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Adding Some Spice to Your Dungeons and Dragons World

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Adding Spice to your Campaign

Playing Dungeons and Dragons inspires a lot of creativity for me, particularly from a player perspective. You can play a hands-on brawler, a devious thief, a sardonic bard or even an oblivious but well-meaning necromancer; truly, whatever takes your fancy. You can build a deep, emotional backstory for your character and play them as if it really were you reflected in that miniature you bought when you got excited to start the campaign. It’s easy to pass off a DM’s world building as easier than making a character you want to stick with for months, but there are so many… [Continue Reading]

On Finishing Another Year of Writing

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Medic about to work on their computer before being distracted.

It’s kinda silly that my first piece of writing for 2024 is about finishing my writing for 2023. But I feel like I have things to discuss. The 4000th article was a bit of a downer, mostly because, well, I’ve been down lately. But over the Christmas break, I got a much needed rest, and with it, I found the energy to get back into writing. Most of that writing though hasn’t been Daily SPUF stuff. Some of it definitely has, but thankfully, aabicus managed to write a bunch of articles, which gave me a small break in the new… [Continue Reading]

The Wonder that is the PDF

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Image by Esa Riutta from Pixabay

The PDF is an amazing format. It can contain pretty much anything, from basic text to complex images, all the way to videos and digital signatures. PDFs are so powerful that they can be read by a huge variety of different programs, from Adobe’s own Acrobat Reader to programs like Microsoft Word and various browsers. In fact, I like PDFs so much that I’m writing an article about them. A Magical Mystery Box! I’ll be honest, I have no real idea how a PDF actually works. I do know however that the PDF, short for Portable Document Format, was made… [Continue Reading]