5 Ways to Save Your Campaign from the Summer
This week on the Campaign Trail, I’m on vacation and writing from the family cottage. Summer is awesome, but it can create challenges to running your scheduled campaign each week, month or whenever. I thought I’d look at some ways ...
Run a Nentir Vale Campaign for D&D 5th Edition
Earlier this week, I was surprised to see the Nentir Vale on the list of settings in the latest D&D poll alongside Greyhawk, Eberron and other big settings. Seeing Nentir Vale on the poll gave me hope D&D’s 4th default ...
Ideas for a Fairy Tale Campaign Setting
This week on the Campaign Trail I’m continuing to look at campaign settings that go beyond the typical fantasy worlds most of us play in each week. In each article in the series, I’ll provide notes on running a campaign ...
4 Ideas for Fixing the Alignment Problem
“Wait, I didn’t know there is an alignment problem?” or “Alignment ruins every game. Die alignment, die.” No other item on a character sheet is as controversial as alignment. Since the release of AD&D a two-axis alignment system has been ...
Ideas for a Steampunk Campaign Setting
This week on the Campaign Trail I’m back looking at campaign settings that go beyond the typical fantasy worlds most of us play in each week. In each article in the series I’ll provide notes on running a campaign (or ...
Running a Fantasy Heist – Tribality Writer Shawn on Dungeon ...
I had an awesome time returning as a guest to talk about running heists with DM Mitch and DM Chris on the Dungeon Master’s Block podcast. We discussed what to steal, exotic locations, plot twists and more. “This week we ...
Fate for d20 Dummies & Being a Better GM
Michael recently wrote about his experience jumping into a Fate game. I love D&D and I really can’t see myself running a full campaign in anything else right now. Over the last year, I’ve run a little bit of Fate ...
Adventure Building: Part 5 – Filling in the Details
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 After looking at Creating a Threat, developing Backstory, Setting and Hooks and writing our adventure outline it’s time to provide some details for the adventure. I’ll ...
Campaign Settings – Prehistoric/Lost World
This week on the Campaign Trail I’m taking a quick break from the Adventure Building series (which will continue next week) to preview a new series I’ll be sharing with our readers for most of the summer. This article is ...
Adventure Building: Part 4 – Creating an Adventure
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 After looking at Creating a Threat and developing Backstory, Setting and Hooks, its time to write an adventure outline. There are two excellent tools for creating ...