Liven up your role playing games with music soundtracks
Players and game masters alike often look for ways to spice up their role playing games, to perhaps add a little atmosphere. Music can be essential to such a quest, providing background sound to keep play on an even keel or highlighting adventurous moments with a boost of adrenaline.
Longtime gamers likely will have their favorite tunes, but those new to the hobby might be wondering what music goes best with a session of Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Traveler, or any number of tabletop RPGs. Also, with the holidays upon us, you might be looking for some gift ideas for your favorite gamer.
I have found that soundtracks often provide excitement and variety to gaming sessions. Obviously music is a subjective matter, much like deciding upon a favorite role playing game, but over the years here are a few soundtracks that have proved quite successful at my gaming tables:
Conan the Barbarian
D&Dizing Star Wars for 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Part 2
Last week I spoke about letting you play a Jedi, or as close as I can make it, in Dungeons and Dragons. D&D is full of fantastic abilities and with just a little re-imagining and adding a custom warlock patron we can bring Star Wars to Dungeons and Dragons.
Play a Jedi in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
Celebrate the upcoming Holidays with Star Wars
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" class="zemanta-img"] English: Opening logo to the Star Wars films (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Hello and Happy Monday from us here at Nerdarchy. As we are about to move into December and all the holidays and potential time off from School and Work, why...
Multi-Class Character Builds in Dungeons & Dragons 5e The Monk
Hello fellow Nerdarchests. I’m back with the fourth installment of my series Multiclass Character Builds in Dungeons & Dragons 5E. If you missed my previous article on the Fighter just click here. Today we are going in the dojo with the monk! As before I want to take up some space and talk about the class as a whole. Monks areone of the most interesting 5E D&D classes as a whole. It offers a variety of ways to address martial arts and characters that use them a defining path in their existence. Themonk by far has the most options in combat with their Unarmored Defense and ability to deal deadly bludgeoning damage with only their bare hands and feet. Looking at the progression of the monk at 11th level they switch to a d8 for their Martial Arts damage and that is when they start to taper off as a combatant. This is when multiclassing will come into effect if you are not looking to the whole spiritual aspect of the monk.
Remembering all my D&D and gaming pals at Thanksgiving
Here in the U.S. we are celebrating Thanksgiving this week, a holiday in which we go shopping, watch football and eat way too much. Oh yeah, and we give thanks for the good things in our lives. As part of the Thanksgiving holiday, this year I...
Now for something completely different: Add laughs to your D&D game with Monty Python rules
Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Around some role-playing game tables, especially those for Dungeons & Dragons, quotes from the Monty Python’s Flying Circus television show and Monty Python movies are as common as twenty-sided dice. As might be expected considering the subject matter, quips from “Monty Python and The Holy Grail” are especially prevalent.
Who can blame us, and our fellow gamers? Those movies and the show are hilarious and often full of scenarios and one-liners just fit for a session of D&D. In our broader culture, perhaps only “The Princess Bride” comes close as being quoted, or maybe the Star Wars franchise.
However, sometimes quotes aren’t enough. Sometimes you might want to take your game to the next level by actually including Monty Python material in your adventures. Drafting some of the characters would not be too difficult, and it would be a fairly easy task to include King Arthur’s famed sword Excalibur as rules for it exist in earlier editions of the game. But what about specific rules that allow for Monty Python-esque gameplay?
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.
Energize your Fifth Edition D&D character classes by playing across types
Hello, Nerdarchists! Have you played all the Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons character classes, and all the archetypes, and now you’re looking for something new? Are all your characters starting to feel the same? Do you need an idea to help kick start your creativity...
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?
Multi-Class Character Builds in Dungeons & Dragons 5e (The Cleric)
One quick note, this article come after the release of Sword Coast Adventures Guide, so my article will contain builds including content from that book as well. If you missed my last article on the Bard click HERE to take a look. Today we are going to prey to the gods with… The Cleric
I’d like to start with a quick overview of the Cleric so I can clear up a few issues with the class as a whole.
To start off, the Cleric as a class falls off at eighth level due to the class features only coming from the domains themselves. There is no base class feature at later levels. Also, the ability to cast Revivify as a third level spell removes most of the need for Raise Dead. With this I feel that the Cleric when multi-classed with any other primary spell caster is the best option sense the multi-class spell slot chart on page 165 of the Player’s Guide still allows for the same amount of spell slots needed to cast higher level heals and party buffs. With that explained let’s get started.
Multi-class Character – The Cleric
D&D Alignments: Has Chaotic Neutral gotten a bad rap?
Hello Nedarchists! Today I want to take a look at the Dungeons & Dragons Alignment system, specifically the Chaotic Neutral alignment.
The Alignment system in some form or other has been part of the D&D experience since the beginning, all the way back in 1974 with the first edition of the game. Even in the early days, Alignments sometimes brought about a predicament for players and dungeon masters alike as Alignments could be understood in a rather subjective fashion, giving rise to lots of different interpretations.
The occasional troubles have not abated to this day. Some dungeon masters do away with Alignments altogether, or at least ignore them. Some players consider Alignments a burden upon their characters, while other players enjoy using Alignments as a guidepost for their creations.
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.
