LRCGB: Greyhawk and Higher Learning

The City of Greyhawk Boxed set often provides its readers with tantalizing bits of information that are thrown out without any additional connections beyond what it assumes are the most obvious to its readers. Here the book focus on three schools: the University of Magic Arts, Grey College, and the School of Clerkship. These schools…

Gods of the Book of the New Sun: Shaw

I really wanted to have a god who felt completely different from anyone else so I designed one that reminded me of my favorite strongman competitor: Brian Shaw. Shaw is kind of an amalgam of what I like about Brian Shaw while at the same time being a bit of all the things I like…

Death is Meaningless, and that’s okay

One of the things that I've seen several times recently is the idea that before a player's character dies in a game that there should be some meaningful reason behind their deaths. We, the DMs, shouldn't allow the dice to arbitrarily kill a character because of a few bad die rolls. I'm baffled by the…