Short, bite-sized RPG advice, tips, and tricks for DMs and players of tabletop role playing games (TTRPG)
258 episodes transcribedThis week we return to the class series, focusing on those classes that focus a lot on baddie hit points: fighters and monks. Do you want some ideas...
Is your game moving online or staying online longer than you expected? Mine are staying online for a while so I compiled a list of tips that can help...
Travel between adventures doesn't have to be a boring slog of survival checks or reinforcement of how empty your world is. Travel and exploration act...
Fair warning: I'm doing weird episodes again. This week, I advocate taking lessons from video games and movies and introducing new class abilities a...
Building worlds, countries, and even towns can be tough. There are a lot of moving parts to try to tame and it's easy to miss preparing some importan...
Goblins are classic low level one-note baddies that eat anything they can, kill everything else, except for the few things that they try to mate with....
Clerics and Druids are more diverse than most people realize. Playing them as Healy McHealface and Joe Ent-Lover may come second nature (ba-dum-tss)...
At the beginning of the D&D 5th Edition Dungeon Master's Guide there is a paragraph that was likely only included as a joke and it reinforced my b...
Skill challenges were one of the best things to come out of the much maligned 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. What are they? How can you use th...
Like most people who have done something for a while, I look back at my early days of playing D&D and cringe at some of the mistakes I made as a n...
Adding aerial or swimming combatants to your battlefield can make things very complicated very quickly. It doesn't help matters when the different ga...
I received a listener suggestion to talk about some of the classes available in 5e and Pathfinder. This episode starts that series, beginning with th...
"Part of the journey is the end," as it was so wisely said. As tough as it can be guiding the adventure to an end, handling the end properly can be s...
Oops. One of your PCs was just bitten by a werewolf and have begun the transformation into a howling, flesh-devouring monster. How do you handle thi...
Combat encounters are easy. Stab, slash, or shoot the other team until they aren't trying to kill you. Non-combat encounters can be just as challeng...
The Blood War isn't good vs evil. It's evil vs evil. In Dungeons and Dragons Demons and Devils have been battling it out for millennia in what's kno...
Do you struggle describing what the characters see? Do you need a magic method to instantly make you better? I can't help with that but I can provid...
Is combat getting a little bit...stale? Are your D&D or Pathfinder combats taking too long and they have become a long battle of hit point attrition,...
Prewritten modules and adventures are a DM's friend. They are simple, canned documents that you can insert into your world as needed but they're bett...
You're starting a new campaign! Yay! Everything is so shiny and new. Your DM has asked you to come up with a backstory for your dragonborn druid fr...
