"So the options for your background are quite varied. The trick will be taking this option and making it useful."

"I hadn't ever thought of Beorn and the woodland Disney Princess as being possible options from the same build, but here we are."

"The "Riddle of Steel" is helpful here: flesh is stronger than steel, as man can shape steel to its will. Shape the barbarian to your will."

Hey Reader! Welcome back to the Zurn blog! Last week saw us examining the Stitchling Artificer, and this week we're taking a break from...

"Artificers are by nature tinkerers...but some tinkerers like to experiment with organic material, and the stitchling is the result."

"Some people just love being surprised, and others really don't. And the latter feel this way for many reasons, all of which are valid."

When you start as an alpha, your starting pack will be one CR1/4 creature, two CR1/8 creatures, or four CR0 creatures. You can tame others.

"I've got a player who is playing a conspiracy theorist in a group I'm running, and she's not the first to do this. Here's how I make them."

"While paladins are martial characters and rogues are excellent skill monkeys without high Dexterity, bards rely a lot on magic."

"It removes the whole issue of the Charm Nuke: if the player makes one good roll they magically charm the person into doing what they want."