How to Build a Dungeon for D&D 5e: What is a Dungeon?
This question gets bandied around an awful lot with new DMs. The fact that the game is titled Dungeons and Dragons sort of keys the prospective game runners that two things have to make...
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3 Reasons I Won’t Shut Up About Blades in the Dark.
So, if you don’t follow me on Twitter it probably feels like I’ve been absent for a while now, and you’ve probably wandered away in the interim. Maybe you’re one of the die-hards who...
8 Campaign Ideas and Pitches for Your Single Character Race D&D 5e Game
I don’t have anything against the Petting Zoo People trope as a general rule. If you or your players are super excited about playing Tabaxi or Loxodons or Leonals or whatever, I completely support...
Here Be Dragons: 7 Mapping Programs for D&D 5e (and every other game too!)
It’s a battle for best tabletop roleplaying game map creator! Free vs Paid. Inkarnate vs Dungeon Painter vs Campaign Cartographer vs Wonderdraft. Let’s get ready to rumble! When I picked up my first real...
Roofballers: a Homebrew Sports Crew for Blades in the Dark
Have you played Blades in the Dark, yet? I saw a comment on Reddit about sports in Doskvol and u/LozNewman wrote the following little bit of magic and I couldn’t help but get crazy...
You Should Try “Court of Blades”: Renaissance Magic and Gunpowder Skulduggery, Forged in the Dark
Okay, so this is rather more personal than my last pitch, seeing as building this game is what’s keeping me busy while the world outside gets progressively more bleak. My wife and I have...
Scum & Villainy Warstory #7: Operation Watermelon Banana Hammock
With a name like that, I think we can probably dispense with the typical pre-Warstory palaver, don’t you? I’m taking a break from working on the content that I’m going to be doling out...
The Wyld Twins: A Fey Double Warlock Patron for 5e D&D
So I had a friend of mine who came to me with an interesting request. They came to me with the idea that they’d like to be patronized–patron-ated– be-patroned? They wanted to make a...
Scum & Villainy Warstory #6: Death Race 2600
It occurs to me that I should probably learn how to use the scheduling features of this site before I make promises to have content auto-publish on a set schedule, otherwise I’m absolutely going...
Are We There Yet: 3 Ways to Make Travel Exciting in Your D&D 5e Game
Today, I want to talk about a problem that I see arising in a lot of people’s games that never seemed give J.R.R. Tolkien trouble. The walk from the Shire to the Crack of...
Scum & Villainy Warstory #5: Mink’s Best Day Ever
Little late this week, I realize, but I got these next four weeks all formatted and codified, and if you’ve never tried to compress down five hours of game-time into a coherent narrative you...
