Our last session featured two difficult combats. I fared particularly well and I will review the combat actions and the choices I made that allowed the Mystic to perform as well as she did. Combat started shortly after we reached the center of the village of Kled. The village was suddenly under siege by two…Read more After Action Report: Tahireh Dark Sun Mystic
Character development
Exploring My Mystic
Header art by Alex Spisak With the hullabaloo regarding psionics in the wake of the recent Unearthed Arcana I had thought to revisit and dig into the Mystic UA that was released a while back. March 13th 2017 actually. Woof that was a while ago. As mentioned in the last post, Brandes Stoddard already did…Read more Exploring My Mystic
Conan the Intelligent, Tactical Polyglot Barbarian
I just finished reading The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard. I have been talking about barbarians on and off Twitter even blogging about them here earlier. Barbarians own a unique and very well known place in pop culture and I wanted to go back and take a look at part of…Read more Conan the Intelligent, Tactical Polyglot Barbarian
Cultural Barbarians
I was getting ready to post something on the D&D Beyond forums about rage-less barbarians when it struck me that I was approaching the idea from the wrong angle. Instead of taking away a Barbarians Rage, let's re-frame the concept of "barbarian". What makes a Barbarian? Or Everybody's So Mad! Taking a look back down…Read more Cultural Barbarians
Religion in Dungeon and Dragons
Polytheism in D&D Just what does it mean to live in a world with more than one God? In our very real world we struggle with the concept of one God versus many versus God having multiple manifestations. I'm not here to discuss real world religious doctrine or faiths (though that is a favorite topic).…Read more Religion in Dungeon and Dragons
The One World 