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Tip: Plant Character Knowledge Before the Gameoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2021
4 Tips For When One Player Scouts the Dungeonoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2021
F’Chelrak’s Tomb: The Earliest D&D Adventure Worth Playingoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2021
A Game Design History of the Dump Statoriginal ↗
25 May 2021
How to Run an Ambush So Sneaky Monsters Bring More Than Claw/Claw/Biteoriginal ↗
18 May 2021
When You Describe Outcomes, Flatter Your Game’s Heroes and Monstersoriginal ↗
11 May 2021
Ninth-level D&D spells Were Never Intended for Playersoriginal ↗
4 May 2021
The Twisting Tale of Skills in D&Doriginal ↗
27 Apr 2021
If a Mind Flayer Fed on D&D Characters’ Brains, It Would Go Hungry. Should PC Intelligence Matter?original ↗
20 Apr 2021
The Dungeon Mapper: From Half of D&D to a Forgotten Roleoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2021
Steal This Rule: Numenera and XP for Discoveryoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2021
How to Build a D&D Cleric Who’s Super Fun in a Fightoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2021
How to Improve Your D&D Game by Posing Difficult Dilemmasoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2021
D&D‘s Ongoing Updates and How a Priority Could Lead to New Core Booksoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2021
How To Adjust Combat Difficulty on the Fly Using the Magic of Roleplayingoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2021
To Find the Fun in Traps, Did D&D Miss the Search Check?original ↗
2 Mar 2021
9 Facts About the First D&D Module, Palace of the Vampire Queenoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2021
Stop Favoring Perception for Searches in D&Doriginal ↗
16 Feb 2021
To Run a Great Dungeon, Write All Over the Maporiginal ↗
9 Feb 2021
D&D’s Advice for Dungeon Masters Offers Nothing on Running Dungeonsoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2021
Improve Roleplaying Investigation Scenes With These 23 Reasons an NPC Won’t Cooperateoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2021
The Last Five GM’s Commandments Updated for Todayoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2021
Updating the 35-Year-Old GM’s Ten Commandments for Todayoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2021
9 Best Collections of Inspirational Tables and Lists to Help DMs Create and Improviseoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2021
How to Avoid Boring Rerolls of D&D’s Ability Checksoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2021

2020

5 Roleplaying Products That Shaped How I Play Dungeons & Dragons 1978-2000original ↗
29 Dec 2020
5 Roleplaying Products That Shaped How I Play Dungeons & Dragons 1977–1978original ↗
22 Dec 2020
Getting Players Moving, Especially When No One Wants to Driveoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2020
Use the Small World Principle to Build a Better Gameoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2020
The 4 Unwritten Rules No Dungeon Master Should Breakoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2020
3 Posts that Need Updates Thanks to Tasha’s Cauldron of Everythingoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2020
You Can Play These Supreme D&D Characters, But Should You?original ↗
17 Nov 2020
Fast, Unkillable, Deadly: The 7 Supreme D&D Character Builds for One Thingoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2020
Gen Con 1981: From D&D Nerdvana to Stranded by My Liesoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2020
How to Scare D&D Players—Even When They Play Mighty Heroesoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2020
Dungeon Masters: Just a Little Attention to Darkness Pays Offoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2020
Paladins, Barbarians, and Other Classes Once Balanced by Rules of Behaviororiginal ↗
13 Oct 2020
4 Ways D&D’s Creators Tried and Failed to Balance Classesoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2020
Scrutinizing the 9 Most Popular House Rules for D&Doriginal ↗
29 Sept 2020
Dungeons Masters Can Make Fake Choices for Players, But Should You?original ↗
22 Sept 2020
TSR vs. the Internet Part 2—From They Sue Regularly to Open Gamingoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2020
1994: TSR Declares War on the Internet’s D&D Fansoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2020
Turning a Monster Into a Puzzleoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2020
D&D’s Best Multiclass Combinations With Paladinoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2020
How to Build a D&D Polearm Master That Might Be Better Than a Sharpshooteroriginal ↗
18 Aug 2020
Dungeons as a Mythic, Living Eviloriginal ↗
11 Aug 2020
What to Do When a D&D Player Wants to Be Ready, Call a Shot, or Delayoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2020
3 Actions D&D Players Want That Defy the Game’s Design Choicesoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2020
Making a Tier 4 D&D Encounter for Characters Who Play Like Superheroesoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2020
5 Reasons Most D&D Players Stopped Exploring Megadungeonsoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2020
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