Are You Ready to Try Being a DM

The party walks out into a clearing. Traveling through the jungle had taken longer than expected. You’d followed the young girl’s tracks but that didn’t make traveling through the brush any easier, especially for Medic.  In the clearing you see a clean cut wood house on stilts high above the jungle floor. It was as […]

How Much to Plan for One D&D Session

You and your companions get off the boat and onto the dock of New Tuyen. You look around letting the sights and sounds greet you. You walk towards the city and allow yourself to acclimate to this new city.  You first notice all the green. The buildings and roads are all made with a green […]

What do You Need for a D&D Session Online

You all enter the doorway at the back of the chamber. This dungeon had given you and your companions many challenges. You’d almost lost McGregor in the first room and as you descended lower, each level became harder. In this last chamber, you’d expended all your magical energy just trying to put this pit fiend […]

How to Prepare Your Players for a D&D Session

Sorry I’m a day late uploading! Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/05e568274671/subscription-page By subscribing, you’ll get access to behind the scenes content, bonus content, home-brew content and more. In today’s episode, we talk about how to prepare your players for a D&D session. We discuss things like useful materials for players, Rules and mechanics of […]

A Simple D&D Session Structure to Help Prepare Your Sessions

You all finish your long-rest and you wake up to a bright, if not bitter cold winter morning. The view from the mountaintop lookout on which you slept is breathtaking, as is the chilling wind that blows. You all slept comfortably thanks to the warmth of the fire. As you all wake up you prepare […]

What Makes a Perfect DM

Welcome back to the 28th episode of How to Be a Better DM. Today I get to introduce you to my new team member Tanner Weyland! Before we go on, I’d like to invite you to sign up for my monthly newsletter in which you’ll get access to behind the scenes content, bonus content, homebrew […]

The Benefits of a Session 0

You face your aggressors stoically. They scoff at you and you feel the presence of one as he edges around to flank you from behind. “Leave me alone. I’ve never done anything to you guys,” you say. The older boy looks at you and then looks at his thug-like friends. “You’re a freak, an orcish […]

Who SHOULD Play as a Barbarian

You look around you. You see the circle of stones surrounding you. You see Judir watching you with his arms folded surrounded by your closest friends and companions.  You take a deep breath and walk forward. “The winds whisper still,” Runic symbols appear on the stones of the circle. “The voices of the ancients.” You […]

Who Should NOT Play as a Barbarian

You and your companions finally crest the hill. Judir said it wouldn’t be far and it wasn’t. He leads you all through a small copse of trees to an overlook with large stones in a circle. “Ulv, you stand in the center of the ring. The rest of you, sit down and witness.” Judir says […]