social encounter
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BLACK DRAGON WYRMLING: Using Darkness and Fog as Weapons
My first piece of advice regarding wyrmlings would be not to use them. Dragons are the most epic, the most awesome, of all fantasy monsters, and a dragon encounter should be a hard one, with the players struggling to survive. (Especially the first time you use a dragon.) Wyrmlings shatter this concept. I have seen… Continue reading
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DOPPELGANGER: How to use an Impersonator in DnD
How to Use – Social Encounter When building an encounter using a doppelganger, you will be better served by building a short encounter rather than an entire storyline. Build a long storyline, and you might end up with a doppelganger who gets exposed when you’ve barely started. Or, you might reach the part where your… Continue reading
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IMP: How to Make Really Bad Bargains
An imp will be looking for ways to corrupt its master, as well as anybody else that it can. To achieve that end, it will look for ways to suggest evil deeds that have some chance of being persuasive. Continue reading
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ERINYES: Fighting the Furies in a Burning House
How to Use – Corrupter As the only devils to not look obviously evil, I would imagine that they get the job of convincing important mortals to trade their souls and otherwise bargain with the hells. (Run of the mill devils will be approached by imps, the hell’s errand boys. Succubae and/or rakshasas would be… Continue reading
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YOCHLOL: Dangers of the Yochlol’s Web
The yochlol comes with one of the strangest abilities in D&D. It has the ability to turn into a cloud of toxic mist, with will render anyone inside it poisoned, making it harder for them to attack and easier for them to be attacked. Continue reading
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QUASIT & Making Familiars and Other NPCs Interesting
Before we get into uses for this monster as an enemy, I’m going to start with how to use the quasit as an ally. Specifically, how it can be used when it’s playing the role of a warlock’s familiar. Continue reading
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NALFSHNEE: Talking Fancy and Fighting Dirty
How to Use – Combat Scenarios (difficulty 15) With the nalfshnee, I am going to give a couple of different strategies that it is likely to use. You can use them all, to set up one large boss fight, or you can use one or two of them to spice up an otherwise basic fight.… Continue reading
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A Deadly Friend: How to Play Corruption in DnD
This was originally part of the glabrezu article, and part 1: Deception appears there. As this seems like something that I’m going to need for more monsters, I decided to publish it separately as its own article. This way I can refer other monsters to here, and people won’t need to skim through the glabrezu… Continue reading
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GLABREZU: Deadly as a Friend, Lethal as a Foe
The glabrezu is an extremely powerful demon, powerful enough that I have no idea why its CR is only 9. Continue reading
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CRAWLING CLAW: Using These CR 0’s as Flavor and as Foes
The crawling claw’s most obvious use is to showcase the fact that a specific NPC is a necromancer. With that said, unlike in a television show, where the hand can be doing different things in the background and Continue reading
About Me
I have been a DM for several years, and I was designing home RPG games since my young childhood. I have been a fan of many different types of games (computer, board, RPG, and more) and have designed several for my own entertainment. This is my first attempt to produce game content for a wider audience.