Fluff/Inspiration
Cthulhu on the High Seas
Long before the history people speak of now, there was a version of the world filled with light, life and plenty. A world built upon rolling hills where civilization stretched to the four corners of ...
The Character of Souls
Greetings, I’m Edward from The DM from Outremer, a new writer here at Dice Monkey. Mark has opened his blog up to new collaboration and I’m jumping on in. So I’m slowly working on my ...
Prepping the Campaign, Pt. 1: Concept
Come March, I’m going to try to run a D&D campaign. It’s been more than a year since I played D&D, and I miss it. I’ll be using D&D Next, and I’m still in the ...
From the Archives: Injecting RP Into Wargames
Note: This post originally appeared here. I’m not playing Mechwarrior anymore, though I still have my House Davion army. This post still applies, as I’m currently constructing my Warhammer 40k Imperial Guard army, and am ...
From the Archives: Observant, But Not Devout
Note: This post appeared a couple of years back, here. I hope you enjoy. I’ve noticed that, for many players, the choice of what god their character worships in D&D ends at character creation. They ...
Winter is Coming II Wrapup
Wow! We had some great participation for this year’s Winter is Coming blog carnival! Firstly, we had two fantastic posts up here on Dice Monkey. We aquired a new spell for our D&DNext spellbook with ...
Planeshifting: A Dungeon
So, here’s my idea: The players are given a magical device that allows them to shift, as a standard action, between the planes. Any one of the heroes can do this on their turn, and ...