Short, bite-sized RPG advice, tips, and tricks for DMs and players of tabletop role playing games (TTRPG)
245 episodes transcribedExploration is the shortest of the three legs of RPGs and doesn’t get the love that combat or social encounters do at most tables. However, with a li...
While combat encounters are fun, there are two other pillars to tabletop RPGs that can turn a good game into a great one. In this episode I talk abou...
Preparing to run an entire adventure out of or inside a city can appear to be a daunting task. With a little preparation and some thought ahead of ti...
Description Even preparing cities that the party will pass through or only stay at temporarily requires some thought on the DM’s part. In this episode...
Preparing your overarching campaign using smaller situational pieces has a number of benefits to preparing the entire adventure as a whole. In this e...
There are two problems I’ve seen regarding interest level: characters who don’t seem to be buying in to the story and players who don’t seem to be in...
We all love making characters but one of the most common challenges I’ve heard in talking to players is how to make a memorable character; one that st...
Immortal creatures will sometimes make deals with mortals for power and you can sometimes include these situations in your game. Warlocks have this m...
Doppelgangers are terrifying shapeshifters that are in the game solely to make an already paranoid group of players even more so. After all, how can...
Baldur's Gate 3 is an amazing game and even though it doesn't have a Dungeon Master per se, it does have some good advice and lessons that all of us c...
A very special thank you to Rick Sandidge of Find the Path Ventures who was kind enough to come on the episode to discuss integrating character backst...
Some decry AI as the worst thing to come to RPGs since THAC0. However, I’d like DMs and players to acknowledge the problems associated with AI use bu...
Many moons ago I gave tips on character death but as The Mummy said, death is only the beginning. How do you let your player gracefully replace their...
In this short episode I talk about a common feeling among DMs: imposter syndrome and give DMs some advice for dealing with it. #dmtips #dnd #Pathf...
A few weeks ago I mentioned how rare I think class levels are in your world and promised a longer discussion on the topic. As threatened, here it is....
In this episode I use a bit of lore about the Vast to expand on a concept important to your game world - unexplored areas with the potential to have a...
Robert Nores wrote in asking how I prepare one shot adventures so in this episode I give you some general tips and walk you through how I would prepar...
RPG players depend on we DMs to effectively describe the combat, the encounter areas, and the world at large during exploration activities. The words...
Sometimes it's nice to remind players that not everything in the world revolves around them and they don't have the ability to control everything goin...
Your PCs tend to stroll through life like everything is great. They're walking through the Underdark, not a care in the world, oblivious to everythin...
