Seamist Inn - Dungeons & Dragons

An Old Description - A Personal History

2026-02-12T21:50:00.000-06:00

Doing some quick sweeping up on this website and realized I hadn't updated the description in a while. A long while. Here's what it was: A private blog for our D&D game. This site is only set up for a select few people to use and post, but if you would like to participate, let us know by posting a comment or creating a username on the forums. When I started this site back in 2003, it was

[VIDEO] A Complete Guide To The Most Misunderstood D&D Setting: Eberron

2026-01-08T20:56:00.000-06:00

A massive, MASSIVE Eberron video is presented here from Pointy Hat on YouTube. Don't miss out on the Pointy Hat's Cyran Folio: Dust and Dreams and also Pointy Hat's website. I'd like to try Pocket Bard (the video sponsor) as well and post my own review at some point.

[VIDEO] Top 10 Websites That Will Level Up Your D&D Game - Deck of DM Things

2025-09-16T00:45:00.001-05:00

The algorithm served me this good video today. Several of these sites I'd stumbled on in the past, but hadn't really bookmarked them. I also didn't fully appreciate the full features of all of these tools, so I'm glad to get reintroduced to them again. I could do a write-up for each one and some of them should get added to my favorites links in the side column here. I've used the Fantasy Name

Guinness World Record - Largest D&D Game

2025-09-07T13:33:00.005-05:00

The world record for the largest game of D&D with the most participants was set by a store in this mall. They had 200 tables all cooperating and a staggering 1,227 participants. Their original goal was 1,000 and by the end of it they were turning people away. @teresa_jack This mall was dying… then the nerds moved in. What do you think about this retail experience? #nerdy #nerdymall #

Exciting Dark Sun News

2025-08-29T16:39:00.005-05:00

This past week, there was some exciting news for fans of the Dark Sun campaign setting and Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Wizards of the Coast released an Unearthed Arcana platest called Apocalyptic Subclasses. And based on the names and themes of the new material, this is clearly pointing to Athas. It’s time for another Unearthed Arcana playtest! This time, we’re diving into themes of

Harpy Tactics - The Monsters Know What They're Doing

2025-03-22T19:00:00.005-05:00

Once again, I find myself turning to The Monsters Know blog, to think through the tactics of a specific monster my players are going to encounter more than once. The initial encounter during this last session was a nice appetizer and was pretty easy for them, as I expected. This is especially true with the mid-level (8th) of the PCs currently and their supporting numbers. However, what they have

Humanoid Swarms for Mass Combat :: 5e D&D

2024-02-10T01:35:00.001-06:00

I was doing research on mass combat rules for D&D 5e for …reasons… and I know there's nothing completely official. There is a 2017 Unearthed Arcana for Mass Combat [PDF] published by Wizards of the Coast. In fact, there are two PDFs for this, the other likely from 2015. In previous editions, there were the Battlesystem rules, especially the Battlesystem 2nd Edition that I was

Pathfinder Stripped of Traces of D&D in New Rulebooks

2023-12-04T01:12:00.001-06:00

It would be ironic that the same year that I was first instroduced to playing Pathfinder in earnest was the same year that Wizards of the Coast, in their ultimate wisdom would decide to stab themselves in confusion and cause a big controversial upheaval in the games industry by pre-releasing an update to their gaming license rules. Which in summary was going to severely hurt independent creators.

[Book Recommendation] Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

2023-06-12T22:46:00.001-05:00

This book was recommended to me and I'm going to grab it through the Libby app. It was mentioned like this: ...like Samone and his coffee plants... Ooh, that's a memory I'd not retrieved in a while. First here's the book. My stepbrother played in a Dark Sun campaign that I ran back in the day, and he played a Halfling Druid/Thief that had a home base just east of Gulg at a small hidden

Wandering Around Droaam

2022-08-30T00:12:00.002-05:00

My characters in Eberron are spending an extended amount of time hanging out in Droaam. Specifically they are in the realm of Kethelrax the Cunning. For various inspiration reasons, I've been gathering notes for Droaam overland travel, the different warlord factions and an extended Kobold fortress. A Kobold Cave fortress from the video game "Pool of Radiance" that could be a 5e dungeon with

In Praise of the Dungeon Masters Guild

2022-05-24T01:33:00.006-05:00

I can't say enough good things about the Dungeon Masters Guild and the other sites in the family of OneBookShelf.com. Tons of free and paid resources, books and adventures. In fact, as of today I'm looking to add them as affiliate links to this blog. Here's a quick test: If that worked, something should appear above this paragraph with an updated feed of reviews from their site. Edit: This does

Merry Christmas - Have Some... Chaos!

2021-12-25T23:31:00.005-06:00

Here are some Xmas gifts that GMs can gift to their players (in game). These are all from Brian Patterson's webcomic d20monkey.com, which you should check out start to finish at some point. His art style is great and his writing shines. For a couple years around Christmastime, he would do an interlude comic with a random certificate or item list to gift your players. I've saved all of them that I

Social Interaction Cheat Sheet

2021-10-13T23:25:00.008-05:00

I've been reading a lot lately about how to quickly run social interaction in a D&D 5e game. Obviously, when it's called for, a DM can simply roleplay a social encounter and deal with the consequences in conversation. But if pressed for time or otherwise preferable, it's possible to quickly determine how an NPC would react to a character's request by consulting the chart and rolling some dice

Zee Bashew: Everyone's Lying About Dice (Part 2)

2021-06-26T18:54:00.001-05:00

I tried to explain in my last post that I both love and loathe the widely held concept of "dice training" and "dice personalities" and other sorts of dice-related myths. After all, I proclaim, these are just lifeless globs of plastic that -- in a perfect world -- would simply have some statistically consistent randomness to them. A twenty-sided die has a equal 5% chance of landing on any

Everyone's Lying About Dice

2021-06-09T20:53:00.002-05:00

This video makes me laugh, but also makes me angry at the same time. I've never bought into dice myths, loudly rejecting them when I hear them.

Weighty Chest (2nd Edition Spell) & Thor's Hammer Mjolnir

2021-02-28T01:01:00.001-06:00

I was reminded tonight of an old nostalgic game that I ran many years ago. We were playing AD&D 2nd edition, Dark Sun campaign setting. My stepbrother... what can I say? He often takes a simple character concept and makes it awesome. AND by "awesome" I mean he makes it game-breaking. In this instance, he had made a halfling druid/thief named Samone. Halflings in Dark Sun are typically

BRING ON THE MUPPETS IN D&D!

2021-02-04T00:23:00.000-06:00

Are we ready to have some fun and get silly? Boing Boing has an article about an unofficial race made for D&D that allows you to play as a muppet monster. This delightful monster sheet was designed by BJ Hypes, and covers pretty much everything you'd need to make your Muppets canon: Muppetborn Fabric? Is that all I am to you? My blood may be colorful and glittery, but I

Eberron Campaigns

2019-02-20T00:14:00.000-06:00

A year ago, I posted about two D&D campaigns I was running, with a third one possibly starting at some point. Here's an update. First off, as a player in other campaigns I've gotten a lot of experience with 5th edition. And so have many of my players. In fact, with the help of their friends, middle child pretty much launched a small mutiny and insisted that we transition to 5e. So the

The Free City of Tyr

2018-08-09T00:03:00.000-05:00

I'm currently running a Dark Sun game and want to catch my players up-to-date with where they are in Tyr and what is currently happening. I can think of no better way to do that than to use an official source description written back in 1992. The following text was lifted from DSQ1 - Road to Urik and edited a bit to match what I need. I'll outline my changes below. For unnumbered

Campaigns Anew

2018-02-09T00:55:00.000-06:00

Quite by happy accident, over the last year I've suddenly found myself running two separate Dungeons & Dragons games with a third one potentially starting soon. I'm also playing in a Star Wars: Edge of the Empire campaign, which is a first for me. Even young Samwise is getting into the game a bit. I run a game for him by himself, and keep things super loose with the rules since he's only 8.

Reddit: Want to learn to play D&D? You can start right now!

2017-07-23T16:03:00.000-05:00

New post today caught my eye. Want to learn to play D&D? You can start right now...It is an interesting post inviting new players to learn about D&D, but what I love most about the comment threads are the gold nuggets of wisdom and links to online tools that can be used in gaming. Here's a few I dug out, but as the post ages it might gain more. Monster Advancer Classic The Digital Dungeon

We Delve

2016-03-17T22:58:00.001-05:00

Source: d20monkey - We Delve

Penny Arcade - D&D Podcast - Dark Sun

2016-03-12T23:22:00.000-06:00

A few years ago, I'd found a series of audio podcasts of the guys from Penny Arcade and PvP getting together to feature and play test the latest version of Dark Sun for 4th edition. I've been a fan of Penny Arcade for a while, and I also read PvP on occasion. I downloaded the podcasts and burned them to disc and listened to them through several times on long drives. They were exciting and funny

RPG Character Portraits (Female) 1,408 through 2,015

2016-03-04T21:30:00.000-06:00

Here is a fifth and final batch. See part 4 here.

The Rules of Planescape

2016-03-03T20:57:00.000-06:00

Back in the day, I had a fun time playing with friends in the Planescape campaign. It was literally an infinite tablet of interesting places to visit, with as much expanse and complexity as the DM wanted to put into it. For the uninitiated, Planescape as a campaign setting re-introduced the idea of an entire cosmology to Dungeons & Dragons. The game's setting could now traverse multiple