Wizards has been posting a series of articles titled “Know Your Enemy”. There’s been six published thus far.
The articles give a quick blurb on 4 or 5 different monsters along with the appropriate Knowledge checks to find out various things about them. When we encounter “new” monsters in games that I’ve played the first thing [...]
Healing has almost always been relegated to the realm of the divine. Somehow Bards sneak into the mix here, but we’ll ignore those flighty fools for now since their shortened spell list and spells per day limit them as efficient healers.
Dig in to find one method that arcane spellcasters can use to gain access to [...]
The Bag of Holding is an iconic magic item in D&D.
This appears to be a common cloth sack about 2 feet by 4 feet in size. The bag of holding opens into a nondimensional space: Its inside is larger than its outside dimensions. Regardless of what is put into the bag, it weighs a fixed [...]
Natural healing is a very simple mechanic.
Natural Healing
With a full night’s rest (8 hours of sleep or more), you recover 1 hit point per character level. Any significant interruption during your rest prevents you from healing that night.
This unfortunately makes little sense and ends up screwing the characters with the most hit points.
See the problem? [...]
Manticore Bracers are worn like normal bracers, fully covering the wrist and forearm. In their normal state they appear to be a pair of sturdy leather bracers offering no armor bonus.
As a standard action, each bracer has five 6-10″ spikes that extend from the arm. The spikes can be retracted in a similar manner. These [...]
The original 1983 animated series “Dungeons & Dragons,†featuring all 27 episodes in a collector’s five-disc boxed set, will be released December 5th.
“Dungeons & Dragons†tells the tale of six kids who, after riding the Dungeons & Dragons rollercoaster, mysteriously get sucked into its fantasy world. Once there, they are met with a variety of [...]
The Heal Skill is one that often gets overlooked by most people since magic tends to replace its usefulness quite easily. In those few times that nobody has any healing spells or potions and a comrade’s lying on the ground dying, the rest of the PCs take turn making untrained Heal checks hoping for a [...]