BLACK SHARK ENTERPRISES

Today, we will continue the legal theme with a look at law trials. Law is defined as a system of rules that are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior. Individual laws might be endlessly disputed, but the concept of Law is basically the same to everyone. If you do something wrong and you get caught, then you are going to be made to pay for it in some way. Different societies and cultures may have vastly different laws and courts from those that your PC's migh

At first glance it may not seem like today's post follows the theme we began on tuesday of this week, but it does. Sometimes when the battle goes your way, you cannot just slay the evil monsters outright; you are forced to take prisoners. Such is often the case with bandits and river pirates. These vile outlaws must be brought to justice in front of the populace, if you truly hope to curtail the spread of their vile kind across the growing frontier. Bringing them to justice m

Yesterday, I inadvertantly offended some people and I want to apologize. It was never my intention to offend; I was unaware that "gypsy" was a derogative slang for the proud Romani people. I believed the term "gypsy" to be a generic description, not unlike "mercenary" or "pirate". My intention was to illicit colorful images of a specific sort of nomadic people that might be found in any number of gaming multiverses under any number of names. I share these small tables to hel

On Wednesday, I am often thinking about the rewards of the coming weekend and those thoughts led me to treasure. Treasure is often the motivation for RPG adventures and I have talked about treasure twice before, once in Treasures That Aren't and again in Troublesome Treasures. Neither of those pieces contains a list of 20 items however, so I wrote this one to add to the set. I hope that you enjoy it. At low levels, most old school PC's crave gold, gems, and magic for treasure

For my own D&D 5e campaign, which is based mostly upon the high seas of various worlds, one background for a generic sailor just didn't work. On the coast, everyone sails. Because there are many different types of sailors and nautical personalities, I felt that there needed to be more variety than just one generic sailor so I created five additional nautical backgrounds to supplement the original sailor/pirate. They are the merchant sailor/smuggler, the marine, the fisherman/

Apologies to all for my long absense; I have been quite ill for some time, but have finally shaken the bug that I was sure was going to be my end. As a tribute to the illness that snuck up on me and then nearly killed me, I have decided to make my first post of 2016 about monsters that try to do the same thing to adventurers everywhere: Mimics. The Monster Manual describes mimics as shapeshifting predators able to take on the forms of inanimate objects to attract prey to them

Today we will venture out into the desert wastes. Today's table is a list of animal encounters that your PC's might have in the desert. Why are we talking about desert animals today? Take a second, think about it. Is today Wednesday? Why yes, yes it is. Happy hump day, ya'll. Here's the table. ; ) 1d8 Camels (1-2 They are wild, 3-4 They have been broken, but have no markings, 5-6 They have saddles, saddlebags, and markings, but no riders) 2-12 Aardwolves (Use a coyote or medi