The dream of necromancy begins with fantasies of commanding a horde of undead, directing them to destroy the monsters standing between the PC and their loot. The dream dies as everyone is exhausted by the necromancer taking an hour to complete their turn.
This guide aims at solving this problem by presenting a squad system of running skeleton and zombie minions.
These rules emphasize speed and simplicity... [click here for more]
Through chance or design, PCs sometimes find they have prisoners who might have valuable information. This brief, apolitical work is intended to provide enhanced interrogation rules for D&D. That is a pun; I am morally obligated to point that out because this is 2020.
In addition to being an experienced DM, I am also a philosophy professor who has written on the ethics of interrogation, especially... [click here for more]
As a Dungeon Master, you have faced the mob dilemma. Using mobs of weak creatures in appropriate places allows for fantasy realism and allows the players to act on those media-fueled power fantasies. But using mobs of creatures creates a nightmare of record keeping and can turn combat into a boring dice grind while the players are sucked into the digital plane of smart phones. These optional rules... [click here for more]
