In this new series we will talk about novels from dungeons and dragon. For this episode we cover the finder stone trilogy written by jeff grubb and kate novak. This trilogy is set in the forgotten realms with the main character a sword women named alias and her partner dragon bait.  

In this episode we look over the rules for leveling up and downtime in dungeons and dragons from multiple editions and how they can really spice up a player's normal goblin slaying experience by taking away that pesky exp point from killing them and replacing it with GOLD!!!

In this episode of hirelings, we talk about level drain in old school editions and the spooky menace it was for old school players, we compare the ideas and reason for a level drain to modern trpgs and figure out if it was a good idea that should come back or remain in the grave with all the ghost ghouls and old school rules it started from.

In this episode, we talk about different ways to have random encounters in your game and trying the push away from combat the is standardly found in dnd random encounters to help improve role-playing at the table.

In this episode, we go over clerics in old school and modern editions of the game the effect that alignment has on them now and whys to think and implement better alignment systems in the game.
We also go into detail about creepy druids in the woods...

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In this episode, we talk about the rules sets and lore of lycanthropy in 5e and how to improve them using homebrew rules set and inspiration from older editions and other game systems.

In this episode, we talk about the ups and downs of doing background when starting a new game and the best approach for a new and old player/game masters when starting a new campaign.

In this episode, we talk about old school and hirelings and their application for modern 5e and. we also go into ideas about sidekicks and how to use them with hireling rules.