As is common, common enough that GreyKnight wrote a post about it, I’m revisiting an earlier post. What are the odds this one will be different? (Hint: pretty good) I’m pretty happy with my descriptions of manifestation building block grades, but they’re not quite there. Happily, I know people I …
Yesterday I described the components of Planar Trappings: ‘manifestation building blocks’, ‘trait manifestations’, and ‘sample planes’. Since planes are described using traits, and traits have manifestations built from common blocks, I’m starting there. Existing Art First, let’s look at the references I’m working from. Manual of the Planes from Wizards …
One of the most exciting books from the AD&D era, for me, was Manual of the Planes. It expanded wonderfully on the two pages of information in the… Player’s Handbook? Okay, that part never made sense to me. Anyway! Manual of the Planes gave us information about other places that …
While developing Divine Trappings, I’ve created way more random tables that I imagined I would. I expected to have random tables in the domain descriptions. I didn’t expect to come up with so many generic random tables… but they all look useful. Domain Field Tables Still working on it, but …
I thought about trying to work up a sleestak joke, but it’s been a long day. I’ve started many series on this blog. Many have been left stagnant as my attention was drawn elsewhere (either on the blog, or in my life outside elf games). This year, I’m going to …
