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The benefit of splitting the party for introvert players

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. […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Maps for Fun

Map: PlaneStep

This is the fortress town of “PlaneStep“, a town that has grown around the swirling magical vortex known as the “Drowning” . The Drowning connects the material plane to other planes in unpredictable manner. Sometimes it brings otherworldly treasure, sometimes nightmarish danger hence the town and it citizens are always battle ready. The strong city […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Maps for Fun

Map: Port Pleasant

95 years ago, a violent earthquake shook the town of Port Pleasant followed by an enormous shape appearing from the earth itself tearing a huge scar across town killing hundreds of people. Initially the local Fey living around the nearby volcano were blamed and hunted, but no matter the interrogation, none of the Feyfolk had […]

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Using Skill Challenge from 4e to make better Social Encounters

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 […]

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Making character death a memorable and magical event in Dungeons & Dragons

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. […]

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Fiends

Dungeons & Dragons – Succubi and Incubi (Hasslefree Miniatures)

Not much to say here except, this might not be safe for work lol. Joking aside, Hasslefree minis are just great and so are these seductive types. Already field them in a game and they were fun to use.

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Campaign: Twobridges Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons – Twobridges Chapter 3: Rats in the Room

This is the last Dungeons & Dragons game I will DM in London for the foreseeable future as we moving to Denmark. The last couple of weeks for our heroes have been slow. It has given them time to sit ate the Silver unicorn and think about and discuss what actually happened when they arrived […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Hobby Year Books

MEGA POST – My 2020 painted miniatures!

We are half way through 2020 and normally I would write this summary article at the end of the year like I did in 2019 and 2018. However, we will be moving soon to Denmark after 21 years in London so all my hobby stuff is packed away and will likely not be unpacked until […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Hobby Year Books Terrain and Scenery

MEGA POST – My 2020 scenery!

I normally write summary posts at the end of the year, but since I’ve now packed away all my hobby stuff in preparation for moving back to Denmark after 21 years in London, I might as well just bite the bullet and publish what scenery I did make in 2020. There isn’t much compared to […]

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Starting from scratch with Dungeons & Dragons: What minis to paint, what scenery to build.

I saw a Youtube video by Jim Murphy where he want through all his stored hobby stuff. At the same time I’ve been packing away my own hobby collection in preparation for moving back to Denmark after 21 years in London. And the things got me thinking: If I had to start all over with […]

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6 tips for DMing for busy adults. (thoughts before I take a short rest from Dungeons & Dragons)

I had been playing roleplaying games since mid 80s, but stopped when I moved from Denmark to London in August 1999. However, in Feb 2018, I started the campaign War of the Triplets with 5 adults who barely knew each other or Dungeons & Dragons. In a few months I will move back to Denmark […]

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Campaign: Daisygate Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons – Daisygate Chapter 14: The Tale of the Spring Princess and the Winter Prince

With two of their comrades dead, the Paladin Damon and the Warlock Alyanys was on the look out for new recruits. Fortunately an unknown (kinda) mysterious benefactor (Jean-Jacques in disguise) had found two candidates and invited all four to a team building exercise in a haunted tower (damdamdaaaaam) at the edge of Twilight Forest. The […]