June 2013 This article was originally published in & Magazine, Issue 1 in May 2012. Written by Bryan Fazekas. A common lament among Dungeon Masters (DMs) is the difficulty of keeping low level parties alive. Some DMs seem to kill off party after party, which can dampen the fun for both the DM and the […]
October 2006 This article was written in December 2005, formalizing ideas I had used many moons ago. Originally published in Footprints, published by Dragonsfoot, I’m republishing it here in HTML format. Copyright 1990, 2005-2006, 2011-2014 by Bryan Fazekas, all rights reserved. This document may not be published or reproduced in any fashion except with explicit […]
In Dragon Magazine #80 in the column Leomund’s Tiny Hut Lenard Lakofka published a revised saving throws table that smoothed out the incremental changes by level, e.g., instead of the Magic User changing saving throws every 4 levels, slight changes were made more often. Upon reading Lenard’s article I immediately adopted his version of this […]
This page contains a revised Combat Matrix for all levels and hit dice of characters and monsters. The Combat Matrix presented here is reproduced from an article published by Lenard Lakofka in Dragon Magazine #80. Lenard’s article was on the “5% Rule” which evened the attack tables out and made the progression more even. I […]
June 2013 I originally named this wonderfully useful NPC “Panamon Creel”, after the character from Terry Brook’s novel The Sword of Shannara. For publication in & Magazine, Issue 4 in February 2013, I changed the name to avoid copyright infringement. This article is published here in its published format. Paquin Crii History Paquin Crii was born […]
In February & March of 2009 a couple of threads started in the Dragonsfoot forums, where people offered survival tips for the dungeon and wilderness. Some of the tips were serious, some less so … some VERY much less so. I took the action to compile the two lists, which I organized into one and […]
This was another of my brother’s monsters from our first campaigns. I re-created it from memory and updated it according to my current prejudices. The Spore Spitter was published in & Magazine, Issue 8, and this short fiction was included in the article. The Spore Spitter description is here. The woman found her […]
I’m not sure what inspired creating the Anyuri, but it’s a great foil for lower level parties in a high magic campaign. Trajan sat in Jannalanga’s tavern in Kerr with his wife, both sipping mulled wine from heavy mugs that preserved the heat. Hal had finished a fantastic tale of how he survived […]
The characters in these pastiches are made up as single-use characters. While it’s possible I might re-use any of them at some point, I rather doubt it. When dreaming up this one I could not fit any of my existing characters into the framework I needed to explain how a Weapon of Change works. I […]
The Council of Rendelshod was composed of the characters from my original campaign, with my co-DM (my brother Kevin). While that campaign ended in 1986 (or so) the characters live on in my campaign world. Some of the characters – including Thorin, Meselda, Baldor, Susafras, Paprazzi, Edine, and Fay – are characters from the original […]