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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...