Blog of Holding

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If I’ve been quiet on this blog for a while, it’s because I’ve been filling my hours with a lot of RPG design: D&D, A5E, Pathfinder, and, increasingly, Draw Steel (I’ve been doing freelance work on the game back from when it was MCDM RPG).

A totally legit scientist uses Zener cards to tests for psionic ability.

As a d20 monster designer, a question I often have is “how D&D is this distance?”

One of the more puzzling non-changes in the D&D 2024 edition refresh is that they didn’t make any changes to damage vulnerability.

In my post 2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card, where I tried to extrapolate WOTC monster building rules from the 2024 Monster Manual, I have a lot of chart and graphs slicing up the data in various ways, one of which had a key error.

In my post 2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card, I figured out the average base statistics (HP, AC, damage per round, etc) of 2024 monsters of each Challenge Rating.

(v2: edited 2/25/2025 to fix a data error for legendary monsters, read more here on that fix) The 2024 Monster Manual is out, so we can finally answer all the questions we have: are 2024 Monster Manual monsters tougher than 2014 monsters?

When I’m writing rules for D&D 2024, it annoys me not to have an official style guide.

As a monster designer, I’m interested in seeing where the 2024 Monster Manual takes monster design.