How to DM — Cheat With The Lazy Dungeon Master
Hello and welcome fellow Nerdarchists. I’ve got a great way for you to up your tabletop roleplaying game skills. It’s called The Lazy Dungeon Master written by Michael Shea. Don’t worry about which edition of Dungeons & Dragons you are playing. This book is useful. As a matter of fact I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest you could use nearly all of the advice given for any tabletop RPG. This book is short, sweet and packed with valuable Dungeon Master tips. If you are looking for a how to DM resource this one is at the top of my list. It weighs in at an anemic 123 pages but offers storm giant sized value. If I would have stumbled across this book there is no way I would of bought it, but because a friend recommended it I decided to give it go. At 123 pages I was thinking what the hell is this Michael Shea guy going to tell me about how to DM? I mean, I’ve been gaming for over 30 years at this point.
How To Speeks Goblin | Necromancer
Hello and welcome fellow Nerdarchists. I'm seeing a goblins web-comic, which means it must be Wednesday. This week we put together a combination of words I never imagined uttering in the same sentence -- necromancer and goblin. Who knew? I never know what to expect...
Creating the Most Foul 5E D&D Lich Villain Straight from the Monster Manual
Welcome fellow Nerdarchist. Today I’ll be guiding you through the horrors of the fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual as we discuss a villain most foul. Nerdarchy was asked to do a video about a 1,000 year old lich who was a human and is chaotic evil from one of subscribers over at the Nerdarchy the YouTube channel. The request was for both a story and stats.
How to Speeks Goblin | Mechanic
Hello and welcome to Nerdarchy's weekly web-comics where we translate goblin into the common tongue for you. Let's take look at this week's goblins web-comic and see what our little green friends are up to. Uh oh, a goblin and tools are never a good...
Top 5 D&D Campaign Settings
Hello and well met. I’m here to discuss my top 5 picks for D&D campaign settings through out my 30+ years of the game. First and foremost we will be skipping Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms. I find these to be the most generic of D&D campaign settings. They could literally be anyone’s homebrew game. Oh wait, Forgotten Realms was Ed Greenwood’s. Nothing against those settings it’s just there isn’t anything really different in them. The only reason Forgotten Realms is interesting at all is because of the amount of detail that has gone into it, with tons of authors having written in that setting. Even with all of that it strikes as being incredibly generic. Personally if I’m going to play in a generic setting I’d rather just run my own homebrew.
How to Speeks Goblin | Intimidate
Once again we find ourselves peering into the wonderful world of those little green goblins. Which means it must be Wednesday in Nerdarchy land as we bring you our weekly goblins web-comic How to Speeks Goblin. Now it's time to see what these little buggers...
5E D&D Character Builds — Dragonborn Paladin
Hello Nerdarchy reader, Nerdarchist Dave here to talk character builds. I got me a hankering to delve into a dragonborn paladin for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. Paladins are an iconic character class harkening back to the very beginning of the game. Dragonborn on the other hand are a bit newer, first appearing in 3.5 D&D towards the end in a different incarnation than the current version. They really came into their own with fourth edition D&D. To be honest it took me a little while to warm up to them as player character race. Honestly it was the 4E D&D art that killed them for me. Two words: dragon boobs! The idea of a mammalian trait slapped onto a reptilian race seemed ridiculous to me. But I’ve decided to grow as a person and get over it. Not too long ago I wrote an article about dragonborn that kind of made me want to play one hence this article where we build a dragonborn paladin.
Top 5 Tabletop RPGs to Play Before a Zombie Apocalypse
Nerdarchist Dave here to give you my Top 5 Tabletop RPG Games to Play Before The Zombie Apocalypse. This is going to be a list of games I haven’t gotten a chance to play, a little bit about the game and why I want to play them.
How to Speeks Goblin | Nerdarchist
What's it look like when a goblin joins Nerdarchy? We explore that very scenario in this week's goblins web comic. I gotta tell you folks I'm not so sure we should be looking to staff Nerdarchy with our little green goblin friends. Things look as...
Exploring 5E D&D Multiclass Character Builds
Welcome and greetings fellow nerdarchist. Nerdarchist Dave here to talk D&D character builds. But first you might be wondering if you are a Nerdarchist or not. You decide:
Smash Up is a Killer Combiner Card Game
Hello fellow Nerdarchists out there. Nerdarchist Ted here and today I want to talk more about some board games or card game in this instance. Particularly Smash Up, published by AEG. The basic premise of the game is universal domination, and who does not want that?
I have been playing this game for quite a while and just love it. My fellow Nerdarchist do as well. And who does not want to play a game that has a T-rex with mounted lasers?
The galaxy or universe is at war and no single faction has made enough progress by themselves to be able to say they are winning. So what is there to do? Lets team up.
How to Speeks Goblin | Trolling
It must be Wednesday, because here comes another goblins web comic. Let us take a peek in on our little green skinned friends the goblins to see what they’ve gotten themselves into this week. Oh, this could trouble for this week’s goblins comic as it looks like this fella is up to no good. What could goblins be doing with trolls? I don’t I even want to know. Oh well, goblins will be goblins.
5E D&D Customized Races — Subraces of the Underdark
Hey Nerdarchists out there, it is time for yet another installment of customized 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons races. We have a request from Nerdarchist Ashton Smyth who is running an Underdark campaign and wanted my take on the duergar. Thanks for the great suggestion I hope you like it and agree with my take on it. And since I am doing the dark dwarves why not add the deep gnomes as well? I have included the full race write up so you can use this as an easy reference for creating your own duergar or svirfneblin character. Some changes needed to be made to the base races for thematic or mechanical purposes.
Wemic — Monster and Playable Race for 5E D&D
Hello fellow Nerdarchists, today I want to bring you one of my favorite races from Dungeons & Dragons past — the wemic. I fell in love with the wemic back in my early days of playing second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. When I got my hands on the Complete Book of Humanoids I played many of those races and wemic was absolutely my favorite. You have to admit the wemic is a realy cool race. So I am proud to give you my take on the wemic both as a monster and a playable race.
How to Speeks Goblin | Sleighing
Hello and welcome Nerdarchy reader to this week’s goblins web comic where we see what our goblins are up to for the holidays. In this week’s webcomic of How to Speeks Goblin we see what happens when a couple of goblins take sleigh ride for two. But I don’t think these little green guys have romance on their minds. From this goblins comic we can see it isn’t such a great idea to spend the holidays around goblins.
