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How to Run Downtime in D&D

What do I mean by Downtime? I mean the time between adventures where characters are in no rush to complete a goal and can spend some time relaxing or achieving something unrelated to your main plot. Downtime is useful to give your players variety and to give them more chances to roleplay. Downtime for meContinue reading “How to Run Downtime in D&D”

How to Make Combat More Interesting

My favourite part of DND is the Roleplaying and a session filled with purely combat would be torture for me. Okay, not torture but not great either. Although if my Game Master can come up with an idea to spice up the combat, it could make the experience more fun and engaging for me andContinue reading “How to Make Combat More Interesting”

Is Alignment Good or Evil?

In this post I will list my views on Alignment, why I think it can be useful, but mostly it will be a rant about why I think it sucks and why I don’t pay very much attention to alignment when I’m playing D&D or when I’m creating a character. What is Good and Evil?Continue reading “Is Alignment Good or Evil?”

D&D – How to be the Worst Player

I have previously posted my tips and tricks on how to work in a team around the D&D table, but what if you think teamwork is lame and making others happy is overrated, well then your in luck, simply follow all of the following tips and you will for sure be the most hated playerContinue reading “D&D – How to be the Worst Player”

D&D – Roleplaying Tips

Today’s blog is about Roleplaying, some love it, some are uncomfortable with it, some a bit of both. I will give you some simple Tips on how to be a better roleplayer, this small introduction has gone on long enough so without further ado, hear are the tips.

D&D – Teamwork

Introduction In this blog I will give you hints & tips on how to work as part of a team in your roleplaying group. This blog will not only help you with your career and your personal life, but most importantly, it will also help you pretend to be imaginary characters around a table withContinue reading “D&D – Teamwork”

D&D Spellcasting: Paladins

Paladins are those that take sword and spell to fight in the name of their god. Paladins have sworn an oath that they will execute the will of their gods and that they will abide by the Tenets of their faith. Because of this, paladins take a more frontline role in combat and in conflictsContinue reading “D&D Spellcasting: Paladins”

D&D Spellcasting: Druids

A Druids magic is bestowed upon them by a god or by nature itself, they have taken up the cause of preserving and protecting nature, maintaining the natural order of things and the balance between the elements. Druids could be sworn protectors of a sacred grove or they could take a more active role andContinue reading “D&D Spellcasting: Druids”

D&D Spellcasting Clerics

Clerics draw their power from their devotion and prayer to a god, who has seen fit to bestow them with divine magic. Some Clerics like to heal allies and hurl magic from a distance, whilst some prefer to get up close and personal using their magic to boost their melee attacks. Whatever type of ClericContinue reading “D&D Spellcasting Clerics”

D&D Spellcasting: Bards

Bards channel their magic through their instruments, their voice or their song. One of the most classic examples of a Bard throughout history would have to be the pied piper, weaving his magic through his flute to lure away the rats from a local town and then later returning to lure away the children ofContinue reading “D&D Spellcasting: Bards”