TTRPG Map Design and the Trouble with Dreams
When I design a TTRPG map, I try to center one easy question: what are the choices? Now there’s a
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Trolls of the Ermine Marches
What is a Troll? A type of giant? A rock-skinned mountain dweller? A bag of regenerating HP with pyrophobia? The Ermine
Wrestlers and Rikishi
Three things are true: This makes me want to write up a Constitution-forward, space-control/tank class: a Wrestler! I’ve often seen
OSR vs 5e – What Fun Looks Like
I’ve been playing a lot of OSR games lately and have been really enjoying them. Mixed with my 5e games
Dream Themed Magic Items to Reward Your Dreaming PCs
To celebrate this month’s launch of The Trouble with Dreams (and Wake Up Sheeple), WatcherDM presents you with eight dream-themed
Delve Deeper…Dream Themed Magic Items to Reward Your Dreaming PCs
Everyone is Wrong but Me: the Nature Skill
The Nature skill is not what you might call a community favorite. Like all knowledge skills, it goes unused too
The Suits
For this is a universe that understands order, that understands service. Anonymity is armor. Blandness is balance. Conformity is control.
And so the creators of our world have eschewed the Inevitables, impressive though they may be, and chosen a different avatar for the invisible hand of order:
The Suits … Delve Deeper…The Suits
The 16 Howling Poets of Long Bear Valley
Long Bear Valley has been out for just three short months now and I can’t tell you how happy it
Ten Lords a-Leaping: the Jump Knights of Yuul
The vast and ancient Kingdom of Yuul, ever shrouded in winter, is mankinds’ first line of defense against those northern
After the Starter set? Level five and beyond
Hands up how many have played the Starter or Essentials set, have reached level five and stalled out, wondering “what’s