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 creature.
But how many can you think of, right off the top of your head? Now you don’t have to!
Roll a d30!
Gazelle Buffalo Zebra Rhinoceros Elephant Warthog […]
Adding Personality to Your PC
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 though I might add a little commentary.(Also, I edited the tweet into a collated set of lists)
it’s actually very boring when all the features of […]
Making Encounters and Descriptions More Thematic
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 consistent. Two recent resources that have been very eye-opening are Adventure Writing like a F***** Boss by Venger Satanis and Stealing Cthulhu by Graham Walmsley.
These two […]
Overland Travel Encounter Tables
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, in turn, from a couple of other posts.
I read them too, and got some ideas. The NewbieDM shares an interesting method:
“Page 106 of the 5e […]
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