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. […]
DM note, In August 2021 we started playing D&D with the heroes that would come to be known as The Hellbenders. Since then we have played across three campaigns starting with A Way Home followed by A Date with the Devil and currently The Troll Hunt. But tonight’s game was different as we said goodbye […]
Our heroes Double Trouble was being chased by the local city guards, The Keepers of the Balance, for having killed multiple citizens and by The Pink Ladies for having (somewhat inadvertently) been the cause of their leader, Rizo, losing all her hair! But they had found sanctuary in the hidden Shelter of Sekhmet and stayed […]
Sometimes something unforeseen happens that requires me to create some terrain … fast. One example is this Mount Celestia gaming board set. And yesterday evening I found out I had to run a different D&D game than planned, which required me to complete an additional, but important feature to my existing Posh Ball gaming board […]
Sometimes players do something wholly unexpected. This happened in a game last year where the party were adventuring in Phlegethos the 4th layer of Hell but suddenly made an unexpected move that teleported them to Mount Celestia an altogether different landscape. this made me scramble to create a full gaming board for Mount Celestia using […]
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, […]
“You did this! I will fucking kill you!” The normally cold and civilised Rizzo, leader of the Pink Ladies, had lost all her hair to a spell creating beautiful dresses for our heroes. She was now at the doorstep of Amazin’ Glazin’, the bakery where our heroes were staying. And she was not alone. With […]
This year I incorporated the Christmas game into our campaign rather than running a Christmas themed oneshot. Having faced three waves of trolls (and an attempted sabotage of their winter storage), the townsfolk of Wildgate were grateful for the help of our heroes, The Hell Benders, but they were also worn out by their continuous […]
2022 is ending and it looks like this Giant from Marauder Miniatures (from 1990) will be my last miniature of the year. And what a miniature! I used to sell my warhammer armies once I had painted them and frankly I never regretted selling any of them… but I did regret selling my original Marauder […]
A few years back, I bought these amazing “Gnome More Mr Nice Guy!”. The thing is, these minis look like the Danish “Nisser“, little fey creatures associated with Christmas, so these minis for a Christmas Oneshot. So I was super excited when I learned that Northumbrian Tin Solider had launched a Kickstarter called “The Gnomes of […]
I’m working on a Christmas chapter for our current campaign The Troll Hunt and I need some Christmas themed scatter. One thing I wanted was some Christmas presents and here is how I did a bunch fast. Material I bought some colourful beads, some thin sparkly tape and some tiny bells at Flying Tiger. Already […]
DM note: This came had almost no combat encounters so it is light on photos. Having learned about a hidden apparel shop run by hags, from Owen, a patron of the Wave of the Wand, our heroes went home for a good night’s rest. Penny and Autumn woke up late in the morning in their […]