Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Below is a short story I wrote almost a year ago, It is set in the Broken Lands and details Dragon’s attacking the capital of Whitecrest. This is something I was inspired to write because of D&D, and I hope you enjoy reading it! It helped to absorb my mind into […]
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A New DM’s Experience With A Campaign Pitch
Making Something You Want to Run A campaign pitch is important. Every Campaign you run in D&D will last anywhere from a few sessions to years. For you, it will become a second life, whether it be a pre-built campaign or a home-brew one. A good campaign pitch can properly set expectations, and a bad […]
A New Campaign, And The Prep
The Want to Do Something New With the current campaign in DND being the second-longest I have run, and it seems to begin going to a natural conclusion prep has, of course, began on a new campaign. This time lessons have been learned in world-building, and a new idea has sprung forth. To build the world around […]
A New DM’s Experience With NPCs
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay NPCs, The Many Faces of a DM What can arguably be considered as the most important part of the game, non-player characters are who the players talk with and will spend the most time with. From simple monsters to noble paladin’s these figures have to be just distinct enough to […]
A New DM’s Experience with Adventures
Image by MasterTux from Pixabay Making Adventures Adventures are fun right? They are the most challenging thing to make, a single one can last a campaign or just a few sessions. This will also touch a little on individual session making but know that I still struggle with pacing and difficulty of combat encounters. Now […]
A New DM’s Experience With World-building
Or so everyone wants you to think. This is a summary of a years’ worth of experience world-building in D&D, and most of it was me winging it!
A Year Of Running D&D And Deadlands Part 2
This is the second part of the Article A Year of Running D&D and Deadlands Part 1. It continues the story of my first year as a dungeon master, covering the last six month’s of it. This is really a story about friends, and being inspired to do more.
A Year of Running D&D and Deadlands Part 1
A Simple Start This is a brief history of my first six months as a dungeon master. I hope it gets across the highs and lows, and the start of events that gave me more confidence and a new group of friends. I highly encourage anyone who even is tempted to run or play D&D […]