Another email came into the “Ask a DM” email box, by “Ralph”, as that’s how it was marked on the email form that asked me a question about Monsters, their stats and encounters. Mostly asking me if I reference the book during a game, hand write them/print them on a sheet a paper. He was
On the After Dark Show for the Pocket Mimic Podcast, Myself, Sal and Zac, spoke about designing up quest items for your campaign in some detail, here is the items broken down for you to use during your games if you’d like! The Ashes of Witnessing Wondrous Item These ashes appear to be nothing more
Got a question today from someone named “Kind of Matthew Mercer but Ginger” in the old email box asking advice about the healing system, death blows and how his players are using the heal for 1 hp to bring a character back from death saving throws. The problem as he saw it in his game
Something that has always bugged me in D&D and this dates back to the days of playing D&D in the ’80s, but its more of a thing since the “MMO/video gamer generation” (let’s go with that for now) has moved into playing D&D, was that all their stats have to be high, and anything less
A question was asked to me today (via email at the top) about writing up custom spells and the person was worried about if the spell already existed, not so much to save him time or work, but because he didn’t want to be unoriginal in his spell idea. I said to him to get
Exploring ideas for creepy monsters today when I was looking at the mirror… yep, I’ll wait for the jokes. *looks around, then down waiting for insults* Anyhow, I was looking at the mirror and then I thought about the Evil Dead 2 movie, in the scene where Ash was looking at himself and then the
This weekend when we sit down to record the Pocket Mimic Podcast, after we do the main show, we will be sitting down to do the After Dark show, and we will be talking about, Designing up a item worth questing for, along with trying to throw up a seed or two for using that
This week on the Pocket Mimic Podcast, After Dark Show #8 I sat down with Sal and spoke about designing a familiar or a pet for a character in game. So for this show I quickly grabbed an old favorite of mine, the WAR CHICKEN! I explained the backstory of how it was created and how
When first starting a game, you normally will sit down and maybe get an idea of what you want to do, but do you plan things out? or do you wing it by the seat of your pants? I know I personally like to sit down and hammer out some of the background, the rules
First I want to say, I think online gaming is a great tool for gaming and while its been around for a long time, in these last few years, playing on line has become so easy, its almost the same experience as sitting at table with your friends in person playing the game. DM’s can
