Role playing games enable players to take part in their own ongoing TV show—a soap opera of sorts, with a growing number of support characters, a fantastic and evolving environment, and ongoing stories linked to the players’ backgrounds and adventures. … Continue reading Laidback DM: Villains – upping the ante
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for Dungeons & Dragons adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give away my hand-drawn maps any chance I get. This week: Tinsen’s Bluff From a recent adventure I … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map – Tinsen’s Bluff
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for Dungeons & Dragons adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give away my hand-drawn maps any chance I get. This week: Elemental Cruxis The party have to recover … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map – Elemental Cruxis
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for Dungeons & Dragons adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give away my hand-drawn maps any chance I get. This week: Ruined Tower and Crypts Here’s a map … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map – Ruined Tower and Crypts
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for Dungeons & Dragons adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give away my hand-drawn maps any chance I get. This week: Mountain Monastery Nothing like a remote mountain … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map – Mountain Monastery
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for Dungeons & Dragons adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give away my hand-drawn maps any chance I get. This week: Serial Killer Inn The party stops overnight … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map – Serial Killer Inn
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for Dungeons & Dragons adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give away my hand-drawn maps any chance I get. This week: Above and Below An interdimensional nexus created … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map – Above and Below
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for Dungeons & Dragons adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give away my hand-drawn maps any chance I get. This week: Giant Mound You can use this map … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map! Giant Mound
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for Dungeons & Dragons adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give them away any chance I get. This week: Tower and Undertemple Local villagers have been going crazy … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map – Tower and Undertemple
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for Dungeons & Dragons adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give them away any chance I get. This week: Big Bad Boss Castle Yep – there’s always an … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map – Big Bad Boss Castle
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for D&D adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give them away any chance I get. This week: Clifftop Temple After climbing all the way to the top of … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map – Clifftop Temple
Time for a free map! I love drawing maps for D&D adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give them away any chance I get. This week: Entombed! This partly collapsed tomb features magic guardian statues in the … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Map – Entombed!
Time for some free maps! I love drawing maps for D&D adventures. I have far too many, though, so I give them away any chance I get. This week: Four Encounter Settings Here are four maps that I’d call basic … Continue reading Laidback DM: Free Maps – Four Encounter Settings
D&D fifth edition (or 5e) has this lovely little bonus for players called ‘inspiration’. It’s an extra d20 that is awarded to the player for doing something cool, great role playing, etc. They can use it to re-roll a d20 … Continue reading Laidback DM: New Approaches to Inspiration Rewards
As DMs, we’ve all done it at some time or other: we’ve killed the entire party and drained the fun out of the D&D session. Sometimes it’s unintentional, sometimes it’s mean spirited, sometimes it’s to punish players for being complete … Continue reading Laidback DM: Avoiding The TPK
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