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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!

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

A landscape to explore as you hexcrawl in 5e
Cat Links 5e, DM Advice

Lost in the Woods? How to Hex Crawl in 5e

Posted on July 3, 2022December 7, 2023 Gabriel Watcher

Fifth Edition’s approach to exploration gets a bad rap. Hex crawling is often seen as an OSR affectation, with 5e

Delve Deeper…Lost in the Woods? How to Hex Crawl in 5e

Cat Links 5e, DM Advice

After the Starter set? Level five and beyond…

Posted on November 25, 2021November 24, 2021 Gabriel Watcher

Hands up how many have played the Starter or Essentials set, have reached level five and stalled out, wondering “what’s

Delve Deeper…After the Starter set? Level five and beyond…

Ceremony and Trial of the new Tier 2 Warriors
Cat Links 5e, DM Advice, Player Advice

Training, Ritual, and Ceremony in Leveling Up Tiers

Posted on August 31, 2021October 1, 2021 Gabriel Watcher

Tiers We bandy about the term tiers fairly often. They come up when we’re talking about how ‘hard’ an adventure

Delve Deeper…Training, Ritual, and Ceremony in Leveling Up Tiers

Vasili Von Holtz draws his sword
Cat Links 5e, DM Advice

Turncoat Villain 2: Building Better Baddies

Posted on August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 Gabriel Watcher

Previously, on Blog Post Z: Return of the Turncoat Villain. You want to write a mastermind villain, but your players

Delve Deeper…Turncoat Villain 2: Building Better Baddies

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Doom Desert in the Decanter of Delirium

Doom Desert in the Decanter of Delirium

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Self-replicating dwarven engines guard a spirit prison. 

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