Campaign Planning
City Building for Your TTRPG Campaign
Cities, towns, villages, and other settlements are an integral part of any TTRPG campaign. However, a city is perhaps the most important type of settlement […]
Tabletop RPGs
Campaign Planning
How to Use Microsoft OneNote for Campaign Planning
There’s a holy grail for GMs. No, it’s not the perfect TTRPG system or anything like that. The holy grail of GMing is the ultimate […]
Tabletop RPGs
What Does Prepping for an RPG Session Look Like?
I see a lot of people online talk about how they don’t prep for the games they GM/DM. They show up to to the session […]
Tabletop RPGs
I Stopped Fudging Rolls and My Games Became More Fun
Fudging a dice roll is the act of rolling a die and then announcing the result to be something other than what was rolled. The […]
Tabletop RPGs
How to Run a Long-Term RPG Campaign
One of the first things I noticed when I started writing Dungeon Solvers was that people have a seriously difficult time finding long-term campaigns and dedicated […]
Tabletop RPGs
What is Metagaming and How Do You Avoid It?
Metagaming is a common phenomenon that occurs in a lot of tabletop RPGs (TTRPGs) such as Dungeons and Dragons. Simply put, metagaming is when you as […]
Tabletop RPGs
Leveraging NPC Relationships in Tabletop RPGs
People love to talk about how Tabletop RPGs (TTRPG) are different from video game RPGs because the world is “alive” or “dynamic”. The game is constantly […]
Dungeons and Dragons
Using Fronts from PBtA to Create Evil Organizations in D&D 5e
I’ve made it no secret that I love Apocalypse World and Powered by the Apocalypse (PBtA) games as a whole. They’re excellent rules-lite systems that […]
Tabletop RPGs
Skill Checks: The Good, The Bad, and The D&D 5e
D&D 5e is hands-down my favorite tabletop RPG. I’m big into combat and dungeon delving and those are arguably two of the focuses of D&D […]
Tabletop RPGs
How to Keep Everyone Focused During Your RPG Session
RPGs are ripe with ways to derail a game session. A funny scenario, or a daring stunt that actually works can side-track the whole table […]