Even as this Gassy Gnoll gets excited about diving headlong into the 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook, I struggle mightily with the balance between low level wizards and damage capability that I’ve seen even with the Starter Set and online PDF of the 5e rules. And I’m not a system guy, so bear . . . → Read More: The Gassy Gnoll: The Smell of Magic in 5e When I started tackling Fantasy Craft a chapter at a time, I had no clue I’d hit a chapter filled to the brim with 41 pages of spells and spellcraft. When I was working on early books for Moebius Adventures we came up with a book of spells that was about 164 pages long unformatted . . . → Read More: Game Review: Fantasy Craft by Alex Flagg, Scott Gearin, and Patrick Kapera from Crafty Games – Chapter 3  One comment  Alex Flagg, Crafty Games, Fantasy Craft, Mastercraft, Patrick Kapera, PDF, Products, Publishers, Scott Gearin  Alex Flagg, arcane, Crafty Games, Divination, divine, Evocation, Fantasy, Fantasy Craft, Grimoire, Magic, Patrick Kapera, roleplaying game, RPG, Scott Gearin, Skill, spellcasting, spells, wizards This month’s RPG Blog Carnival topic is “Animals in RPGs” (hosted by Tower of the Archmage). And at first I was stumped. But as I started doing a bit of brainstorming, I came up with a few different topics to talk about this month: Familiars, Omens, The Hunt, and Heroes & Monsters. Let’s start out . . . → Read More: The Gassy Gnoll: Animals in RPGs (RPG Blog Carnival), Part 1 – Familiars |