Tabletop RPG

We've talked about house rules before, and they are a big part of a DM's journey through learning how to run D&D games.

I am an ardent believer that not only is it fun to play a wide variety of TTRPGs, it can also improve your skill as a player or game master in every system you play.

With the holidays fast approaching, I figured now is a good time to list a bunch of RPGs you may not have played and give you something else to do with your rarely-visited relatives.

You really want to play a Halfling Barbarian, or a Warforged Druid, or for whatever reason, you rolled a character with no stats above 11 and you really want to play it despite it being utterly terrible at everything.

Not all Dungeon Masters will have the problem of having to wrap up a long-running campaign in a satisfying way.

It's always a bit sad when a DM and their players come to the end of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

In tabletop role playing, a system is the codified rule set used to represent the world and the player's experiences of it. Dungeons and Dragons uses a system based around a d20 dice roll, with modifiers that change the possible spread of numbers you can successfully roll, and other dice to represent things like the damage dealt to characters or monsters in the game's combat system.

One of the biggest pitfalls for novice game masters of any tabletop RPG is knowing how and when to say no to players.

Laudna in Critical Role's Campaign 3 is absolutely my favorite new character, and I'm ecstatic any time Marisha gets to ham it up on the show, like when she introduced us to Laudna's dead rat Pate de Rolo.

If you care about spoilers, don't read this post if you haven't watched Critical Role Campaign 3 yet, particularly episode 3, because we're going to be talking about Travis Willingham, his somewhat trollish character Sir Bertrand Bell, and what will happen in the campaign from here.