DIY & dragons

The last time I talked about the book Future Evolution , I mentioned that author Peter Ward and illustrator Alexis Rockman mostly did not e...

My ongoing Tolkienian Science Fantasy project is all about creating an easy-to-understand "french vanilla" setting by replacing ...

In my post about Tolkienian science fantasy , I suggested creating a "french vanilla" setting by replacing elves, dwarves, and hob...

In a class I took on museum studies, we read Tangible Things , a companion volume to a Harvard University museum exposition of the same n...

In D&D it can sometimes seem like your only two options for enemy royalty are the chess king model - where the king is realistically we...

Below are a couple collections of links to the monster randomizers written by two prolific designers. The links in the first collection ar...

Evlyn at Le Chaudron Chromatique has created a minigame for referees to create island ecologies . She recommends starting with an encounter...

Brother Juniper from Goblin Flowers recently asked a question about alternate monster lists that jogged my memory for a few classic ones. ...

Over at Throne of Salt , Dan has set up a series of generators for making alien cultures , at least partial inspired by Ursula LeGuin's ...

The Invid were one of the first monsters I ever wanted to fight. The Invid are the villains of season 3 of Robotech . The villains of sea...