RPG Ideas — Shields
Welcome once again to the weekly newsletter. This week’s topic is shields, which we discussed in our weekly live chat. We hangout every Monday evening at 8 p.m. EST on Nerdarchy Live to talk about D&D, RPGs, gaming, life and whatever nerdy stuff comes up. You can get Nerdarchy the Newsletter delivered to your inbox each week, along with updates and info on how to game with Nerdarchy plus snag a FREE GIFT by signing up here.
Plunge Into the Wilds and Discover Warlock Lairs from Kobold Press
Our awesome friends from Kobold Press surprised me with an advance copy of their new Warlock Lairs: Into the Wilds book releasing March 20, 2022. This will absolutely find a place on my shelf within easy reach because it’s my favorite kind of material and Kobold Press crushes it every time. Warlock Lairs: Into the Wilds contains 19 (wow!) short quests featuring discrete locations with strong themes, unique challenges and engaging story elements you can drop right into your Fifth Edition campaigns. Let’s get into it.
How Did Your RPG Character Learn Their Skills?
Salutations, nerds! Your character sheet has a list of things you can do and after you’ve been playing your character for a while you have a pretty good idea of the skills they’re good at and the ones you really don’t want the Game Master to ask for checks. Something that might never come up at the table but will absolutely inform getting into your character’s head space and roleplaying is how you learned those skills in the first place.
Nerdarchy on D&D Design: Creating New D&D Races 5e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Undd8Ty1u6w In this 15-minute video on Nerdarchy the YouTube channel Nerdarchists Dave and Ted discuss creating a new race for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. This D&D idea comes from their own home game. During the video they explain the inspiration for the unusual anthropomorphic chinchilla race...
Nerdarchy on Dungeons, Dragons, and Motorcycle Gangs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AGS2jkHJl0 In this 18-minute video on Nerdarchy the YouTube channel Nerdarchists Dave and Ted discuss motorcycles in fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons and ask the question of whether they belong in a 5E D&D game. During the video they share details from a new campaign they recently...
Pocket Full of NPCs for 5E D&D — The Way Guardian
Salutations, nerds! Do you ever need to make a quick jaunt through the deep dark woods more interesting and yet still go smoothly enough to get to your destination in the same session? The last pocket NPC for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons I presented was the Lingering Spirit and today I’ve got a new one for you.
RPG Ideas — Swords
Welcome once again to the weekly newsletter. This week’s topic is swords, which we discussed in our weekly live chat. We hangout every Monday evening at 8 p.m. EST on Nerdarchy Live to talk about D&D, RPGs, gaming, life and whatever nerdy stuff comes up. Speaking of swords there’s nine of them in our Mage Forge collection of 250 magic items for Fifth Edition along with dozens of other magic weapons of various kinds and hundreds more designed to make your games more amazing and immersive. You can get the Nerdarchy Newsletter delivered to your inbox each week, along with updates and info on how to game with Nerdarchy plus snag a FREE GIFT by signing up here. You can get the Nerdarchy Newsletter delivered to your inbox each week, along with updates and info on how to game with Nerdarchy plus snag a FREE GIFT by signing up here.
Ember Roc and Other Monsters of Tal’Dorei Inspire New Characters and Adventures
Tal’Dorei Reborn recently released and if you managed to get your hands on a copy from the wonderful people over at Critical Role’s Darrington Press you’ve seen a bunch of new monsters and their respective stat blocks for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. But enough of the book for now — you can hear more on this from us over at Nerdarchy the YouTube channel.
Are You Already Playing Lacuna Part 1?
While tidying up my office I rearranged and curated my collection of tabletop roleplaying games on display. Doing so unearthed a small press RPG I discovered many years ago when the terrific Inception movie came out and I wanted to bring the dream heist espionage scenario to the game table. Lacuna Part 1 from Memento Mori Theatricks nails it with this wonderful indie RPG where players take on the roles of secret agents sent into a dream world where they encounter more than they expect and mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
Nerdarchy on Mixing D&D Races Up Tal’Dorei Reborn Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAILwJ0ItsM In this 18-minute video on Nerdarchy the YouTube channel Nerdarchists Dave and Ted get inspired by the Critical Role campaign setting to talk about mixing and matching fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons races. During the video they explain how half-races are representing in official 5E D&D...
