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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! We’re currently on an every-other-week schedule. Peter Gnome Stew has an article on Dominant Players. It’s a very good article, but it was […]
As always, the full list of posts in this series can be found here. In the last post of this series, I promised I’d spend some time explaining how clerics and paladins in the setting are different from the D&D norm, so I figured I’d get that in before I […]
Warning: Two of the links in this post describe some very ugly gender-based and racially-based harassment and abuse. It is grim, infuriating reading, it gets pretty graphic, and definitely should be consumed with discretion. That said, if you can bring yourself to read those accounts, you should. It’s important to […]