In my mind DnD dice jails are the perfect gift for all us bad luck TTRPG players. The old saying goes that it only takes one bad apple to ruin a bunch, and while that is true I would argue that apples aren’t the worst offender. As any experienced tabletop RPG gamer can attest to, …
The halberd has been a favorite weapon of mine for a long time because I’m a history geek and Medieval history is just awesome. I’ve also watched a couple of long-time D&D players use the Halberd as their main carrying weapon with great effectiveness, especially when piling on multiple feats that made its reach devastating …
The flameskull is one of my favorite low to mid-level enemies in 5th Edition D&D, and it’s one that you can get crazy creative with because of some very unusual and particular features of this creature. In fact, one such use by me in an old campaign has the group ultra aware of any potential …
In 5th Edition D&D there are many damage spells and many utility spells, but sometimes you get that rare spell, or in this case a cantrip, that does a little bit of both. The 5E lightning lure cantrip that first appeared in Tasha’s and provides an interesting pick for a cantrip that can do some …
Monster of the Week is an excellent tabletop RPG system from Evil Hat Productions that uses the Powered by the Apocalypse system of dice and offers players just what it promises: a very episodic modern RPG where a different monster, alien, supernatural, or unnatural being comes up every week and a strange mystery needs to …
The Hex has managed to be one of the most interesting, controversial, and argued about playbook from the Monster of the Week system, and it’s not hard to see where a lot of players and DMs potentially run into problems. The Hex Playbook was released with Tome of Mysteries, and is one of the most …
The Snoop is one of the additional classes that came after the initial book and was released for Monster of the Week players as free online content. This is an interesting playbook, and one that clearly treads in similar ground to the existing Searcher playbook in MOTW. The Snoop comes in multiple forms and can …
The Wronged playbook in Monster of the Week plays off a classic trope, the one of the normal man or woman who lost it all to an unnatural force and vowed to become stronger, to find out everything there was to know, to build up into the warrior who could force revenge. This is going …