Thalian Musings

Part of PC creation is determining languages known, skills known, and spells known. In the interest of faster PC creation and in the interes...

Thieves Cant has historical roots, and in theory, heavy roleplaying groups use it at their tables, which is actually pretty awesome.  My gr...

Session 0 is the pregame of an RPG, falling somewhere between recruiting players and beginning the campaign.  Its usefulness as a tool canno...

Sarcophagi are common encounters in DnDish adventures.  Especially, but not exclusive to, those adventures involving tombs, crypts, catacomb...

While it is true that my expansive Experience Point rule s do drive some game play, I have other rules that impact it, as well. This incompl...

I need to write more, even if only in short amounts. A generic WotC image I have seen all over the place. So here is another small excerpt f...

Milestone leveling vs Experience Point (xp) leveling always makes for a long comment chain in the various FB DnD groups I participate in.   ...

I am sorely tempted to implement this in my Frankengame ruleset, but it implies a system that doesn't provide regular feats and stat boo...

Compiling various houserules to run the game I want to run has led me to DCC , and it has lots to borrow: the mighty deeds, the entire magic...