updated 01/10/2025 a page from the journal of Gendin, son of Arissa and Temone of the dwarven Clan Gilderlo Author’s note: Continents such as Trivana are considered “worlds” by their inhabitants, while the entire world is referred to simply as GeKeb. The point of view of Gendin is limited by his people’s concept of the […]
updated 01/10/2025 the list of Journal entries is below, which is not guaranteed to always be up to date February 2021 When I fleshed out my first campaign world, Trivana, in the early 1980’s, I wrote in the voice of various sages and historians to provide a high level description of some events that shaped […]
I always found it a pain to have to keep digging out the DMG to look up the effects of potions, so in the mid-1980’s I re-typed some tables using a typewriter. Now days, with word processors and the web it’s a lot easier. In this post I’ve provided a number of potion effects tables […]
June 2013 Written by Bryan Fazekas This article was originally published in & Magazine Issue 4 in February 2013. As presented here the article is slightly modified from the published format. The optional minimum healing rules have been extracted from the individual spells and moved to the end of the article as a concise section. […]
March 2020 Weapon specialization for fighters as described in Unearthed Arcana (UA) immediately struck me as unbalanced. We play tested the rule and vetoed it. As excited as my group was to get UA, a lot of the rules proved to be disappointing, especially the new classes. It was years later I learned that Gary […]
May 2007 First, let’s review the character generation rules in the Dungeon Masters Guide (DMG) on page 11. These four methods are paraphrased here, along with a fifth one from Unearthed Arcana (UA, page 74): Roll 4d6, discarding the lowest, for each ability score. Arrange in the order desired. Roll 3d6 twelve times, keeping the […]
November 2008 The following table contains alternate information for calculating the experience points for monsters, superseding the information found in the DMG. This table is more consistent and provides a more even progression. This table was based upon an article published in Dragon Magazine #80, in the Leomund’s Tiny Hut column by Lenard Lakofka. This […]
September 2006 This page provides revised rules for spell memorization. If I recall correctly, I based this upon an article inDragon Magazine. Spell Memorization By the book, spells require 15 minutes per spell level to memorize, following a rest period. This is for all classes and sounds reasonable, as it typically takes a 1st level […]
September 2006 This page provides expanded rules regarding the cost of non-player character (NPC) spell casting. I collected information from various sources, included the DMG, Dragon Magazine, and my own invention, to assemble these rules. Cost of NPC Spell Casting Spells cast by NPC’s for player characters cost large sums of gold and/or magic items, […]
September 2006 This page provides expanded rules and information regarding the cost of magical research for new spells. I collected information from various sources, included the DMG, Dragon Magazine, and my own invention, to assemble these rules. Spell Research The research of new spells requires the use of a library of magical knowledge. The types […]