Backup Plan When the party completely jumps the rails of your story and turns your carefully planned adventure into train wreck, sometimes you save elements of the adventure. An NPC can be brought back, an encounter could be used in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Surprise? The birth of my son killed my 4th Edition D&D campaign. Well, the fact that the birth almost killed my wife had more to do with killing the campaign than my son himself, but the birth didn’t help. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Roll for Privilege The name of this strip comes from an actual joke uttered at my gametable. We have a couple women gamers who are currently playing men (for reasons), so there’s been a fair amount of joking along the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another Mark on the Wall When I run the game, my friend Bryan is the death magnet. But when I play, I attract player character deaths like a brutalised adventurer attracts flies. In the high level mini-campaign we’re currently playing, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jitters When you enjoy playing a character, you get passionate about it. And it’s human nature to want to share your passions, to share what excites you. But no one likes to hear about character. No matter how much they […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Price of Healing Someone needs to be the healer. And when no one else wants the role, the GM might have to take measures to ensure a balanced party! Personally, I just let the players pick their classes and work […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Identify Yourself Yeah, I’m still going “political” at times in this comic. Despite being smacked down on Twitter I’m too argumentative not to call “BS!” and poke fun. I’ve seen this argument on ENWorld before in relation to a gay […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Where it Lies Loosely inspired by Episode 114 of Critical Role. As a DM it’s tricky to determine if a player really rolled a cocked dice: where a pencil or piece or paper interfered with the proper roll and the side […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All Part of the Plan As a Dungeon Master, your plans seldom go as expected. The players *always* do the unexpected. However, most of the time, their actions are relatively expected, and not so completely out of the blue that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Feed the Beast There’s lots of options for managing the locations of player characters. I like minis and battlemaps, but you can also use minis or tokens on index cards representing locations. There’s also cardboard pawns or papercraft minis. Candy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dance Like No One is Watching When your dice are on fire, you celebrate. Party while you can. Because your dice will turn on you soon enough, and try their best to horribly kill your character. Don’t eff me, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Randomised Monsters I haven’t exactly done this, because I always choose monsters based on the environment and story. I did “balance” an encounter based solely on the number of minis I had available. I just kept throwing gnolls at the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
