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i saw my chance to make a DM of the Rings reference and i am taking it

Being stripped of equipment really doesn't matter as much in 5e. It happened to me once, so I went through all of my spells to see...

Notoriously, they stay by the door of the dungeon and never disappear or get eaten, right alongside those horses PCs buy and forget once...

Talk about not reading your own articles: Note, he states it right there. Your sword was your weapon of last resort. Of course it's...

For myself, I know that a lot of the PC's I create often come with the basic idea of a quest. I gravitate towards religious characters...

As a DM I read some many cliché grim dark backgrounds that all my fantasy characters always have 'happy' childhoods. But they don't want...

I've only had 3 players over the decades like this and unfortunately two of them in the same game once...

Heck yeah. I am reminded of a Reddit post from some years ago about giving your DM ways to threaten and personalize a plot or game to...

Unfortunately, real life stepped on the neck of this particular campaign before it gained much legs. It was actually a heck of a lot of...

If they didn't come from a tragic background they'd be officers, not soldiers.

One of the most compelling inventory management systems I've seen comes in the computer game Darkest Dungeon - for those unfamiliar it's...

Probably guilty for bringing that up. :D You made check only if you wanted to buy something that's out of your budget. Every dot in...

Unless you think every single soldier in existence comes from a tragic home situation, I don't think that tragic backstory is really...

Kinda, sorta, but, there are all sorts of reasons. My Dragonborn Paladin that I mentioned, got religion and really hated dragons (I...

I think this is probably the biggest reason right here. Players, having been burned in the past, make characters that are Teflon...