Should You Buy Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons? D&D Review
Is this love-letter to D&D’s scaly overlords worth pulling out your wallet? Here’s what you need to know about Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons.
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Flanking Should Be More Fun in D&D 5e Combat
Are flanking rules fun? Are they well-designed? I’ve attempted to use them in several campaigns, but they never seem to stick. Players stop caring and the DM stops caring as flanking falls into a distant memory. I’ve dissected flanking rules to see what needs to change to make flanking fun. Review my ideas to see if you like them enough to try them in your own games.
Top 10 Best Druid Feats: D&D 5e Feat Field Guide
This guide assists players with choosing feats for their Druid characters. D&D 5e’s Druid class possesses specialties that lend well to several feats, so let’s identify which ones are the most synergistic.
Dream: D&D 5e In-Depth Spell Analysis
Dream is a fifth level illusion spell available to bards, warlocks, and wizards. Druids of Circle of the Land who choose grassland as their environmental specialty will also learn Dream…
TTRPG Design Approaches & How to Use Them
Ross Leiser explains top-down, bottom-up, and other approaches to designing homebrew classes for D&D 5e and TTRPGs.
Grappling in 5e: A Complete Guide for Players and Dungeon Masters
While the mechanics of grappling are fairly straightforward, a player or a dungeon master can gain many strategic ideas from exploring this action.
How To Run Survival Games in 5e: A Year-Long Campaign Retrospective
The survival rules in D&D kinda suck. But don’t worry, I’ve learned a lot from my survival campaign, and I’m here to distill those lessons into an article to fix survival in D&D.
New Thaumaturge Spellcasting Class (Third-Party D&D 5e)
The Thaumaturge is a fresh spellcasting class with new spells to support it that are exciting for veteran D&D 5e players. Here’s my review of Benjamin Huffman’s latest third-party class design.