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...
Category: GM Advice
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...
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...
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...
You Should Try “Dungeon World”: A Dungeon-Punk Fantasy RPG Powered by the Apocalypse
If you like Dungeons and Dragons, but find yourself in need of something new (like I did), the perfect next game on your road to tabletop nirvana is probably Dungeon World. I promised to...
Player Types: The 4 Love Languages of D&D 5e (and every other TRPG)
This is not an article about Player Romance, topics of sexuality or love at the table, or anything of that nature. This a DM tool for engaging Tabletop Roleplayers through cunning use of psychology...
5 D&D Campaign Ideas and Pitches for Your Classic 5e Campaign
Since we got so much great feedback on our last Campaign Pitch article, I figured we’d go ahead and spin off some more ideas, focusing this time on the classic D&D experience. By that,...
3 Ways to Make D&D 5e Combat Faster
So today, I want to discuss three ways that I’ve found to make D&D 5e combat a faster experience. Consider this: the night’s going great. Your players are actually engaged, teasing out clues, putting...
Steal This D&D 5e Magic Item: Self-Driving Spikes
If I had to point to the moment where Dungeons and Dragons really clicked for me, I’d level my indicting finger at the first time I ever got an Immovable Rod. It was such...
