We has just finished our D&D campaign that has run since 2021 with 45 sessions spread over 100 hours and while we took a break over the summer before starting the next one, I decided to try and run something entirely new. To keep the learning curve low, I chose the Lovecraftian Eldritch Hack rules from Professor […]
A shoot-out can be a novel and fun way to make a combat encounter with a twist While D&D traditionally is more on the mideaveal side, you can still have a shoot-out with bows, throwing axes and spells… Or introduce some guns. The trick is to prevent melee without aggravating your players. Here’s how I […]
In a recent game, our heroes found themselves in a big dome hosting a glamorous party, but with some dodgy happenings in the shadows. Indeed, underneath the dome was a small dungeon type basement. I realised while I was drawing the map for this dungeon, that I approach dungeon map making in a bit of […]
Since I re-started playing Dungeons & Dragons in 2018, I have listened to a ton of youtube videos, podcast and real a bunch of books all on the topic of how to DM. Here are the top 3 tips I have learned that will set up you to make your first Dungeons & Dragons adventure. […]
In a recent game, the party was in a dire situation being hunted by several factions in the city, including the city guard. One player (playing a Cleric of Sekhmet) said in character: ” I know a shelter nearby created for followers of Sekhmet. It is secret as the major religious power of the city, […]
Inspired by a youtube video I recently saw on dragon encounters I made one for our current campaign and I am pretty happy with how it turned out. Here’s how to run it. Note, this encounter is designed to be tough! When I ran, it one of the heroes almost died. Threat, treat and timer […]
14 Sept 2019 we held our wedding reception and a few days before, my wife bought me a notebook for D&D. I wrote my wedding speech on the first pages and since then it has been my DM notebook as we travelled from UK through Sweden to Denmark in the middle of the pandemic. The […]
Listening to the ever-awesome Runehammer talking about the value of beginner’s mindset in D&D. Having that awe and wonder, that sense of not expectations of oneself or the game, nothing to prove and that sense of immersion and gravity of the unknown. The chat is almost 2 hours, but it is absolutely worth it if […]
My wife and I have relocated to Stockholm until next spring. All my D&D stuff, scenery, miniatures etc, has been put in storage until we return to Denmark. However, our London gaming group has decided to start up playing online again so with that in mind, I needed to “restock” starting with a set of […]
As a DM I draw from my professional experience as a Workshop Facilitator, which means I know various techniques to encourage people engage with the topic at hand. Here is is one technique I use to help introvert people to speak up. There is a general view that splitting the party is a bad thing. […]
After I watched “Social Encounters: Decoded” by Runehammer, I’ve been thinking about how to apply the logic of changing social encounters from a situation where the NPC holds a single important piece of information that will only be revealed if the players ask the right question (s). I often do this and it ends up […]
My wife got me a pretty awesome limited edition Grim Reaper miniature from Reaper miniatures and it really got me thinking about character deaths in Dungeons & Dragons an d how to make them more special and epic. The first character death we faced since I restarted my D&D hobby in 2018, was pretty epic. […]