How to Successfully Handle Player Character Death
Thumbnail Art from Critical Role’s Campaign 2 Intro Content Warning (CW): Player Character death Last week a friend of mine said over Twitter that she didn’t know how to feel after having a character...
View ArticleKevin’s Spellbook: Mending
Here in the final glimpse into my spellbook, we will look at Mending. This versatile and often overlooked cantrip has likely the greatest implications for real-world applications. Destroying stuff is...
View ArticleEssentials of Character Backstory
Building a character backstory doesn’t have to be a lengthy or labor-intensive affair. And you don’t have to write beautiful fiction to create one that will be useful during play. Instead of character...
View ArticleParty Roles for Player Characters (with in-game mechanics!)
Thumbnail Art by Pablo Agurcia Whenever I hear some old school D&D player say players had to map out dungeons and continents back in the day I get astonished. There’s something about that style of...
View ArticleInstant Character Backstory
Some days you can spend hours finely crafting the important character beats in your backstory, heaping on lavish descriptions of their childhood home and just how sad they felt when their parents died....
View ArticleCharacter Motivation 101
Once you’re done rolling a new character, building their backstory, drawing fan art, and perfecting the character’s voice, all that remains to breathe life into the character is finding the character’s...
View ArticleHow to Make A Basic Conlang, Part 3: Verbs
In the previous articles, we looked at how to create phonology for our language and we began creating some morphology for nouns. Today, let’s create some for our verbs. Verbs are “Big Chonky Bois” as...
View ArticleHow to Make A Basic Conlang, Part 2: Nouns
Last week, we tackled the first step in creating a constructed language: choosing the sounds. It was also pointed out to me that an example lang would be hugely beneficial, so here is my phonology for...
View ArticleHow to Make A Basic Conlang, Part 1: Sounds
Creating a conlang, aka constructed language, for your Dungeons & Dragons world can be summarized into three basic steps: Choose the sounds Decide on the grammar Create a lexicon The sounds of a...
View ArticleHow to Incorporate Conlangs into your Campaign
Using a conlang, also known as a constructed language, can add a lot of exciting depth and verisimilitude to your campaign. Culture is inextricably linked with language. By using a constructed language...
View ArticleFive Aspects of an Authentic D&D Character
In tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons, players create their own characters and Dungeon Masters create dozens of NPCs to populate the world. That can be a daunting task, especially...
View ArticleA Guide to Roleplaying Changelings
A Guide to Roleplaying Changelings Changelings are masters of blending in. They are perfect for the roleplayer who has too many characters buzzing around in their minds to be able to choose just one...
View ArticleA Guide to Roleplaying Goliaths
Goliaths are one of my favorite races. These strong bois are adapted to the harsh environment they inhabit. Descended from giants, goliath culture is one in the same vein of many warrior cultures,...
View ArticleA Guide to Roleplaying Aasimar
Aasimar are in many ways opposites to tiefling, but they share an important theme of being outsiders. While tieflings are branded by the actions of their ancestors, their lives are largely their own to...
View ArticleA Guide to Roleplaying Tieflings
Speak of the devil, it’s time for tieflings! Unlike half-orcs, half-elves, or other outsider races, roleplaying tieflings means dealing with the fact that the corruption that manifests in their bodies...
View ArticleA Guide to Roleplaying Gnomes
Gnomes. I never really got this race. They always seemed like magical halflings and I struggled to find a way to play them in my games as anything other than that. But while they share many...
View ArticleA Guide to Roleplaying Goblins
Per special request by a reader, this week we’ll be examining how to roleplay goblins. Goblins are one of my favorite races, and one of my favorite words. Both smarmy and evil, comical and cruel,...
View ArticleA Guide to Roleplaying Dragonborn
If you’re anything like me, you dreamed about being a dragon as a child. The power, the freedom, the awesome scales! By choosing to roleplay dragonborn you can capture some of that magic and get to...
View ArticleA Guide to Roleplaying Halflings
Roleplaying a halfling lets you be a character who charms the hat off a wizard or lets their luck see them through a hairbrained scheme. While in earlier versions they were essentially hobbits ripped...
View ArticleA Guide to Roleplaying Dwarves
Roleplaying dwarves can be so much more than vaguely Scottish accents, drinking ale, and swinging an axe around. Today we are going to take a look at what drives dwarves and how you can quickly develop...
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