DM Tips

How to help DMs improvise NPCs

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Improvising NPCs can be one of the biggest challenges you face in the middle of a session you are DMing. You are already balancing dozens of other thoughts…

Combat Guide: How to help combat go smoothly

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This guide is meant to help DMs teach combat to their players as well as provide players with a framework and a resource to help them plan their turns in combat and how to describe that turn to go with the narrative of the battle! Print this out and walk through it with your new players or just hand more… Read More »Combat Guide: How to help combat go smoothly

GIVEAWAY 9/19

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Hey y’all! If you’ve been keeping up with the campaign, things have been going super well and we just ended the first story arc! It has been fantastic! If you haven’t seen it yet on our Twitter and Youtube, we are giving away two Adventure Tomes from Stephens Woodworks RVA These hold a set of dice, a miniature, and the… Read More »GIVEAWAY 9/19

Dungeon Master Prep and Notes Packet

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There’s a section for summarizing your last session, tracking time for quests, checklists, NPCs, shop keeps, inns/taverns, prepping descriptions of the environment and weather, and an initiative tracker to keep things running smoothly!

Giveaway! Ends June 1st!

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Two pieces of D&D dice paintings created entirely with coffee are going to be given away on June 1st! Watch this video for 2 different ways to enter!

Using Time in Your Toolkit

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If we use time as a tool to improve skill checks, to motivate pacing, and to allow for creativity and growth of our player’s characters, time will become an important element to the game giving a closer sense of reality to the problems at hand.

Improving Your Skill Checks

Just because a player is asking to do something that is related to a skill check, it does not mean you have to ask for one!” – Me, in this post, right now.