#Inktober: Succubus

Some sultry succubus art for Red Book! Some ways we’ve differentiated them from Dungeons & Dragons: they can travel through dreams (similar to teleporting, just gotta be asleep), reduce your maximum WP each night they “visit” you (you die when it’s reduced to 0), and while they can change their shape, there’s always some sort […]

Dungeons & Delvers: Appendix D, Issue 5

The fifth issue of Appendix D has been added to Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book (for free, just check the product page for another PDF download). It increases the level cap for the core classes up to twenty, and adds talent ranks for many of the talents (we’re very interested in hearing what you guys think of them). […]

Dungeons & Delvers: Appendix D, Issue 4

The fourth issue of Appendix D has been added to Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book (for free, just check the product page for another PDF download). It increases the (soft) level cap up to 10th-level for the core four classes (we’ll do the other classes and racial classes later on), adds some new talents for each class […]

Dungeons & Delvers: Appendix D Issue 3

The third issue of Appendix D has been added to Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book (for free of course): it adds the vancomancer (a spellcasting class that uses an actually Vancian magic system), necromancer talent tree to the wizard, six magic items (some undead, some drawn from The Dying Earth), and more higher-level undead monsters. As with […]

Charmed, I’m Sure

When I was working on the succubus for the second Appendix D update for Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book, I went through various D&D editions to see what they did, and one thing I noticed that she always gets an at-will charm person. I made a Charm talent for the wizard in an earlier Dungeons & Delvers draft (the […]

Dungeons & Delvers: Appendix D Issue 2

Just added the second issue of Appendix D to Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book. This issue contains the cambion and dwarf racial classes, the warlock class, and some new demons to kinda go with the whole cambion/infernal pact warlock thing. The racial classes are based on something I kicked around during the 5th Edition Dungeons & […]

Wandering Monsters: Deceitful Devils (Or Is It Demons?)

Dungeons & Dragons does not exactly have the best track record when it comes to translating critters from real-world mythology into the game, so it does not bother me much if the succubus ends up being a devil, demon, or something else entirely. What does bug me is when someone argues that it should be a […]