Monster of the week: Voracious Shriller

This week's creature is another home-brew for my current campaign: the Voracious Shriller, both in young swarming form, or the quite dangerous adult form.
In many ways, it's behavior is akin to the Velociraptor from Jurassic Park, with a twist to it. It's above intelligence (for an animal) and innate Psionic abilities make it quite dangerous for any party wandering the countryside.

WB2, Session 14: Fist on Furies!

Session 14: "Fists on Furies!"
Tuesday 13th, April 1001 AC
(destiny token: 1)

Item of the Week: Deployable Pavise

I've always been a huge fan of the Genoese Crossbowman style, using a huge Siege Crossbow, while taking cover behind a Pavise. Since I've toyed around a PC concept based on that style, lately, a Fighter specialized in Archery, I wanted to polish my Deployable Pavise idea and make it somewhat official for my Campaigns.

WB2, Session 13: Like Women Scorned

Session 13: "...Like Women Scorned"
Friday 2nd, April 1001 AC
(destiny token: 1)

Out of the Box: The Warlord

Most of the Warlord talk happening around D&D Next lately has been derived from the Warlord concepts as seen in D&D 4E, basically making him some kind of Motivational Speaker. While I like the idea, and it probably works very well in play, it's a bit too close to a Bardic archetype to my taste, many of the abilities feeling very magical in nature.

Wanting to get away from that, I tried going back on what a fighter is, at it's core, and what he becomes when he's not the ultimate weapon-master but instead a leader of men.
The following is the first draft of, I feel, a more of more historical Warlord concept, as a leader of mercenary bands and the like.

Monster of the Week: Drahies

Take a Harpy, combine it with the corrupting effects of an elder Black Dragon for long enough, and you'll get the Drahies, horribly mutated Harpies, under the loose influence of the dragon, with only one goal: inflicting pain onto anything alive...
Add onto that some almost unique, once in a generation, mutation and you get my first attempt at making a "Stuff of Legend" creature, the crazy Tainted Drahie, probably totally unbalanced, but a pretty sure bet for a TPK...