Power Creep and Incomprables in D&D Next
The Page I’m On Before we begin I highly recommend you watch this video on power creep in games if you haven’t seen it already. […]
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Healing Surges in 5e, Room For Two?
Let’s Just Call Them Surges
What if it were implied that surges just in fact gave a surge of something not to be named. We’re sticking to abstraction here, right? A surge of courage, energy, bravado, luck, knowledge…you get the picture. Why not use surges identically as previously but imply that they could be many things, that they can be traded in for a burst of HP, but perhaps not always.
Stuck? Roll Some Dice.
Tools of the Trade I’ve been using a lot of accessories for writing and adventure design lately, among my many tools, a few of my […]
My Fellow Gamers, Stay Classy
Hatorade, Vancian Magic, Tactics, and Other Things I’m here at DDXP and after yesterday’s Class Design Seminar, the internet has seemed ablaze with irrationality. I’d […]
Abandoning the XP Budget
Encounter Building Sacrosanct What I’m about to suggest to you, some may consider sacrilege. It may be mechanically unsound, “unbalanced” or just plain stupid depending […]
Enter a New Realm, DreadGazebo 2.0
[dropcap2]W[/dropcap2]elcome to the new Dread Gazebo blog. A new realm of terror and delight, a realm of bloodshed and undead atrocities, a realm of gazebo […]