Why bother with a carrion crawler miniature? Carrion crawlers are one of the oldest and most popular creatures in Dungeons & Dragons, and 5th edition’s carrion crawlers are no exception to that. It’s a safe bet that if you have a carrion crawler miniature, you will have plenty of opportunities to use it. These Monstrosities […]
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Why bother with a ki-rin miniature? Ki-rin are cool. There’s even a ki-rin on the cover of Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse. Did it make the cover because Wizards of the Coast felt bad about taking away much of its usefulness? Maybe… Ki-rin have been popular among higher level players for quite some time
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Who wants a slaad mini? Welcome back while I chat about another miniature from my collection. This time it’s about one of the Aberrations, the death slaad. The death slaad’s stats can be found on page 278 of the Monster Manual. Death slaad have a lot of really cool at will magical effects that make
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The skeleton hiding inside all of us Skeletons are found throughout Dungeons and Dragons, because each of us has one, just waiting for death, followed by a necromancer who is either bored or wants something. Nearly every published D&D campaign has included one or more skeletons at some point. These Undead are great at many
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The giant badger in a nutshell This is the second in my series of videos showcasing miniatures which I use for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition creatures. This time I have chosen another Beast, the giant badger. Giant badgers are found in the Monster Manual on page 323. Giant badgers are a good mini to
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What is this? I am starting a new video series, which will focus on minis which I own that I use to represent creatures from Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. I have been collecting miniatures for years to represent creatures on battle mats. While it is easy to find miniatures for certain creatures, I
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I recently needed to figure out what happens when werewolves and vampires come up against each other, since I DM a game where one of the characters has been turned into a werewolf and I was about to add a vampire into the mix. There was a decent chance that the two would get into
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This is just a quick, short little note today. I am looking at an encounter with my party involving ghosts. Ghosts are a bit special, in that they can hang out on the edge of the Ethereal Plane, in the Border Ethereal, where they can see into the Material Plane and can be seen from
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This post is going to be a short one, because I am just going to discuss one issue which seems to cause a great deal of grief among players of Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. There is a lot of confusion about passive Wisdom (Perception) and how it relates to actively rolling Wisdom (Perception). I
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There is often some confusion about stealth and invisibility in 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons. Some of the confusion isn’t actually all that confusing once you dig into it, but it turns out that some of the confusion is deliberate: we’ll get to that later. I will try to describe the issues and their official
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Full disclaimer before I begin: I have a long history with Steve Jackson Games. Back in the early 1980’s I fell in love with Car Wars. Since then I have continued to purchase and enjoy Steve Jackson Games. I currently own a handful of other board games by their fine company, including several of the
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It all started long ago, when I was just a wee young lad. The board games that we had were truly awful. I mean, really, really terrible. Sorry, Life, Monopoly; that sort of horrible. The board games were all so bad that even though they were all that there was to choose from, you rarely
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