Essence Crafting: A Way to Repurpose Magic Items for Your D&D Party

In my last D&D campaign, we ended up discarding a ton of magic items. Inspired by the Enchanting skill on World of Warcraft, I made this system for players to recycle unwanted magic items and create ones they do want.

Hourly Comic Day 2025

It took me what, 8 years? to realize it's easier to do Hourly Comic Day with a printable template so I don't get those ungoshly crooked lines for the frames. Special thanks to Arlee, my daughter, for inspiring me to do this this year. I would've forgotten otherwise. Enjoy a day in my life!

Song Parody: Where Is My Dream Career?

The song "When Will My Life Begin?" on Tangled has always made me tear up. Rapunzel could have sung about feeling trapped or wishing she knew what it was like outside or something, but instead her song is about how desperately she's trying to make the best of her situation and just waiting for something outside her control to change. For some reason that hits me hard, which is probably why this song parody came about.

Infernal War Machine Tokens Remastered: Devil's Ride

It's hard to believe it's been almost 5 years since I was playing Descent Into Avernus with a D&D group I'm not even in contact with anymore. I created these Infernal War Machine tokens as a way to make the machines easier to identify, fitted to a grid so that the player characters can man the helm and various weapons the machine has.

Dubbing Differences: Mickey's Christmas Carol

Merry Christmas! Here are the differences I found in Mickey's Christmas Carol:

Bastion: Acolyte Church

You are awarded a Bastion when you reach 5th level. During downtime, you can invest gold into your Bastion to upgrade it with new facilities and services. At the end of a downtime, you can choose a number of available services equal to your proficiency bonus and gain their effects until the end of your next adventure. You can gain multiple uses of the same service unless otherwise stated. See the original post here.

Acolyte Bastion: Church

The church is a place of worship, divine revelation, and spiritual protection where the faithful gather and miracles are performed. As an acolyte, you can use your Church to bless yourself and your allies with power from the Upper Planes.

My Thoughts on Dungeons & Dragons 5.5e: The Player's Handbook

Despite what the almighty Wizards of the Coast proclaim, and even though it's kind of backwards-compatible with 5e, the 2024 update to D&D is a new edition. Its changes are significant enough, and the phrase "the 2024 version" is clunky enough, that I'm just going to refer to it as 5.5e. Or "five-five."

Anyway, I got the 5.5e Player's Handbook for my half-birthday this year, and for the most part I'm very impressed. I'll save any further elaboration for the specific points below.