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August 2014

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You Gotta Have Faith to Play a 5E D&D Cleric

Welcome to Nerdarchy with you this time is Nerdarchist Ted.  Among our group I am the resident Cleric when we play Dungeons and Dragons. Many players look at the cleric as the parties healer or slave and that they have to do what the party says.  But especially after the introduction of Charisma being an important role in a clerics stat they can easily become a central character and make a great party leader.

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When you are a cleric you are a divine conduit of your gods divine power.  You wield this power as a smith wields a hammer.  Now some worlds have gods that are very active and some worlds have gods that are far removed from the world.

Why I’ll Be Playing 5E D&D for the Foreseeable Future

Hey folks Nerdarchist Dave here and I’ll be discussing Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition today. We have already done several articles on D&D 5E this one is going to be more about my experience with Dungeons and Dragons over the years and why I’m really loving 5th edition. As of right now I only have the players handbook, the Basic Starter Set, and some free PDF downloads from Wizards of the Coast which can be gotten- here

Below is the first video Nerdarchy did about the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition PDF download.

5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons Is Here, Let The New Edition Wars Begin!

Betrayal at House on the Hill is the Best Board Game

 Betrayal at House on the HillGreetings all, Nerdarchist Ted here to bring you, hopefully, into an awesome board game.  Betrayal at house on the Hill by Avalon Hill a sub company of Wizards of the Coast, or as I like to call it Horror Movie the board game.

A brief synopsis of the game is you are a group of people who stumble upon a house and decide to explore it.  The front door locks behind you and you are forced to explore to find a way out.  Some time after you start exploring the house, things go crazy and one of your party members turns evil.  It is then one player versus the rest.

Crafting a Dungeon Crawl for Your RPG

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What is a role-playing game without a good dungeon crawl? Now if I’m giving game master tips to a newbie GM or DM I’d say when it comes to planning adventures less is more.

You don’t want to make your players feel like their always entering the “dungeon”. Sure every once and a while throw in the classic “YES” this is absolutely a dungeon crawl style adventure, but mix things up a bit.

What is dungeon-

For all intents and purposes when we are talking about a Dungeons and Dragons style game a dungeon is a confined space with defined boundaries limiting the choices your players have as to where they can go and has an objective for your players.

Dungeons & Dragons Monsters — Monster vs. Monster! Beholder and Lich

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Hello again loyal fans and newcomers alike.  It is I Nerdarchist Ted here to bring you another article on Dungeons and Dragons Monsters.  But as opposed to to doing our normal how to make a monster better I am pitting one monster versus another.  We get to combat the spell slinging Lich against the eye-stalk menace Beholder.