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:
Multi-Class Character Builds in Dungeons & Dragons 5e (The Bard)
Hello fellow Nerdarchests, Art here. I’m back with the second installment of my series Multi-Class Character Builds in Dungeons & Dragons 5e. If you missed my previous article on the Barbarian just click HERE!
Today we are going to be singing along with… The Bard
Allot of you may think of the Bard as a musical little nuisance at the game table from previous D&D editions. In 5th Edition the Bard has taken quite a dramatic turn. They have become both a healer as well as one of the highest damage dealers at lower levels. They are in my opinion the most versatile class in the game by far.
How do You Play a Bard?
Armored Instinct: Bringing combat of the past to the future
The ring of steel on steel, swords against armor, maces against shields, these are often considered sounds only from the far past. Today, however, that is no longer the case. With interest in the sword arts growing, in no small part due to organizations such as ARMA (Association for Renaissance Martial Arts) and HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) and Russia’s M-1 Medieval Sports League, more and more fans and athletes are taking up arms and armor to experience the thrills of historical combat for themselves.
Two such individuals are Kyle Roberts and Andrew Dunn, founders of Armored Instinct in Winchester, Kentucky, who answer questions below.
Question: What exactly (and who) is Armored Instinct?
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
Multi-Class Character Builds in Dungeons & Dragons 5e (The Barbarian)
Hello fellow Nerdarchists, some of you might know me from the Nerdarchy YouTube channel, my name is Art Wood. I’ve been privileged enough to have been asked by the guys to write a few articles for you regarding multi-class character builds in Dungeons & Dragons 5e.
Now, I don’t claim to be an expert by any means, but I do know what’s worked for me as far as helping my friends build awesome characters and other players as well. I’m going to address this series by doing one article at a time focusing on each character class one by one as they appear in the Player’s Guide. I also want to point out I will not be focusing on character race or backgrounds, as I feel those are more for a “role-play” choice, however I do know that some races lend themselves to be a bit more potent with certain builds. Backgrounds however are mostly a player and role-play decision.
So, let’s get started with… The Barbarian
Afraid you’re a bad Dungeon Master? Do it anyway
So, you’ve run a couple of Dungeons & Dragons games as dungeon master, but you’re not feeling great about it. The sessions seemed to drag. You felt like you were always flipping through the Player’s Handbook.
A couple of characters bickered and you couldn’t do anything about it. Maybe there were even technical issues if you gamed online, or if you were at a table, maybe the chips tasted stale and the soft drinks flat. Maybe, dread of all dreads, a total-party-kill took place. Against flumphs.
In other words, the games sucked, and you feel like you’re to blame for all of it.
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
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Optional Warforged Builds
Most people I have spoken with feel that the warforged presented in the Unearthed Arcana: Eberron is lacking. So you can choose of of these options with your Dungeon masters approval of course. I think each of these grants a little extra flavor to the race and balances them nicely in comparison to the other races in the players handbook. A big thank you to Art Wood for coming up with these for us.
Optional Warforged Types…
Mithral Body (Warforged Only): Your body is composed of Mithral plating and wood Making them light and agile. You gain +1 to your Dexterity.
1982: Year of the first ADV Dungeons & Dragons video game
Box cover for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
When it comes to Dungeons & Dragons products, the tabletop games might be first to come to mind, but the brand has had more than its share of success with video games. Everyone has their favorites, from “Baldur’s Gate” this and “Neverwinter Nights” that, but those new to the franchise might not be familiar with some of the earlier digital efforts for D&D.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Video Games
Though not the first Dungeons & Dragons video game (that honor goes to “dnd,” created by Ray Wood and Gary Whisenhunt in 1974), the first such game to have the word “advanced” in the title would be 1982’s “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” for the Intellivision home console.
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 5th Edition – Mounted Combat
With the feat “Mounted Combat” you gain advantage on attack rolls when attacking targets smaller than your mount (including on a charge). Not just the damage, but being knocked prone is a huge disadvantage when fighting mounted combatants as they can knock their foes prone almost at will.
Prone targets (p.190-191 PHB) must spend their movement action to stand up and only move half their movement after they stand. Also, attacking a prone target gives you advantage on the attack roll to anyone attacking them.
Mounted Combat in Dungeons and Dragons
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?
