Undercommon Taste

This week, we continue our trek through the planes as we visit the Infinite Layers of the Abyss. Join us as we discuss soul-eating transdimensional ships, the super cool demon that isn't so super cool anymore, and why the phrase "river of liquid salt crystals" makes absolutely no sense.   Find us on Facebook:  facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter:  twitter.com/ucthomebrew Join us on...

This week, we return to our planar travels as we visit the Olympian Glades of Arborea, the Plane of Chaotic Good. Join us as we discuss the elven afterlife, full of massive trees, killer parties, and literal D&D Las Vegas. Plus celestial eladrin, titan ruins, and a sea-lion god that hunts sharks, just because.   Find us on Facebook:  facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter:  twitter.com...

This week, we welcome the Magic Engineer, C.R. Rowenson, to discuss his love for magic systems and the Indiegogo campaign for his newest book, The Magic System Blueprint. You can find Clark online at https://crrowenson.com/ , and his YouTube channel, The Magic Engineer, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw4TcDjakQUUFyGXTm7ZF1Q . You can also find his workbook, Restrictions May Apply, here:  h...

This week, we welcome Mitchell Wallace from Penny for a Tale to discuss his new game Necrobiotic, which was recently successfully funded on Kickstarter. Necrobiotic is a melancholy dystopian game set in Florence, Italy in the year 2100, where humanity is clawing back from the brink of collapse by creating constructs from the bodies of the dead to perform menial labor.  You can find Mitchell on Twi...

This week, we take a break from our planar travels to present another piece of homebrewed content for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition: the Dragoon class. Based heavily on the archetypical Dragoon, Kain, from Final Fantasy IV, this highly mobile spear-wielding warrior will rock your table with its high-risk, high-reward martial play style. We hope you love it as much as we do. Find us on Facebook:...

This week, we travel into Limbo, the Everchanging Chaos. We'll have no need of the Heart of Gold, as the whole plane is an Infinite Improbability Drive of psionic monks, chaos-born toad men, and the infinite flux of creation and destruction.  Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ucthomebrew Join us on Instagram: instagram.com/undercommontaste Support...

This week, we visit the Gray Wastes of Hades, the Plane of Evil. Join us as we discuss miasma clouds, schools of flying sharks, and the bleak expanses of the Underworld.  Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ucthomebrew Join us on Instagram: instagram.com/undercommontaste Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/undercommontaste    Our theme song is Massac...

This week, we have the privilege to interview Jacob Duerksen, the writer of "Heroes of Tara", a new TTRPG built on the framework of the 5th edition Open Gaming License. Join us as we discuss Irish history and mythology, and how Jacob combined everything together to make a truly inspired game. The Kickstarter for Heroes of Tara goes live on July 1, 2021. You can find it here: https://www.kickstarte...

This week, we continue our tour of the Outer Planes in the Blessed Fields of Elysium, home of the guardinals and Pelor (Praise the Sun!). Join us as we discuss the plane of good, complete with its low-key insidious mind control, the Orcgate Wars, and psionic flying elephants, among other things.  Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew Join us on Instagram:  Und...

This week, join us as we begin our self-guided tour through the Outer Planes, starting in the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus. We talk about modrons, Judge Dredd, the sum of all knowledge, and how 2nd edition movement speeds make no sense.   Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew Join us on Instagram:  Undercommon Taste Support us on Patreon:  Undercommon Taste  ...

This week, we interrupt your regularly scheduled planeswalking to welcome Jonathan Pruitt, half of the YouTube dynamic duo of WebDM, here to discuss the Kickstarter for the book Weird Wastelands. Weird Wastelands goes live today (June 9th), and you can check it out here . If you aren't familiar with WebDM, you can (and should) check out their YouTube channel, and follow them on Twitter .   Find us...

This week, we take some time to discuss an assortment of low-CR monsters in D&D 5th edition, and how to utilize them in more thematic and dynamic ways. Join us as we discuss the old mainstays of goblins and kobolds, as well as the lesser-used mephits and bullywugs, and how you might be able to kill... err... challenge your players. Yes, challenge. Our 1000 follower giveaway is still going on, and...

We've decided to take in a live show before we head to the Outer Planes in our planar travels, so this week, we have three new homebrewed bard colleges to share with you: the College of Metal, the College of Sophistry, and the College of Truthweaving.  This episode started with the Metal Bard, which was inspired by the recent Worldbuild With Us series, The Land of a Thousand Decibels, which you ca...

This week, we finish up our trek through the Inner Planes, visiting the Paraelemental Planes of Ice, Smoke, Magma, and Ooze, and talking about notable landmarks and denizens there. We also spend too little time talking about the Elemental Chaos (because it doesn't really fit into the Great Wheel cosmology), and give a brief overview of the Quasielemental Planes.  Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon...

This week, we jump into the elemental sandblaster as we continue our tour of the prime Elemental Planes. We discuss the Plane of Air, with its Citadel of Ice and Steel housing an unknown prisoner, as well as the Plane of Earth, and how it would be a really cool place to visit if the Dao weren't such terrible individuals.  Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew...

We begin our tour of the Inner Planes this week, discussing the Elemental Planes of Fire and Water. We look back into 2e Planescape and the 3.5e Manual of the Planes to build on the meager details we have been given in 5e, to give you the tools you need to send your players to deal with the efreeti or the marids.    Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew Join u...

This week, we shift our planar discussion to the transitive planes: the Ethereal and Astral. We discuss how they work, what hazards you might find on them, how you might get to them without 7th-level spells, and some adventure hooks if you want to linger for a while.  We also geek out over Astral Dreadnaughts for a bit.    Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew...

This week, we invite Reddit creator Elliot (u/MothProphet) on to discuss the topic addressed in the bulk of his Reddit post An Exploration into 5e's Damage Types, in a little under 6000 words . We talk about the differences between devils and demons, why beasts don't like loud noises, and returning to a time when Cold Iron meant something to the fey. Topping it all off, we have the return of the W...

This week, we dive back into our planar travels with a journey to the Shadowfell, discussing what you might find there and how you can get your players through into the Material Plane's dark echo without resorting to 7th-level spells. A content warning for this week's episode: the Shadowfell is a gloomy and depressing place. As such, any discussion going in depth in the Shadowfell will inevitably...

This week, we are joined by Rob, Chris, and Daniel from the Worldbuild With Us podcast to build a scenario in the world we helped design on their podcast last week. Will you side with the Archdruid of the Kudzu, avatar of the goddess of nature, and its Bloodthorn Basilisk, or will you defend the Springstrider with Captain Marut and the Inevitables? We highly recommend listening to part 1 on the Wo...

This week, we start our in-depth tour of the planes by visiting the Feywild, talking about prominent locations within, and how to get there. We also spend no small amount of time discussing how to utilize the Feywild in your home game, and which classes we feel would benefit most from having a jaunt into the Feywild. This episode ran a bit longer than normal, and we apologize for the audio quality...

We return to the drawing board this week as we bring another monster from D&D 3.5e into 5th edition. Join us as we bring the Spell Weaver into its next 600 year life cycle. Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew Join us on Instagram:  Undercommon Taste Check out our homebrew content  here.     Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, a...

This week, we explore the guidelines in the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide for creating your own monsters and calculating an appropriate Challenge Rating (CR) for them. For our example, we are using the 3.5e Raggamoffyn monster, bringing it into 5e for your gaming pleasure.   Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew Join us on Instagram:  U...

We conclude our current deep dive into the Dungeon Master's Guide for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons this week, discussing Chases, Traps, and Poisons and Diseases.  Here is a link to the playlist of trap videos by Master the Dungeon mentioned in the show, including a video released after we recorded this episode, with (appropriately) covers poison and disease traps. https://youtube.com/playlist?...

In our third deep dive episode into the Dungeon Master's Guide for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons, we discuss planar travel, supernatural gifts, epic boons, and alien tech.    Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew Join us on Instagram:  Undercommon Taste Check out our homebrew content  here.     Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowe...