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I’m excited to announce that my latest D&D 5e adventure, Storm’s End at the Roadside Inn, is now available on DMSguild! Storms End is a one-shot adventure that captures everything I love about tabletop:...
Creative Campaign Ideas & Thematic Guides / D&D Mechanics & Design / History, Fantasy & Worldbuilding
A Baldurs gate heist adventure – now available I’m excited to announce that The Soulbinder’s Gambit, my Baldur’s Gate heist adventure, is now available as Pay What You Want on the DMs Guild! What...
Rapid industrial growth has polluted the Silverflow River, transforming what was once crystal-clear water into something resembling soup. And beneath that soup, something ancient stirs… Higher Level Adventures The Healing Waters: Multiple communities depend...
Picture an enthusiastic young dragon who has just discovered the joy of investment and community building, and possesses roughly the same level of restraint as a sugar-addled gnome in a fireworks shop (a gnome...
We covered how griffons can disrupt commerce (Part 1) and the costs of acquisition (Part 2). There’s also a path involving mountain climbing, angry druids, and the kind of risks that separate wealthy merchants...
In Part 1, we explored how griffons cpuld revolutionize trade by eliminating chokepoints, optimizing high-value cargo, and mastering weather conditions. But Lady Brightfeather’s success wasn’t just about having flying predators, it was about understanding...
In Why D&D’s Economy Is Broken (And Why That’s Actually Fine) we talked about band-aid fixes to DnD’s Economy. Those band-aids work. but they’re reactive solutions to a systemic problem. What if instead of...
A Guide to Magic Item Balance Through Systematic Scarcity Learn how to balance D&D’s magic item crafting system using monster components, CR-based encounters, and economic principles that create adventure hooks while preventing market flooding....
Nothing says “economic development” quite like a giggling wyrm with a portfolio A Most Unusual Business Meeting “You’re telling me,” wheezed the merchant as he counted his coins for the third time, “that in...
Your players just asked how much a war elephant costs, and you’re frantically researching “medieval livestock prices” while they wait. Meanwhile, another player wants to know why the village blacksmith has better inventory than...
How flying predators would disrupt medieval commerce What happens when a creature that can carry half a ton over mountain ranges in hours disrupts trade routes that took centuries to establish? The griffon isn’t...
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