Do your monsters bore you? Are your fights uninteresting? I’ve run into this problem. It is an issue plaguing many DMs. However, it is easy to fix. I stopped doing the minimum. I made a list of criteria, looked at each encounter, and decided if it was missing things from that. So take a page…
Take a Page from my Book: 10 Best D&D Spell Scrolls
Dungeons Masters, have you ever wanted to fill up a hoard, but had no clue what to put in it? Did you stare at the pages and nothing jumped out at you? Sure, you’re adding in more potions now, but it still isn’t quite varied enough. What do you do? What else is there? Let…
Take a Page from my Book: 10 Best D&D Potions
It sucks when players don’t like their loot, doesn’t it? As Dungeons and Dragons players adventure and quest, they invariably gain more magical gear. It’s exciting! Eventually, though, they’ll get something nobody’s interested in having. Maybe that’s just how things turned out? Maybe you thought it’d be neat for them to find a magic pick…
Playing to the Hilt: Orcs
Dungeons and Dragons, even fantasy in general, has few villains more iconic than the classic orc. If goblins are the weak fodder, orcs are the monstrous marauders bent on pillaging and plundering. Recent trends have shown an effort to make orcs grow beyond that standard. That’s all well and good, namely for newer settings. However,…
Playing to the Hilt: Tieflings
Tieflings. You can call them “planetouched,” you can call them “demi-humans,” but nowadays, they’re presented (by many players) as “mega-angst devil-teen super-emo edgelords.” All too often, a player sees only the superficial features of being a tiefling. Ironically, it’s more tragic than their own tragic backstories. This leads some folks to balk at even allowing…
Playing to the Hilt: Half-orcs
Brutal, barbaric, brash, stupid, slow, sickening. All common feelings folks might have for a half-orc. Likewise, a player might turn their nose up at being so pigeonholed. Who wants to just be a dumb brute? But does something like a half-orc deserve this reputation? Does it have merit? Surely a mix of man and orc…
Playing to the Hilt: Half-elves
With so many fantasy races to play, you can often feel conflicted about which one to be. Sometimes you want the grace and power of an elf, but with a little more flexibility, a little more human. Sometimes you want the endless possibilities that comes with humanity, but just a little more specialized and exotic….
Playing to the Hilt: Dwarves
Dwarves are another fantasy classic. The typical perception of a dwarf boils them down to hairy, angry, short drunkards with a greedy streak and Scottish accent. While, there is a kernel of truth to this, dwarves can be so much more. Hidden beneath all that hair lies a core of heartiness that expresses itself in…
Playing to the Hilt: Elves
In wild forests, in lost towers, and even in the darkest depths of the world (and beyond) live one of the most iconic races in all of fantasy. Elves are as varied as their lifespan is long but all share in common certain magical traits and outlooks that more mundane men lack. It isn’t the…
Catering to 5th Edition: A Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Review
Heroes are a staple of Dungeons and Dragons. The ongoing adventures of Drizz’t Do’Urden, the meddling of Volothamp Geddarm, the balance obsessed Mordenkainen, all iconic heroes in their own rights. But what of villains? Strahd von Zarovich is arguably the greatest vampire ever, Asmodeus rules the 9 Hells, Tiamat, the five headed dragon goddess, is…
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