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What does this “vampire” feed on?

Header image by BenGrantham on Flickr 1 – LUCK. It absorbs good luck from people and spends it to stay alive, because the gods cursed vampires many years ago and this is the only way they can get around the hex. (Without regular luck-feeding, most vampires would be killed by a traffic accident or lightning […]

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What’s weird about these goblins?

credit: Hammermancer image by Iguanamouth 1 They worship seagulls, after being caught at sea on a particularly treacherous voyage, and view them as pecky angels. The worship is not at all mutual and many of the dropping-caked goblins are blind in one or more eyes. 2 They love explosions. They were raised in a mine, […]

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EIGHT REAL-WORLD THINGS HUMANS HAVE BUILT GUNS INTO

Thereโ€™s no limit on what you can build guns into, and we should know, because weโ€™re humans: and humans are the best at putting guns into things where guns shouldnโ€™t be. To that end, hereโ€™s a rundown of some stupid shit people have done with firearms, and rules to represent them in your run-of-the-mill D20 […]

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Hearty Dice Hearth: HOW TO STOP THE PLAYERS FROM KILLING MONSTERS

Welcome to the Hearty Dice Hearth: the start of a series where we gather round an imaginary internet fireplace and answer your questions in more detail, and perhaps in a more actually-useful way, than we do on our podcast. This week: DJM ASKS: How do you include monsters as NPCs without the players getting all […]

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5 challenges to set yourself as a GM

When you end up running games a lot, like I do, you can often end up in a rut – the same characters, the same scenarios, the same challenges, week after week. If youโ€™ve been gamesmastering for a while and fancy a change, I came up with five challenges for you to take on to […]