Articles in the DnD Category

Dungeons & Flagons: Alcohol Rules for Dungeons & Dragons 4e
By Jester
Posted in DnD, RPG on 3 September 2010
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There have not been many hard rules for actually getting drunk. Gygax had rules for intoxication back in the 1st Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide, but these were excised in the more family-friendly years of 2nd Edition. This article aims to restoring the drunkenness to D&D, easy to remember and easy to use rules, which follow the design of 4e.

Gryphons, Part 2.
By Jared Glenn
Posted in DnD, RPG on 1 September 2010
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Updating the Race Among the gods’ creations, gryphons stand apart. Their close relationship and important mission gives the gods a unique attitude toward the race as a work in progress. Unlike many races, gryphons were not created with variety in mind. At first, the only gryphon in the world was the meridian gryphon, but, once [...]

Gryphon
By Jared Glenn
Posted in DnD, RPG on 30 August 2010
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Gryphon Gryphons are the powerful byproduct of an ancient shadow war between the gods and the primal spirits. A melding of divine and primal powers, they resemble an artful combination of feline and fowl – most notably, lion and eagle. Gryphons were created in several spheres of influence, with diverse missions in the world to [...]

Serious Skills: Skills under the Microscope.
By gamefiend
Posted in DnD, RPG on 25 August 2010
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I’ve written quite a bit about skill challenges on this site. I want now to discuss the foundation for skill challenges –skills themselves.  I don’t care whether they are adequate, inadequate, numerous, too broad, mechanically unsound, etc.  I simply care what skills are, because that’s actually of use to us and is therefore more interesting. [...]

Expending a Daily…
By gamefiend
Posted in DnD, RPG on 23 August 2010
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You don’t expend a Daily power without just cause.  For two years myself and At-Will’s contributors have wracked our brains trying to supply the best houserules and 4e design articles on the net. Whether you are interested in skill challenges, cursed items, using powers for roleplaying, terrifying, environment-altering monsters, At-Will supplies great content for no [...]

WorldBreaker: Troy and Bull, The Smashing Brothers.
By gamefiend
Posted in DnD, RPG on 23 August 2010
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“Bull SMASH!” “What my compatriot means is, we would enjoy discussing how you’ve come to be hear at this very place we have been commissioned to destroy, but as we are in the middle of said commission, we must defer this conversation until–” “Bull SMAAAAAAAAAASH!” “…Ahem.  Unfortunately said deferment will have to be of a [...]

The Aberrant Rules!
By gamefiend
Posted in DnD, RPG on 18 August 2010
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You’ve heard it as part of the Power Source, now you can get it from At-Will!  Yes, from our very own Ryven Cedrylle we bring to you the Aberrant Rules, the coolest and craziest rules permutations for 4th edition D&D.  I’m really excited to have Ryven’s unique brand of crazy (like a fox!) associated with [...]