You feel a blistering heat on your skin. Bright light consumes you, and then nothing. Warm air presses in around you, intensifying the feverish feeling beneath your skin. Your eyes slit open. At least you think they are open, as they are met by blackness. Gradually, you begin to make out your surroundings. In front […]
A tabaxi with a mysterious past and an inability to pass up a chance to make a nuisance of herself.
A gunslinger with a cat allergy and tinkering skills that could stand to be improved.
A winter eladrin elf with a disconcerting affinity for death.
A drow whose language bites quickly but acerbically.
A warforged whose incomprehension of social situations is comical at times and dangerous at others.
You sit staring at a blank character sheet, grieving for the loss of your first character. A first character is a special, irreplaceable personality that can never be forgotten. He is a precious snapshot of a moment in your life in which you thought a certain way and desired a certain thing. He was immortal, […]
If you could be a gemstone, what gemstone would you be? The glow emanated from a great amethyst, a violet colored quartz crystal that glowed with an unearthly light. Voices drifted from the stone, tempting him. His hand reached out…
The world needs more archaeology. It needs more anthropology, more people looking at the past and discovering the great cultures that came before us, be they isolated tribes with no written record, a confederacy of villages with widespread trade networks, or a large kingdom that we think we know everything about. Archaeology reveals the human […]
…Vuurkind, newly cast out of the Nine Hells and practicing his cantrips, was ready to meet his future companions. The group had a unique makeup, consisting of twin tieflings , a half-orc champion fighter…
The First, Best, and Worst D&D characters series is switching to Fridays. Since I celebrate Easter, I decided to skip Easter weekend and give myself a break, eat candy, and do other Easter things within my family’s traditions. This made it a good time to switch my articles to a different day of the week, […]
What exactly does it mean to be alive? This question is often more philosophical or intellectual than anything, but for Journer Ironskin, it is a daily struggle. Journer is a warforged ranger created by a player named Brian. The warforged race was crafted by humans to fight, hence the name warforged. They do not eat, […]
Are all tieflings evil? Of course not. Are all tieflings played by inexperienced players evil? Possibly. This article discusses James’ first character, Uiel Firetongue, the chaotic neutral tiefling bard. This tiefling was created in a similar manner to our first article topic, Anakis the chaotic evil tiefling rogue. Basically, the player saw tieflings, read about […]
When was your first Dungeons and Dragons game? Was it a first edition group playing on paper when you were twelve? Was in an online chat you found through reddit? Perhaps your friend dragged you into it because they needed another player. Did you have access to all the books and a seasoned DM or […]
Standish Writes 