Building a Pantheon: Divine Intervention
We have explored how to develop a pantheon for a specific culture, how to expand that pantheon to other cultures, and the differences between personal and impersonal gods so far. Today we are going to...
View ArticleWay of the Fan
The way of the fan isn’t an official monk school per se. Rather, it’s typically a method that someone learns because they have no other weapons appropriate to carry with them. Most who learn this way...
View ArticleHow to Create a Compelling Villain
Creating great villains for your campaigns has as much to do with their deeds as it does their motivations. Memorable villains should present not just mechanical challenges to the party, but...
View ArticleThe Magic Aquatic: Five Spells
Over in Harbinger of Doom, I wrote a collection of six spells developed by underwater peoples, intended for Under the Seas of Vodari. In this article, I’ve created five more, tilted more toward utility...
View ArticleMonthly Encounter #13: The Corrupted Underwater Dragon (lvls 1-4)
Thumbnail art from Josh Benson Here at Tribality, we’ve decided to provide our readers with Encounters ready to be added to your table. I’ll be creating new ones monthly for you to have a big...
View ArticleCreating an Organization of Evil
So you have your big bad evil guy, right? You’ve developed their motivations, their world view and have given them a compelling reason for their actions. What’s next? Well, they need henchmen to carry...
View ArticleExpanding the trinkets table
The trinkets table is used by a variety of backgrounds to give characters something interesting to have in their possession, but at 100… or even 500 more, sometimes you want something unique that...
View ArticleA Villain’s Fatal Flaw
So far we have looked at how to create a compelling villain and how to create their organization of evil, so now let’s look at what makes villains sympathetic and compelling to fight against their...
View ArticleRime of the Frostmaiden Review
The new hardback adventure from Wizards of the Coast is here, sending PCs where the sun don’t shine. No, really, that’s the plot! Auril, the Frostmaiden, has blocked out the sun over Icewind Dale, save...
View ArticleReasons a site might be abandoned P6
(Author’s note, I’ll be picking up where I left off numerically) One of the classic D&D tropes is a party entering a dungeon. Such places are either abandoned, in the middle of nowhere, or,...
View Article10 Encounters for your Tundra Adventures
Thumbnail art by Artur Mósca Now that Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden has come out, you may want more encounters than the ones that already are in the book. This may also be useful for your...
View ArticleMonthly Encounter #14: Amani Baba and the ten thieves (lvls 1-4)
Here at Tribality, we’ve decided to provide our readers with Encounters ready to be added to your table. I’ll be creating new ones monthly for you to have a big collection to look through when you run...
View ArticleMonthly Encounters List by Tier and Environment
Thumbnail art by Chris Rahn If you’ve been following my articles you may have seen many of the monthly encounters I wrote for Tribality. I’ve been writing them for more than a year by now and I intend...
View ArticleAdvanced Character Backgrounds
Not all games start at level one. When this happens, the characters are leveled, and maybe, if the GM/ DM is lucky the player might add a sentence or two more to the background to flesh it out more....
View ArticleHalloween Roundup 2020
Halloween is just around the corner so it’s time for my big list of Halloween adventures, monsters, music, and more. RAVENLOFT Run Ravenloft this Halloween as a one-shot… just like the original...
View ArticleAncient Tech of Vodari
Many settings, from Vodari to Breath of the Wild, include Ancients whose technology are indistinguishable from magic. In some, it’s even the main source of magic items! Anyway, in this article I’m...
View Article3 Halloween-themed magic items for your players
Thumbnail art by Nuno Nobre This next Thursday it’s going to be 2 years since I started working for Tribality. As a way of celebrating it, I wanted to do something different. Taking into account that...
View ArticleSave Your Campaign from the Holidays
It’s Halloween this week! My campaign is taking a week off from our main campaign and we’re planning to play a Halloween one-shot. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year are all right around the...
View Article3 Villains for your Halloween-themed one shots or sidemissions
Thumbnail Art by David Harrington Halloween is almost here! Time to get that one-shot or side mission for your campaign ready. I’ve got some great magic items created last week and now all we need are...
View ArticleKevin’s Spellbook: Major Image
Hello, students of the arcane! Today we will look at one of my favorite spells, Major Image. Illusions offer players a powerful way to manipulate the game world. A well-crafted illusion can be the...
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