Thieves’ Guild So. Way back in the early 1980’s , the gaming market was exploding, and experiencing this sort of Cambrian sprawl of adaptive radiation, with everyone looking for new niches and unexplored concepts. A lot of games just went … Continue reading →
Rotscale Dragon The design notes and thought process which led to this beast are here. The Rotscale Dragon is a massive creature of vile decay. Bone shows through in many spots, and it seems impossible that its tattered wings could … Continue reading →
OK, More Like Saturday Brunch… Well, after two and a half weeks, it was bound to happen. Sorry, folks, I had paying work to do, and then had to actually deal with living players showing up to play, and then … Continue reading →
Zombie Magic I have often wondered exactly how magic items entered D&D. There may be some old-timer recollections about the genesis of them somewhere on the ‘net, but I haven’t seen them. The origin of rust monsters and polyhedral dice … Continue reading →
Half Dead If you can have half-vampires, why not half-zombies? But before we go there, a quick aside. As it turns out, WOTC already has their version of the nom-your-brains zombie, it’s in Open Grave and it’s a template which … Continue reading →
Zombie Fever! Or what All Flesh Must Be Eaten calls "Sharing The Love". While many undead have a spawn creation feature — "Any creature slain by a Darkname Scarything will rise as a Darkname Scarything in RandomRoll rounds" — zombies, … Continue reading →
Part of Zombie Week here on MrLizard.com! It shuffles, it shambles, it eats your brains. What more do you want?
Continue reading →ZÂ Is For Zombie So I had this brilliant idea that daily stuff would be easier if I had a weekly theme. The hard part then, is finding a theme. As I staggered out of bed this morning, the answer was … Continue reading →
Strange Brew (aka Drinking And Dragons, Part 3) Hey, eight days of Breakfast Crunch! If this were a typical "daily" updated webcomic, this would have taken two months! (It would also have a lot more readers, especially if my main … Continue reading →
Faux-Alcoholism, Redux Why does imaginary drink play such a strong role in, erm, role playing games? Is it because a lot of us started as teens and couldn’t drink, so we pretended to? Is it because Ale And Whores are such … Continue reading →
