-
Recent Posts
- D&D’s Designers Can’t Decide Whether Characters Must Rest for Hit Points and Healing, but You Can Choose
- Avoiding the Awkward D&D Moment When a Priest, a Wizard, and a Dwarf Enter a Bar and Nothing Happens
- The Unintended Consequence That Ruined Fourth Edition D&D’s Chance of Success, But Proved Great for Gamers
- The Grand Campaign, Dungeon Master Gear, Fourth Edition D&D, and Other Reactions From the Comment Section
- 5 Reasons Someone Might Build a Dungeon Filled With Clues, Tests, and Riddles
Archives
Recent Comments
- FuGeniusRy on D&D’s Designers Can’t Decide Whether Characters Must Rest for Hit Points and Healing, but You Can Choose
- sean h on D&D’s Designers Can’t Decide Whether Characters Must Rest for Hit Points and Healing, but You Can Choose
- Shane Vaillancourt on D&D’s Designers Can’t Decide Whether Characters Must Rest for Hit Points and Healing, but You Can Choose
- Shane Vaillancourt on D&D’s Designers Can’t Decide Whether Characters Must Rest for Hit Points and Healing, but You Can Choose
- Michael J. Ross on D&D’s Designers Can’t Decide Whether Characters Must Rest for Hit Points and Healing, but You Can Choose
DM David
Categories
Meta
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Tag Archives: planes
Spells that let players skip the dungeons in Dungeons & Dragons
In today’s Dungeons & Dragons game, player characters gain experience by overcoming obstacles and defeating monsters. In the original game, PCs got most of their experience for claiming treasure. (For more, see “The fun and realism of unrealistically awarding experience … Continue reading →
Posted in Role-playing game design, Role-playing game history
|
Tagged Castle Greyhawk, ethereal, Gary Gygax, planes, spells, Tomb of Horrors
|
5 Comments
How Queen of the Demonweb Pits opened Dungeons & Dragons to the multiverse
In Dragon magazine issue 8, published July 1977, Gary Gygax proposed the Dungeons & Dragons cosmology, a great wheel of planes surrounding the prime material. The existence of infinite planes “will vastly expand the potential of all campaigns which adopt … Continue reading →