Relic Short Story: How the Zebra Got His Stripes

Man, this time in my life sucks. I'm exhausted from 2½ years of trying to find a full-time job with zero success, and it's showing in my posting frequency here.

Here's a story I wrote in 7th grade. At the time, I was interested in Greek mythology, and I especially like Hermes because of his portrayal in the Disney film Hercules. I wish I could still channel this level of unhinged lack of care for story conventions. Also, as usual, Easter eggs are hidden in the story. A girl I hated at school was named Heather.

Dubbing Differences: The Princess Bride

Thank goodness The Princess Bride is on Disney+, which offers all the different audio options! This has always been one of my most treasured movies. I discovered it when I was in 6th grade, memorized the Battle of Wits, and dreamed about being Westley and rescuing Buttercup. My wife loves it too, and it turns out she shares Cary Elwes's birthday and I share Robin Wright's!

Anyway, here are the dubbing differences I found in Brazilian Portuguese. Unfortunately, it didn't have as good of an attention to detail of things like lip syncing like the Disney classics do. But there were still some gems.

Dubbing Differences: Fun & Fancy Free

 

Fun & Fancy Free is kind of an under represented Disney Classic, understandably so, but it had a few interesting dubbing differences to point out.

My Happy and Sad Boxes

In The Office, Season 7, Episode 13, "The Ultimatum," Michael has a "happy box" and a "sad box" prepared. It got me thinking, what would I have in a happy box to celebrate a happy occasion, and what would be in my sad box to help me cope?

A super simple way to run Monster Hunter-style "titan battles" in D&D 5e

 

Attacking a sack of hit points until it dies is okay for bandits, orcs, kobolds, and even larger enemies like lions or brown bears. However, it's just not as epic when fighting something towering over you with a head as big as your character's entire body.

Here's how to make Huge and Gargantuan creatures more fun to fight for your players and more fun to run as a DM. As always, I keep these homebrew mechanics super simple so that the whole table can get a grasp on them without too much reading.

The 5e Character Sheet Sucks, So I Fixed It

After my DM Quest group finished our first campaign a couple months ago, I decided to stop using D&D Beyond and play my next campaign on a paper character sheet. I had always used real dice, but from what I remembered, the paper character sheet from 5.5 was much better than the old one, and I was excited to have a more tactile experience playing D&D.

I was wrong. All the official character sheets are terrible! And the ones other people make are too fancy and still miss what makes a character sheet useful!

As usual, it's up to me to fix the problem.

Campaign Setting: Luzeon

 

Today I present to you my latest D&D setting: Luzeon! This setting is heavily based on the land of Urak in the 1997 PC game Lords of Magic, and I think it has a lot of potential.