As with the frost mites from a few weeks ago, frost lizards don't challenge the PCs so much for their raw combat ability than for their ability to freeze their environment.

Huge frost lizards survive their extremely cold habitats by magically storing cold in their body and releasing it on demand....

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Surprise your players by throwing them a curve ball: higher-level bandits.

Kala, a half-elf woman, led an otherwise unassuming group of bandits on a series of raids along a lucrative trade route near the sea. One day, they fell on a group of adventurers who were transporting an artifact, and manag...

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Reading an anime post from 20 years ago about what franchises would survive 10 years later.

Here's the post:

Re: What anime will we still be watching 10 years from now?

Isaac Kuo

11/30/97

(snipped list of popular anime series of the time: Escaflowne, Evangelion, Gundam Wing, and Uten...

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This week, clips from "Recovery of an MMO Junkie" and "Ancient Magus's Bride." Light on spoilers.

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Welcome to another post with advice for anyone who wants to run a fantasy tabletop RPG like D&D for the first time.

As the Game Master, you will control all the antagonistic forces arrayed against the PCs. As such, you'll need to know a few things about them.

Some GMs design all their antagoni...

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Reviewing the first volumes of "Re:Monster", "That Time I Was Reincarnated As a Slime", and "How to Build a Dungeon."

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