Running a City (in your TTRPG)

How do you run a city? I’m not talking about advice to mayors and city councillors. This is a role-playing game blog, after all. I’m talking about making a city the centre of your campaign and adventures. Regular readers of my blog will be aware that my current campaign is based in the city of … Continue reading Running a City (in your TTRPG) →

Religion at the D&D Table in Practice

In an earlier post, I talked about why you should include religion in your campaign, and reviewed Eventyr Games’ publication “Devotion and Divinity”, and then in the next two posts I described two different sets of religion notes I prepared for my campaigns, first my Karameikos campaign, and then my current campaign in Akorros. Having … Continue reading Religion at the D&D Table in Practice →

Table Tales #2 – what lies beneath

Table Tale 2 from my D&D campaign The Akorran Rift, based in #Akorros in Darokin in Mystara. A demonic portal which dretches and plaresh swarm have come through; the (first level) party need to defeat them and close the portal.

Religion in Akorros in Mystara – a worked example

This post describes the 5e pantheon in my current campaign based in Akorros in the Republic of Darokin. This follows previous posts about why you should include religion, and what I developed for my previous campaign.

Religion in Karameikos in Mystara – a worked example

In my last post, I talked about why you should include religion in your campaign, and reviewed Eventyr Games’ publication “Devotion and Divinity”. In this post I describe the Mystara canon, and what I took from it when developing my first 5e campaign based in the Grand Duchy of Karameikos.

Ten reasons why your TTRPG campaign needs religion

You can get by without religion featuring in your TTRPG roleplaying campaign. But if you are, you are missing out - and here are ten reasons why.

Tanner Yarro FlipDice – flip like a coin, read like a die

Imagine dice which you can flip like coins but use like dice for D&D and other TTRPGs. Tanner Yarro has created the FlipDie, and I recently received mine. Here's my #review.

RPGaDay Day 9 – What are my favourite dice

RPGaDay prompt 9 is “Favourite DICE”. I’m a bit of a sucker for sets of funky dice, and if you’re reading this, I imagine you are, too. Here are my favourites, including @yarrostudios FlipDie.

What are the Schools of Magic?

I always groan internally when a player casts Detect Magic, because I never remember what the schools of magic are. So I've come up with this quick summary.

RPGaDay 18 – Favourite Game System: The War Machine Mass Combat System

The Companion Set of the BECMI D&D boxed sets contained rules for Mass Combat, called The War Machine, which are still the best set of mass combat rules to fit into D&D which I’ve come across.