The Bandyhand Institute Location: Lavan, Aaval. The Bandyhand Institute is a widely renowned and highly regarded institute for magical study, though they also employ Retainers - basically hired adventurers

Well, I guess it's safe to say that the annual fire-smoke season has descended on us in Canada. The phone doesn't do justice to the blood-red hue of the moon through the smoke, but it does give you an

Well, it's been another typically busy month around the Cubed household. The youngest continues to grow like a weed, and is currently... gosh, TEN MONTHS OLD?! How did that happen? Time flies when you're

It's been a bit and I keep meaning to make a blog post but not managing it. I've been working through most breaks and lunches lately, which is typically when I manage to work on blog posts. After work

For folks in the US who make tabletop or board games, Trump's newest round of tariffs is going to be a crippling blow to an already razor-thin-margin industry, which is going to have an outsized impact

It was another fairly busy weekend, like most weekends lately. My eldest had his wrapup party for his hockey on Saturday, and all the parents, coaches, and families had a great time. Kids got to run wild

My book, '500+ Worldbuilding and Writing Prompts' is now on @hivelist for 5 HBD! This makes the first non-Amazon link the ebook has been available at, which is a significant personal milestone. I've been

Session 9 Recap The party levels up to level 5, woohoo! Players finished their cat rescue and the fight with Shtriga Nonna. They released the Kobold warrior Kira and defeated the hag. The following players

There had been fifteen of them at the outset. Find the Smith. Ask for a weapon to end the war. Return home and push back the Emperor. It seemed like such a simple task. The Tribes had banded together for

As I've talked about before, I'm trying to use both HIVE and Obsidian as my repositories for everything related to my D&D game. This gives me a place for my players to access important notes via my

We've all been there. Burned by bold promises and hype that turns into ash the second you touch it. It's not a new story. It happens all the time. A new AAA game will be released and users will find out

I finished The Fall of Hyperion! I'm so glad I continued this series right away... Fall of Hyperion tied up so many of the remaining plot points from the first book that I hadn't been sure about and turned

It's finally HPUD, which means that I can finally power up the hive I've been sitting on for a week. With +341 hive powered up, my new HP total is 2,239! Which isn't bad, that puts me back to about 1/5th

Nearing the end of January already! I'm glad for it, we've been crazy busy lately and Feb/March will both see a bit of that easing off. Hockey season is slowly coming to a close - we've got a tournament

So, in my D&D game, one of our players ended up accidentally capturing an imp in his backpack. They've managed to keep it in there, and have spent the last several sessions talking to it, feeding it

With the completion of my world's calendar, I think it's safe to provide those details as a Player Resource. Current Campaign Year: 117, CE (SA) / 425 LF. In-world this date is reflected as 117 SA (Since

There are, as I've mentioned before, so many cool Community Plugins available in Obsidian. Today (truthfully, over the last few days) I've been playing with the Calendarium plugin. I hadn't honestly created

As of Jan 17th, I have finished my first book for the year! Hyperion is one of those classic science fiction books that, if you enjoy sci-fi, someone has surely mentioned before. I had been recommended

Well, it's safe to say that January has so far been off to a slow start for my Hive-blogging. I got back from my Christmas holidays to find that half our product at work was entirely offline, and it took

I thought it might be fun to share my session recaps with you folks. I've done several long-form posts about specific parts of the D&D5e game I'm running, but since I'm using Obsidian more and more