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[TOOLS] How to introduce new folks to Roleplaying Games

What is the best way to introduce folks to TTRPGs? How do you do it? [...]

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Dusmourn episode 04 “Exploding monarchs! Tis doom I tell ye!”

The Duskmourn Chronicles is an actual D&D TTRPG play featuring me as the Game Master, [...]

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[CASTLES] Gotta have storm drains

Unless you're in a desert.

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[ALL] The best asset you have as a GM

Your strongest asset as a GM right in front of you. You just need to [...]

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Duskmourn episode 03 “Getting a head…”

MAJOR AUDIO UPDATE! CLEAR AUDIO! The Duskmourn Chronicles is an actual D&D TTRPG play featuring [...]

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[SIDE QUEST] Sunday workday blues

Why would you kill the king? To avoid this!

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[D&D] Making travel a tough adventure

Travel is often best done as a montage, or as a series of rolls. But [...]

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TDC002 The end ends

The Duskmourn Chronicles is an actual D&D TTRPG play featuring me as the Game Master, [...]

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[IDEAS] Stuck for ideas – here’s an easy hack that will make you smarter too!

When I get stuck for ideas for my next adventure, I have a few techniques. [...]

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01 The end begins

The Duskmourn Chronicles is an actual D&D TTRPG play featuring me as the Game Master, [...]

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[YUCK] Dung, dung, dung

How to add a little... natural fun to your game.

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[D&D] Me coming up with my campaign…

How do I come up with my campaign ideas? This is my process for my [...]

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[TRAPS] Barking trees

Yup. I said it.

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[WORLDBUILDING] Adding history and richness on the fly, NO PREP!

I hate prepping historical events and things in my games. It's a waste of time. [...]

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[WORLD BUILDING] Bring your world to life

It is these kinds of details that make all the difference.

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The guy who plays…Star Trek Captains Log Solo RPG

The USS Wellington is stuck in a dimensional rift that is tearing her apart. The [...]

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Get Pacing right

Keeping your game flowing, knowing when to slow down and when to speed up is [...]

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[FUN] How to tell if it is raining…

NPCs can be funny...

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The guy who plays… Star Trek! A new season!

We launch a new Star Trek Solo RPG season! Join the crew, make a difference, [...]

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[TRAVEL] Making travel fun, here’s how

Travel can be fun, if you do it right. It can also be boring if [...]

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[TRAVEL] Hidden!

Right beneath your feet...

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The guy who plays… Fabled Lands part IV

The priest Dalvin, a thief and a hopeful, is making his way to become an [...]

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[NPC] Create a long-term sleezeball NPC

By creating horrid NPCs who are not against the PCs but that represent horrid individuals [...]

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[TRAVEL] A town layout

What happens on the high street...

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The guy who plays… Fabled Lands Part 2

The priest has turned to Sig, god of thieves, in the hopes of a brighter [...]

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Add an encounter that the PCs expect, but make it grand!

Adding in an encounter into your campaign is easy. Making it a memorable one, where [...]

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[TRAP] Giant extortion

A toll for a roll... or a bakery

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The guy who plays… Fabled Lands Part 1 again

Well here we go again... trying to find our lost brother Vaelor... it's a new [...]

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[ITEMS] These are unique Magical Items to include in your next game sesison

Magical Items are mostly seen as tools for the players characters to use in enhancing [...]

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[LOCATION] Prison

Prisons are fun!

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Fabled Lands Eps 01

It's a new Fabled Lands adventure!

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[ADD] Adding a Loveable NPC for a single session is AMAZING! Here’s why…

Lovable NPCs who do not join the party do something MUCH MORE IMPORANT. In D&D, [...]

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[LOCATION] Library of trees

These pages need sorting...

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[ADD] Add a village to your next TTRPG session, here’s why!

A Village does so much more than just give the PCs a chance to rest. [...]

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[HIDDEN] Secret villages in plain sight…

What's more interesting than a village you can see? A village you can't!

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[TRAPS] Statues from the future

Who carved these and why? Also... WHEN?!

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The guy who plays… Star Trek

We're going to wrap this episode up today folks! Either the USS Plato is going [...]

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[TECH] VR deep dive, why you SHOULD care

What is what the future is looking like? VTTs are here, but what are they [...]

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[TRAVEL] Waterfalls and climbing them

It can be a lot of fun trying to navigate OVER a 600 foot waterfall... [...]

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Cafe De Juiblex – an idea turned into a campaign in real-time

Cafe De Juiblex was an idea that several amazing DMs came up with at breakfast [...]

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[TRAPS] Matchstick Bushes and traps of fire

Matchstick bushes are thing... seriously. Fill a valley and boom!

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STAR TREK Solo TTRPG

I am playing the Solo Captains Adventures book from Modiphius in the Star Trek Universe.

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[ALL] Roleplaying versus Acting

Recently I saw ROLEPLAYING and not ACTING. What's the difference and how did the players [...]

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[TRAPS] Illusionary Terrian trap

If you can't go over it, you can go around it, right along the path [...]

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[ALL] What to look for in PC backstories

PCs often have simple backstories: born an orphan, lived like an orphan. Some have more [...]

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[TRANSPORT] Tree Travel…its for the sap

Travel by tree, to any branch, nationwide...

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[TRAPS] Cave Ambushes #tabletoproleplaying #dungeonsanddragons

It's not a real cave, it's a DEAD end... get it?

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[ALL] How to set-up your own roleplaying club

I've set up a couple of clubs in my time, this is what I learned [...]

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[TRAVEL] Cornfields

Corn Fields and Ambushes!

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[ALL] 100 warm-up questions for your character? Nah, here’s 5

This is a crazy long list, and I've chosen the ones I like best. What [...]

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