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Multiclassing in Everything: How to Make the Worst Character in D&D 5E
“What are you playing tonight?” my party asked as I set a bulging tote bag on the table. “A Barbarian,” I said, smiling. “So what’s the...
How to Make a Fantasy Map in GIMP
With NaNoWriMo fast approaching, you may be planning on writing a fantasy or sci-fi story. Congrats! This is one of my favorite genres...
How to Make Minimalist Wallpapers in 7 Steps or Less
Turn any image into a minimalist composition with this seven-step process. Minimalist art relies only on the most basic and distinctive...
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The Displacer Beast with A.E. Van Vogt
The true and actual origins of the displacer beast with author A. E. Van Vogt. Follow wherever you get your podcasts: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Overcast | Breaker | Castro.fm | Podchaser |...
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing with Keith Ammann
Keith Amman, author of Monsters Know What They're Doing, shows us how to decode a monster's game mechanics, and how culture defines creatures. Follow wherever you get your podcasts: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Amazon Music |...
5 Good RPGs that Aren’t D&D
Dungeons & Dragons may be "the granddaddy of role-playing games," but the kids are alright. The few times I've been able to get my regular gaming group to try new and different role-playing games have been some of the most remarkable and rewarding experiences I've...
Coyote and Crow gives a New Voice to Native American Legends and Icons
Made by a Native American team, Coyote and Crow is a tabletop role-playing game set in an alternate future of the Americas where colonization never occurred. Creator Connor Alexander retells the Cherokee myth of the Raven Wizard on Making a Monster. Follow wherever...
Vo the Voice Snatcher, from the Bard College of Silence
Vo the Voice Snatcher, from the Bard College of Silence Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Overcast | Breaker | Castro.fm | Podchaser | TuneIn | Player FM |...
The Dvati race option for D&D lets you play 2 characters at once
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Wizmos – Dark Matter by Mage Hand Press
Energetic and capricious, Wizmos are little constructs manufactured by a Fey lord to spread disorder and whimsy throughout the mortal realm. Each Wizmo is utterly unique, but all the Wizmos love to get into trouble, conduct elaborate pranks, annoy polite company, and...
Niels RPG Toons makes a Monstrosity
This monstrosity itself is too large to fight in any traditional sense. Like you can't just pick up your spells and your swords and go down to the bottom of the sea and start stabbing this thing. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify...
Melusine, the mother of mermaids | Making a Monster Season 2 ep.1 ft. Chris Hopper
The first glimpse you catch of Melusine herself is just this bioluminescent light as she tends to this undersea garden with centuries of precision, she is a long serpentine glow - not even glow, just like a flash and a hint here and there, moving between corals and...
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