Packing Up: Moving My Campaigns to Roll20

Hi, everyone. Thank you for your patience during a drought of blog content. Wow, it’s certainly been a crazy few weeks. I’ve been engaging in social distancing for about a month and some change now, and it’s certainly been bizarre to see events unfold. I’m sure that I’m not the only one whose game group…

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The Hunter Class(T2 Playtest Draft, Dragon Quarry)

Hello, everyone.  Sorry for the late article this week; the workflow involved in designing a class(and its subclasses) from the ground up is a little different than my typical article fare, so I needed to take some extra time to ensure that the class was functioning as I wanted it to. This week, I’ve expanded…

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The Hunter Class(T1 Playtest Draft)

Hello, everyone! Like a lot of 5E players, I was left with a bad taste in my mouth from the Beast Master ranger’s approach for designing a character focused on a partnership with some sort of beast companion. To me, the truly egregious part of the Beast Master is that there are so many characters…

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Pump the Breaks

Octopath Traveler, a game released for the Nintendo Switch in July 2018, checked a lot of boxes for me as an RPG – Using a unique graphical style, HD2D, the developers threw players headfirst into a rich dynamically shaded world of pixel art. However, the innovative combat mechanics behind the JRPG were less scrutinized than…

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Defying Death

Early adventuring can be a pain – with only 8 or so hit points at level one, a stiff breeze is as much a threat as a given monster, and players and GM’s (especially experienced ones, from my observations) overestimate how survivable a situation actually can be. A number of solutions for character survival at…

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The War Gods’ Guide to Battle

Hello, everyone! For readers who have been around for a while, welcome back to TBM Games, and for those of you who are new, welcome to this distant corner of the planes. TBM Games is a blog devoted to new content for the Fifth Edition of the World’s Most Popular Role-Playing Game.  While there are…

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