I recently watched The Devils Director's Cut (1971) and was instantly obsessed. It felt so moving and awesome to me. In The Devils, Oliver Reed is the most sexy man that's ever...

Retainer is an umbrella term that can refer to three separate classifications of hired help. This post concerns hirelings, the most common type of retainer.A hireling is a...

Modified Wandering Monster Check ProcedureNormally, a wandering monster check has a 1-in-6 chance every 2 turns. Then, the referee has to roll again on the dungeon's encounter...

This post almost killed me.I said, "I know how to make the Stone Isles setting fun to read! I'll make Dark Souls-esque armor sets." That's how you share lore without homework,...

I don't like false rumors.  A false rumor is a wasted opportunity to give players an information key to a future lock. Too many false rumors create an unvirtuous pattern where...

Me and my friends wrote 21 questions for referees to answer recently. I answered them for the High King project.1. Where can I learn new spells? Who is the greatest wizard in...

When you want to tell your players about your unique setting for fantasy medieval campaigns, you need to be able to answer some basic questions. There are other versions of...

When I started to conceive of this campaign setting, I thought of this post by my colleague Tom Kilian who asked: What if Gondor had been in Earthsea? You may say that this is...

The distribution of the frequency of Monsters/Empties is different, but I like having cards to layout dungeon geomorphs.  Suit Room Contents Treasure? Swords Monster 8+...

What this isHere is another peak into the campaign setting I'm calling In the House of the High King. It's the same setting as my recent knight class.How it worksIn brief,...