Learn how to describe D&D monsters to make them truly scary. A guest post by Tom Gilbert of LunaBear Games, creator of the Deck of Holding Kickstarter.
Slavic inspired monsters ready for your TTRPG
After all, where did the vampire myths come from?
Expert advice: How to Make Combat Interesting
What makes combat interesting? A lot of GMs think the answer is giving the monster secret powers, to be revealed at the worst moment. I’ve even seen articles that suggest misleading players about the monster’s abilities. Which is a shame, because that tops my list of what Not to do.
Menagerie of Unbearable Things: TTRPG monsters and what love did to them
Menagerie of Unbearable Things is a system neutral TTRPG compendium of tragedy. An art and story-heavy bestiary of monsters and what love did to them.
Short film: Hept (survival horror)
Have you ever wondered why some characters in survival horror have survived so long? I’m asking because it’s a mean thing, yet I do it.
Chthonstone Essential Enemies bundle: Weird monsters for Old-School Essentials
A porcine faerie of the darkest kind. Her hut drags itself along like a slug. The centipede-bodied Grumblewyrm shares her taste for the flesh of dwarves.
Short film: The Brightest Star
Tompswell, the Finland-based animator, is the talent behind the award-winning The Brightest Star. It’s the story of a kid who falls into a cave.
How Covid and speculative evolution creature design led to a 5e bestiary
This sort of evolutionary ruleset became a tool for world building like I never experienced.
Are these the warmest monsters in your bed?
Do you know who invented microwavable soft toys? Philip Gannon did, and he also founded Intelex Group in 1995.
These mimic dice are marvellously spooky
With Halloween coming up, I’ve been nosing around spooky dice like the giant Eyes of Chaos and stumbled on Doldols’ Chest Mimic D20s.
