Five Essential Lessons for New DMs in D&D
Since the release of 5th Edition, I’ve run into many DMs trying their hand at D&D for the very first time. Some of these folks are coming to the table with previous experience in Pathfinder, Star Wars, Gurps, etc., but ...
D&D Adventurers League – Playing on Roll20.net
I was speaking with a friend that recently moved, and he now doesn’t have a way to play in the new city. I suggested using online methods to play like Roll20, but he said it wasn’t easy to find a ...
Tips for Ending Your Tabletop RPG Campaign
This week on the Campaign Trail, we look at ‘Tips for Ending Your Tabletop RPG Campaign‘. After 56 session, 16 months and 17 levels, my players finally arrived at the final temple to face off against the Big Bad Evil ...
Domain Rulership, Part One
A few weeks ago, my esteemed colleague wrote about PC headquarters and home bases in campaigns. Talking to him about it afterward got me thinking about building new domain-management rules for 5e, taking the best parts from the huge list ...
Battlestations: 2nd Edition! Tabletop Starship Simulator – Kickstarter
Battlestations: 2nd Edition kickstarter will be closing March 3rd (tomorrow), and is currently 394% funded at $165k. Battlestations first came out 16 years ago, and has a following of avid players. You can read reviews of the first Battlestations here: ...
Death House – Free Adventure for Ravenloft (D&D 5e)
Foreword | Table of Contents | Gothic Trinkets | Death House Adventure | Haunted One Background Wizards of the Coast has given us the free adventure Death House to play at home last week as a preview of the Curse ...
Creating Variant Backgrounds for D&D 5e – Sailor
This week on the Campaign Trail I thought I’d look at variant backgrounds and share a couple of homebrew variant backgrounds I created back in 2014 (for my Vodari campaign) that I didn’t include in Pirate Adventurers. The Castaway background ...
Gambling in Role Playing Games
Gambling is something that will probably come up in your campaign sooner or later whether you are running Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars, or Numenara. Gamemasters shouldn’t shy away from them as they can be a great source of amusement. ...
Fey Chivalry
In the 5e Monster Manual, we find many of D&D’s traditional fey – pixies, satyrs, and sprites, among others. This… falls a little short of both the variety and threat level I would like to see for the fey. I ...
A Lich for Every Class: The Paths of Transcendence (Part ...
This is the second part of a multi-part series about the character classes developing until they become ‘lich-like;’ that is, following the path of their power until they become something more or less than human. You can read the first ...