Articles that review and recommend best practices for running a tabletop RPG game like Dungeons and Dragons.
Ending a tour of exhaustive travel, your adventuring party crests a frosty hill with the rising sun, an icy gust brushing their cheeks as the fog from the hollow below creeps atop the slope. Down the hill, eastward bound, lighted hearths twinkle through the morning fog. Through a soft flurry in the air, your party spots a dilapidated wooden sign beside the dirt path that names this traveler’s town Bonescrag.
Ideally, battles should be just as immersive and intriguing as the rest of the campaign. Between interactive map environments and hazards, unexpected legendary actions, and villainous boss lairs, a Dungeon Master can create unique and exciting monster fights for every session.
Improvisation’s benefits go beyond mere humor, allowing pure collaboration between players, DMs, and dice. There are countless stories and memes about DMs drastically adapting their plans after players deviate from expectations. Collaboration means the game is unpredictable even before dice roll.
It’s your first session of a grand campaign. You’re the DM, and you want to start the campaign with a bang to keep players interested in the story for months to come. To enable your first session to become a smashing success, I’ve compiled a list of my best ideas for breaking the mold on campaign starters.
I want to share some of my better ideas for implementing Mind Flayers in a game so I can spread the Illithid gospel and see them used often. Here are my ten titular tips and tutorials for trying tentacled Mind Flayers in your tale!
How can a Dungeon Master ensure they are shaping a cohesive story instead of simply facilitating a game? In this article, I’ve collected advice from famous authors and storytelling experts to guide narrative creation and facilitate player interaction. Let us attain useful game-development tips from these Masters of Fantasy.
As implausible as fantasy may seem, reality has thrown us some major curveballs. Let’s explore a few interesting ideas and how a Dungeon Master could use them to inspire their adventures.
One of the least-understood game mechanics, in my opinion, is the Frightened condition. Since fright can be expressed and mechanized with greater potency in 95% (ish) of D&D games, I’ve decided to write about it.
