The Magic Tree

By James Treu Well, here it is the long-promised review of the 4E DMG. Some preface is necessary. First of all, this core book was obvi...

By James Treu Chapter 6, Adventures, is pretty big and includes using published adventures, fixing problems, building an adventure, quest...

By James Treu Chapter 10, The DM’s Toolbox, gives some good info on customizing monsters (once you wrap your head around the magic thresh...

...It was our own fault. We went up against a dozen or so kobolds, and while we were able to defeat them, they depleted all of our magical...

By James Treu AN OVERVIEW Ed Stark points out that 3 rd Edition (3E) books often were rules heavy and flavor light, resembling textbooks...

By James Treu THE NEW COSMOLOGY The Great Wheel is dead.  And no more alignment-based planes.  Enough said. [1] The “DnD world” where the...

By James Treu MONSTERS Encounter design was modified so that typical encounters are usually with more than one monster, and those monsters...