Radiant magical energy. Hot blood dripping from a dagger. Pools of rippling water. These are just a few of the many (many) effects that add those special finishing touches to your miniatures or bases that take them from good to great, even grand. (Sometimes gory.) In this article I’ll explain some common techniques and effects …
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We love Dungeons and Dragons. We created this whole blog about it. But for everything we love, the game certainly has some things that are missing. We don’t expect the game to cover every topic imaginable. We understand that you’d have to have hundreds of pages to build out systems for everything everyone wanted to …
Consumables in Dungeons and Dragons are a bit iffy when it comes to their rules. In 5th Edition crafting is all but absent from the game and the rarity system is bad if you want crafting to be a mainstay of your game. Despite these rules being bad for crafters, they do shed some light …
Recently the good people over at The Army Painter were kind enough to send us a copy of their Gamemaster Dungeons & Caverns Core Set for terrain modeling and painting. The kit is full of everything you’d need to get started building your own high quality dungeon terrain for your next TTRPG session. We decided …
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Recently we purchased the Elagoo Mars 2 Pro to try resin printing for our TTRPG miniatures. With the recent improvement in resin printing and the extreme affordability that exists now, we decided it was finally time to test it out. We’ve been big fans of the extrusion printing in the past using our Prusa MK2, …
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If you run a DnD campaign, descriptions can get stale really fast. How many times in one combat do you say some combination of you stab the enemy with your sword? If you’re doing a lot of descriptions over and over you’re going to have to learn to switch up your vocabulary and add some …
Minis for your Dungeons and Dragons sessions can be expensive, but they don’t have to be. Even though the latest and greatest models could cost you an arm and a leg, you can easily get passable stand-ins for less than you think. The trade off is that more affordable substitutes often require a little more …
Dungeons and Dragons is a very open game. Your players could decide to walk off in any direction, look at anything, or pick a fight with anyone. This is one of the primary hurdles that dungeon masters have to face in their games and it is often hard to plan around. You can’t prepare everything …
Maps are a staple part of fantasy adventure. They’re not just pieces of paper that tell you where to go, they’re a visual representation of the places you could explore, as well as a rich and detailed plotting of how each area relates to each other. It’s easy to see why maps are great for …
New dungeon masters can find an endless amount of professional DMs to compare themselves to: voice actors, comedians, writers, and developers. They’re all incredibly proficient at the game and are tough to measure up against. The recent trend of live play content online often highlights the best of the best talent in DnD and it …
