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December 30, 2020
🎙️Cue that vintage Disney Narrator Voice
Have you ever been playing D&D and thought, Well hey now, why do the Dwarves get all the bearded fun? Halflings and elves have hair too. I need more hair possibilities in my game!
Ha ha ha, well friend, you’re in luck.
The finely frocked folks at Ogre Publishing heard your call for follicular freedom. They brushed away adversity, combed through culture, and teased it all together with a wonderful lather of usefulness and humor. Presenting…
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO HAIR! a Dungeons & Dragons supplement by Ogre Publishing
Yes, even you, our scruffy-looking firbolg, you don’t have to settle for sticks in your hair anymore, and why should a triton have to settle for seaweed when so much more is weavable. Even you, my goblin rogue friend, just because the bard does all the talkin doesn’t mean your ‘do isn’t making people gawkin!
Written by the hairlarious Celeste Conowitch and Neal Powell, The Ultimate Guide to Hair has everything you could desire for your coiffed companions—and more!
Tired of always having a boring Soldier background? Be a Hairdresser instead!
Arguing over which dwarves have beards? Waste of time! Be an Aryeh and have a glorious mane and fur everywhere!
Throw your hair back and forth and advance your class with new hair-themed subclasses. Look out Rapunzel 👩🦰 the Way of the Wild Hair monk could teach you a thing or two.
But wait there’s more:
- Equipment
- Feats
- Spells
- a BestiHAIRy
- even deities
This supplement will have you washing that 1 right out of your dice, and mundanity out of your character sheet.
For real though. As much fun as I had writing this post contributing to this book was incredibly gratifying. Not only is it the first time I saw my work actually published in a book, it was one of the best exercises I did for my DMing brain to that point; how do you make something useful and not so silly that its too much.
I was privileged to be part of this book as a Kickstarter stretch goal when Celeste and Neal first launched it. I contributed a magic item based on those old-timey, mustache-twirling villains—and a creature inspired by at first by Sir Pellinore’s mustache from Disney’s Sword in the Stone. Mostly Scathe, a player’s character in my first D&D campaign I DMed, back in the 4e days.
Scathe’s ‘stache was the stuff of legend. It carried one of the longest-running gags I’ve ever seen a table commit to. The moustache was even featured in a piece of art made for me by another of the players while he was in art school.
See if you can figure out the ones I made 😉
I honestly feel this book did not get the attention and love it deserved. It is silly, and also who cares. It sure is a lot of fun too, and a solid reminder of the great, neat, and wild things we can do with this amazing game we love.
Lather. Roleplay. Repeat.
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