Adventures in Tabletop
As a Dungeon Master (DM), I used to have mixed feelings about random encounters. For years, I saw them as a frustrating part of the game. They interrupt the flow of the narrative, consume precious time, and sometimes feel like Continue reading How Answering 1 Question Made Me Fall in Love with Random Encounters as a Dungeon Master in D&D
Running a Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) campaign can be an exciting but challenging endeavor, especially for a new Dungeon Master (DM). In this guide, we’ll address some of the most common questions new DMs have, divided into five key sections: Continue reading Answering Your Newbie Dungeon Master Questions About Running DnD
Welcome back or welcome to the blog for the first time! This time, I want to show off another example of grabbing the microscope and dialing in the magnification to zoom in on our world map with some more detail. Continue reading From Atlas to Region Hex Mapping: Worldbuilding Biomes for a Continent
Welcome back! So far in our top-down worldbuilding series we’ve created a world map, put down some landmarks, and even drafted up some borders for the different political states. Now it’s time we turn our attention towards the human element Continue reading Worldbuilding Culture Questions and Checklist for D&D & TTRPGs
Not that long ago I ran across, or rather, ran across again, Sly Flourish’s overview of Frank Mentzer’s Dungeon, a sort of replayable or infinite dungeon for D&D. It was something I shrugged off as novel but inconsequential when I Continue reading Crafting an Infinite Dungeon for D&D