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A Quick D&D 5e Spellcasting Primer

March 12, 2015 by Dave

New to D&D 5e and interested in a spellcasting character? Here’s what you need to know.

Filed Under: Columns, Critical Threats, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5e, D&D, D&D 5e

And We Went East

March 9, 2015 by multiplexer

Let’s follow the money, the Halfling Thief said. Let’s follow the peppercorns. And we went east.

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, economics, gaming, silk road

Murder Hobo Insurance and the Guild of Abjuration

March 2, 2015 by multiplexer

It was a great business idea. It would all work. Murder Hobo insurance was born.

Filed Under: Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, economics, gaming

And Now, a Commercial Break from Big Fantasy God,Inc.

February 23, 2015 by multiplexer

The fire started with the tiniest of sparks. One small, nearly forgotten Sheep Goddess needed more worshippers or else she faced the worst in God-based bankruptcy: fading away into irrelevance. Other Gods she knew had faded and died. She was not letting it happen to her, sheep or no sheep.

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, economics, gaming

The Murder Hobo Investment Bubble

February 16, 2015 by multiplexer

Let’s assume for a moment the Old Man is not an altruistic lover of villagers and hater of all goblinkind. Nor is he sitting in the same Inn with the same offer of 4000 gold pieces waiting for the level-correct Murder Hobos to wander in for his health. What’s in the side quest business for the Old Man?

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, economics, gaming

Ozmo’s Magic Hospitality Company and Reality’s End

February 8, 2015 by multiplexer

The Diviner points to a small scrawl and a happy little printed cartoon mage on the base of the scroll. “Ozmo’s Magic Hospitality Company produced this scroll. We’ve been tracking these scrolls with great interest.”

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, economics, gaming

Murder Hobos and the Supply Curve of Evil

February 1, 2015 by multiplexer

For this adventure, the GM (who is also an economist and is, therefore, unbelievably sadistic and evil) assumes the demand for the pearls remains a relative constant – it does not suddenly dip or climb.

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, economics, gaming

The Great Dungeon #3 – Super Dungeon Land

January 28, 2015 by The Main Event

Airships, enemy turtles, and some familiar-looking plumbers invade The Great Dungeon.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Pain of Publication, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5e, D&D, super mario bros, The Great Dungeon

The Lich Kings of Avalon – A Campaign Seed for D&D 5e

January 25, 2015 by multiplexer

D&D5 Campaign Seed This is a campaign seed for a fantasy campaign loosely named “the Lich Kings of Avalon.” At the height of the King’s power, basking in the glow of victorious battles, wise in years but still spry in body, and a Kingdom at peace, the Necromancer came to Court.  The Necromancer offered the […]

Filed Under: Columns, Dungeonomics, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: d&d5e, gaming, gumshoe

My 2014 as a Freelance Game Designer

January 23, 2015 by Dave

Dave recaps his 2014 as a freelance game designer in both tabletop and RPG, and learn how too much clicking can seriously derail a plan.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Threats, Editorial, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Apocalypse World, conventions, fate, game design, heat, magic the gathering, strange new worlds, timewatch, unpub

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