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Safety & Consent RPG Checklist
Practical guidance and resources for using safety and consent tools in TTRPGs, from setting baselines to gathering player feedback for respectful play.
Posts tagged with “Dm advice”
•10 min read
Managing DM Anxiety
Practical strategies for DMs to ease anxiety: seek professional support, reframe self-talk, name feelings, use bodywork and prep tools, and ask your table.
•8 min read
Create Captivating Traps
Design traps with purpose to advance plot and energize combat, using environmental challenges, skill-driven complications, and scalable DCs.
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Level Up Your Game with these RPGs
Explore a crowd-sourced list of RPG systems beyond DnD to expand your skills in narration, pacing, mechanics, and new approaches to play.
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Thoughts on the First Issue of Arcadia
A practical look at how this 5e magazine adds a drop-in encounter, a sorcerer subclass, mounted combat options, and fresh celestials, plus tooling quibbles.
•13 min read
RotF Remix: Foaming Mugs
Remix this Icewind Dale side quest with an inside-job twist, a yeti-lured ambush, goblin negotiations, a haunted locale, and a secret crime-boss stinger.
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Be Friends with your Roleplaying Group
RPGs ask for vulnerability, so invest in real friendship with players and your DM—chat, bond, and see the people behind characters to strengthen the table.
•10 min read
RotF Remix: The Far North & Ten-Towns
Remix adds Icewind Dale politics and Duergar intrigue, caravan hooks, harsher travel and survival rules, and darker Auril sacrifices for 5e.
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Progressive Failures and Rising Tension in 5th Edition
Proposes a rule-of-three progressive failure framework for 5e skill checks to build tension, preserve agency, and avoid swingy all-or-nothing outcomes.
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RotF Remix: Lake Monster
A Frostmaiden quest remix: an awakened plesiosaur coerced by frost druids menaces Bremen, with investigation hooks, parley options, and a cave assault.