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 …
Vampires versus Werewolves in Dungeons & Dragons 5E Read More »
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 …
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 …
Passive perception in Dungeons and Dragons 5E and how it relates to active perception Read More »
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 …
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 …
