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Star Frontiers / D&D 5e Conversion Part 3

So now you should have some mission idea in mind, and how to bring your D&D campaign into a Star Frontiers setting, or vice versa.  If you don’t know yet, maybe the party ends up finding a strange marooned space ship ...
D&D 5eThoughts & Things

D&D 5e Combat – Flanking?

So the new Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition has minimized the combat system and veered away from advanced tactical rules and Flanking can not be found in the player’s handbook.   I don’t think placing miniatures on a map exactly ...
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The Angry DM’s Guide to Combat Encounters

There are a lot of guides out there for running encounters, and putting together stories.  I’ve read a bunch and some of them are very helpful, while others are just short lists put together without any real meat on the ...
Campaign TrailD&D 5eMonsters & NPCs

10 Awesome Monsters for a D&D 5e Swamp Encounter

Aquatic | Arctic | Cave or Underground | Desert | Forest | Grassland | Jungle | Mountain | Swamp Are your adventurers heading into a swamp? Are they lost? Does your group need to find some monsters? Let us do ...
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Are you switching from Pathfinder to D&D 5e?

I have seen a lot of people jumping over to D&D 5th edition.  Really, trust me, it’s A Lot!  I got this crazy funny picture of a book stabbing another book. I also did this scientific analysis: I saw a ...
Character BuildsClassesD&D 5eStar WarsThoughts & Things

Star Wars Jedi – D&D 5e Build

So I started making this Star Wars Jedi build with my son. He is a Dungeons & Dragons 5e rules guru, and I discussed some things I’d light to see, and ideas I had and we worked on this for ...
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Dungeons & Dragons Dominates?

Roll20 recently did a survey of over 600,000 users, and found out a lot of interesting statistical data of what games are being run. It gives a telling story about all the games being run, and it also seems to ...
D&D 5eThoughts & Things

D&D 5e Aerial Combat

So you’re flying that cool Pegasus that just appeared earlier in the forest and it let you ride it.   Coincidentally, your DM had bought a Icon of the Realms Miniatures Booster Pack, and found a Pegasus inside.  He’s now making ...
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Can you make Chess an RPG?

That’s not a challenge, or maybe it is.  I just discovered John Wick’s Post about Chess is not an RPG, as have a lot of other people, and this came up on my radar because of the mention of Chess ...
Campaign TrailD&D 5eDark SunMonsters & NPCs

10 Awesome Monsters for a D&D 5e Desert Encounter

Aquatic | Arctic | Cave or Underground | Desert | Forest | Grassland | Jungle | Mountain | Swamp Are your adventurers parched and starving in a desert wilderness? Does your group need a little challenge on the way to ...