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Category: 5e

Cat Links 5e, DM Advice, indie TTRPGS, OSR, Shadowdark

Tips for Torches

Posted on May 1, 2025May 1, 2025 Gabriel Watcher

The humble Torch is an adventurer’s first, best, and most interesting tool. Are you using it to its full potential?

Delve Deeper…Tips for Torches

Cat Links DM Advice

Here’s to the Gamemaster!

Posted on April 3, 2025April 3, 2025 Gabriel Watcher

Here’s to the Gamemaster, whoever you may be! What It Takes It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do

Delve Deeper…Here’s to the Gamemaster!

Cat Links Community, DM Advice, Play Report, Troika

Terminal City Tabletop Con Accomplished!

Posted on March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 Gabriel Watcher

Terminal City Tabletop Con has come and gone, leaving us dazed but triumphant! We posted here about our plans last

Delve Deeper…Terminal City Tabletop Con Accomplished!

Cat Links DM Advice

Terminal City Tabletop Con Approaches!

Posted on March 13, 2025March 13, 2025 Gabriel Watcher

Terminal City Tabletop Con is this weekend! The boys are back in con! Last year, we sat in on Proto-Alley

Delve Deeper…Terminal City Tabletop Con Approaches!

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Cat Links Adventure Diary, Lore, OSR, Play Report

Tales from the Bar Hak: Fly-Headed Goblins

Posted on February 27, 2025February 26, 2025 Gabriel Watcher

Bar Hak was built to be a West Marches game. If you’ve been playing OSR-coded DnD in the last decade,

Delve Deeper…Tales from the Bar Hak: Fly-Headed Goblins

trolls
Cat Links 5e Monster

Trolls of the Ermine Marches

Posted on February 4, 2025February 4, 2025 Gabriel Watcher

What is a Troll? A type of giant? A rock-skinned mountain dweller? A bag of regenerating HP with pyrophobia? The Ermine

Delve Deeper…Trolls of the Ermine Marches

the raising of lazarus
Cat Links 5e, DM Advice, Lore

A First Level Cleric VS History

Posted on January 16, 2025January 16, 2025 Gabriel Watcher

How common are clerics? I suppose somewhere out there is a game of 5e, where every NPC has class levels,

Delve Deeper…A First Level Cleric VS History

Cat Links 5e, DM Advice, Lore

Using Oozes Effectively – A 5e Encounter Design

Posted on April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 Gabriel Watcher

Recently, I had the opportunity to explore using Oozes in a 5e “combat” encounter. My party was heading to a

Delve Deeper…Using Oozes Effectively – A 5e Encounter Design

Google Spell 5e
Cat Links 5e

The “Google” Spell for 5e – Ebrohim’s Inquiry Lingum

Posted on October 17, 2023April 23, 2024 Gabriel Watcher

Many years ago, I had an idea when I was playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition. Search engines sure

Delve Deeper…The “Google” Spell for 5e – Ebrohim’s Inquiry Lingum

osr vs 5e
Cat Links 5e, Community, OSR

OSR vs 5e – What Fun Looks Like

Posted on September 1, 2023September 1, 2023 Gabriel Watcher

I’ve been playing a lot of OSR games lately and have been really enjoying them. Mixed with my 5e games

Delve Deeper…OSR vs 5e – What Fun Looks Like

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Doom Desert in the Decanter of Delirium

Doom Desert in the Decanter of Delirium

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Seven Sealed Spirits Zine

Seven Sealed Spirits Zine

Self-replicating dwarven engines guard a spirit prison. 

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