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RPG-a-Day 2021 Post 5 – Include
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RPG-a-Day 2021 Post 5 – Include

10 August 0202110 August 02021

When writing out your encounter descriptions it is important to consider what to INCLUDE, what to leave out, and in which order to present the

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Yet Another Post About Encounter Tables
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Yet Another Post About Encounter Tables

22 November 02020

Since I started the World of WeirthTM playtest campaign I’ve been working on updated and enhancing existing modules and tuning my own homebrew adventures into

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Gygax 75 – Week Two – The Home Area

21 September 0202022 September 02020

This week we are supposed to sit down with some hex paper and make a map of the home region. Since we are using the

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d30 Thursday – Mundane Animals of the Tropical Savannah

30 April 02020

Sometimes an encounter is not a monster! Sometimes your PCs are foraging, exploring or setting up camp and they encounter a normal-sized, non-magical, completely mundane

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Adding Personality to Your PC

19 March 02020

Spotted a great thread on Twitter tonight: @anxietywizard It was requested that Wizard put this thread into a blog post, and they might, but I

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Making Encounters and Descriptions More Thematic

28 February 0202028 February 02020

Getting back into writing more narrative-style content for D&D adventures has led me to do a bunch of research on keeping my theme and tone

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Overland Travel Encounter Tables

30 December 0201921 June 02020

I’ve created a set of encounter tables for Overland Travel, based on some thoughts from Dael Kingsmill’s video on overland travel. She took some inspiration,

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