300 new spells—but do you want them? Dragonbane’s Book of Magic (Review)

Free League sent me a review copy of Dragonbane's Book of Magic. It's chock-full of usable options, beautifully presented, and squarely focused on doing one thing well. It's also a bewildering amount of new material. So do I recommend it?

The Complete Guide to Charms and Enchantments: Part Two

This is the second part of a series on charms and enchantments in 5e. I focus on five spells: suggestion (and its high-level counterpart, mass suggestion), compulsion, geas, and dominate person.

How To Homebrew Your Own Game Rules In D&D

Sooner or later, you are going to want to tinker with something in your game. The thing is, should you? What’s worth tinkering with, and what is better left ‘as is’?

Nine reasons why counterspell is not as annoying as you think

A couple of months ago, I ran a Twitter poll asking ‘Which of these is the most annoying spell in 5e D&D?’ The options I gave were banishment, counterspell, and forcecage, with a fourth option for ‘something else’. It is striking that out of 66 votes, more than half were for counterspell. I can’t say … Continue reading Nine reasons why counterspell is not as annoying as you think