Coming soon: Alice D&D 2 – Wonderland in Darkness
The first Alice in Wonderland one-shot is live now! You can enter the magical world and explore it for yourself along with your friends. But the magic won’t end there. There is more coming! In “Welcome to Wonderland” you and your friends entered Wonderland like Alice once did and save the day. It has been […]
Alice in Wonderland D&D One-Shot <em>(Preview) – Welcome to Wonderland</em>
Introduction The Alice in Wonderland book came out about 160 years ago in 1865 and is now one of the best-known works of literature because of it’s fantastic, impossible, yet gripping story that makes you feel like that mad world might actually be real. Too bad you can’t be there, but have to endure another […]
What mini’s to use?
If your group has chosen to play with battle-maps (with either square or hex grid) than there is one last choice to make before you can play. What type of mini’s do you use? The most commonly used option is the DnD branded mini’s of characters, NPC’s and monsters. You will still have to buy […]
Designing traps for your next dungeon
Dungeons and Dragons consists of three components. Combat, Social Interaction and Exploration. The first two are quite self-explanatory, but Exploration is a collection of everything else the players do in the world. It’s walking through woods, exploring dungeons and best of all.. traps! What makes traps fun in my opinion is that is has consequences […]
Wraith <em>Monster Manual Model of the Month</em>
If you party comes across a Wraith at a relativaly low level it better watch out and prepare. It could mean a total team kill unless you either know what to expect or have an optimised and balanced party. With a Challenge Rating of 5 (What is CR?) it sounds doable enough, but it has […]
How I made Pokémon D&D <em>Making D&D Fanfiction part 2</em>
After discovering how to use D&D mechanics to make a Harry Potter one-shot I followed that up by building the mechanics for Pokémon D&D. Firstly because I spent a lot of time in that world dating all the way back to Pokémon Blue. I played that game over and over again on my GameBoy Advanced […]
How I made Harry Potter D&D <em>Making D&D Fanfiction part 1</em>
A few years ago I started my Dungeons and Dragons journey. Once I got the hang of stepping into the shoes of a hero in a pre-written world of magic and monsters I started wondering if I could also use it to finally go to other worlds like I had always dreamed of. I remember […]
D&D Trap Generator
When your D&D party goes dungeon delving some combat is expected, but when it is fight after fight after fight until the evil is defeated and treasure can be claimed in the last chamber it gets really dull really fast. To break up this monotony you can add riddles, evoke interaction with NPC’s or throw […]
Add riddles to D&D
If you want to spice up your D&D storytelling, diversify the puzzles or even give more depth to combat you can do so by adding riddles. They can force the players to think, give more colour to the setting and even turn fights into more than only hitting stuff until it dies (besides making the […]
Oozes <em>Monster Manual Model of the Month</em>
Oozes (a.k.a. Dungeon Roomba’s) come in a few different variations, each with it’s own strengths. Despite their large size and slow pace they are very stealthy. They manage that by blending in with their dark and damp environment and waiting for their prey to come to them. The Ooze variations differ a bit in their […]
How to describe a scene in D&D
Dungeons&Dragons is a game in which the players take on a role and inhabit and explore a world more magical and fantastical than our own. Each location they visit has eons of history that are unbound by the boring rules of our world’s physics. But you don’t reflect that when you only say “you walk […]
NPC Generator
When your world is laid out and the quests are good to go you are still left with a kingdom that feels empty. Sure, you probably filled it with some essential NPC’s and faceless masses, but when the players ask about if there are fun characters to talk to or people with interesting background there […]
Magic Item Generator
The party has finally defeated the evil that has taken over the tomb and his Goblin minions. “It better be worth it!” the Fighter grunts. They gather around the chest as the Rogue carefully opens it and finds… What do they find? Just some gold coins and another +1 weapon? Come on! Get creative with […]
Interesting battles 2: Active environment
Dungeons&Dragons combat does not have to consist of rolling dice to hit until either the monsters or PC’s are dead. They can be so much more! In a previous blog I explained how to make it more interesting by playing the enemies smarter. But besides a balanced party and the enemies there is a third […]
Plot Hook Generator
You have your main quest laid out for your players, but you don’t want it to be the only thing they can do in this rich D&D world. Maybe they need some more EXP, more gold or just some light-hearted adventures before they continue on to defeat the great evil from destroying this world. So […]
Random Encounter Generator
All the players need to do is roll up a Character Sheet and they are ready to play some Dungeons and Dragons. But as the Dungeon Master you are tasked with building a whole world and inhabiting it with creative stuff for your players to encounter. One way to create combat encounters is rolling for […]
How to be a good Dungeon Master
Being a Dungeon Master is a highly respectable function. Where the players need only to roll up a character and work out the occasional level-up, the Dungeon Master has a full time job. They create and describe not only the world and everyone in it, but also how the PC’s fit into it all and […]
Book series for your next campaign
There are a lot of amazing fantasy books out there. Epic fantasies in sprawling lands where evil creatures hide around every corner, but heroes always emerge to save the day. These books can either be perfect if you don’t have enough (D&D) adventures in your life or as the source of inspiration for your world-building, […]
Make overland travel fun
While most Dungeons & Dragons campaigns deal mostly with interesting locations (like dungeons) and with the monsters inside it (like dragons), the one element that every DM handles differently is how the adventurers get to those locations. There are a lot of ways you can handle overland travel in your D&D game and it is […]
Interesting battles 1: Smarter enemies
A large part of D&D (and other TTRPG’s) is combat. Whether your group is tasked to kill monsters, they stumble into a den or a if they are set upon by bandits, the encounter will probably start with violence and end when the opponents are dead. Although this is massively entertaining, the repetitiveness might grow […]
Quick explanation: What is Dungeons & Dragons (5e)?
D&D is a role-playing game in which you and some friends each play a character. It is set in a fantasy world in which heroes, magic and dragons exist. All you need to play, is some imagination, a special set of dice and a filled in character sheet (I’ll come back to this later). How […]
Harry Potter one shot 2 – The Sorting Hat
In the first Harry Potter One-Shot the PC’s had quite the adventure. To get into Hogwarts they were invited to join an Application Camp in which they were tested as a team to show than you were the right fit. They had to outsmart a Troll, defeat a Unicorn with a mind-altering crystal and solve […]
Harry Potter one-shot 3 – The next Marauders
First the PC’s earned their place in Hogwarts. Then in the second D&D one-shot the players arrive at school, only to find that the Sorting Hat was destroyed. As Honorary Prefects the PC’s jumped on the case. After finding clue after clue they solved the mystery and saved the day. That meant that finally they […]