The Mithral Golem is arguably the best golem in Pathfinder. The Adamantine Golem is tougher, but slower. It doesn’t have the special Quickness ability of the Mithral Golem, nor does …
House Rules for Spelljammer
The release of Starfinder motivated me to take another look at Spelljammer. Starfinder is set hundreds of years into Golarion’s future — or at least one possible future for Golarion. …
Backgrounds For 1st Level Characters
Barbarian Your mother moved to town two years ago when your father died. She works as a town guard and you make yourself useful by hunting for wild game to …
Balancing Wizards, Easily
Inexperienced GMs worrying about balancing higher-level wizards is a recurring theme in fantasy gaming discussions. Whether this is necessary or useful is a topic of endless debate, as are the …
Fighting Liches
A lich is a powerful undead creature and a frequent opponent of dungeon-delving adventurers. In addition to the standard lich, the lich template can be applied to any creature. This …
Merwick’s School of Magic — Day One
The first day of magic school started early for the students, if not for Merwick. Helgra the cook woke the students an hour before dawn and put them to work …
Merwick’s School of Magic
Merwick wasn’t a young mage and had trained many apprentices over the years, but he had found each of them lacking. He had taken in good youth from good families, …
Megadungeon List
This list was created by Nat of Megadungeons.com. As Nat has taken Megadungeons.com offline, I hope he doesn’t mind me making this available here. I have made a few updates …
Crossover Campaigns
Almost all fantasy campaigns begin with natives of the fantasy world operating in their own world. An alternative that is seldom explored in RPGs is having characters from our world …
Building a Simple House, with Magic
Before creating a magnificent castle or city, an architecturally inclined wizard should hone his skills on smaller projects. One excellent project idea is to build homes for your followers. This …