A kind of crazy in-game explanation for D&D psionics occurred to me. I haven’t seen it before so I figured I’d share it. The canonical explanation for psionics is that they’re from the Far Realms: weird Lovecraftian planes beyond mortal comprehension, where squidgy creatures use psionics to do squidgy things. I think this doesn’t tell […]

As a d20 monster designer, a question I often have is “how D&D is this distance?” D&D has certain speeds, distances, and ranges that it likes more than others. Will I look like a country bumpkin if I give someone a speed of 75 feet? (Answer: Obviously not. I must follow the monster’s story. The […]

One of the more puzzling non-changes in the D&D 2024 edition refresh is that they didn’t make any changes to damage vulnerability. In 5e D&D (both 2014 and 2024), resistance to a damage type means you take half the damage. This is fine. Conversely, vulnerability to damage means you take double the damage. This is […]

In my post 2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card, where I tried to extrapolate WOTC monster building rules from the 2024 Monster Manual, I have a lot of chart and graphs slicing up the data in various ways, one of which had a key error. When I tried to determine whether there was a […]

In my post 2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card, I figured out the average base statistics (HP, AC, damage per round, etc) of 2024 monsters of each Challenge Rating. Using this as a starting point, you can start to design plausible monsters with the most common stats for their CR. But of course, a […]