5TDM: 5th Edition Team Deathmatch
Back on Sunday, November 18th we participated in a streamed match of 5th Edition Team Deathmatch, our team (Dave The Game, Direflail, Chris Sims, and myself) was up against the excellent team from...
View ArticleThe Godless Lands – Concept
“Graveyard of Dead Gods” by Shane Semler An alternate cosmology for D&D, Pathfinder, other d20 fantasy RPGs, etc. Hey, it’s been a while. Like 2 years to the day. But I’m still around. As it turns...
View ArticleThe Godless Lands: Genesis
We recently decided to start a new RPG campaign using the tools of D&D Beyond to give it a trial run (which I hope to write about too, soon.) My longtime player Franky jumped into Beyond’s toolset...
View ArticleThe Godless Lands: The Troupe
In the last post, I told you how we settled on the setting of our current D&D campaign by mixing and matching current ideas with the lore and legends from our previous games over the last two...
View ArticleThe Selesnya Brief: Introduction
On the recommendation of a friend, I started reading Three Parts Dead, the first book in the Craft Sequence series of fantasy novels by Max Gladstone. It goes a lot deeper than this, but the quick...
View ArticleThe Godless Lands: The Fall of The Divine
Content-Warning: This post mentions self-harm as one way to cast divine spells by NPCs in D&D. I don’t go into details and try to do it with respect and knowledge of what it represents. During the...
View ArticleSentinel Comics Roleplaying Game on Kickstarter Now
We’re in the final hours of the Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game Kickstarter, a co-production of us here at Critical-Hits Studios and Greater Than Games. Based on the world of Sentinel Comics...
View ArticleD&D Beyond: From Trial to Adoption
As I’m writing these lines, I’ve committed wholly to the D&D Beyond experience. For those who don’t know what this is, D&D Beyond is a set of online tools that allow you, among other things,...
View ArticleGodless Lands Chronicles #1: Of Goblins and Charlatans
Dramatis Persona Ari, Daughter of Merith, elf fighter, played by MathNornan, half-elf rogue, played by VéroRilene Grandershall, human monk, played by ChantalSamhain Todgeboren, gnome wizard...
View ArticleThey Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Episode 0: Magic Arena Sealed Cube
With in-person Magic: the Gathering not a thing at the moment, TheMainEvent and I wanted a way to keep on playing and talking about the game. With that in mind, we’ve come up with a new video series...
View ArticleThey Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Episode 1: Ikoria Premier Draft
The new set Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths is out, and draftable against other people on Magic Arena. But they are all still but one head, whereas Dennis and Dave are two.
View ArticleThey Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Episode 2: Ikoria Premier Draft
Dennis and Dave are back with their quarantine looks to try out one of the best companion creatures in Limited. Can they EVEN make Gyruda work? Or are the ODDS against them?
View ArticleThey Might Be (Two-Headed) Giants Episode 3: Ikoria Premier Draft
Dennis and Dave take another spin through an Ikoria draft on Magic Arena, both of whom have had their win percentages drop a bit in the format. Can they cycle through up against the best deck in the...
View ArticleThe Horizon Conspiracy
A New (13th) Age We recently completed a shelter-at-home, Timewatch adventure. The game, powered by Pelgrane Press’ Gumshoe engine, is an action-packed, hijinks-infused take on time patrol tropes. We...
View Article13th Age: Indexing Truths
I haven’t felt this involved in a RPG campaign in a while as I have in this new 13th Age one. Whenever I have a short pause in in what I’m doing at my desk, I reach out for the little pile of index...
View Article“The Eversink Post Office”– An Unofficial Supplement for Swords of the...
Image Credit: Art by Jaydot Sloane – http://www.patreon.com/jaydot This article is not an official part of Swords of the Serpentine setting. You are free to use it in your game but it is not...
View ArticleThe Infinity Current: Adventure 0
As a bonafide grownup for more than a decade after finishing law school, I’ve had the good fortune of a weekly gaming group that entire time. It’s membership evolved, but at its core its friends that...
View ArticleChatty on Games #1: Dorf Romantik
Dorf Romantik screenshot from Steam Heya all, y’all. It’s been ages. Many things have happened in my life in the last few months: The Sentinel Comics RPG came out, my contributions to Pathfinder 2e’s,...
View ArticleHope in the Dark Heart of Evil is Not a Plan
Introduction Full disclosure: I am not a journaling game fan. Except. I blame this story on Dave Chalker, who came home from a game convention and mentioned a journaling game called Hope is Not a Plan...
View ArticleReview: The Magus
Hey, how have you been? Yes, I still haunt this space, especially when my brain desires to share something that tickled its fancy in a way that Twitter isn’t suited to convey. A short while ago, I was...
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