The Dungeons and Dragons Archive

I average somewhere close to 100 books a year, most years, so it's actually kind of hard for me to give a precise summation of what's going in on my life as a reader at any given moment. The bulk of it is sci-fi and fantasy, but I also rotate in quite a lot of history and biography, some popular sci...

Tabletop: I run a weekly 3.5e game, using Discord for voice chat and Roll20 as a gaming table. It's a megadungeon in my homebrewed Tolrea setting, but the play style is much more beer-and-pretzels than our usual PbP fare on these boards, because the group is a wildly different composition--I starte...

The following point buy values can be used as a standard for Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 and 3.5 games during the creation of PCs, as an alternative to dice-based generation. Standard point-buy values are 25 and 32, but the DM may prescribe others. Each stat begins at 8. A stat of 9 costs 1 point. A st...

Here is a convenient reference item in the case that you need to prepare a PC or NPC without immediate access to your copy of the Dungeon Master's Guide v. 3.0 or 3.5 PC Wealth by Level Level Wealth 2nd 900 gp 3rd 2,700 gp 4th 5,400 gp 5th 9,000 gp 6th 13,000 gp 7th 19,000 gp 8th 27,000 gp 9th 36,00...