As usual, all of the posts in this series are collected here. A couple of notes: This post supersedes a couple of previous posts in the series. In particular, this covers the salvific events of the campaign world and its messianic figures, and it also removes Oath of Vengeance as […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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As always, you can find the entire series of these posts here. A quick cautionary note: this is a dark post in terms of its content. I’ve tried to keep it from being needlessly gratuitous, but Alchova is a bad place, -Peter A Brutal, Stinging Prison Alchova is not a nice […]
As always, the full series is available here. Untamed and Sun-Baked The Yuthi desert is an area of The Wilds in terms of my three broad categories of place for the setting. As one might expect from a desert, it is hot, dry, and sunny, but it is also beautiful […]
Download this episode (right click and save) We’re back with a surprisingly focused episode on sainthood thanks to Jenny’s hard work and research! We’ve only a little bit of off-topic material to discuss: A quick word about the list of questions our Patrons send in, and a brief diversion to […]
One of the more common requests for help I see in various forums is aspiring new GMs asking for advice on how to get started. It’s a daunting task, and it’s hard to know where to start. We’ve dispensed a lot of GMing advice via the podcast and blog over […]
Grant is still crazy busy. We’re hoping to have him back on the Weekend Reading post next week. Thanks for your continued understanding and patience, and Happy Easter! -Peter Peter Gnome Stew has been running a series of letters to past selves with a gaming focus. This one speaks to […]
As always, you can find all of the posts in this series here. A Nice Place to Live Laraloch-Thistivuel is a County in the terms of this setting, which means that it’s a civilized area where things are generally good. That doesn’t mean nobody ever has a bad day, but […]
Note: Grant has this week off from Weekend Reading for family reasons (nothing to be concerned about). He’ll be back next week, but for this week, Jenny and I have tried to be a little extra interesting. Enjoy! -Peter Jenny One of my friends that I met during my time […]
Download this episode (right click and save) Due to illness, it’s another short bonus episode this week; but Jenny and Peter are talking about Gideon, so it can’t be all bad! Gideon’s a fascinating figure from Judges 6-8, who (like so many others in Scripture) serves the Lord faithfully while […]
Our Weekend Reading series (brought to you by our Patreon backers) continues with a curated selection of articles—and a few other things—from around the Internet that interested us this week! Thanks to the generosity of our Patreon supporters, we’re back on a weekly schedule. And yes, we’re excited by that. Thank you! Peter This […]
As always, you can find the entire list of posts in this series by clicking this link. Up until this point, I’ve been writing about a lot of higher-level concepts, baseline assumptions, and other pipe-laying concerns, and while there’s still more of that to cover (various worldwide organizations, discussion of […]
As always, the full series can be found here. Earlier in this series, I mentioned that the second major component of D&D cosmology is other planes – worlds that exist in parallel to and overlap with each other. The 5e baseline assumes over two dozen of them, which is a […]