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...
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...
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...
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...
There seems to be a lot of echoing of a single sentiment online. Dungeons and Dragons 5e combat is boring. Now whether this stems from the same-y cycle of initiative, roll attack, miss or...
Can we go ahead and agree that it is patently not fun having a great plan that all falls apart just because the dice turned against you? Like, you’ve planned the perfect assault on...
GM Advice / Mechanics and Minigames
by Drake · Published February 22, 2019 · Last modified January 21, 2020
The guttering torchlight throws strange shadows in the depths of the Shalebridge Mausoleum as our heroes enter the catacombs. Somewhere in the darkness the crackling sound of settling bones sets their teeth on edge....
We’d taken the deep road. The journey would’ve taken another week if we’d skirted the mountain and continued on the switchback roads which wound through the valleys and passes toward the capital city of...
I’ve been lucky enough to play with a lot of people who share my enthusiasm for the social roleplaying pillar of tabletop roleplaying games. Backstories are typically shared around the table and a good...
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