Category: DM Tips

Monster Beastlands 15 Single Monster Books

monster Celestials book

So, I have been hard at work trying to make another product for my monster book. I was able to publish them on Drive-Thru RPG. My thought process on this was that I could still bring people the monsters I make while exposing it to more people. So far so good, Beastlands Maelstrom of Monster

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5th Edition as it is

Conflageration

So 5th edition as it stands is a trickle of content from the main developers, but the best part about this trickle is that has encouraged so many homebrew and 3rd parties to get into the thick of things. The only problem I have seen from it is the purist that only want to use

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Beastlands Maelstrom Of Monsters

Beastlands Book Cover

After reflecting on my Kickstarter and figuring out the next move, I decided to finish the part that allows me to sell The Maelstrom Of Monsters! As I continue forward, I will be adding more stuff to the generator. Artwork, more descriptions, more abilities and a better semblance of monster identity. While I am working

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Adventure Seeker Contest Winner!

Adventure Bag with clip on side

This contest was super fun, I loved reading everyone’s entries. It @MagicandStitch and I went through and hand-picked our favorites and compared who we picked. We then discussed who we thought we liked the most from there. It came down to Primal Warp and Seeker, but we both agreed on Primal Warp! So it does

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Future Proofing Procedural Generation

What is future proofing? Future proofing is taking a broad setting and sprinkling a bunch of minor details everywhere. After doing so it allows your players to guide themselves through the story. Depending on which direction they take you to start fleshing out that area more and more. Once they are in an area you

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Procedural generation and building on top of it – Warbands

King White Crow

War, what is it good for? Humanoids and beasts play many different roles. Some are supreme alpha beings, others have the urge to follow and please, and yet some are just great at certain tasks. Certainly, warbands are a way of grouping monsters or humanoids into functional ecosystems. Therefore granting the monsters the ability to play

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Procedural Generation With The Beastlands

Reaching for the Light by Diane ÖZDAMAR

Procedural Generation – what is it? Procedural generation is when you take controlled parts and randomize the pieces. One downside of completely random is it is harder to have controlled outcomes that are meaningful. Once you start controlling how things are randomized and can set boundaries, you start making meaningful content that provides intrigue and

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Procedural generation and building on top of it – Monsters

Why Bother with procedural generation for monsters? Procedural generation for monsters helps save time, effort and energy that can be spent elsewhere. you will be able to use the saved time to focus on your dynamic story, or flesh out that big bad evil guy you have always been talking about, the world is your oyster.

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