Angels can make any fantasy campaign more exciting. Then again, they can also just be yet another monster for the party to fight. Here’s one way to keep them special.

Think Klingons and Vulcans are too human? “Yeah, it’s just a little bit of makeup!” Oh, that’s the least of the issues…

Town guards, frontline soldiers, initiates in a cult… why are they in that line of work? Based on how they usually act, it’s so they can die at a PC’s hand. Here’s a richer approach.

Take your humble campaign. Now imagine it avoids the blunders a billion-dollar studio stumbled into. How cool is that, hey?

How do your players know what’s around the next corner? “They don’t because you haven’t rolled the random encounter yet?” Bah. You don’t need randomness to surprise them - in fact, it helps if you design your worlds deeper.

Most mimics are boring HP leeches that teach players to play in the dullest way possible. That’s a shame, given how terrifying they’d be in real life. Here’s how to add fairness, horror and even humour back into your mimics.

Star Trek, despite its many successes, failed on two fronts. The first is technological. The second is harder, but I show you how to overcome it.

At first glance, graveyards in a fantasy world make no sense. They’re a risk - an easy target for any necromancer. Here’s why your villages would have them anyway.

I couldn’t have made this guide less flashy and striking if I’d tried. The dull design isn’t a bad thing - here’s why I think it’s Footprints’ feature.