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
Zombie Atttack!
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.
Dungeons and Dragons – Improve your game with Improv
Ok, dungeon masters how many of you spend hours in between game nights plotting and planning your adventures and encounters for your players. You probably spend more time than you should.
Lets look at the key factor. When your players show up at the table they usually have little to no idea what you have in store for them for the evenings entertainment. They only have the ability to react to what you throw at them. Well what if you had a loose outline of the entire campaign and then only reacted off of what the players do?
Does your Dungeon Master use Improv?
Ecology of the Blitzorn – Fast and Dirty Monsters – 5th Edition
The Blitzorn, sorry Dave you spelled it wrong in the video below, is the primal hunter on the para-elemental planes. Agrar the hunter claims the Blitzorn is what would happen if a tiger mated with a thunderstorm. A beast as large as a mighty tiger but made entirely out of a thunder cloud. So let me present you this monster for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition.
Fast and Dirty Monsters – D&D 5th Edition
The markings that you would see on a tiger are made of actual lightning arcing through the cloud that is their being. These creatures though native to the elemental plane of lightning at time a storm draws energy from the elemental plane an it can draw these creatures from their home to hunt and stalk here on the prime.
The Dam in West Rustoch – Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
Hello today I present you a Dungeons and Dragons story. This is written by Micheal Rovinski.
Ephram is an Aarakocra, commonly referred to as Bird-Folk, Bird People, or Avian Humanoids. At a young age, he joined a monastery to learn the way of martial arts, and once he learned enough he was sent on a pilgrimage. During his pilgrimage, Ephram seeks out those in need of help. It is a part of his martial philosophy, the Way of the Open Palm; a martial philosophy considered the key to maintaining harmony with nature, one’s surroundings, and the place that one has with the Celestial Bureaucracy.
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
Ecology of the Golden Chimera – Dungeons and Dragons Monsters
Last week I talked about the creation of the Golden Chimera. While the chimera is built as a monster of Demons combining all the worst of each of the component monsters, the olden Chimera actually combines the best of each of the creatures combining together.
As the Demon Prince created the regular chimera a powerful Solar, perhaps the first, created a creature in its image to be a positive force on the world below, but powerful enough to defend itself and its kind.
As the dragon half of the regular strives to raid and plunder the Golden Chimera craves its wealth but usually through trade and service and is interested in acquiring knowledge above actual material possessions.
Golden Chimera in Dungeons and Dragons
Creation of the Golden Chimera – Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
Long ago I came up with this creature. Inspired by the regular Chimera I set out to make something personnel and cool. I never truly gave it a name because it was more of a unique creature in my mind then one of many. But over the years the idea has changed and grew.
Now Nerdarchy did a video on the chimera For Dungeons and Dragons, you can watch that below, and I talked about my version. The Golden Chimera like the regular has the head of a lion and a dragon. The lion looks more regal than vicious. The dragon is that of a gold dragon rather than that of a red dragon.
