Alex and Perram spend some time discussing one of the least thought of divine spell casters: The Shaman! Then they geek out about their home campaigns and talk shop.
Previously, I introduced The Maze. The article was admittedly a bit long but I really wanted to lay the groundwork for subsequent setting design articles like this one. I’ve made no secret that I love the idea behind e6...
For over the past year, I’ve been playing in a friend’s Reign of Winter game. Super fun, can’t recommend that Adventure Path enough. Over the course of my 3.5/PF career, I’ve played a bunch of characters of a bunch...
On this Fighting Friday, the monsters wander deep into the earth. This week’s Wandering Monsters features an all-too-familiar location, the dark cavern. Caves and underground locales are all the rage when adventuring as they hold the creepiest creatures, strange...
We’ve talked at length and with love about Syrinscape, the interactive audio engine that adds encounter-specific, movie-quality soundtracks to your gaming sessions. We teamed up with them to create a unique soundset about a certain chimera attacking a gnome village called Gnomeland Security....
The term “special snowflake” is often leveled pejoratively at characters whose wacky design doesn’t quite fit into the confines of a narrative’s setting, campaign, or background. This broad definition can be specifically applied to strange or out of place character concepts...
In Keyword Design, I use a single word as inspiration for a mundane item, a magic item, a feat, a spell, and a class option. Today’s word is “recursion” and was suggested by Peter. So, recursion. The repeated application...
Coming back from a gaming convention this weekend we got into a conversation about Pathfinder, surprising no one. What did come up was a question I wasn’t prepared to answer, “If you could cast any first level spell from...
As you all recall, I made a promise to try and do up-to-date builds with new material whenever possible this year, so today I’m going to fulfill that promise by constructing a character using the all-new Monster Hunter’s Handbook....