Sometimes the stars align properly and opportunities appear. Such is the case with a new campaign we just started last night with a new group. We’ll be playing Mazes & Perils and exploring the unexplored… Read More »Zhilin Campaign Journal #1: It Begins…
This week I have the distinct pleasure of starting a new campaign and among the players, I have two who have not ever played a tabletop role-playing game before. Not since I taught my girls… Read More »Class Dive: What is a wizard, exactly?
It’s impossible to consider the darkness unless you have a source of light. As a species, we’re simply not equipped to see the types of energy wavelengths that other creatures can. It puts most humanoids… Read More »Things in the Dark: Light Sources (March 2017 RPG Blog Carnival)
Apologies for the longer post today, but I think it’s an important topic for rules design and combat. Recently we had a group playtest one of our upcoming adventures for Mazes & Perils and Bill,… Read More »Revisiting the Past: Spells — Slow and Haste
My man Brian Fitzpatrick is seeking some balance between 5E (and 4E’s) at-will damaging cantrips and the poor wizard of yesteryear who would cast sleep and then beg the party to do the same so… Read More »Alternate Cantrips in 5th edition (Guest post by William C. Pfaff)
In the Mazes & Perils books, we offer a list of various potions and scrolls your characters may find on their many adventures. But we don’t really talk about how those potions or scrolls get… Read More »Strange Alchemy: Creating potions and scrolls
With a Divine spellcaster, the magical energy used to achieve an effect is channeled through the caster’s faith in a supernatural force. This force can be as straightforward as believing in a deity or more… Read More »How to Extend Rituals in WR&M
