One bard's take on D&D and other things
D&D is a game made of words! And it is a big game with many words.
Every feature of your character has specific wording that tells you what situations to use it, how to use it, and what its effects are. As your character grows, they’ll pick up even more features.
And you know what?
It’s impossible to remember it all.
The party discovers the crystal connecting the Material Plane to whatever unknown place the star spawn came from. They fight off the creatures guarding the crystal, but when the crystal is destroyed, an unexpected tragedy strikes…
In these Campaign Diary posts, I talk about the campaign I play in and our most recent session!
Continue readingMy new campaign has officially started!
In these posts, I’ll talk about preparing and running sessions for my roguelike-style D&D 5e campaign.
Continue readingWe’ve completed the session zero and have scheduled the first session of the new campaign I’ve been working on!
Moving forward, these posts will be called “Roguelike Recap” and will discuss the sessions of the campaign.
For now, let’s talk about the session zero!
Continue readingWhile my introduction to D&D was in-person, most of my D&D experience has been online. There are many different tools out there for online play! So far, though, I’ve preferred a pretty simple approach that uses Discord for sessions and campaign organization.
In this post, I’ll talk about different ways I’ve used Discord as a Dungeon Master.
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