Travelogue of Dead Worlds

If you google "GM Tips" or "DM Tips" you can find a lot of advice. But for a new DM it's very easy to put the cart before the horse, to make dumb mistakes and bone it up. Or, more importantly, feel that way and get discouraged. About six years ago when I started DMing Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition for my friends I was working midnight cashier at a gas station. I had brought all the books with me, players handbook, dungeon masters guide, and the monster manual. I read all these books and meticulously crafted a series of encounters and small dungeons that would leave the players at third level, introducing organically the main thrust of my little story. Aside, this story was a weird setting. It was set on floating islands in the astral sea. Fourth edition had this idea of the Dawn War, a war between primordials, creatures of huge elemental power, and gods. In this setting there weren't any winners, except people. The war ripped the whole world to shr...

So, I occasionally think about building Minecraft adventure maps. Even though the trend has sort of passed I feel like. I had this idea about using command blocks to make it forever night. You have to go into a dungeon to get an item, a gold sphere or something, and then bring it to a citadel to make the sun shine. But that's boring in that context, let's recontextualize it to Tabletop RPGs. High atop the Solar Mount, from which the sun rises every day, is the Citadel of the Sun. This fortress holds the sun when it is not in the sky. In the top of the highest most defensible tower is the golden orb of the sun. The sun orb is guarded by paladins who worship the sun keeper. The sun keeper is a mortal, voted into this position by priests and paladins and bishops and arch bishops through a system involving smoke and flumes and quiet rooms that are overly painted. He is literally a god, because the orb is literally the sun. The current Sun keeper is the son of the previous one. ...

Hi, I'm Harley. I'm an unaccomplished writer, a somewhat practiced Dungeon Master (dungeons and dragons 3rd to 5th) and a "creative introvert". My Meiers Briggs is INTP if that type of stuff matters to you, and this is my third attempt at a blog. What is this thing? Well, I have something I like to call creative diarrhea. I builds worlds and ideas in my head for fun. The problem is I make more than I could ever use, so this is my dumping ground. This is where my crazy ideas settle. I'll write stuff up here that I'm either working on or stuff thatI've abandoned. I'll let you know which. This all started after reading  goblin punch  semi religiously. The stuff in that blog is "THE REAL SHIT". Then I started reading  false machine  and now I'm reading  dm david . Now, I want to do it, I wanna write my dumb ideas down and make peoples minds pop. So this is that, this is that thing, I'm doing it right now. I'll put up a little st...