Recent content by Matthew Perkins

Ben, you are my people. Funnily enough, since I pay for some SEO services, it turns out Lost Mines is a more searched term than Lost Mine. I think Wizards named it wrong.

Hi! I’ve just started this massive project of making a big guide on how to run the Lost Mines of Phandelver, including how to iron out some of the problems I’ve encountered in the module. It was the first adventure I ran, and although that first time was a train wreck, I’ve run it again since...

Those are some good points! I saw someone on discord taping notes for players on the front-facing side of their screen and it blew my mind. But I like the landscape format. There's a customisable screen called the Masters Tome which has each panel in portrait orientation, but it's just too tall...

I have a nightmarish number of DMs screens here, fourteen in total, a colossal burden that I'm willing to weigh, measure and rank from worst to best, likely as punishment for some misdeed in a past life. I'll rank every screen out of five points. One point for art, one point for each...

I used to think most RPG horror stories were fake, because there's no way people would behave that way in front of people, right? Some would have to be true-ish, but they can't be that bad. But then it happened to me when I was playing a female character, a year into a campaign, and even though...

Sorry — good idea. I've edited my post to include a transcript which is mostly what I said in the video.

Some not-good and very-bad things happened on the Far Verona stream recently and I made a video about it. Do you have any experience or opinions about this particular kind of roleplaying dumpster fire? There was a sexual assault scene on the Far Verona, but I only saw it last night. Nobody...

You're the first person to mention Dennis! I was worried nobody else noticed him sneaking in. Thanks for watching! I think the tips proceed in order of most feasible to least feasible, and those last three are super situational. So GMs don't roll at all during combat in Numenera? I couldn't...

I don't understand the last point. So when the player's turn comes up, they don't roll their save?

Hey! I knocked up a video guide this week breaking down my best tips to speed up combat, trying to prevent that slog and keep the game flowing. What are your best tricks for keeping combat snappy in 5E?

That's fair enough! But I know for me growing up, I would have preferred something like this rather than the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay manual as a starting point, because I remember agonising over all these rules and systems when the only thing I really cared about was the flavour and the art.

Hey! So these books are rad. They're targeted towards kids, but I love them even as an adult. So far we have Weapons & Warriors, Monsters & Creatures, Dungeons & Tombs, and Wizards & Spells coming out March 10. These are not sourcebooks. They're very much like sourcebooks, containing all the...

Hi! I made a video a few weeks ago exploring how I felt about random encounters and how they reminded me of old Sega Genesis RPGs. My general take was that I think there's usually better uses of the table's time, but some people made some pretty good points, so I'm planning to try AD&D for the...

BG1 was my favourite RPG about 10 years ago, but I think I'm more stoked for Dark Alliance 3 than BG3? DA were the best hack/slash games, and the new one might be short enough that I can actually finish it.

I've heard some opinions on mass combat or naval battle systems in D&D where they get shot down because it feels like placing a weird mini-cam, a whole nother game system in D&D. But that's how I feel about combat — it's a kind of minigame.