D&D Session 0 – Make D&D Awesome for Your Group| GM Tips
In our latest video we dive into DM and Player Tips for running a Session Zero for D&D. Below you can find the full transcription from the video.
D&D Session 0 – Make D&D Awesome for Your Group| GM Tips Video
D&D Session 0 – Make D&D Awesome for Your Group| GM Tips Video Transcription
D&D Druid 5E — Best Race in Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons
Fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons has given several character classes a facelift. The druid among them. Two of the druid hallmark abilities are spellcasting and wildshape. The D&D druid 5E gets wildshape earlier than most of the editions of D&D if not all. My first 1E D&D character was a druid. You could say I am a bit fond of druids throughout all of the editions of D&D. You might be wondering what all of that has to do with the title of this article. I’ll get to that on the other side of our best race to play character classes druid video.
D&D Bard 5e – Best Race in 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons
Today’s video and transcription continues our best Race to play a character class series in 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons. This time we are looking at the bard.
D&D Bard 5e – Best Race in 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons Video
D&D Bard 5e – Best Race in 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons Video Transcription
D&D Ideas — Side Quests
Welcome to another edition of the Nerdarchy Newsletter. This week we are talking about side quests in D&D. Our last weekly live chat was also on side quests in D&D. We figured there was more to be said on the subject. Let’s get into it.
D&D Dice Fudging – Is It Cheating?
Near and dear to every D&D player’s heart is dice. With dice comes dice fudging. It’s been a tool in the Dungeon Master toolbox since 1st Edition Dungeons and Dragons. Below you’ll find our video where we weigh in on it as well as the video transcription.
D&D Dice Fudging – Is It Cheating? Video
Make Your Own D&D Maps with Dungeonfog
Let’s face it — Game Masters can never have enough tools to help make running their D&D games easier. DUNGEONFOG is just one of those tools. The fine folks over at DUNGEONFOG sent us over some copies to check it out and sponsored this article and some videos. They were even nice enough to give us the promo code Nerdarchy so you can score a 10 percent discount on the annual subscription which is already discounted from the monthly subscription. There are a ton of features to help GMs run their games and prepare beautiful maps. Not only that, there are tons of maps already on DUNGEONFOG that you can drop into your games or modify to your needs. Go sign up for free here.
Don’t Use 5E Elementals Use This D&D Monster Instead
If you are tired of using elementals in your fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons game and want some alternatives try these monsters instead. This is from our Don’t Use this D&D Monster Use This Instead series. The video is below complete with transcription if you prefer to read along.
5 Reasons for Your D&D Adventurer to… Adventure?
Salutations, nerds! One of the big things that comes up a lot in terms of characterization is, “What reason could your character possibly have for wanting to risk their life in a dungeon?” And that’s what we’re going to talk about today. I give you five reasons a character might want to be an adventurer.
5 Go to D&D Wizard Spells for Tier 1 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons
We have the 5 Got to D&D Wizard Spells as well a transcription from the video. Quick bit of house keeping we goofed and accidently included 3rd level spells on our list. We realized it after we put the spell up oops. We still really like Fireball and Haste we just listed them in the wrong tier. Our apologies.
5 Go to D&D Wizard Spells for Tier 1 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons Video
D&D Ideas — Shadow
Hello! Each week in the Nerdarchy Newsletter, we send updates and announcements along with some ideas that didn’t make it into a video. Signing up for the newsletter gives you access to the Nerdarchy ringtone, instructions on how to get a chance to game with us, and makes you a 1st-level Nerdarchist. So that’s cool. For those who aren’t interested in the newsletter, but still curious about some of these off camera ideas, enjoy.
Need D&D Battle Maps for Your Game
Since the inception of D&D maps have played a huge part of the game. But that makes a lot of sense when you consider the origin of the game. Since Dungeons & Dragons was born of Chain Mail, a tabletop miniatures war game. From the earliest day of Dungeons & Dragons it has been played both in the theater of the mind as well as with D&D battle maps and miniatures. Theater of the mind is a style of play that doesn’t use miniatures or battle maps. Many tabletop roleplaying games have come along since the beginning of Dungeons & Dragons. Some favor theater of the mind while others lean heavily towards using minis and battle maps.
D&D Monsters — Kobolds Mounted for Combat
Kobolds are insanely popular D&D monsters. So much so that players want to adopt them as henchmen and followers. Others want to play them as player character races. They’ve gone under bit of a transformation from the kobold from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. In 3.5 D&D they went from being a combination of rat, dog, and lizard to little dragonmen claiming to be the descendants of dragons. Not too long ago we did a video pairing up D&D monsters. Kobolds mounted on other monsters seemed like a lot of fun. We even put together a pay what you want product over on the Dungeon Masters Guild — Kobold Cavalry Encounter. Grab it here.
D&D Ideas — Legends
Hello! Each week in the Nerdarchy Newsletter, we send updates and announcements along with some ideas that didn’t make it into a video. Signing up for the newsletter gives you access to the Nerdarchy ringtone, instructions on how to get a chance to game with us, and makes you a 1st-level Nerdarchist. So that’s cool. For those who aren’t interested in the newsletter, but still curious about some of these off camera ideas, enjoy.
D&D Sorcerer or Warlock Out of the Chaos
Time to slip into some Nerdarchy home brew D&D lore. With this piece of lore we’ve got some ideas for creating either a 5E D&D sorcerer or warlock subclass. Maybe even both, but for starters we throw it to the Nerdarchy community. We start off by discussing the land and monsters that spawn our concepts. Whether we go with a D&D warlock or sorcerer they will be steeped in chaos. We took our inspiration from the chaos giant miniature from Pacesetter Games & Simulations. We had former intern Jake paint them with some Vallejo Paints. You can find pictures below.
D&D Ideas — Traps
Hello! Each week in the Nerdarchy Newsletter, we send updates and announcements along with some ideas that didn’t make it into a video. Signing up for the newsletter gives you access to the Nerdarchy ringtone, instructions on how to get a chance to game with us, and makes you a 1st-level Nerdarchist. So that’s cool. For those who aren’t interested in the newsletter, but still curious about some of these off camera ideas, enjoy.
