Game Master Tips — How To Start an RPG Campaign
One of the toughest parts about being a GM in any RPG game is “How do you start the campaign?” You will have characters with different backgrounds, professions, motivations, and depending the the kind of game you are playing even different races or species.
For this game master tips article I’ll be referring to the Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition campaign I’m about to start running. The tips and advice I’m going to offer up will work in pretty much any setting or game, but I want to give a context in how these tips and tricks work and why I do certain things.
Nerdarchy Lays down some Game Master Tips in this video.
How to Speeks Goblin | Authority
This week let us dive into our weekly webcomic to find out what authority looks like to our little green skinned friends. Here we have a few goblins establishing the pecking order and go figure it's the goblin with the biggest club that seems to...
Uncommon 5E D&D Races — Dragonborn
D&D Dragonborn are back baby.
They first appeared a standard player character race with the release of 4th edition Dungeons and Dragons. Now this was a fairly polarizing effect actually one of many from that edition.
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition has brought the dragonborn back along with the tiefling. To be honest with you I’ve kind meh on the dragonborn as a player character race, but for the purpose of this article I’m going to do my best to remain objective.
Building a 5E D&D Character
I must admit I’ve only played in two sessions of 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons so far, but I’m really digging it. Two sessions, two different characters two under lining themes, dwarves and sub-optimal builds. My first character for D&D 5E is a dwarven wizard.
This character was a blast to build as well as play.
How To Speeks Goblin | Facebook
Ever wonder what social media our goblin friends use to stay in touch with each other? Why it's Facebook of course. Take a look at this goblin's Facebook do you see anyone you know? As always feel free to leave your webcomic suggestions down in the...
How to Speeks Goblin | Loan
Welcome to another installment of the How to Speeks Goblin webcomic. This week we see banking works a little different in the goblin world. I don't think that other goblin will be getting an interest on that loan. Let us know what you thought of this...
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!
Crafting a Dungeon Crawl for Your RPG
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.
How To Speeks Goblin | Mount
Hello and welcome to this weeks goblin webcomic where side by side with Nerdarchy you learn How to Speeks Goblin. Every week on our goblin webcomic we delve into the world of those wily goblins. Now let's see our goblin worg rider in action. As always remember...
How To Speeks Goblin | Fast Food
Welcome to this weeks webcomic where we are grabbing a meal on the run with our goblin friends. Resident Nerdarchy artist Ryan must have food on his mind lately goblins eating sushi last week and now we have them getting ready to chow down on...
Dungeons & Dragons Monsters — Lycanthropes! Wererats, Wereboars and Werewolves, Oh My!
When it comes to Dungeons and Dragons Monsters the lycanthropes are a diverse lot. Not as much as demons and devils, but there are a lot of them. Basically if there is animal someone has turned it into a werecreature. The core werebeasts are- wererat, wereboar, werewolf, weretiger, and werebear. Then from there I’ve seen everything from wereseals to weredragons.
Your lycanthropes really can fill nearly any niche or role in your gaming world. Whether you need dungeons and dragons monsters to skulk and sneak, be savage and brutal, or benign and gentle werebeasts really do have you covered.
5E D&D Starter Set Unboxing and First Impression
Recently Nerdarchy assembled to tear open the D&D 5th edition Starter set and shot video of it to share with you. Not long ago I did another article on Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition based off of the free PDF from Wizards of the Coasts.
There is a link to that free download in that article if you haven’t got your PDF yet.
Tricky Dungeons & Dragons Terrain — Goo-Blythe’s Guide to Surviving the Underdark
” Uses sure about this tall one? Underdark very dangerous place.” whines Goo-Blythe.
“I’m sorry Goo-Blythe time is of the essence if we are going to reach the Lady Lureanna in time to save her.” said Sir Gregory.
“Yes yes I understand, but must you bring those lights with us?” quietly whines the goblin Goo-Blythe some more.
Dungeons and Dragons Terrain- The Underdark presents many natural challenges
Dungeons & Dragons Monsters — Chokers! Making Adventurers Breathless
Dungeons and Dragons Monsters- Here comes the choker-
I did an article a while back called “Holy Crap! Nerdarchy’s Top 10 Scariest Dungeons and Dragons Monsters” where I talk about chokers and why I like them so much.
Excerpt From Holy Crap! Nerdarchy’s Top 10 Scariest Dungeons and Dragons Monsters-
“These guys were introduced in Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 edition. I instantly fell in love with these little creepers.
Dungeons & Dragons Monsters — Vampires vs. Zombies To The Undeath
I was inspired to write about Vampires vs Zombies after watching Spike TV’s Deadliest Warriors episode about what else, but Vampires vs Zombies of course.
Now if you’re gamer like me at first you’re thinking yea right zombie and vampire two undead monsters, but no way are they close to being equal when it comes to combat.
But honestly Deadliest Warriors does a really great job of analyzing these two classic monsters. Now they aren’t really comparing your traditional Dungeons and Dragons Monsters per say.
