One bard's take on D&D and other things
The party successfully takes on a challenge and reaps the rewards, reaching level 11. We’re solidly in the third act of the campaign, so I’m excited to see how they do next session!
In these posts, I discuss my roguelike-inspired D&D campaign sessions.
Continue readingRainy day sessions have a great atmosphere! In these posts, I talk about my roguelike-inspired D&D campaign sessions.
Continue readingFall approaches for us in the northern hemisphere, and we’ve just had our second session of the roguelike campaign!
Here, I discuss the preparation and running of sessions for my roguelike-style D&D campaign.
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 readingHey there! Hope this post finds everyone safe and well.
I recently released a DM’s Guild product of my own called Downtime Scenes, so I’m going to talk about how you can use this in your game!
Continue readingThe playtest is complete! I’m collecting feedback this weekend and will start building out the rest of the campaign. Let’s talk about the playtest!
I’m writing a homebrew campaign in the style of a Hades-esque roguelike. I’m playtesting it with my group before I run it for real! These posts talk about my experience making a campaign like this from the ground up.
Continue readingMy first playtest deadline is coming up at the end of this month, and I still have plenty of work to do! But I’ve made good progress so far.
I’m writing a homebrew campaign in the style of a Hades-esque roguelike. I’m going to playtest it with my group before I finalize it and run it for real! These posts talk about my experience making a campaign from scratch. The last homebrew campaign I ran was much more improvisational than this. But D&D 5e isn’t made to fit this campaign idea right out of the box, so there’s some design work I need to do beforehand!
Continue readingWell, it’s only been about four weeks since I finished Curse of Strahd, and I’m already putting work into a new campaign. Truthfully, I’ve been tinkering away at this during the weeks leading up to the final CoS session. Now I have time to put some serious work into it!
I’ll be writing about my progress and process as I write this new homebrew campaign! First, let’s talk about the ideas behind it and what I need to do (and why) to playtest it with my group.
Continue readingOur group tried out Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e recently, and it went great! In this post, I’ll talk about what Ancestry & Culture is, why we tried it, and our experience with it.
Continue readingI started homebrewing D&D stuff in the first campaign I ran—mostly magic weapons and other items. We’ve talked about homebrew before, but let’s get a little more granular. There’s just something special about designing an item with a specific player and a specific character in mind! More than that, I enjoyed seeing the creative ways that my players used these items.
Below are some resources and advice I’ve found helpful when making items to deploy in my games:
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