We have just put out our second set of DM’s resources for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, covering Chapter 2: Icewind Dale. Let’s celebrate with a free map! The DM’s resources contain troubleshooting, advice on encounter difficulty, encounter tables & sheets, an Icewind Dale cheatsheet, and much more – including a handful of battlemaps …
We have just released our DM’s Resources for Chapter 1 of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, must-have resources for anyone who would like to cut down on preparation time and make their game easier to run!
In this post, I will present 5 general tips for DMs who want to run the 5E adventure Waterdeep: Dragon Heist.
In this post I’ll explain my house rule for fixing falling damage in fifth edition D&D. It’s a quick, simple rule, that makes falling damage in 5E a lot more realistic, and which can be implemented without changing too much else about the game.
In this post, I’ll describe how you can replace 5E’s skill proficiency system with Skill Points – yeah, those nifty little things you may remember them from earlier editions of Dungeons & Dragons!
Just like a book or a movie is composed of a long series of scenes, a game of Dungeons & Dragons (and other tabletop roleplaying games) is, in essence, composed of a long series of encounters. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say encounter design is one of the most important skills in the …
Knowing D&D-players, the question “could I become a lich?” will invariably come up at some point. The instinctual answer may be “eh… I don’t know?” or “of course not! Are you insane?”, but it doesn’t have to be that way….
I stumbled across a post on Reddit a while back. It was a simple, one-sentence question, somewhere along the lines of: Can anyone become a lich? Pretty innocuous question, but it got me thinking. And thinking. And thinking so much I decided to write a whole damn book about it, which is being publishing today: …
The Lich in Dungeons & Dragons – excerpt from Larloch’s Lexicon of Lichdom Read More »
Each year, WotC publishes an official adventure for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. Some are adventure anthologies with several smaller adventures, such as Tales of the Yawning Portal or Ghosts of Saltmarsh, while others are entire campaigns, like Curse of Strahd, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, and Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus. These official adventures are aimed …
Running published adventures – how to run official 5E D&D campaigns Read More »
In the start of March, we wrote a series of blogpost on turning Avernus into a Sandbox, by changing the structure in Chapter 3: Avernus. Since then, we have taken the three posts and stuck them in a PDF that’s quite a bit easier to bring to your table. You can get it in both …
