DigitalDraco

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Date registered: December 3, 2010
URL: http://www.twitter.com/digitaldraco

Latest posts

  1. Race & Culture in Dungeons & Dragons 5e/Next — January 24, 2012
  2. Back to Basics — December 6, 2011
  3. Contemplating Creation Part V: Around The World (1 of 2) — October 20, 2011
  4. Contemplating Creation Part IV: On Fathoming the Fae — October 14, 2011
  5. Contemplating Creation Part III: Regarding The Nature of Cosmology — September 22, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Race & Culture in Dungeons & Dragons 5e/Next — 19 comments
  2. And They All Fell Down — 11 comments
  3. Themes & Things To Keep In Mind When Writing Fantasy Stories and Adventures — 11 comments
  4. Back to Basics — 11 comments
  5. Contemplating Creation, Part I: In Which There Are Dwarves and Elves — 6 comments

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Race & Culture in Dungeons & Dragons 5e/Next

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These two certainly don't fit the usual mold for their respective races.

A few days ago, Monte Cook posted two short paragraphs and a poll to his page on the Wizards of the Coast community. Those few words stirred up a lot of conversation about race in Dungeons & Dragons in the comments and on Twitter over the weekend. For me (Draco), it brings up a long …

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Back to Basics

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The Planes

A few weeks ago, my homebrew campaign was starting to feel like the gears were struggling to turn, plot-wise. Trying to make things work was becoming less fun and more like, well, work. Based on some communication I’d had with my players, I decided that the best way to deal with this was to put …

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Contemplating Creation Part V: Around The World (1 of 2)

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Treant of DOOOOOOOM!

As I mentioned back at the start of these articles, the catalyst for this process (just like many great adventures) was my discovery of an old map I had drawn. I had a general idea of what the world was like, but I’d need something more clear in my head if I wanted to be …

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Contemplating Creation Part IV: On Fathoming the Fae

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Corydon Faeries

I knew going in to this creation process that the fae were going to play a big part of my world. They are a big part of that feeling of awe and magic that I like about medieval mythology. I started out wanting to totally transform the fey in D&D to something more like you’d …

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Contemplating Creation Part III: Regarding The Nature of Cosmology

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Corydon_Elemental Wizardry

I had originally planned to construct a unique pantheon of deities for this world I was building, but when I rediscovered it and made the decision to basically overlay the D&D core world with it, it seemed much more expedient to just borrow the gods of 4e. I needed them to mesh with the themes …

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Contemplating Creation: On Races & Classes

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Deva_Invoker_by_Rayph

In Part II, I briefly talked about eliminating certain classes and races from my campaign world. I’m trying to keep these entries short and easily digestible, and as such I left out the exact details of why I made the choices that I did. While chatting with hyperform and WolfSamurai in the 4e D&D channel …

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Contemplating Creation, Part II: Adjusting & Detailing PC Options

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Last week I began explaining how I approached PC races in my homebrew campaign. Allow me a tangent that will help explain part of my thought process going forward. I have long been a fan of the Dragonlance campaign setting, which is well known for being a bit quirky: there are no drow, no orcs, …

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Contemplating Creation, Part I: In Which There Are Dwarves and Elves

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Around the end of 2010, I was in the middle of guiding my D&D group back from an unexpected excursion to the astral in the Forgotten Realms when the game hit a bit of a bump in the proverbial road. Given the opportunity to start anew, I seized the chance to pitch something different to …

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Imagining Things

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Two weeks ago, I started a new D&D 4e campaign. I’ll post the details of setting up that homebrew game world soon, but today I want to talk about something that happened while running it last weekend. I had decided to run the Cross-City Race adventure from Dungeon 176, both because it fit well in …

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Themes & Things To Keep In Mind When Writing Fantasy Stories and Adventures

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This list is far from complete. It’s not even trying to be complete. It knows better than that. It just wants to be helpful and provide some inspiration here and there; you know, offer little suggestions that might lead to bigger ideas. (Especially by using the words offered as Wikipedia searches!) Feel free to make …

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