3 Wise DMs
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3 Wise DMs is a podcast for dungeon masters (for Dungeons & Dragons) and game masters (any other RPG) with problems. And when we say problems, we don’t mean the kind of things you find answers for in the gamebooks. Think of it as a gaming philosophy show with a strong emphasis on applied knowledge. We all want to be great DMs, so what do we do to try to get there?
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Changes - 3 Wise DMs Absolutely Best Tips For The Player That Wants To Change Their D&D Character Class
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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RPG Mythbusters: The Tavern is the Best Place to Start Your D&D Adventure
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In: 3 Wise DMs Discuss How Using Conditions Will Enhance Your D&D Game
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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She’s a Mystery to Me: How Long To Keep Secrets and Clues From Your Players In Your D&D Game
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Whatcha Got Cookin’? – 3WDs Top 9 Tips To Homebrewing Magic and Magical Items From Pop Culture In Your D&D Campaign
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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You Say It’s Your Birthday – 3WD Reveals 7 Tips That Will Help You Build Your Own Very Special One-Shot D&D Game
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Inspiration: How You Use It and 4 Ways You Can Improve It In Your D&D Game
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Share and Share Alike: 3WDs Top Tips For Dealing With D&D Players Who Won’t Share The Spotlight
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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The Breakup Game – How Constant Splitting of the Party Can Lead to DM Burnout and What to Do About It
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Damage, Inc. – 3WD Discuss What Hit Points Represent And How To Improve Your D&D Game By Changing Your Perspective.
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting – 3WD Reviews the Avatar Legends RPG and Reveals Tips on Running Brand-New Systems in Your D&D Group!
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Stone Cold Crazy – How a First-Time DM Ran a Crazy One-Shot With Four Kurt Russell’s!
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Tumbling Dice – Using Board Games in Your D&D Game To Create Unique And Fun Sessions
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Strange Magic – The Best Ways To Adjudicate Spell Effects In Your D&D and TTRPG Campaigns
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Let’s Give ‘Em Something To Talk About: Our Best Tips To Get Your Players Roleplaying And Talking Amongst Themselves In Your D&D Game
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Tribute to the Greatest Game In The World: The 3 Wise DMs Share The Lessons Learned From Running A 12 Player D&D Game
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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To Roll or Not to Roll? The 7 Best Times To Roll The Dice In Your D&D Game And When Not To.
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Cutscenes – How to Deliver Lore and Secrets in Your D&D Games and TTRPGs While Still Keeping Your Players Involved
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Live and Let Die: Dealing with Anti-Murderhobos in Curse of Strahd and Players Who Don’t Want to Confront the Enemy in Your TTRPG Game
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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How Low Can You Go? The Things Every DM Needs To Know When Creating Low Magic Settings in Their D&D And TTRPG Campaigns
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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D&D Accounting: 11 Tips and Pitfalls to Tracking Treasure in your TTRPG
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Come Together: 3 Wise DMs and Tabletop Journeys Come Together to Discuss the Best Tips to Running a Shared TTRPG Campaign World
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Behind the Screens: 3 Wise DMs Reveal What They Want and Need Behind Their DM Screens and Offer Tips to Improve Your DM Set-Up
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Glory Days: 3 Wise DMs Shares the Pros and Cons With Their Return to Basic D&D Through the Old School Renaissance
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May 28, 2023 |
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My Name’s the Teacher: Making Leveling with Character Abilities, Oaths, and Patrons Matter in your Dungeons & Dragons Campaign
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May 14, 2023 |
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It’s So Easy: 3 Wise DMs 18 Favorite Dungeon Master Hacks To Help Make Running Your TTRPG Game That Much Easier
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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When Good Gaming Groups Go Bad: 3 Wise DMs Tips On How To Continue Your TTRPG Campaign With Only One Player
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Just Do It! 3 Wise DMs Interviews a Brand-New D&D Enthusiast About the 13 Tips and Tricks to Mastering the Dungeon
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Terrain, Maps & Minis, Oh My! The Long Tradition of Using Terrain and Minis in D&D to Enhance Your Game
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Back in Black: The Players Wrap-Up to the Absolutely Epic Curse of Strahd Finale with Vampyr, the Star of Blood
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Finish Your Homebrew Campaign With a Bang: DMs’ Breakdown of the Epic Ending of the Woodstock Wanderers
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Will Player Character Secrets Ruin Your Campaign?
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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The Epic-Tier Divide: Bringing Your DnD Campaign Into the Wild World of High-Level Play
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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11 Quirky Dungeon Master Habits of the 3 Wise DMs
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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DMing All-Ranged Parties in Dungeons and Dragons 5E
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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When Is It OK to Kill a Player Character and What Do You Do Next?
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Creating Fantastic RPG Factions: How to Use Groups, Guilds, Criminals, Guards, and More Organizations in Your TTRPG Campaigns
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Playing With the Future: How to DM Foreshadowing in Dungeons and Dragons and other TTRPG Campaigns
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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DMing Advantage and Disadvantage: How and When to Play With D&D 5E’s Most Elegant Tool
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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The Pregnant PC: Handling Odd Character Creation Requests in Dungeons and Dragons and Other RPGs
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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100 Episodes of Dungeon Master Advice: The 22 Most Important DM Lessons From 2 Years of Gaming and Recording 3 Wise DMs
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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A Dark Sun Rising: The Allure and Compromises of Using Pre-Made Settings
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Ending the Campaign: Bringing Your Dungeons & Dragons Story to a Satisfying Conclusion
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May 22, 2022 |
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DMPCs vs. Sidekicks: What’s the Better Way to Give Your Dungeons and Dragons PCs a DM Avatar?
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May 15, 2022 |
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Is ‘Don’t Over-Prepare’ the Worst Advice for New DMs?
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May 08, 2022 |
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Are Red Herrings Derailing Your D&D Game? Here’s What to Do About It
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May 01, 2022 |
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DM Hacks and Tricks to Make Running D&D Less Tedious and More Fun
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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How Many Players Are Too Many for One D&D Game? What About Other RPG Systems?
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Putting PCs In Charge: How Do You Handle RPG Players Characters Moving Up to Become Kings, Queens and Leaders of Powerful Organizations In Your World?
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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When Should You Bend RPG Rules? Handling Players Who Want to Adjust Game Mechanics They Don’t Like
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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How Do You Make New DMs?
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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No Rest for the Weary: How the Rest Cadence of D&D 5E Can Completely Change Your Game
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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The Sinister 7: How to Run 7 Iconic D&D Monsters for Maximum Mystique
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Do D&D Magic Item Limits Crimp Your DM Style?
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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The Fetch Quest: Are They Fun? Are They Worth It? Are They Just Filler for the Big Story?
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Getting the “Face” Player to Shut Up and Let Other Players Share the Spotlight
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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9 Alternate D&D Rules to Try: Our Favorite Optional Mechanics From the DMG, Homebrew and Other Games
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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How to Handle a Backseat DM: 11 Things to Know
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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Sharing RPG Worlds: Balancing PC Power Levels and NPC Portrayals Across Shared Campaigns With Multiple DMs
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Does D&D 5E Need Character Levels? Radical (Heretical?) Ideas About D&D Advancement
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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How to DM PC Builds and Abilities That Piss You Off
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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How Hard Is Too Hard for Your RPG Campaign and Players?
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Characters Over Combat: What We Learned From Gaming in 2021
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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What to do With a Bored D&D Player? A DM’s Dilemma
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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The Curse of Strahd Postmortem: Our Players Talk About What They Thought of D&D 5E’s Barovia, the Things They Loved, and a Few Things They Didn’t
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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Strahd, Dead and Loving It? The 3 Wise DM’s Review of D&D 5E’s Curse of Strahd and DM Dave’s Campaign Through Ravenloft
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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All Eyes on the Game: 12 Tips to Keep Your RPG Players Involved and Focused on Playing
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Motivating Your Players: How to Get Your TTRPG Player Characters to Take the Hook and Get On With the Adventure
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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It Takes a Village: 19 Tips for Building Towns and Cities for Your RPG Campaigns
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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D&D 5E for Old Fogeys: What Old-School DMs Like Us Should Know About How this Edition Compares to Earlier Versions of Dungeons & Dragons
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Horror Gaming for Halloween: How We Squeeze Scares Out of Players Around the RPG Table
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Teaching Your Wife to Play RPGs: How to Bring a Non-Gamer — and Perhaps Shy or Unmotivated Player — Into the Game You Love Without Making Them Hate It
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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WotC Changing D&D 5E Monsters and More – Are These the Updates the Game Needs?
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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29 DM Ideas for Spicing Up D&D 5E: New Twists for Campaigns, Combat, Equipment, Magic and More!
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Patrons, Powers and Punishments in D&D 5E: So Many Classes Get Their Powers From a Higher Power … But at What Price?
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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RPG Weather, Puzzles and Ritual Challenges: 3 Ways to Make Your Campaign World More Immersive
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Keeping Your Story Straight: How We Manage All the DM Details of Our RPG Campaigns
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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I’m on a Boat! Running Sea-Faring, Space-Faring and Other Ship-Based RPG Campaigns
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Dragons: Why We Love Them and How We Run Them
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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How to Bring WrestleMania to Barovia: DM Dave’s Curse of Strahd Goes WAY Off Book With a Homebrew Wrestling PPV
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Strange D&D Homebrew: Knowing When, Where and How to Make Your RPG Campaign Weird Without Losing Your Players
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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When DMs Go to War: How to Run Mass Combat in D&D (and similar RPGs) and Not Bore Your Players
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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When Your Game Goes Hollywood: How to Adapt Jurassic Park, Jumanji, and Any Other Movie Into an RPG Adventure or Campaign
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Surrender Like a Boss: When RPG Monsters and NPCs Should Give Up and How to Get PCs to Accept Their Submission
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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21 Tips to Master D&D Combat: How to Run RPG Fights That Balance Fun, Challenge and Time Investment
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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Powering Up! Bringing D&D Monsters, Villains and Campaigns Up to Your Party’s Level
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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13 Tips for DMing Across the Multiverse: How to Bring Different RPG Genres to Life, From Fantasy to Steampunk, Intrigue, Horror and More
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Superhero Roleplaying: How to Run Comic Book RPG Campaigns That Feel Super
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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11 Ways to Be a Better Dungeon Master: Lessons Learned in Our First Year Recording 3 Wise DMs
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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Bringing RPGs Back From COVID: How Do We Get Back to In-Person Gaming After More Than a Year of Roll20 and Quarantine?
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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21 Things Wise DMs Want From Their Best RPG Players
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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DMing Big Character Changes: How to Handle PCs Shifting Alignments, Races, Classes, and More Without Ruining the Game or That Player’s Fun
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May 30, 2021 |
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14 Tips for DMing First-Time RPG Players
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May 23, 2021 |
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15 Tips for Running RPG Villains: Playing BBEGs Your PCs Will Love to Hate
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May 16, 2021 |
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D&D Alignment: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for Your TTRPG Campaigns — RPG MythBusters
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May 09, 2021 |
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The Players’ Review of Storm King’s Thunder: The Whole Party Spills the Tea on Tony’s Version of #SKT
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May 02, 2021 |
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Storm King’s Thunder DM Review: The 9 Deviations DM Tony Used to Make D&D’s Giant Globetrot His Own
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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Bringing Your RPG Campaign World to Life: 37 Tricks to Give Your Setting a Soul
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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RPG MythBusters: PC Party Balance Is Essential! … Maybe Not as Much as You Think?
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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TTRPG Party Dynamics: How We Want Players to Work Together and What We Do When They Don’t
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Missing in Action: How to Handle Players Skipping Games and Scheduling Conflicts
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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RPG MythBusters: Never Split the Party! … Or Should You?
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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How to DM Epic-Tier Games: 19 Tips for Running – and Ending – High-Level TTRPG Campaigns
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Party Downtime: When, How and Should You Let the Players Pursue Their Own Character Goals?
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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When the DM Isn’t Having Fun: How to Fix a Game That Feels Like a Chore
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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When Metagaming Goes Wrong: How Do You Stop Out-of-Character Knowledge From Ruining Your Game?
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Bringing NPCs to Life: How to Build Legendary Characters Your Players Will Talk About for Decades
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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How to Move a Stalled RPG Campaign Forward
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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DMing Large Groups: 19 Tips for Running Games With 6 or More Players
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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Our Favorite DMing Inspirations and Influences
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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DM Burnout: 6 Things That Cause It, and How We Recover From It
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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The Bootstrap Guide to DMing Your First Role Playing Game
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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2020: A Year in the TTRPG Lab
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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How to Set Traps in D&D: Causing Chaos, Mayhem and Problems for Your Players
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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D&D and Mental Health: Therapy, Autism and Exploring the Things We Can't Just Say
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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RPG Communication Breakdowns
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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D&D Errata: Love It or Hate It, Here’s How We DM It
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Theater of the Mind: Is It a Better Way to Play D&D?
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Rolling the Dice: How to Balance Randomness, Story and PC Agency in TTRPGs
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Famous Fictional PCs: Should You Let Players Run Pop-Culture Clones in Your RPG Campaigns?
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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3 Ways to Design RPG Campaigns: Railroad vs. Open World vs. Dave
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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RPG Economics: What Can Players Do With All That Gold?
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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Digging Into Character Backstories for Fun and Pathos
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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19 Crazy Player Characters’ Stunts and How We DMed Them
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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9 Things D&D 5E Does Really Well, and 10 Things It Doesn’t
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Adventure Time: 15 Tips to Build and DM Great Adventures, and the Ways We Fail at Them
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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7 Questions Dungeon Masters Ask and Our ‘Wisest’ Answers
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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3 Styles of RPG Campaign Storytelling
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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The Tao of D&D Encounters: How We Build Fights That Fit Our Games
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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39 Tips for New Dungeon Masters — and a Few for Veteran DMs, Too
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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13 Crazy DM Stunts You Won't Believe We Pulled
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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3 Ways to Pace D&D Encounters, Sessions and Games
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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What’s Fun for the Dungeon Master?
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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The 8 D&D Player Types and How to DM Them
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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What Makes Good Players and Problem Players?
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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The Biggest DM Mistakes We’ve Made
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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Rules vs. Continuity: Managing the Verisimilitude of Your Game
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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WotC's Racism Fix: Can Good DMs Help D&D's Stereotypes Problems?
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Roll20 DM Newbs: Tips and Tricks From the Wise DMs' First Online Campaigns
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Introductions: Traumatized Players, Improv Tricks and Our Biggest Struggles
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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Trailer
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Jun 20, 2020 |