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Leaving blank spaces when you create your campaign world invites players to fill them in, boosting their enthusiasm & lets you discover the world, too

#dungeons & dragons #ttrpg #dungeon mastery #game mastering #i think this is a really smart way to approach this stuff #i have a big ole world map and a bunch of places on it #but i haven't gone full hame on developing everywhere #my current campaign forced me to develop the entire noble and govt system of one country #and the rough political world of 2000 years ago #and these are both gifts from my players and i loved it

Stocking an Engaging Dungeon

I struggle with dungeon stocking, but I think I may have stumbled upon the (as-usual) embarrassingly simple solution to my writers’ block.

instead of getting bogged down in dungeon dressing and other specifics, just jot down what there is to do here. Secret doors to find, hazards to navigate, monsters to fight, locks to pick, puzzles to solve, and traps to disarm are easy go-to’s, but consider also:

A spy-hole into another room or passage

An idol that can offer a blessing if the forgotten deity’s name is invoked

Other adventurers exploring the dungeon

Monster tracks

Unusual ways up/down (chasms, wells, portals)

a partial map scrawled on the wall

Petrified or time-stopped monsters that the players must avoid “activating”

It’s best if each room has at least two things to interact with. Make at least one of them something the players don’t have to search for.

This bakes adherence to DMing Rule #1 into the map itself, and helps give the players direction without removing their freedom of choice.

#d&d #d&d 5e #d&d 5th edition #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dungeons & dragons #DMing #DM #dungeon master #dungeon mapping #dungeon #campaign prep #dungeon mastery #dm tactics #dm tips #megadungeon #megadungeons #megadungeon design

Darkest Dungeon, D&D 5e Monster Stats

It’s almost Halloween, so here’s a re-upload of the Darkest Dungeon monster stats, now with tokens! The Collector, Crystalline Horrors, and the Shrieker. Spook your players!

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#Darkest Dungeon #The Collector #Thing from the stars #The Shrieker #D&D #D&D 5e #Dungeons and Dragons #Monster Manual #Dungeon Mastery

Here’s a bad tip that I actually use

Google sheets as a battle map for discord games.

I’m way to lazy to figure out roll20 and since I do home brew anyway I’m happy with the absolute bare minimum of extra stuff, plus it’s easy to explain to other people. I also just have to format the grid once to get the size/dimensions I like, then I can fill in the grid with colors/text representing what’s on the field.

TL;DR google sheets is a completely adequate substitute for more complicated online battle maps.

#dungeons and dragons #dungeon mastery #d&d 5e #dm tips #battle maps

MediEvil: Pumpkins, D&D 5e Monster Stats

For Halloween, and the PS4 remake, here are some MediEvil Pumpkin statblocks! Spook your players with some sinister squash, ghoulish gourds, and powerful pumpkin monsters! (Actually these are pretty low level encounters).

Keep in mind the Pumpkin King’s challenge rating I’m a little iffy on. It’s hard to accurately plan around an immobile enemy. But I’ll be testing him myself tonight!

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Happy Halloween!

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#MediEvil PS4 #MediEvil Game #Pumpkins #Pumpkin King #Halloween #D&D #D&D 5e #Dungeons and Dragons #Monster Manual #Dungeon Mastery #sir daniel fortesque

Magic the Gathering: Blue Creatures (Big Fish, Drakes, Sea Serpents, Vizzerdrix) v1.00. D&D 5e Monster Stats

Yet another MTG set! The blue creatures this time; all about sea monsters, flying monsters, and rampant magic. The sea serpent and drakes were the most iconic of the blue creatures I think, though as the original sea serpent card was never reprinted with new art (limiting the quality of picture I could get for the page) and decided to go with the newer Frilled Sea Serpent for imagery.

In the Ravnica Guide they describe Wind Drakes as being human sized creatures and giving them pteranodon. Look at the art of the Wind Drake, does that creature look medium sized to you? Look how much bigger it is than the humans next to it. It was this weird “Let’s not make new stats for these creatures and just pass it off as another animal in the book” that led me to want to make these stats in the first place (Yes, Wind Drake was technically the first one I made stats for of all these 5-creature sets).

I also included the Ancient Carp because I noticed 5e D&D didn’t really have a good monstrous fish to eat people, and the Vizzerdrix purely because it’s one of my favorites (kinda surprised they didn’t bring it back in any way for the Simic Combine in the Ravnica sets). Here’s the tokens:

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#Magic the Gathering #Sea Serpent #Drakes #Vizzerdrix #D&D #D&D 5e #Dungeons and Dragons #Monster Manual #Dungeon Mastery

Magic the Gathering: Black Creatures (Phyrexians, Vampires, Bats) v1.00. D&D 5e Monster Stats

Here’s another MTG set of creatures, this time black mana! For black mana the most iconic card to me was the Sengir Vampire, and the Vampire Bats (ye olde cards I remember playing from my Father’s collection). But I think Phyrexians are pretty iconic too. The skeletal vampire was just for a second vampire choice, personally I thought the card/concept was pretty cool.

Here’s the tokens for these monsters:

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#Magic the Gathering #Sengir Vampire #Phyrexian #D&D #D&D 5e #Dungeons and Dragons #Monster Manual #Dungeon Mastery

Magic the Gathering: White Creatures (Angels, Avens, Silverclaw Griffin) v1.00. D&D 5e Monster Stats

Finally we have the white set. Angels were the most obvious choice, with Serra Angel being a necessary classic card. Herald of faith was a second choice based on it being in the current rotation. White tends to have a lot of soldiers, but as those would be more NPCs (and there’s already a lot of NPC stats that work for any setting), I picked Avens as another White Mana creature. Then Griffins.

It wasn’t my intention at first for the white mana creatures to all be flying, but just kinda happened accidentally. As after all most of their iconic non-flying cards tend to just be soldiers or knights. Oh well.

With this we’re finished the 5-creature sets (no I’m not doing Artifact/Colorless creatures).

Here’s the Tokens:

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#Magic the Gathering #Angels #Serra Angel #Avens #Griffin #D&D #D&D 5e #Dungeons and Dragons #Monster Manual #Dungeon Mastery

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