Make Your Dice Explode in Dungeons & Dragons
Add this elegant mechanic to your D&D game and every damage roll will feel as suspenseful as drawing a lottery ticket.
Homebrew Rules & Modifications
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Planescape Art & History
The Evolution of Tieflings in Dungeons & Dragons
What is a tiefling? Who created the race? Why do some have tails and others hooves? What are they so popular? Answers and lots of art inside.
Planescape Art & History
Interviews about Tieflings with Planescape Designers Zeb Cook and Colin McComb
Planescape creator Zeb Cook and designer Colin McComb answer questions about the origin, popularity and design behind DND’s Tiefling Race.
Homebrew Rules & Modifications
The Famous Exploding Rolling Boulder Trap (D&D)
The Best Trap I’ve ever run in D&D. A rolling boulder that explodes, pit traps with poison spikes, kobolds with fire arrows–all rolled into one!
DM Tips
Torture Should Not Work in Dungeons & Dragons
PCs love to keep an enemy alive to torture for information. But torture doesn’t work in real life. And it shouldn’t in DND.
DM Tips Homebrew Rules & Modifications
Class Makeover: Transforming the Horizon Walker (Xanathar’s Guide) into a True Planewalker
Looking to build a true Planewalker PC for a DND game traveling to the Outer Planes? This updated guide to the Horizon Walker subclass offers new Favored Enemy & Terrain options, a new spell, and other upgrades to help this Ranger shine in a Planescape or plane-traveling campaign.
DM Tips
Improving the Rules of DND’s Deck of Many Things
These alternative rules for the Deck of Many things heighten the tension of drawing cards, fix a few inconsistencies, and help the DM create new plot hooks.
Life in Sigil
Moderate and Extreme Subfactions for All 15 Planescape Factions
In “Factions Need Moderate and Extremists,” we discussed how framing problems — and factions — on a belief spectrum adds value to our Planescape games. In this article, we flesh out the moderate and extreme wings of each of Sigil’s 15 factions.
DM Tips Introduction to Planescape Life in Sigil
Factions Need Extremists and Moderates
The Planescape setting is designed to encourage philosophical discussion, but the philosophies of its 15 Factions read like bad philosophy 101 essays. Let’s make the factions more engaging and believable by adding extreme and moderate subfactions.
Planar Adventures
Losing Face in Sigil’s Slums: A DND Planescape Adventure for 1st-4th Level PCs
The PCs search for a missing person and devilish treasure in Sigil’s Slags, a dangerous, earthquake-prone battlefield where the Blood War between Devils and Demons once spilled over into the city. But what they find is not what they were searching for….