Thalian Musings

It has been some time since I added to this series. A slow-rolling series of how the Deck of Many Things works in my homebrew world of Irong...

A slow-rolling series of how the Deck of Many Things works in my homebrew world of Ironguard.  ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ) Infuryana is an ...

The other day, in my post about using College Football Teams as the basis for Cleric religions , I half-joked about the new deities Avrae an...

A slow-rolling series of how the Deck of Many Things works in my homebrew world of Ironguard.  ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 4 ) There is a tempt...

A slow-rolling series of how the Deck of Many Things works in my homebrew world of Ironguard.  ( Part 1 , Part 3 , Part 4 ) Donjon:  You are...

I've written before about how the Deck of Many Things creates stories for sandbox games .  Now I would like to explore this theory more ...

Clerics in DnD imply pantheons of higher beings to believe in, beings which provide the gift of miracles to their most fervent champions, al...

 Dragons! Erol Otus, 1981 - one of two images I always think of when dragons are mentioned. A question in a FB group Dungeon Master Resource...

Yes, I am one of those gamers, letting the music of  Blue Oyster Cult, Rush, and Led Zeppelin heavily influence and inspire my thinking.  L...

Dragons should appear more in D&D sessions.  After all, they are in the title of the game.   Yet I have rarely included dragons, and can...

Short Rests and Long Rests are integral to the D&D 5e ruleset.  Typically measured in 1-hour and 8-hour increments (PHB 186), there is a...

Monsters! One of the guilty pleasures of D&D is encountering - and often slaying or being slain by - monsters. Every iteration of the ga...