After reviewing Field Notes’ amazing 5e Character Journals it was brought to our attention that they also made 5e Game Master Journals as well. With this news, we simply couldn’t resist looking deeper into this product to give our honest opinion on how it might help you in your game. Let’s dive right into it! …
Combat encounters are critical to running a successful Dungeons and Dragons campaign. As a DM there are plenty of times where you’ll be put in a position where designing engaging and thoughtful encounters will be a must for an upcoming session. So how do you go about designing an encounter? What makes an encounter good? …
The Fundamentals of Combat Encounter Design for D&D Read More »
Dungeons and Dragons is a fantastic roleplaying game with deep lore, fun mechanics, and more than its fair share of expensive components. But what if we told you that you can play free Dungeons and Dragons games? Most people who play DnD have shelled out a pretty penny to get the rule books, dice, miniatures, …
Play DnD Without Spending Any Money: Free Dungeons and Dragons Read More »
Recently we met with a member of the ElderBrain team to talk about their latest project, Crown of the Oathbreaker, a 5e compatible dark fantasy campaign setting. Not only is the project successfully backed on Kickstarter, but it hit its first goal in 24 hours. This comes to us as no surprise as they’ve really …
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Out of the box, Dungeons and Dragons’ major game mechanics are largely focused on combat and role playing, in that order. These game mechanics are how things work from a logical and consistent sense. In combat these are pretty rigid, following a step by step formula. In role playing there’s a lot more wiggle room, …
Walking down the long corridors of the underground dungeon, the party comes across a curious device. A tall, rectangular box stands before them with a wall of force on its front face, separating the group from its contents. On the right of the force wall there are a variety of runic tiles that look like …
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Warlocks in DnD are practically screaming for a Lovecraft style treatment. While D&D is primarily a fantasy setting game, you might still want the classic, otherworldly horror style of Cthulhu or Yogsathoth in your game. While most of Lovecraft’s stories were set in the early 1900s, the real themes and structure of his work easily …
In a recent reddit post /u/momerathe postulated that humans may seem default and boring to us, but from the perspective of other races, humans may be anything but. This post highlighted an interesting bias that players have in DnD and it’s a topic worth exploring. From our own human perspective, humans are extremely unexceptional. But …
Field Notes, makers of fine journals and notebooks, have created an amazing product for 5e in the form of The Field Notes 5E Character Journal. We’ve been keeping our DnD notes in their other products for a long time, but they’ve finally gone and created a notebook that has everything you need to keep track …
Most dungeons have some sort of locked door your players need to bypass. These are typically locked with keys, switches, or some sort of puzzle. Your players might expect these normal obstacles, but there are other ways you can let your players open doors that have interesting consequences and mechanics. What is a Key Anyway? …
