Another vote for Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
The Prancing Pony Podcast - I knew there was a lot of background to LotR and the Hobbit but I had no idea Tolkien's world was this complex! The LotR appendices barely scratch the surface!
This is our first attempt to publish on DMs Guild! Its a short Christmas-y adventure for level 1 characters. Thanks for checking it out!
Revenge of the Ice Elves
We thought we'd offer it at a discount for this season but haven't been able to figure out how to show a sale price. Here is a...
I started with D&D in 1983 and played pretty steady for about 10 years. Oddly, I knew nothing about the ‘Satanic Panic’! That being said, I grew up in northern Canada pretty far afield from the Bible Belt...
I came back to the game 5 years ago as a way to pull my kids away from screens once...
I started my kids and a neighbour kid at a similar age with LMoP and the pre-gens. It worked well - they’ve all become hardcore gamers! I agree with most of the suggestions above, specifically:
- let them be heroes - high ability scores, cool magic items and set the DC’s low if they come up...
There are a couple of spoilers below.
Although it only arrived in my mailbox on Friday, last night I DM’d our group as we ran through part of the opening adventure in Ghosts of Saltmarsh - The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. In prepping, I was too distracted by the high-quality first chapter of...
I prefer some randomness in the process and use the 4d6 method - particularly with new players. Its an early introduction to the vagaries of a game where chance plays a role in your fate. Its a method that is more likely to produce some exceptional scores on either end of the spectrum and...
I think its a great way to encourage better role-playing. I've found some players will choose a background in order to acquire particular proficiencies even though that background may not fit well with how they portray their character. May as well let them work their desired proficiency into a...
I would assume that most items would show a pretty typical curve of diminishing views per month. There is likely some calculus that can be used to plot a fancy graph. But I can't recall any of my calculus so I wonder if you can simplify matters somewhat. Maybe this?:
1. Group your page view...