Tabletop RPG

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.

So you're running a D&D game, and you're not sure what you want to do.

We previously discussed Fizban's Treasury of Dragons and how it changes up the typical lore for Dragons in Dungeons and Dragons, but today I want to talk to you about how to use the book in your game, whether you're running a series of pre-made adventures, a complete homebrew setting, or something in between.  The book itself is designed for ease of use, so it's really not difficult to break out elements from it and use them in your campaign however you see fit.

I know you're going to want me to expand on why I believe that you should indeed at least consider playing one of the new Dragonborn race options from the excellent Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, but before I do that, I wanted to make sure I gave you a solid answer.

When watching Episode 1 of Campaign 3 for Critical Role last week (or catching it later, because it's now up on YouTube) you may have had a lot of questions about the new characters.

One of the things that makes or breaks running tabletop games, especially in our modern pandemic-altered world where many games are run online, is a robust digital toolset that lets you access books, make characters, and otherwise easily play with friends when you aren't sitting around a table together.