November 2015

Hey everybody, guest writer Sam here. I had an idea for a class and was discussing it with Trevor & Robert and they invited me to create it and share it. I was introduced to the genre of fantasy through Final Fantasy but more specifically Final Fantasy 6. Not long…

The weather here at Forgot My Dice HQ in Texas seemingly turns on a dime.  At the beginning of October it was still in the 90s.  In the span of the last few weeks we have had rain, and a quick cooling.  Now we are lucky if we make it…

One concept that video-games do well Phased Boss fights, where the encounter has a several stages that players work through to defeat the boss.  The DMG goes into this a little bit in the multipart encounter section, talking about monsters that fight in waves.  This is different as it can…

Shorts, what are those?  Just my affectionate nickname for occasional short articles, that are follow ups to our big Monday posts.  We use them to convert things to new systems, add a feat, a spell, or whatever comes to mind. The Fantasy AGE system is a great new RPG system,…

In D&D, in-combat healing is often a tricky proposition, burning valuable actions on the part of a spellcaster. This can sometimes lead to a player feeling like they are nothing but a healing dispensary for the rest of the party. This can be fine for some people, but other players…

Welcome to our first short article, or “Shorts” as I affectionately call them.  These articles are shorter follow ups to previous articles.  They could take the form of anything, an extra spell, a feat, or maybe a conversion to a different rule set. After publishing the White Mage article (Do…

The urge to write a review has struck again! I have read quite a few horror games over the month of October and I found another gem I wanted to tell you guys about.  Night’s Black Agents is written by Kenneth Hite and was born by the designer “watching the…

Here at Forgot My Dice HQ we have two games going, on a every other week schedule.  The first is a very long running 5th Edition conversion of the Shackled City Adventure Path.  The second is The Strange by Monte Cook Games.  But we want to know what our readers are…

Action RPGs like the Diablo series, and massive multiplayer online RPGs created the concept of item “sets” for modern gamers. I love the flavor and power of those items in video games, and they have popped up in D&D before, notably in the 3rd edition Magic Item Compendium. The concept…