In D&D 4e, the developers categorized classes in terms of combat role (controller, defender, leader, and striker) and power source (arcane, divine, martial, primal, and psionic). The compulsive
In my last post I talked about getting a good physical size of nation and the world. The next step is actually populating the sucker. Otherwise known as Fun With Spreadsheets. Traditional
For the campaign I'm running now, I wanted to build my own world. A world big enough to hold different types of adventures and make exploration fun, but internally consistent enough that it felt
I recently started GMing a new campaign in a new, custom setting for a new, homebrew system. One of my players was entirely new to RPGs and another had only played once decades ago and wasn't sure if
I was getting ready for a new adventure recently, and I came across “The Automatic Hound” by James Lafond Sutter in Dungeon Magazine #148. It's a tidy, low-level module that starts with a town