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D&D Cartoon – Tiamat at 1st Level Too Much

Journey with us through the world of Dungeons and Dragons as we break down the D&D cartoon. We will be breaking down episode after episode. The first episode is The Night of No Tomorrow. We’ve already down the D&D cartoon adventuring party break down. As long as there is interest we’ll continue to explore this series.

D&D Cartoon – Tiamat at 1st Level Too Much Video

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D&D Barbarian 5E – Things You Can do While you Rage

We take a look at the 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons Barbarian character class. Specifically the rage class feature and how it interacts with other class features for 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons character classes. Below you can find the video and transcriptions.

D&D Barbarian 5E – Things You Can do While you Rage Video

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D&D and Roleplaying Games Through Critical Illness

I have been a gamer since the age of 14 when I could understand the rules in the old second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook. I’ve played through many editions of D&D without a thought, enjoying the ability to take on a new role or create a new world. Here unfortunately is where things take a drastic turn. On April 18, 2016 I was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer, which at current date is at stage 4. A lot of people have asked me how I dealt with it, what did I do, etc. I kept gaming. I ran Savage Worlds and D&D games. I also played in D&D and Pathfinder games. I’ve had the good fortune to play in games here on Nerdarchy not to mention unMade Gaming.

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D&D Metal – Fantasy and Mythical Materials in Dungeons & Dragons

There is a long tradition of fantastical metals and materials in fantasy and science fiction. Mithril and adamantine go back as far as I can remember. Which lead us to do a video on D&D Metal and other materials.

D&D Metal – Fantasy and Mythical Materials in Dungeons & Dragons Video

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D&D Ideas — Artificer

Welcome once again to the weekly Nerdarchy Newsletter. This week we’ve been inspired by the Unearthed Arcana release of the Artificer Revised. With that it was an easy topic for a weekly live chat this past Saturday as well as a great topic for the newsletter. But before we get into discussing artifice, the artificer, and it’s place in a D&D game, it’s Monday which means we had a video go up today- D&D Death From Real World Threats. You can watch it here.
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D&D 5e Character Creation Drow Sorcerer Rogue Adventurers League Build

We haven’t done one of our Adventurers League legal character builds in awhile. So here is one that we did as a Patreon request. The request was to create a shadow sorcerer rogue. The rest was left up to us. Nerdarchist Ted and I put our heads together to figure out the rogue subclass, background, and race. Of course as we build the character out it’s fun for us to flesh out the story elements.

D&D 5e Character Creation Drow Sorcerer Rogue Adventurers League Build Video

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Roleplaying the Other — Tieflings are Gay

Hello, and welcome to Roleplaying the Other. In this column, I’m going to be largely focused on roleplaying, worldbuilding, and interactions at the table. They will be filtered through my own personal lens of queer experiences in the hobby. Firstly, I should define when I say “queer,” I am referring to LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) experiences. This is a blanket term encompassing asexuality and other distinct identities, as well. If you are not one of these letters of the acronym you may be asking yourself what you’re doing here. I’m glad you asked. I’m going to be sharing insights I’ve gained that can hopefully help anyone’s table run a better game. I am not a spokesperson for all identities and I’ll be reaching out to people within the community for their perspective from time to time.

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D&D Cartoon – Breaking Down the D&D Adventuring Party

Another brand new YouTube series about the D&D Cartoon. Every episode of this series we’ll dissect another aspect of the cartoon. The very 1st one we look at the intro and the characters that will make up our Dungeons and Dragons adventuring party.

D&D Cartoon – Breaking Down the D&D Adventuring Party Video

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D&D Ideas — Renown

Welcome once again to the weekly Nerdarchy Newsletter. This week we are going to dive into renown in Dungeons & Dragons. You can find rules for it in Chapter 1 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. You can find additional information in Chapter 2 of the Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica. Renown gets discussed right in the introduction of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. These three sources alone will give a ton of information and suggestions on how to use renown specifically, which is great for running D&D and using renown in Forgotten Realms or the world of Ravnica. We will explore other options and ideas below from the Nerdarchy team. Remember — just because those are official D&D campaign settings doesn’t mean you can’t pull them apart and reassemble them for your homebrew D&D campaign.