How to Become a Better D&D Player
When it comes to the gameplay experience, the DM is merely a figurehead. Players hold true power to create a fun, engaging, and memorable story.
How to Hook Your Players in Tomb of Annihilation
D&D 5e’s Tomb of Annihilation is popular, but its call to adventure is lacking. Here’s how to hook characters into meaningful jungle exploration.
D&D 5e Social Encounter Statblocks: How to Run NPCs Like a Pro
DMs running social encounters must often rely on paragraphs of bullet-pointed notes, creating a loop of forgetfulness, cross-referencing, and clumsy adjudication that can leave any DM frustrated. By contrast, while combat encounters also include many moving parts, the combat statblock helps organize our ability to operate enemies in combat, streamlining our efforts and reducing the mental load. How might we do the same for social encounters in D&D 5e?
10 Questions to Make a Great D&D Character Backstory
Character backstories are often too sparse or bloated. Learn to invent quality details for your backstory without writing a novel.
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Review: Should You Buy It?
Between its fantastical flavor, cultural resonance, and DM-friendly structure, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight may be 5e’s best official campaign thus far.
D&D 5e Fundamental Combat Tactics for Players & DMs
Like many games, D&D 5e is a strategic and tactical experience—but character-building guides can only take you so far. With these basic tactical options in mind, however, even the most unoptimized PC (or the weakest NPC) can play a powerful role in combat. In isolation, a character sheet and a D&D party are just disparate, lonely pieces. Taken together, however, the integrated whole is far greater than the sum of its parts.
How to Easily Make a D&D One-Shot Using a Three-Act Template
Learn to condense your many ideas and keep creative players on track so your one-shots don’t become two-shots! Use the three-act template for your one-shot preparations.
MAGISEVEN D&D Dice Review: Glass & Gemstone
I review dice by MAGISEVEN’s dice, an online store that specializes in providing beautifully crafted dice of glass and gemstone for D&D.