The 7 Best Gifts for Dungeon Masters – Keep Your DM Happy and Avoid the TPK! No Comments There is perhaps no more important player in Dungeons & Dragons than the Dungeon Master. If you don't have a DM, you have no game. But finding a good DM can be hard – and there's a prett...
Inside is a brutal crawl that’ll TPK all but the most cunning (and appropriately leveled) adventurers. Xanathar’s Guide to Everything A supplementary DnD book released in 2017. Today’s best deals Xanathar’s Guide to Everything specifications: Who’s it for? Players and DMs Rating 9...
What you can do at the end of a session as a player What I have done as a player is two-fold. Even when I don't agree I've listened very carefully to what the DM and the other players have to say about my role in what is fun and not-fun. Secondly, I make sure that at t...
What I would do differently Ultimately I think that using a Medusa or a different save-or-die monster is fine and can create really exciting moments at the table but the players should know in advance what they are going to be dealing with. I would have either let them see the medusa b...
This is the sixth in a series of articles intended to help new Dungeon Masters run great D&D games. In previous articles we've coveredhow to find a group,how to run your first adventure,how to improve your improvisation skills,what tools you might use, andoptions for representing monsters ...
If Princess Mary Sue is with them, and they get attacked, then the creature(s) are going to be VERY powerful...period. These creatures are going to be magnitudes stronger than the characters are going to be able to handle. We're talking 1-2 turn TPK. This is ...
So how do you come up with boss fight ideas that feel fresh, interesting and fun? Here’s a tried and tested method for coming up with an epic final boss fight! Listen to your players If your players are anything like mine, they’re always speculating. “What if he’s got a horde ...
Homebrew is my comfort zone when it comes to adventures, but I bought a bunch of OSE and similar style adventures and I'm excited to give them a shot.<br>What are your favorite adventures? </p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow ...
How can my players even have a chance at resolving this Tomb of Horrors puzzle? 25 In the Tomb of Horrors adventure in Tales from the Yawning Portal, what is the intended scenario for when this event occurs? 16 Can the door to this area really not be opened from this direction in ...
And of course, there is always the fight fire with fire approach: build similar style rival NPCs—optimized for speed and archery—and pick a fight. The important thing here is that you can always have NPCs do exactly what the players have done, and may even one-up ...