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Arcadia Issue 29 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:00:44 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM A tiefling or demon with a shining red sword summoning a dark dragon…. EPIC! I am loving this cover, and easily inspires me to create some sort of general of this sort as a villain. We are rapidly coming to an end with Arcadia so let’s enjoy the few articles we still have left before the company decides to offer other monthly products. I know they will be just as rad as the ones from […]

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Arcadia Issue 26 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:00:35 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Let’s begin with that cover. Weird, right? I really like the faerie aspect of the dragon with deer horns, but butterfly wings. That’s what Arcadia is mostly about, right? Adding weird new things into our games. I dunno, now I want to create a stat block for that thing and make it a guardian of the Archfey palaces. In the Letter from the Editor, Hannah talks about the different ways magic works in each world, […]

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ChatGPT: Using the AI to create interesting NPCs

Michael Long — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 01:27:24 +0000

As the New Year begins, I’ve been finding something that is particularly interesting lately: ChatGPT. This chatbot tool has proven useful for me in overcoming creative blocks and generating new ideas. In fact, I’ve been using the ChatGPT OpenAI model for a few weeks now and have found it to be quite helpful. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT is characterized as follows: We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for […]

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Four New Fey NPCs

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 08 May 2020 13:41:35 +0000

I haven’t done a lot of writing about fey in quite some time, at least not here on Tribality. We’re working on a DM’s Guild release of fey content, so this article is all material that will go to my editor and, if it survives that stage, into the product. I’ve written a lot of content and quest hooks so far around the Archfey, so this time I’m looking at lower-ranked fey. Also, check out the rules for fey bargains […]

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Five Tips for Creating D&D Monsters

Rachel Phimphivong — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 23:33:25 +0000

One of the most iconic things about Dungeons & Dragons is the monsters. Even if your group prefers social encounters or avoids conflict, eventually the heroes will be faced with a foe that must be dealt with through combat. There’s a huge variety of monsters in the official D&D 5e published works, as well as even more to be found from other publishers, such as Kobold Press’s Tome of Beasts, and free homebrew creations that are just an internet search […]

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Game prep improvisational tips

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:00:55 +0000

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 name. You didn’t prepare for this and are made to invent one on the spot. You can do this, but there are ways to avoid these anxiety-inducing situations where your players catch you unprepared. I consider myself someone who uses […]

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