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When should GMs ask for Dice Rolls?

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:09:29 +0000

Have you ever asked your player to do a Perception check to see a paper with a clue they need over the table, even though it was extremely easy to spot, only to have them roll poorly? Now, what do you do? Do you have the other players roll as well, hoping for someone to get a good enough roll to uncover the paper they need to move the plot forward? Ok, you do that. The dice god wasn’t on […]

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Laeral Silverhand’s Explorer’s Kit Dice Box – Product Announcement

Shawn Ellsworth — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:43:02 +0000

The new year is here and the D&D marketing machine is up and running. The first D&D product news of the year is a preview of a new dice box called ‘Forgotten Realms Laeral Silverhand’s Explorer’s Kit’. Laeral Silverhand is a centuries-old archmage, daughter of the goddess of magic, and the Open Lord of Waterdeep. This set includes 11 dice, 20 illustrated cards (double-sided), felt-lined box, 2-sided foldout map (Sword Coast/Waterdeep) and costs $29.99. Look for it in stores March […]

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3 Minigames for your Pirate Tavern

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 07 May 2019 13:00:50 +0000

Thumbnail art by SilverTM You enter The Smelly Cod, a tavern near the port looking for information and someone to get you across the ocean. As soon as you open the door, creaking while it is being opened, all sea chanties, all laughters and dancing stop. Suddenly, all eyes are put on you. What do you do? Elf from a noble family while raising a gold coin: Ok everyone! The thing is simple. I’m going to give ten gold pieces […]

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3 minigames to add to your tavern

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:00:49 +0000

Thumbnail art by Vladimir Krisetskiy After visiting the magic shop and realizing that by combining all their gold pieces they were only 110gp away from a bag of holding, the party decided to try some luck in the tavern doing some gambling. The dwarven druid, having played with his dice set for most of his life, sat next to two pompous men, while the tiefling bard started doing some rhymes on the scenario to get some coins. Meanwhile, the lizardfolk […]

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Playing D&D with kids, and how to do it properly

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:00:50 +0000

So… You are having a family reunion in a week and would love to show your favorite TTRPG to your little cousins. Or maybe it is your 8-year-old daughter you want to internalize in this hobby. Having had my little cousins and smaller siblings wanting to play, I had to do some research on how to make the game more accessible for people from an age of 8 – 15 years old. Now, I’ll be sharing my knowledge in order […]

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D&D on a budget

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:00:28 +0000

At first glance D&D might seem to be a very expensive hobby. If you saw Critical Role you will see everyone using their D&DBeyond Player Handbooks (PHB), miniatures and even terrain and constructions as maps to make it look more realistic or create inmersion (Dwarvenforge). However, running and playing the game can be as expensive as you want it to be (yeah, even free if you like). If you are going to be playing for a while though, support the […]

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Dice of Rolling – PKCGames – Kickstarter

Michael Long — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:01:49 +0000

All of the dice lovers should be very excited about this upcoming Kickstarter. Dice of Rolling are a D&D 5th edition optimized set of 29 RPG dice designed by a GM and a Twitch streamer (Jon and Keni Hill) of PKC Games! That’s a lot of dice for a small investment. Have you ever wanted to quickly roll all 8d6 for a Fireball in a single toss? They’ve got you covered. These dice sets have been tailored to include plenty […]

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Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Faerun Under Siege

Michael Long — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:07:42 +0000

Last year I talked about the D&D Dice Masters game, and coming in February WizKids will be releasing the second installment of D&D Dice masters called Faerûn Under Siege! Dice Masters is a quick game that uses dice to build a force that you then attack the other player’s army of dice. It is very similar to Magic the Gathering where you have choices in your dice & cards and you build your own collection of cards versus your opponents. […]

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Exploding Dice!

Michael Long — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:00:31 +0000

I’ve been play-testing adding Exploding Dice as a house-rule to my game. Exploding dice are when a player or GM rolls the maximum on a die for damage, they then can roll that die again and the new die roll result is added to the original. This can be done once as I discuss in this article, or sometimes this is repeated for every time that a maximum is rolled (chain reaction). The reason to do this is because: It […]

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Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Battle for Faerûn

Michael Long — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:34:51 +0000

I have the Marvel Dice Masters game, and was very excited to hear that a D&D Dice Masters game was being released next month. Dice Masters is a very quick game that uses dice to build a force that you then attack the other player’s force. It is very similar to Magic the Gathering where you have choices in your dice & cards and you build a . But there is a random factor that you don’t necessarily get in […]

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