While there are plenty of map generators out there, sometimes you want your own hand drawn town map for your DnD campaign. You might not think of yourself as an artist. You may have never made a map before. But you can draw a town map from scratch just by following some simple steps and …
In the world of Dungeons and Dragons secret doors abound. But most of the time they go unnoticed or end up hardly being secrets at all. This is a problem of making secret doors either too secret or too obvious. Often this is because the purpose behind the secret door hasn’t been fully explored and …
In DnD there is no place more well-tread for players than the general store. Adventuring supplies, rations, and goods of all types typically come from some general shop in most campaigns. While it can be tempting to consider these shops as a catch-all for any non-specialty good, they have a lot more to offer than …
In a previous article we talked about why the rules for crafting potions in DnD 5e are insufficient for most players and DMs. Today we’d like to share with you a spell based option to allow your casters to create potions in the game without spending 200 days crafting them. This is a homebrew spell, …
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There simply aren’t enough potions in DnD. To rectify this problem as a Dungeon Master, all you need to do is make some of your own. But how do you create potions? This guide will teach you not only how to select potion effects, but also how to turn any spell into a potion in …
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 …
If your players are like most out there they likely hate dying in a session. We get it, dying sucks. But what if we told you could kill your player’s characters and they’ll still have fun? There are plenty of ways to augment your game so that dying isn’t a terrible thing. We’ll give a …
Cantrips are the cornerstone of a caster’s basic abilities. A cantrip is a spell that can be cast at-will and does not use up a spell slot. There are a lot of fantastic cantrips and a large majority of them are basic combat staples which give your casters something to do when they’ve run out …
If you ever find your players looking blankly at you after a long description, take it as a subtle note to try to improve your storytelling. While there’s a million skills you can hone for DnD, storytelling is one of the most important skills of the Dungeon Master. Like any skill, it’s hard to get …
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We’ve already talked a lot about both the cursed items provided in the DMG as well as what makes a good cursed item, but today we want to tackle making cursed items for your game quickly. Throwing cursed items in with regular loot can be fun, but figuring out the curse can be a bit …
