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From the Ground Up – Humans and Humanoids
This is the last article in section II, the natural world, and to me its the natural endpoint of a section focused on putting the finishing touches on a strong foundation of natural…
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From the Ground Up – Monster Consistency
This series is all about putting realism a bit more often into fantastic campaigns and other fictional worlds. We’ve talked about Currents of both air and water, vegetation, climate and biome considerations, and…
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From the Ground Up – Intelligent Monsters
The series to this point, has focused on the natural world. Preparing and setting the stage for the nations, states, peoples and cultures that will exist within the world and likely be its…
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From the Ground Up – Climate
Last week, I mentioned I was going to do vegetation, but I think this week suits better with a discussion on climate. This is also where we are going to start getting a…
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Frolm the Ground Up- Streams, Lakes and swamps
I’ll be playing around with the name a few times, here. The other one didn’t really roll off the tongue. Let me know if you have any ideas. Over the last few weeks we…
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From the Ground Up – Earth, Air, Water
Last week, I talked about how to look at a land mass, and take a bit of a more realistic approach to creating it. This week, I want to take it a step…
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D&D: Flavorful Additions
I’ve recently been reinvigorated by D&D 5th edition to further detail my campaign world that I’ve been DMing in for near on 20 years. I tried in 3.5 and 4, but it was an extremely…
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D&D: Flavorful Additions
I’ve recently been reinvigorated by D&D 5th edition to further detail my campaign world that I’ve been DMing in for near on 20 years. I tried in 3.5 and 4, but it was an extremely…
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Input
I love DMing. Its a problem I have and I don’t really know how to fix it. Often times I have been playing in a game and thought it would be better off…
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Discussion
Just yesterday i had one of the coolest and most enjoyable D&D experiences in a very long time. Sadly, though, I have an extremely tough time actually portraying a good time and talking…