Reviewing Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft for Players and DMs: A Mastering Dungeons Index
We provide an index to our podcast coverage of the book Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft.
Special Reasons Why DMs Have Trouble Challenging Players
We review special reasons why a DM may have trouble achieving the right challenge level for their players.
Reviewing Player and DM Options in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything: A Mastering Dungeons Index
We provide an index to our podcast coverage of the book Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything.
Mastering Dungeons? Absolutely!
I join Shawn Merwin as the new co-host on my all-time favorite podcast!
My Process for Creating a Cool Character (using Fantasy AGE as an example)
A great character concept makes the games we play even better. How can we create memorable characters? What is a good process to tease ideas from our minds? What can we learn from different RPGs? And, how do we create characters in Fantasy AGE? Let’s find out!
The Seldom Recognized Dangers of Playing Ranged or Stealthy Characters
Range and Stealth offer awesome offensive potential, but carry risks players may not foresee. Here’s how to mitigate the issues.
Critical Role and Bringing Emotional Investment to Campaigns
Critical Role, the acclaimed and influential livestream series, showcases how a campaign can create emotional invested players. Find out how to create emotionally rich play in your campaign.
Breathing (Extra) Life into Characters
Extra-Life is an opportunity to help children’s hospitals, and to explore how to create a memorable character based on a few initial parameters. Exciting developments are coming soon due to donors’ efforts, and the week is stuffed full of podcasts!
5 Questions for Character Creation
5 Questions is a supplement designed to help you create robust and interesting characters. It works well as both a DM and player tool.
Using Classic Adventures with DnD Next: ToEE and Relationships
Learn how to converte the classic Temple of Elemental Evil to 5E, and how to incorporate FIASCO-styled relationships into your D&D campaign.
Defining Character
Every RPG struggles with how best to allow players to tell the story of the characters, both their origin or backstory and their ongoing story as they advance in power through accomplishments.
Point, Counter-Point: Combat Speed
Combats have to be under an hour to be fun? Utter nonsense. If the combat’s elements are engaging, it will never drag.