Gauging Encounters
How to balance and understand the difficulty of your encounters and the factors relevant in creating difficulty.
Author: Jacob Austin
Roleplaying the Jerk without Being One
What if you want to play the loner? Or perhaps a misrely type who doesn’t want to spend their spell components? Instead what about the evil character who does whatever because “its what my...
How difficult should your game really be?
Whats the metric for how hard combat should be? How often should NPCs hinder the players, or help them?
Why rolling a 20 should always work.
Talk about how natural 1s and 20s work in 5th edition and why you should be using rules that allow a 20 to succeed.
You can play great games with a single die.
Speak about d6 systems, what sort of options there are, and how it can create amazing gaming.
Spotlight: Fantastic Free Fantasy
Fantastic free fantasy friday is here. Lets see what excellent supplement, adventure, or game is free this week!
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What is the Best Character Build?
Lets discuss what the real best build is for any game. And why it actually does not matter what that build is. Your character should be an adventurer, and they should be a team...
How To Make Your Martial Character Interesting
Why do so many people think martials are boring? Can swinging a sword ever be as fun as slinging spells? I’ll talk about how we can help bridge the gap the gaming community fears....
Why Your Encounters Don’t Need To Be Balanced
Many feel that trying to use the CR system effectively is fruitless. Let’s see what we can do about that and why you may not need to worry about it at all. If you’ve...
Having waves of attackers make it easier to adjust combat on the fly. Maybe there is a barracks room within…