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: Mechanics and Minigames
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...
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...
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...
Make D&D 5e Combat Less Boring: The DM Turn
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...
The Devil’s Bargain: Blades in the Dark Success with A Cost in D&D 5e
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...
Gear Points: Your D&D 5e Characters Know What to Bring
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....
The Ties That Bind: How to Create and Use Bonds in D&D 5e
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...
We’ve got…history: A Quick Backstory Minigame for D&D 5e Players
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...
