and Tanner Weyland as they distill all the DM tips, tools and resources for the beginner DM, for the DM with a few years of experience and for the Forever DM who's been playing for 20 years. If you're sick of searching for things like, "How to create a homebrew DND campaign?",...
bespoke games – starting a homebrew game is a really daunting prospect. Before you get to run your first adventure, before you get to design that first adventure, and before your players even get to make characters, you have to build an entire f$&%ing world. Or so you wrongly ...
A strong start to your 'brewing campaign' will give you the confidence that brewing homebrew is actually fairly easy and you might continue with it as a hobby. It should be considered a sport, but for the purists... There's definitely a lot to learn, so if you are a first-time beer...
Running a high-level Dungeons & Dragons campaign is unique challenge, but there are steps Dungeon Masters can take to avoid headaches and make the game as enjoyable and epic as it can be. The 5e D&D rules are more streamlined than prior editions, but the upper levels of the game ...
I think my next campaign will certainly be a homebrew one. Maybe in a different system. We'll see. But for now, I enjoy both this AP and PF 1e, despite the little hurdles. This is certainly how I want my combats to feel. Not necessarily all of them. On occasion the party is fre...
If you’re playing a homebrew campaign, type in as much as you know about the lore for ChatGPT and ask it to generate a relevant backstory and background for your character. You can keep prompting it till you find something you like. ...
Where the introduction ofDnD5.5 might be disruptive is for groups that are in the middle of a campaign, especially a homebrew one. Once these three new rulebooks are on the market, a lot of people are going to want to make the jump, especially if the options provided will make their ex...
If you need more detailed guidance when filling out your sheet, read our tutorial onhow to make a DnD character. Keep our guides to all theDnD classesandDnD raceshandy, too, to get the ins and outs of who you’re going to play as. ...
Regardless, if you're finding yourself about to sit down to run your first D&D games as DM soon, we're here to help.We've compiled a few tips, as well as some videos and other suggested resources for getting started running your first D&D campaign....
I tend to get the army lore done early, figure out what would make sense to include later. No point deciding this chapter doesn't have access to any ancient, valuable gear AFTER I've painted up some terminators for 'em, right?