D&Dizing Star Wars for 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
Hello Fellow Nerdarchists. Due to some issues with our site during our migration to a new server we lost some content. So if you read my article from last week this is going to be a redo and for that I apologize. With all the hype...
Board Games in Review – Red Dragon Inn
Hello and Happy Monday everyone. I had a chance this weekend for Nerdarchy to play a new game: Red Dragon Inn. And it was a fun time.
Red Dragon Inn is the game of what happens in the Inn after the adventure is over. There are two components to the game. You have gold, and you need gold to drink and gamble as well as your alcohol and fortitude. If you run out of gold you stumble off to bed, if your alcohol level ever meets or exceeds your fortitude you pass out drunk and the Inn and party members take your gold.
Save Your Gold in Red Dragon Inn
Multi-Class Character Builds in Dungeons & Dragons 5e (The Fighter)
Hello fellow Nerdarchests, Art here. I’m back with the third installment of my series Multi-Class Character Builds in Dungeons & Dragons 5e. If you missed my previous article on the Druid just click HERE.
Today we are going to march onto the battlefield with… The Fighter
First I’m going to take a some space and talk about the class as a whole. The Fighter is a very diverse and well thought out class in my honest opinion. Wizards of the Coast did a pretty good job with it as a base class and added a little bit of depth with the additions in The Sword Coast Adventure’s Guide with the addition of the Purple Dragon Knight. As far as scaling power levels go in reference to the higher level challenges, the Fighter scales quite nicely especially the Battle Master archetype.
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition – Custom Background
Happy Tuesday my fellow gamers. Today I would like to present you with a custom background in case you need more character building options for you Dungeons and Dragons game.
So here is the background Tribal. The outlander is the most adventurous background but to me it does not speek to one who was raised in a tribal culture but one who went out into the wilderness later in life. if you are playing a half orc or barbarian character you might very well have grown up in a tribe. If you are playing a more monstrous race or have something custom in your home brew campaign setting this background might suit you better than Outlander.
D&D 5th Edition – Tribal Background
Board Games in Review – Boss Monster – Card Game
Hello again my fellow board game lovers. Nerdarchist Ted is back to review another board game. Today we look at Boss Monster. This great card game made with art in tribute to the old style of video games but has awesome references to them in the art and flavor text as well.
In Boss Monster you get to play the bad guy and have heroes try to raid your dungeon. You get to out out rooms that try to stop them from getting to you. You have different types of rooms such as trap or monster rooms. You get to play them out in front of your “Boss Monster” to protect him or her from the adventurers that want to slay you.
Can You Be Top Boss in Boss Monster?
Dungeons and Dragons – Descriptive Combat Using Real World Fighting Techniques
Hello again my loyal Nerdarchists. As I have mentioned on numerous videos I have done years worth of combat with the historical fighting style of the German Longsword. Having knowledge of how an actual sword fight can go can make describing combat scenes and maneuvers far more interesting and realistic.
Over the years of study I have used several historic manuals. You can use the Knightly Art of the Sword by Ringeck. This is a great book that not only has the text with corresponding artwork showing the sword-work in motion, but it also has the original German so you can see how it translated. And if you are fluent in German you can read it as it was originally written.
How do You Use Descriptive Combat in Dungeons and Dragons?
Board Games in Review – Quarto Classic – Puzzle Game
Hello Nerdarchists and Board game lovers. Let me introduce you to the wonderful game of Quarto classic. This is one of those awesome games that it only takes a few minutes to learn but can be played over and over again and is still enjoyable. You...
Witch Hunter, The Movie, The Nerdarchy Game and the Backstory
Fear not loyal Nerdarchist there will be no spoilers here- I haven’t even had a chance to see the movie yet! Then what, pray tell is this article about you ask? Tomorrow night at (or around) 10:30 EST, Halloween, Nerdarchist Dave’s running an eerie Dungeons and Dragons Witch Hunter game live on Google Hangout for myself, Nate the Nerdarch, as well as friend, and frequent guest poster, Art Wood.
Our characters were created using the Witch Hunter (click link to download PDF of the class!) custom character class written by Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer. It’s a full 20 levels of a character class with three distinct orders to choose from, The Orders of the Ghostslayer, Profane Soul, and the Mutant. The three of us will be playing each of the orders as 15th level characters. Our intrepid Dungeon Master Dave has given us a 30 point stat buy and 6,000 gp to spend on starting equipment using the gold costs out of the Dungeon Master’s Guide for magic items.
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition- Witch Hunter Class
Yours truly will be playing a dwarf following the Order of the Mutant. Below is the backstory for Egrec Rune Hammer:
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition – Custom Race – Rodent-kin
Hello fellow Nerdarchists. Ted here and it has been a while since I made a custom race for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. So today I wanted to make one for you.
So I present you with one race with two cool and distinctive sub-races. The rodent-kin are small around the size of Gnomes and Halflings. Some believe that these creatures have ancestry in lycanthropy, but others believe that they came out of the deep Feywild. However they came to be they are here and their curiosity about the bigger folk is certain.
Will You Play a Rodent-kin in D&D 5th Edition
Dungeons and Dragons – Player Tips – Preparing Your Background
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5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons makes making background choices easy. But the thing to remember is that characters are more than the mechanics on a character sheet.
In order to make your character enjoyable during the game you need to make them feel real. If your group is doing a session zero you can figure out what everyone is playing and you can begin linking your stories together.
Whats Your Backstory in Dungeons and Dragons
Board Games in Review – Resistor – Card Game
Hello Board Game fans let me introduce you to a wonderful card game: Resistor. You might have seen my earlier post talking about this wonderful game while it was on kickstarter. Well if you missed the article or missed kickstarter today is your lucky day. The game is fully published and available on Amazon.
It is the era of nuclear war. Countries stockpiling global thermonuclear warheads have entrusted their nukes to supercomputers. Two such computers, Deep Red and BLU9000, have had their launch sequence initiated. Fearing mutually assured destruction, the computers race to hack one another so they can launch unimpeded and destroy their enemy.
Will You Survive Nuclear War with Resistor?
Dungeons and Dragons Player Tips – Playing Your Flaws
Hello Fellow Nerdarchists. When you break down and look at character concepts 5th edition not only has the system in place that each character has in their traits a flaw as well as the standard stat array has a low stat.
These features can be considered by many a problem to avoid, while others see these as awesome role playing situations and awesome parts of the story to make the session memorable.
Player Tips – Play up Your Flaws as much as You do Your Strengths
Multi-Classing in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, Should I or Shouldn’t I?
The important thing to look at is role playing has nothing to do with the mechanical character sheet that you use to track your progress through the game of Dungeons and Dragons. 5th Edition presents very good reasons for multi-classing but also makes it simple enough to make happen.
The question you have to ask yourself when you are considering multi-classing is it a character choice or a player choice. Sometimes the lines get blurry when classes are similar. Take your martial classes, fighter, paladin, barbarian, ranger or rogue. With limited or no casting ability dipping into these is easy. Fighter is the easiest of the lot as it just represents more martial training.
Multi-classing – to be or not be?
Dungeons and Dragons – Etiquette at the Gaming Table
Ted from Nerdarchy here and today I am going to ask you a hard question. Are you a good player at your gaming table? Now I am not asking are you a skilled role player or even a valued member of your party. I want to know how you treat the fellow people you game with.
Every gaming table is different. So when the group gets together you need to either find out or figure out what each player at the table is there for. Are you playing a beer and pretzels game where silliness and distractions are not only commonplace but sought after?
Do You have a Problem Player at Your Gaming Table
Play Cards Against Humanity at Your Next Get Together
Cards against Humanity is a fantastic game for a group that has a perverse sense of humor. In this card game each player around the tale take turns playing a card from one stack which has a sentence or expression with one or more banks. Each player then uses one of the cards in their hand that they feel best matches.
