Level Design tips to improve your games!
Thumbnail image from Nienke Zijlstra In case you didn’t know, I am very fond of videogame design and development. I’ve read and studied many things about it, and found out that most of the things you apply to them can ...
Help your players create the best character for them
Thumbnail image from Netflix’s The Witcher series Do you run D&D for players that have already played one or more times? Are they more of a min-maxer kind and look more on creating a powerful character than in their dreamed ...
How to create tension in your game
Thumbnail art by Eric Persson It’s been a long while since I did one of these articles on how to be better at a certain aspect of DMing. After mastering some horror games, watching some movies of the same kind, ...
Faction ranks benefits for your players
With all these holiday dates my schedule has tumbled quite a bit. However, here I’ve come again after some great family time while watching the fireworks to bring you new articles. Today, I wanted to continue a bit the article ...
Worldbuilding: Create a festivity for your city/town
Thumbnail Art by Andreas Rocha We are getting close to New Year’s Eve and you are looking forward to creating some festivity in your game in which the townspeople can also have their own New Year’s celebration. You want it ...
A guide to Hexcrawling, Part 2: New Hexcrawling mechanic
Thumbnail art was created by WotC, modified by user windup on Reddit to not contain Spoilers for players [Entering the link may contain spoilers] All right! I’ve been doing some research, done some math, and am eager to show you ...
Game prep improvisational tips
You prepared an entire dungeon full of enemies for your players to traverse. They managed to kill all the kobolds except from one, who they plan to interrogate. First question: “What’s your name?”. Now Random Kobold #12 needs a quick ...
Create tense/horror scenes in your game
Thumbnail art by Anton Fadeev The nobleman you believe to be the head of a cult just left the house, his majordomo went to the room upstairs, and your infiltration as a guard was a complete success. What’s your next ...
How to handle Downtime Investigation
Thumbnail art by Kemal Gunel I’ve been running with some trouble in the past on how to run a fun downtime session (or at least part of a session). This made me reevaluate how to run them. I looked in ...
Five MORE Commonly Confused Rules in D&D 5e
Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition has a lot of rules. Thankfully, you don’t need to know all of them before you start playing. It is a rare DM or player that reads the Player’s Handbook and the Dungeon Master’s Guide ...