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Arcadia Issue 25 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:00:13 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM @vorpaldicepress Inspiration has always been a mechanic I forget to implement in my games. I just end up randomly remembering they exist and that’s when I give them away. This article looks to make these points much more important by giving them away through in-game mechanics, as well as giving them other uses. The article talks about ways inspiration can be given away when critical successes or failures occur. I believe these ways of handling […]

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Monsters of the Multiverse Breakdown, Part Four

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 24 May 2022 15:33:56 +0000

This book is finally going on sale as an individual title rather than as part of the gift set, as well as going up on D&D Beyond, so commentary is all over Twitter now. Today I’m getting into Chapter 2: Bestiary – the whole rest of the book, other than some fairly brief Appendices. As a reminder, this book has more than 250 monsters from Volo’s Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, plus one (1) new creature. I […]

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Arcadia Issue 13 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:05:56 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Arcadia 13 just arrived, giving us our monthly dose of D&D goodness. This month doesn’t particularly feel as if it was following some theme as many others have done before. Nevertheless, I’m very happy that what I talked about in my previous breakdown about Content Warnings was right after all, and James made sure to talk about it in his Letter from the Editor: On the previous Arcadia issue, one of the articles had a […]

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The Beastheart – An MCDM Class for D&D5e – Breakdown Part 3

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 12:46:37 +0000

Ho ho ho! Here is the last article about an MCDM product of the year! Hope you are having a great holiday season! Now with that out of the way, let’s start this! Last article we left off having done a review on the Beastheart and two of its subclasses. Now there are three subclasses left to cover, some magic items, and a short story that teases future things that are to come! We have much to talk about, so […]

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Arcadia Issue 8 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:00:24 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM This month I come to wake you up before September ends (I’m a 90s kid! I was obligated to write this!) to bring you the latest breakdown from Arcadia. This one is quite different from the past ones in a few ways I’ll be detailing. The constant within this and the previous ones is that you won’t want to miss this issue either! As James indicates in his letter from the editor, September’s issue is […]

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Finding a Big Bad: Oozes

Kevin Victor Rae — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:00:11 +0000

The evil shampoos of the Dungeons and Dragons multiverse, oozes are classic monsters that no dungeon worth its treasure would be without. While the monsters with the Ooze type only have a handful of entries, each has potential to test a low level party, and there is even an ooze that could drive an entire campaign. So put on your ooze-handling gloves and let’s jump in! You can check out previous articles in this series where I cover: Elementals, Constructs, […]

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Finding a Big Bad: Plants!

Kevin Victor Rae — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:00:37 +0000

Get out your trowels and gardening gloves, today we’re going to dive into the jungles of the Plant monster type. Plants have a handful of monsters that appear in the Monster Manual and the highest CR threat of any plant monster is CR 9 (that I could find). However, this doesn’t mean that you couldn’t run an exciting campaign filled with twiggy baddies ready to make the party mulch. You can check out previous articles in this series where I […]

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Finding a Big Bad: Monstrosities

Kevin Victor Rae — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:10:42 +0000

This week we take a look at one of the broadest categories of monsters in Dungeons and Dragons 5e: Monstrosities. The introduction to the Monster Manual defines monsters as being “frightening creatures that are not ordinary, not truly natural, and almost never benign… and in some sense serve as a catch-all category for creatures that don’t fit into any other type.” This category has the most potential to provide a monster of the week for your campaign, whether you’re building […]

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Finding the Big Bad: Giants

Kevin Victor Rae — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:00:20 +0000

Today we’ll take a look at the Giant monster type. We’ve previously looked at using giants beyond their stat block, so today we’ll look at potential monsters to use either for a single session or as a campaign long villain that can throw multiple challenges and hurdles at your party. Giants are a fantasy staple and can be the driving force behind a really exciting campaign! They have a ton of options for campaigns taking place in the first three […]

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Finding a Big Bad: Dragons

Kevin Victor Rae — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:00:01 +0000

Iconic and feared throughout the multiverse, Dragons represent some of the hardest challenges that a player in Dungeons & Dragons can expect to come up against. With all the Unearthed Arcana about dragons coming out, we are sure to see more draconic content soon enough. Today we are going to look at the Dragon monster type from scale to wing to the very tippy of their snouts. You can check out previous articles in this series where I cover: Elementals, […]

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