Author Archives: MssngrDeath

DMing with Constitution

Posted on 05 May 2017 by MssngrDeath

I don’t know how many of you remember November, when I tried to line up guest posts while I focused on National Novel Writing Month. It didn’t work out, but I did get one late in the month and now … Continue reading →

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Z’s Also for Zodar, Just Look at This Trash

Posted on 01 May 2017 by MssngrDeath

One of the takeaways from April should be that you can make just about any creature interesting by putting your own spin on it, either by playing up its role in the story, subverting the players’ expectations for it, or … Continue reading →

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Z is for Zombie, Who’ll Do in a Flash

Posted on 30 April 2017 by MssngrDeath

And nobody was surprised. Zombies come in a startling number of forms in D&D. Off the top of my head you have normal stock zombies, fast zombies, diseased zombies, fire zombies, hulking zombies, zombie lords, and any combination of them, … Continue reading →

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Y is for Yuan-Ti: Bad, but They Care

Posted on 29 April 2017 by MssngrDeath

When I started playing D&D, it never occurred to me that certain creatures would be proprietary to it. I got into it because of the public-domain monsters I recognized, not because it was the only place I could find mind … Continue reading →

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X is for Xorn, Who Are Just Kind of There

Posted on 28 April 2017 by MssngrDeath

This is the first monster I thought of when I decided to write about them for April. Other letters were hard, even ones I thought wouldn’t be, but there was always one and only one creature who could fill the … Continue reading →

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