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D&D Flavour Shot: Dark Fey Portals
A Flavour Shot is a short description of game artefacts and phenomena for use by Dungeon Masters, Game Masters and Storytellers in their roleplaying games. Feel free to drag and drop these into your own games, and modify to suit. Let us know if you end...
D&D Creature to Character Conversion: Darklings
A few times in the past, I’ve written articles about elements of the fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons homebrew world I’m building (which I’m temporarily calling Gladius). One of my earlier D&D creations was the aatier, a half-tiefling half-aasimar race. Not to long ago, I...
Out of the Box D&D Encounters, Series 2, #15 – “The Lucky Catch”
Out of the Box Introduction One of the greatest inspirations any Dungeon Master can have is actually pretty obvious: Other DMs. Seeing how others create and design encounters can colour how we do things, sometimes for years to follow. I’ve had two great DMs in...
Shedding Light on Dark Arts Player’s Companion for 5E D&D
Normally I don’t like third party content, especially for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons, but this week I found something not only amazingly well made, but well balanced for the most part. Specifically I found the Dark Arts Player’s Companion presented by Jonoman3000. This product...
Out of the Box D&D Encounters, Series 2, #2: Black Circle
To expand on an opinion expressed by others more famous than myself (an easy achievement to accomplish), much of what we assume in D&D comes from a generic fantasy world. We tend to also assume the appearance and behavior of certain cultures and races. What...
“Procession” – Out of the Box #25 D&D Encounters
Introduction: A fact that goes unnoticed in many environments or campaigns is the importance of rivers. Rivers were the first highways of the ancient world, and are still major thoroughfares to this day. The same should be true in a fantasy setting. Rivers...
“Island In The Storm”- Out of The Box D&D Encounter #12
Introduction: For those with access to one, the Dungeon Master’s Guide has a tone of great encounter tables. Chapter 5, pages 108 and 109 have two great ones. Each item on these tables can generate a good encounter. Mixing them can generate a great one....
The Mystery Your Missing in D&D 5e…
Hello fellow Nerdarchists, Hope to see you all having awesome game sessions! In this article I wanted to address the common problem that a lot of game masters have trying to keep their players engaged by using the elements that are at the core of...
