How do you persuade your players to enter a contract with a devil for their characters? How can a page of legalese make for a fun session? Here's how I managed, with inspiration from Devil's Advocate
A Contract with a Devil
Author: Melestrua
I am a long-time D&D DM who started with the BECMI boxed sets as a teenager, went to university, and has now returned to D&D, mostly 5e. I am based in Edinburgh and am running a couple of campaigns based in the Mystara world.
Message – RPGaDAY 2025 Day 4 – update
Message – RPGaDAY 2025 Day 4
RPGaDAY 2025 day 4 has the prompt “message”. It’s easy to forget in these days of email, text, instant message, and social media, just how much effort it was to send a message in the mediaeval days which are the pattern for classic fantasy. So how can your characters and the people in their world send messages?
Tavern – RPGaDAY 2025 Day 3
#RPGaDAY2025 Day 3 - Tavern Starting an adventure in a tavern with a hooded stranger? How cliched! But that's not necessarily a bad thing. And don't forget how much your tavern can communicate.
Prompt – RPGaDAY 2025 Day 2
Patron – RPGaDAY2025 Day 1
RPGaDay 2025 launches tomorrow
RPGaDAY 2025 launches tomorrow, 1st August, and runs all month. Join in and follow along with the hashtag #RPGaDAY2025. Here are the prompts provided by @autokratik and @runeslinger
How do you run Mass Combat in D&D?
D&D is designed for combats with a handful on each side. So how do you scale that up to larger numbers? Here are various suggestions, from the DMG, @slyflourish, @louanders, #TalesOfTheValiant, and the #BECMI Companion set
Is D&D a story-telling game?
You read a lot of arguments on the Internet about role-playing games versus story-telling games. In particular there are vocal factions who sell D&D as a story-telling game (both calling this a good thing and a bad). DaggerHeart, the new RPG from the Critical Role team, seems to have stirred the question up again – … Continue reading Is D&D a story-telling game?
Session Prep Tooling
