My kids are young and we play DND, and I’ve spent a lot of time partnered with a elementary and middle schools to run D&D clubs, so I run a lot of games for kids. I even wrote down some rough rules for a game I ran with my son, when he was 5 or 6. I get asked every now and again for advice, so I this time I wrote it down
Category Archives: Advice
Review: You’ve Got A Friend In Me
A review of Greedy Gorgon’s You’ve got a friend in me! A guide for building party backstories in any RPG system
Zombies: 5e House Rule
I was a little surprised to see I didn’t have this posted on the site anywhere. Zombies are really fun in fiction, and 5e’s Zombies don’t hit the mark at all. I’m not sure Zombies in D&D, or pathfinder ever really did. Zombies have one basic rule that’s really important for them. You can’t killContinue reading “Zombies: 5e House Rule”
On Death
Killing a PC, that is the question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the game to roll dice, And suffer the cries and anguish of a disappointing deathOr to take arms against fate, and cheat the odds, And by lies, let them prosper? Krusk, the shitty poet I see a bunch of hot takes on whether orContinue reading “On Death”
Pacing your RPG
According to some stats I saw online (someone quoted them, I looked them up and confirmed, then wrote this idea in my to do list before promptly deleting any of my validation work and references…), the average D&D play instance lasts for seven, four-hour sessions. Play instance is a tem I’ll use to differentiate betweenContinue reading “Pacing your RPG”
Druid Circle of Land: Houserule
I’ve been mulling over a general dissatisfaction with Druids for some time now and I think it boils down not actually feeling like I’m in touch with nature. I landed at the idea of potentially writing a new subclass that’s really in touch with the terrain and the world around them, and got so farContinue reading “Druid Circle of Land: Houserule”
Mephits: K20 Lore
Similar to elementals, mephitis are small elementals native to a variety of elemental planes. While diminutive in size, and individually essentially not a threat, mephitis tend to gather in mobs or similar types and can be formidable in this manner. They have a tendency to be lazy, unmotivated, cheap to hire, and resilient, which makesContinue reading “Mephits: K20 Lore”
Outlanders & Explorers: 5e
For a game that coined the term “Three Pillars”, 5e sure loves to let folks ignore two of them. The exploration pillar, while not outright ignored like the roleplay pillar, doesn’t get a lot of love when compared to the combat pillar. There’s a bit about tracking overland movement in the DMG that’s pretty good,Continue reading “Outlanders & Explorers: 5e”
SR-16 Retrospective on Indie Games
SR-16, author of previously reviewed Space Street, reached out to me a little bit ago with an essay they put together analyzing a trend in indie RPGs on Itch. They focus on one of their games that followed it, where it went wrong, and another similar game that did it right (by someone else). WhileContinue reading “SR-16 Retrospective on Indie Games”
Goodliness, Godliness, and Dragons
Soapbox time. An ongoing gripe of mine, is the seemingly constant confusion around what good, godliness, and gods mean in D&D. See, many folks assume D&D works like Christianity, and the only difference is God is now the gods. The gods made the world, people who do good things get to go to a GoodContinue reading “Goodliness, Godliness, and Dragons”
The TTRPG Factory 