Kindly Readers, I used to use this page to list all my old screeds. And these links still work. But I made the decision in 2013 to just list every single screed on my home page. So if you want to see the new, 2013 and onwards screeds, just click here.
By the Book -- Screeds on Dungeons and Dragons.
- The Bardic Caster 1 [17 Nov 04] Selecting spells.
- The Bardic Caster 2 [22 Nov 04] Wizard vs. Bard.
- The Multiclassed Bard [29 Nov 04] How to mix ... and not to!
- The Fighting Bard [6 Dec 04] Fightin' and singin'.
- The Olde Tyme Bard [13 Dec 04] The very first prestige class ever.
- The Fighting Druid 1 [20 Dec 04] Melee strategies.
- The Fighting Druid 2 [27 Dec 04] Missile strategies.
- The Fighting Druid 3 [3 Jan 05] Wildshape strategies.
- Two-Weapon Fighting [10 Jan 05] New options under 3.5.
- The Arcane Rogue 1 [17 Jan 05] Familiars.
- The Arcane Rogue 2 [24 Jan 05] Sneak attacks.
- The Arcane Rogue 3 [31 Jan 05] Spells and skills.
- The Arcane Tank 1 [7 Feb 05] Spells to cast in armor.
- The Arcane Tank 2 [14 Feb 05] Stats, classes, items, etc.
- The Arcane Tank 3 [21 Feb 05] Some tactics.
- The Arcane Tank 4 [28 Feb 05] Magic items for tanks.
- The Mentalist [7 March 05] Brain power for games that shun psionics.
- Metamagic 1 [14 March 05] Empower vs. maximize.
- Conjure 1 [21 March 05] Summoning for Dummies.
- Whipped [28 March 05] The strange ranged melee weapon.
- Itemsmith [4 April 05] Making the most of item creation feats.
- Sex Rules! [11 April 05] Part 3 of Sex in D&D.
- Sex by the Book [18 April 05] Part 6 of Sex in D&D.
- Faster! Faster! [25 April 05] Maximizing your speed.
- Review 4a [23 May 05] Book of Erotic Fantasy: Initial thoughts.
- Cross about Crossbows [30 May 05] Ideas for improvement.
- Review 4b [10 June 05] Book of Erotic Fantasy: Chapter One.
- Review 4c [16 June 05] Book of Erotic Fantasy: Chapter Two.
- Not for NPCs only [24 June 05] Adapting NPC classes for player use.
- The Best D&D Weapon [25 July 05] That you never heard of.
- Ranking Metamagic Feats [28 Aug 05] Which ones make the grade?
- Suicide Potion [10 Sept 05] Debunking a bitter pill.
- Greed [26 Sept 05] Power inflation in PrCs.
- Spellspinner [9 Oct 05] A spider mage prestige class with its own spell progression.
- Captured! [12 Nov 05] Tips for making your escape.
- Rogue Sniper [23 Nov 05] Getting the most out of the hide skill and sneak attack rules.
- Assassin of Assassins [13 Dec 05] How Impromptu Sneak Attack beats Uncanny Dodge.
- Crit Monster [27 Jan 06] How to get the most bang from your critical hit buck.
- Shrinky Dinks [18 May 06] Getting creative with the Shrink Item spell (part 1 of 4).
- Mod the Map [11 June 06] More on Shrink Item: Unshrinking large obstacles (part 2 of 4).
- Pint-size Prankage [17 June 06] More on Shrink Item: More fun ideas (part 3 of 4).
- Dainty Dangers [22 June 06] Caveats and cautions (part 4 of 4).
- Divine Trickster [20 September 06] Two ways to play one.
- Conjure 2 [27 September 06] Using conjured creatures to track for you.
- Quick [10 October 06] Applying Quick Draw to weapons, non-weapons, and weapon-like objects.
- Improved Assassin [22 October 06] Slight alterations designed to reward taking a full ten levels in the prestige class.
- New Avenger [27 October 06] Righter of Wrongs! Seeker of Justice!
- Prestige Class Theory [10 Feb 07] Designing fighter-oriented PrCs.
- Fighting Trickster [21 Mar 07] A combat-oriented PrC to illustrate my recent design ideas.
- A Power Gamer's Manifesto [31 May 07] In defense of minimaxing.
- Survivability [12 June 07] Starting a series on hit points, armor class, and saves.
- Armor 1 [14 June 07] Revisiting the stock armor table, with implications.
- Armor 2 [15 June 07] Maxing your AC with both armor and dexterity.
- Armor 3 [19 June 07] Using the heaviest of armors.
- Armor 4 [21 June 07] Using the heaviest of armors wildshaped!
- Armor 5 [6 July 07] Maxing your AC without using armor.
- Hit Point Monster [10 August 07] How to max your hit points.
- Save Monster 1 [25 August 07] The right way to multiclass if you want to max your saves.
- Excellent Maps [29 September 07] Ten tips for making battle maps in Microsoft Excel.
- Save Monster 2 [28 October 07] Race, Feat, and Item options for maxing your saving throws.
- Defense Monster [2 Feb 08] Putting it all together in one survivable package.
- The Annotated Arcane Archer I [22 Feb 08] A two-level dip into this PrC for the arcanist.
- A Cheapskate's Rant About 4E [6 March 08] How I'm NOT the target demographic.
- The Annotated Arcane Archer II [11 March 08] Making the most of an archery-oriented PC with a full 10 levels of the PrC.
- The Annotated Arcane Archer III [30 Apr 08] Three mixed archer/caster builds.
- More 4E Ranting [3 May 08] This time about multiclassing.
- D&D 4E My Way 1 [8 May 08] Philosophy and Goals.
- D&D 4E My Way 2 [8 May 08] The Level One Bump.
- D&D 4E My Way 3 [18 May 08] This time about multiclassing.
- D&D 4E My Way 4 [18 May 08] Philosophy and Goals.
- Resolving to make improvements [6 Nov 08] Restart button.
- Intro to Scurry [12 Nov 08] Plans for a new D&D game.
- Psychopomp Spells [20 Nov 08] New spells for every class level.
- Classes and Races [1 Dec 08] Options for character creation in Scurry.
- Hiding in Plain Sight [16 April 09] Hiding and Shadowdancers.
- Counterspelling [19 June 09] Spell duels done right.
- Scurry Redux [8 July 09] Races and classes summary.
- Craphound [16 Oct 09] A scout for Scurry.
- Feats, Etc. [19 Oct 09] Feat and stat boost progression in Scurry.
- Weapons in Scurry [23 Oct 09] A choice of 11 weapons and weapon-like items.
- Power Balance in Prestige Classes [20 Jan 10] Getting game balance just right.
Lion Around -- Screeds on wemics, liontaurs, and other felines.
- Two Legs Good! [15 Nov 04] The Lionet: a two-legged leonine PC race.
- Wemic Origins 1 [24 Nov 04] Lion-centaurs in ancient Assyrian art.
- Just in Size [3 Dec 04] Thoughts on height, weight, age.
- Sized Up [10 Dec 04] Game balance issues for large PCs.
- Wemic Origins 2 [17 Dec 04] With photos!
- Happy Holidays! [24 Dec 04] With grateful thanks to Bernard Doove.
- Wemics in Neverwinter Nights [31 Dec 04] With a screen grab!
- Liontaur Lingo [7 Jan 05] Feline accents and languages.
- The Father of Modern Wemics [14 Jan 05] David C. Sutherland III.
- Liontaurs vs. Wemics [21 Jan 05] What's in a name?
- Review 1a [28 Jan 05] Wemic Camp (part one).
- Review 1b [4 Feb 05] Wemic Camp (part two).
- Questions [11 Feb 05] Reader feedback (part one).
- GNS Wemics [19 Feb 05] Reader feedback (part two).
- Beastly Wemics [25 Feb 05] Reader feedback (part three).
- Guest Blogger [4 March 05] With thanks to Nexx!
- The Liontaur [11 March 05] Designed as a one-hit-die player race.
- The Druidtaur [18 March 05] Liontaur as a fighting druid.
- The Bardtaur [25 March 05] Roles bards play.
- Review 3 [1 April 05] A review of a 2E wemic bard.
- Pride in Sex [8 April 05] Part 2 of Sex in D&D.
- Chakats [15 April 05] Part 5 of Sex in D&D.
- Teaser [22 April 05] Previewing a review.
- Violet [20 May 05] Indulging the blogger's paternal pride.
- Review 5 [27 May 05] The Magehound by Elaine Cunningham.
- Origins 3 [3 June 05] A medieval wemic!
- David C. Sutherland III [9 June 05] Lion's heart, artist's hands. RIP.
- Review 6 [17 June 05] Pride of Place, by Jason.
- Wemics with Class [30 June 05] Favored classes for wemics.
- Wemics on the Web [15 July 05] Links and more links.
- Wemic Wear [21 Oct 05] Magic items for liontaurs.
- Collecting [16 Nov 05] Bottle caps and wemic links.
- Origins 4 [29 Nov 05] A hint of wemics in ancient Greek mythology.
- Bible Reading [20 Jan 06] A lion-man in the Bible.
- Origins 5 [9 Feb 06] The wemic on King Stephen's coat of arms.
- SummerKin 1 [2 Sept 06] A cult of wemics and humans who worship the sun.
- SummerKin 2 [5 Sept 06] A prestige class for the LightBrothers of the SummerKin.
- The Cat-Centaurs of Dragaera [26 Dec 06] Wemics in the fiction of Steven Brust.
- Just My Type [9 Jan 07] Classifying wemics and liontaurs as humanoids, monstrous humanoids, or both.
- Felines beyond Wemics [12 Jan 07] A look at other cat-kin in D&D, and which ones make the grade.
- Liontaur Subraces [17 Jan 07] Liontaurs in mountains, savannah, and tundra.
- Ducktaur! [21 Feb 07] If it walks with four legs and has arms -- or wings -- it's a Taur!
- Feline Music [1 Mar 07] in the latest album from Walker Kong.
- Live Action Wemics [20 Apr 07] An interview with two wemic LARPers.
- Zeoll [15 Feb 08] My bard/druid/seer wemic PC and the idea of having several strategies from which to choose.
- Resolving to make improvements [6 Nov 08] Restart button.
- She's Got Legs! [6 May 09] Taur topics, including minotaur and liontaur costumes.
- Best toy ever! [18 Aug 09] Liontaur art by Huck Gee.
Click Here -- Screeds that link to interesting places on the Web.
- RPG Web Comics [19 Nov 04] A round up.
- Great Minds Think Alike [26 Nov 04] Monte and me, that is!
- Re-Charge It! [1 Dec 04] Plus the Wandslinger.
- Sonnets [8 Dec 04] Getting the rhythm right with your new rule.
- More Comics [15 Dec 04] Some of the stuff I missed the first time around.
- Online RPGs [22 Dec 04] Kinds and links.
- Two Play-By-Post Voices [29 Dec 04] from The Wold and Tazlure.
- Fantastic Words [5 Jan 05] Languages and names.
- Blogging manifesto [12 Jan 05] Links to other blogs; thoughts on my own.
- Random RPG Tools [19 Jan 05] Map generators, NPC creators, dice rollers, more.
- Play Nice [26 Jan 05] Game etiquette.
- Quizzes [2 Feb 05] D&D Web toys.
- "A Bigger Dork" [9 Feb 05] Society, Politics, and D&D.
- RPG Game Theory [16 Feb 05] The Three-Fold Model.
- Game Talk [23 Feb 05] RPG message boards.
- Grappling with the Web [2 March 05] Some relevant links.
- Diplomessy [9 March 05] Problematic social interaction skills.
- Lame 1 [16 March 05] Missed post.
- Review 2 [23 March 05] Swords into Plowshares.
- Lame 2 [30 March 05] Another missed post.
- The Romance in RPGs [6 April 05] Part 1 of Sex in D&D.
- Cross-Gender Play [13 April 05] Part 4 of Sex in D&D.
- Dirty Talk [20 April 05] Part 7 of Sex in D&D.
- D&D in the News [27 April 05] Good news, bad news.
- Two Blogs [25 May 05] Both recommended.
- Sex at the Core [1 June 05] A new Core Story for the Book of Erotic Fantasy.
- Gaming Links A-Plenty [13 June 05] Organized and noted.
- Scent [23 June 05] A keener nose in your future?
- The Violet [12 July 05] That ate my blog!
- Sweet Sleep [21 Aug 05] Weapon and way of life.
- Stross's Law [5 Sept 05] Applications and exceptions.
- Torture [16 Oct 05] in role play games.
- D&D in the News [7 Feb 06] Negative (and positive) representations of gamers in the media.
- Resurrection [16 Apr 06] Breathing life into the blog and into your dead PCs.
- Prisoner Dilemma [23 Apr 06] What can good PCs do with captured bad guys?
- Bec De Corbin [20 May 06] Names for characters, nostalgia, and a 1E D&D reach weapon for 3.5E.
- In Their Tiny Hands [24 June 06] What other gamers think of Shrink Item.
- Design Contest [7 Sept 06] Comments on entries in a summer-theme design contest.
- Mystic Theurge [11 Sept 06] Going both ways.
- The Wold [14 Sept 06] Needs new players!
- Review 7: Divine Rogues [26 Sept 06] Of the Shadowbane Stalker PrC, with improvements.
- Break! [1 Dec 06] Thoughts on a new Break skill.
- Charge It! [25 Jan 07] Maximizing mounted mayhem.
- Tell All [2 Feb 07] How to make combat more fun.
- Review 8: Dragon's Whisper [5 April 07] A free PDF game world magazine.
- Odds & Ends [15 May 07] Things to do, reader feedback, coming attractions.
- Analysis of a Fighter-oriented PrC [23 May 07] Plus the Wing Brother prestige class.
- Fun Clicks [9 October 07] Links of divers shapes and sizes.
- Reformed Assassins [30 October 07] and Invoking Rule Zero.
- Tilting at Windmills [15 May 08] Working to get my 3.75E ideas in play at Paizo.
- Resolving to make improvements [6 Nov 08] Restart button.
- Open and shut case [25 June 09] Wizards of the Coast in turtle mode, DDO in rabbit mode.
