This is how I D&D
World Building is such an important part of any D&D campaign. These articles help a GM build their own world to play in.
To take a break from Dungeons & Dragons, and fantasy in general, I have been reading a lot of old Traveller rules and putting together some resources and ideas to run a solo campaign in that universe.
Having gathered all this material, I wanted to share what I have found in case you, too wanted to get into some Traveller – solo – or otherwise.
Below are four resources I have found that have been immensely helpful to me so far.
Issue 51 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out! This one is all about an area of my own campaign you can include into your campaign world.
Issue 51 is the Bounded Hills issue. It features articles on:
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I’ve been thinking about Dungeons & Dragons classes lately. And I think fewer classes is better for the game.
Instead, I’ve reinvented Kits (from D&D 2nd edition but without the bloat) to give various classes flavour and the character some backstory.
One of the areas in Dungeons & Dragons 3e that are sorely misunderstood and misused are Prestige Classes – even in the official books!
They were created for use by the GM as a worldbuilding tool, not to fill up splat books.
The issue with the published prestige classes is that they were designed to be too general (except for some of the racial ones), which is the antithesis of what they were supposed to be – that is, specific to the individual GM’s campaign world.
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Adventures in Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) are the bread and butter of the game. Adventurers delve into dungeons, explore the wilderness, and navigate cities – all in an effort to become heroes.
Running one adventure after another however, can be overwhelming – for both GM and players.
Characters level up in a matter of days or weeks, and the excitement for the next adventure can dwindle without a space to breathe and reflect on what has already been accomplished.
This is where downtime comes in.
The Book of Lairs for the 2nd edition of Dungeons & Dragons came out in 1994 (I still remember buying it in my local gaming store).
It is a series of short encounters (usually 2-3 pages in length) based on a monsters from either the MC3: Monstrous Compendium, Volume Three: Forgotten Realms Appendix (1989) and MC11: Monstrous Compendium, Forgotten Realms Appendix II (1991).
This post has a handy table to help expand on the book, and make it more useful to Gamemasters.
I have a strange obsession with detailing various trees and other vegetation in my Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
This post introduces a new tree I needed to create for a particular adventure for my solo D&D campaign.
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I don’t like most adventures written for Dungeons & Dragons as they tend to be rather linear.
Having stated that, there are some adventures out there that are more like sandboxes: they have a basic background story and world to them, but they rely on players making choices about where they go and what they do.
They are a series of locations that the PCs can explore at their leisure.
Below are a series of old school & OSR sandbox adventures that I have found quite enjoyable and useful. This includes five official modules, and nine indie adventures.
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Torchwood is an out-of-the-way wood just off the Snowmelt River, north-west of the larger Ashwood Forest in my home campaign world.
We all know the Web spell is the go-to spell for 3rd-level mages all over. It is a versatile spell and can deal with a lot of weak opponents. But there are better spells out there.
This is a follow-up to my post, Five 1st-Level Spells In D&D Better Than Magic Missile.
As in that post, I will list five spells from OSE/Basic, and D&D3e, that are better than Web.
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