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How to Run Better D&D Games By Doing Less
If you are a dungeon master, the easiest way to improve your game sessions might be to do less. Rather than doing all the tasks of running the game, delegate some to the players. This lesson took me a long … Continue reading
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Tagged battle maps, delegation, experience points, initiative tracking, pacing
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Steal This Rule: Flashbacks and Heists in Dungeons & Dragons
In a heist film, a group of experts team to overcome elaborate security measures using a carefully planned series of steps. Much of the fun comes from seeing the ingenuity of the heroes as they crack seemingly impenetrable obstacles as … Continue reading
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Tagged Blades in the Dark, flashbacks, heist, Leverage, steal this rule
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How Much Talk at Your Game Table Reaches Into the Game World?
Suppose your players aim to stop raiders somehow able to slip past the town’s defenses. They meet the woman who leads the city guard. Mid conversation, the rogue’s player says, “I’m sure she’s behind the raids. We should just kill … Continue reading
How to Reveal a Dungeon Map on an iPad as Characters Explore
Mapping rates as one of the chores in the original Dungeons & Dragons game that players learned to skip. In early D&D, one player assumed the role of mapper and transcribed a description of walls and distances onto graph paper. … Continue reading
Strong Moral Dilemmas in D&D and the Unwanted Kind that Keeps Appearing
The best tales climax when the heroes must choose between what they’ve learned is right and an easy route to what they thought they wanted. In fiction, such moral dilemmas reveal character. When a woman who only ever wanted to … Continue reading
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Tagged Gary Gygax, Johnn Four, M.T. Black, Mike Mearls, moral dilemmas, The Keep on the Borderlands, Wolfgang Baur
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5 Tricks for Creating Brilliant Dungeon Maps From Will Doyle
If you played the Dungeons & Dragons adventures Tomb of Annihilation or Storm King’s Thunder, you adventured through dungeon maps created by Will Doyle. In an episode of the Official D&D Podcast, D&D’s principle story designer, Chris Perkins, explained why … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventurers League, Castle Greyhawk, Chris Perkins, Curse of Strahd, Dungeon crawls, Dungeon magazine, Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Eric Menge, Gary Gygax, Jennell Jaquays, Justin Alexander, mapping, Storm King’s Thunder, Tales From the Yawning Portal, Teos Abadia, Tomb of Annihilation, Will Doyle
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10 Ways to Build a Character That Will Earn the Love of Your Party
In Dungeons & Dragons, rolling handfuls of damage dice feels like a good way to shine among party members, but know this secret: Other players usually overlook the damage you do. If you really want to shine, find ways to … Continue reading
