Chimerak – A D&D 5e homebrew race of fey beings with mixed animal features ties to the realm of dreams

Back at it again with a new race: the Chimerak Chimerak Physical Description: The Chimerak, strange beings bearing mixed animal characteristics, are born of the fae Realm of Dreams known as the Garden of Slumber. They appear as humanoid beings with the features of multiple animals, sometimes obvious in nature (such as a humanoid lion

Making Mythology – Deities of Akanoth (Part 1)

I get to combine my new Making Mythology series ont he blog with my Akanoth Lore Dumps! Akanoth is my home setting for D&D 5e and one I have been developing and updating for a while and continue to do so. It is a setting of epic high fantasy with some twists and it is

Dragons of Akanoth

Akanoth is my home setting for D&D 5e and one I have been developing and updating for a while and continue to do so. It is a setting of epic high fantasy with some twists and it is even going through an industrial revolution (at least parts are). Today I want to talk about Dragons,

Introducing Making Mythology – A New Blog Series

This is a quick post to introduce a very vague and open-ended new series on my blog: Making Mythology. The whole theme of Making Mythology is the topic of Mythology (both real world and fictional). Everything from: Player Options – Player Races, Character Classes/Subclasses/Archetypes, etc. DM Advice – How to RP the relationship between a

Pakalao and Lumiere – Two Random Gods for Pathfinder 1e

A long time ago I took part in a thread on the Paizo Pathfinder 1e forums where we collectively made a pantheon of random gods. I do not remember the exact rules, but we had to randomly select an alignment, roll to determine 3 domains, and create a god out of that. In addition to

Dread Titles: Giving Fiendish Lords and Dark Gods a bit of Flair

So you have an Archfiend or Dark God and their name just doesn’t sound terrifying, dread-inducing, or badass enough? I’ve got you covered, with a way to generate some dreadful titles. d10 Title (First Half) Title (Second Half) 1 Conqueror of the Sanguine Throne 2 Lord/Lady of the Dark Abyss 3 Bane of the Godgraves

Convents of Lolth

In D&D Lolth is the Demon Lord of Spiders and Goddess of Evil Drow. Lolth is primarily worshipped by evil Drow, where the cults are run by women and men are little more than sacrifices or slaves. Lolth is creepy and evil and her cults are too, but what if they were different. I had

My attempt to add some depth to Goliath Culture – Blood Divination

I started coming up with some ideas to make Goliath lore more interesting. I thought it would be cool if they had shamans who see glimpses of the future by spilling blood on ancestral stone and looking at how it spills over the stone. Here are some sample omens based on how the blood spills

Bizarre Familiar Generation Table

I made a little system-agnostic table you can use to generate bizarre magical familiars. Just need 5d10 (or 1d10 rolled 5 times). Being Descriptor Personality  Behavior/Habits Oddity  1 Cat Transparent Crotchety  Swears like a sailor Leaves a charred trail 2 Rat Emaciated Impish Swears that is actually a powerful demigod trapped in this form Constantly

Build-a-Goblin Workshop

Last night I found out about #goblinweek on Twitter and I love it. I can’t draw or do art all that well, but I did want to contribute to goblinkind. Whether you see goblins as weird and possibly disturbed trickster of the Feywild, the lesser cousins to orcs, the runts of a warlike society of