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...
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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...
05 May 2020: The Way Ahead
Hey, folks. Just wanted to put in a quick note about the health and wellbeing of the site and the way forward as I see it. It’s a short one, so if you are...
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...
Homebrew 5e Monster Monday: Chatterhound, a Terrifying Undead tracking beast for D&D 5e
I’m on an undead kick. I think I’ve made my case pretty clearly last week regarding their inherent punchability and universal applicability. They are my favorite chassis to strap fun mechanics and deadly surprises...
Steal This D&D 5e Magic Item: The Last Ward
I think we can all agree that magic items are pretty neat. I mean, if you’ve clicked on any of my other homebrew items, you probably didn’t need me to tell you that I...
Homebrew 5e Monster Monday: The Rook, an Undead Necromantic Infiltrator and Biological Weapon for 5e D&D
It’s not even remotely Monday. Like, not even a little bit. But hopefully bringing in a particularly nasty undead critter for you to pit against your party will assuage a little bit of my...
Steal This D&D 5e Magic Item: Eye Scream Edition
People get squicked out by eyes. It’s just a fact of life. You can talk about the Hand of Vecna without getting too many weird looks, but the moment you ask a player to...
Throwdown Thursday: Gorsebrook, a floral festival village square battlemap for 5e D&D
It’s Valentine’s Day, and as I’ve said, I’m not a huge festive D&D guy. But I made the Heart Collector, so obviously I’m a tremendous liar. If you’ve been paying attention to the blog...
Steal This D&D 5e Magic Item: Jug of Bad Ideas
Some of you might remember back when I spoke about the information economy of Dungeons and Dragons, that weird conceit to the shared fiction that basically goes as follow: The DM knows all there...
