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AND IT'S ASMODEUS FROM THE TOPROPE
Here's a CR 44 Asmodeus with all the fixins and one feature I haven't seen in any other version; this one's meant to be fought! By a T4 party of 5 (or 4 plus allies), sure, but I really tried to make something here that would be a fun campaign capstone, rather than just a cool way to TPK your party.
There's also a map I drew of Nessus in here; a middle school edgelord aesthetic felt righ...
2025-04-28 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThese Handsome Devils
Got some devils with real clear narrative functions here; Falxugons are for pitching your PCs on a soul contract without needing to worry to much about them getting murdered to death and making devils look weak, and Dogai are for efficiently reminding your players why the hells are not to be flexed with.
Not Your Dad's Goblins
Do tell me about your dad's goblins though. Or grandad's. I'm not picky.
In all seriousness, sit yourself down before you open these goblins up. You aren't ready for what's inside. Oh, and by popular demand, gooses galore (including a mythic primal beast).
Wiggly Guys of Land and Sea
These fish-men are looking truly fit and fabulous now with nine (nine!) variants and a whole unique magic tradition. The decapus, on the other hand, is a whole idiot, but it jumps real scary-like.
Master List 1.39
All right April. It's time for growth. Time for renewal. Time to figure out which bits of 5.5 we like and which we'd rather scrap. I've got a poll up to get a sense of the community temp on this.
Stuff You Should Check Out:
Bull in a China Shop - My frien...
2025-04-01 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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Poll: What 5.2 stuff should we keep?
Okay, so we've had a couple months of this new format; what do we think about the various elements? What do we want to keep as is, what should we revert to 5.1, and what should we take a different direction with?
Do the drives feel useful as a more fine-grained alignment? Could they be better? Do the descriptions feels like they're justifying their space? Do we like CR in the top right? W...
2025-03-31 19:44:12 +0000 UTC View PostBawks and Coggles
Er, cockatrices and boggles. Very silly ways to die either way.
2025-03-31 18:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostYou Can't Evolve Out of a Clade
Pretty sure that makes the roc the biggest dinosaur ever, which legally speaking makes it the best one. Also have some dino-people here, but they're small and therefore inconsequential by comparison.
Earth is the Best
Look, I don't make the rules, there's a reason why we want to terraform mars and not pyroform or aeroform it. Here's a slew of earthbenders in D&D cosplay to make all those other-benders feel their inadequacy.
Bugbears and Beav-ears
Bugbears are tall goblins, beavers are tiny men. Don't @ me. Do put a village of swamp-dwelling bugbear river-pirates in your game that use beavers as slow aquatic mounts.
Big Money Mammon
That's what his friends would call him, if he had any. I finally gave up on finding decent art for his ugly ass and just used this Archfiend of Ifnir piece instead; just pretend you can see his snake-butt. Anyways, behold Mammon, the biggest loser in all the hells, respected so little by his fellow archdevils that they actually more or less trust him.
Also, I've got a couple cambions her...
2025-03-02 18:11:33 +0000 UTC View PostMaster List 1.38
Oh no, I was wrong! It's not a leap year at all, and also I'm out of meds and my coffee guy is sick. That's just how February do though, but fortunately it's over now! Welcome to March, a guaranteed S-Tier month. Nothing bad gonna happen in March, no sir.
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2025-03-01 01:11:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Lord Nasty and the Money Gang
What, another archdevil so soon? That's right, we got the Slug Duke off the bench and sliming his way to a table near you. Watch out, he nasty.
Now, you'd think this Jebel Irhound Usurer's Guild would pair best with Mammon and you'd be right, but I can't bring myself to do him yet because all his art is horrible. Put that from your mind, though; they've got money-magic and everyone loves ...
2025-02-24 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostQuirked Up Kill-Boys
Assassins are big right now, time to invest.
2025-02-17 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDrow? In this Economy?
Fun drow etymology; "drow" comes from "trow", a Scots word basically correlating to "troll" in the Scandinavian sense (lots of Scots/Orkney crossover with Scandinavian folklore, for some reason. Perhaps we'll never know why).
Now, the actual fun part here is that trows are well-known to inhabit "trowie knowes", which has got to be the most fun epithet for fairy mounds out there. That sh...
Fire! Hellfire!
I haven't forgotten about the archdevils! Baalzebul's on his way, Mammon's waiting on good art to present itself, Asmodeus is scary, and Belial and Fierna are.... just not that interesting.
But no matter! Today we've got Mephistopheles, the baddest gambling addict these hells have ever known. This man owes money (souls) all over town, his cults are in shambles, intrigues are fomenting in...
2025-02-03 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary Whirlwind Rewards
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2025-02-02 00:02:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Master List 1.37
Leap year, baby! February was a mistake from the beginning, being the month where there's somehow not enough time to do anything, but every so often providence smiles with a bonus day to remember the things that would otherwise have been forgotten.
The new MM is mostly out and I'm ready to confidently say that it's both a huge improvement and still not nearly good enough. Praise Hasbro, I...
2025-02-01 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wrestler Class
My co-goon Kevlar Cat got displaced by The Conflagranados and crashed with me for a bit recently so we got the chance to update this to 5.24 together; I'm really pleased with how it came together and hyped to start playtesting it.
For those who haven't seen the Wrestler, it's a class that takes very seriously the idea that baddies don't like it when you bend them the wrong way, and it doe...
2025-01-27 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWinter is upon us
Believe it or not, I haven't forgotten about devils! Today we've got gelugons, the whiniest of all greater devils (very much not a fan of how Asmodeus tunes hell's thermostat), and some winter wolves which are one of the few described denizens of Cania other than them.
Umber Hulks and Remorhazes
Got some of my favorite classic monstrosities here; made some changes to try to keep them easy to read and run, to help build adventures around them, and to help seat them in the world:
Wolves and Guanghan Wrestlers
Legendary wolf! This has been a long time coming, we're gonna have some absolute premium doggos to play with going forward
2025-01-06 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMaster List 1.36
Happy new year to all who made it to the finish line, and thank you all for another year of getting to do this. I'm aiming for a couple of lofty goals this year; lets see if we hit them:
Aiming for two book releases this year, plus updates to bring all my old ones up to snuff.
I recently got to talking with the managing editor of Horizons (spiritual successor to Arc...
2025-01-01 10:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post