Month: December 2017

Divine magic is a part of Dungeons & Dragons that I think many of us have a love/hate relationship with. Running a cleric in an adventure can be both the most enjoyable and the most frustrating thing, sometimes at the same time. Clerics have an interesting feature set associated with them. They are the primary … Read moreD&December 2017 – W4D5 – Divine Magic – Fixing the Cleric Class

Since I’ve talked about talked about Boxey before, I’ll talk about traps. Oh, how i hate traps. Well, as a player I hate traps. I’ve had several characters die as a result of traps over the years. The most memorable was my monk, Chojen Morg. He died within Nightfang Spire. A trap door opened, he … Read moreD&December 2017 – W4D2 – Traps

Magic weapons have been a part of Dungeons & Dragons from the beginning. They are the prized possessions of virtually every character class. Even wizards love to get their hands on a magic dagger or staff to up the odds of a favorable outcome. Sword Magic by Conor Burke – source: DeviantArt Throughout my years … Read moreD&December 2017 – W4D1 – Magic Weapons

One of the things that’s as constant in the history of Dungeons & Dragons as the official rules are each group’s house rules. In the group I’m in, the Wyrmfang Chronicles, we have a few of our own. Here’s a couple of ours plus a few that I’ve seen elsewhere. Wyrmfang Chronicles House Rules The … Read moreD&December 2017 – W3D7 – House Rules

Castles have fascinated me for as long as I can remember. As an American, I grew up having no real castles anywhere near that I could visit. At least, nothing even close to what I pictured the word castle to mean. So I spent my time reading any book I could get my hands on … Read moreD&December 2017 – W3D5 – Cities, Castles & Tomes – The Castle Guide

The Sword Coast is an interesting area. Our adventures in the Wyrmfang Chronicles never ventured that far west. We mostly kept to the Dales, Cormyr, Evereska, and the areas between those lands. There were a few trips elsewhere, mostly to the far north or the far south. But never really to the west. The only … Read moreD&December 2017 – W3D4 – Sword Coast

Whether it’s elven homelands, mystical forests of dreams, wild tracts or cursed domains of evil, forests play a big part of fantasy worlds. Most fantasy worlds are reminiscent of magical midevil Europe in the nature and flow. There are great cities and small towns, each surrounded by some area of farmlands. But all the areas … Read moreD&December 2017 – W3D3 – Forests & Wilds

The Underdark is a dark and dismal place, full of creatures good and evil, though mostly evil. Mindflayers and drow are among the worst of the worst, but by no means all that dwells therein. A couple of years ago we completed a run through the City of the Spider Queen module. The module was … Read moreD&December 2017 – W3D2 – Underdark – Time For The Drow To Go

The Feywild and the Shadowfell are two parts of D&D that we really haven’t delved into much in our campaigns. We’ve had some dealings with faeries and nymphs and dryads, but never any kind of extended campaign dealing with them. I wasn’t really sure what the interest in such things was. They always seemed more … Read moreD&December 2017 – W3D1 – Feywild/Shadowfell