Welcome! These posts are a collection of my thoughts and analysis on D&D 5th edition. As One D&D is fleshed out more I will likely make posts about that as well, but for the most part I will be posting about 5th edition D&D.
I like to think of this as more of a living text book than a blog. When I find something worth sharing, I’ll make a post about it. And if I find something new related to something I’ve already written about, or discover I’ve made and error somewhere, I’ll update those post with new information.
Recent Posts
Variability: Saves
How do we account for variability of saving throws in D&D?
Magic Items and Encounter Balancing: part 2
How much do magic items change encounter balancing?
Variability: Attacks
How do we account for variability of attack rolls in D&D?
Variability: Damage and Healing Rolls
How do we account for variability of dice rolls for damage and healing in D&D?
Baseline Player Character Stats
An analysis of how player character stats scale as they level up.
Monster Dataset
A list of the book that make up the monster datasets used for these analysis.
Baseline Monster Stats
What are the baseline monster stats Wizards of the Coast uses for making monsters?
Monsters of the Multiverse
How have the monsters in Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse changed?
Magic Items and Encounter Balancing
How much do magic items change encounter balancing?
Encounter Building in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything
A comparison of the encounter building rules in XGtE and the DMG.