was made, and what the current natural features are. This week, we are going to learn a little bit about what it took...
Will the real blue dragon, please stand up? Adjudicating illusions is often a tricky affair, and I don’t see a new edition changing that. In many cases, the aftermath of an illusion-based encounter is often a bit of a...
Welcome back to Groundbreaking! Last week, we covered a lot of ground laying the foundation of our mountain basin and describing the four distinct areas that surround our extinct volcano. This week, I wanted to detail the caldera more....
Hello friends, old and new. My name is Randal, and I will be your host for this blog. As any homebrew GM, I am constantly making up new locations, people, and plots on the fly. Quite often, these are...