This is a sponsored article; we received free dice from Mystery Dice Goblin. This article contains affiliate links to put gold in our coffers. Dice subscriptions deliver dice regularly to D&D players who love dice. Math rocks, click-clacks, etc., are fun for in-person gaming. We enjoy the feel and look of new dice as we roll for our imaginary fates. But sometimes, we need something new to freshen up the game. New dice can do that, so why not automate your dice aesthetic with new surprises each month? Imagine getting dice in the mail each month. Each package is a surprise as you receive new ..read more

Player Agency D&D featured art is from the Book of Many Things. This article contains affiliate links to put gold in our coffers. Player agency is critical to my enjoyment of a TTRPG. I remember how I felt playing D&D for the first time. It was magic! I felt that each choice I made, from my Dexterity score to the chalk in my inventory, would matter. Fortunately, I had a DM who enabled me to enjoy using every line of my character sheet. However, this new-player energy was short-lived. After playing for several years, I realized my choices frequently didn’t matter. I could turn off my br ..read more

“Sleeping Beauty” by ilona-veresk, CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Disclaimer: This article contains affiliate links that add gold to our coffers. One of my favorite D&D 5e spells is Dream. In this article, you’ll find creative uses for the spell that can shape your worldbuilding with its implications. I’ll give an overview of the Dream spell before going into the creative applications, countermeasures, and other considerations. You can watch the video version of this article if you prefer to listen: Featured on the Flutes Loot YouTube channel. Let’s begin w ..read more

This article on TTRPG design approaches and their application is commissioned and authored by Ross Leiser of Outlandish Adventure Productions, one of the most successful class designers in the D&D 5e third-party publishing space. This article contains affiliate links that add gold to our coffers at no expense to you! Support our small business by using our links. Thank you! Unless you have a plethora of experience in your field of design, beginning a project can be a daunting endeavor. Where do you start? Do you tackle the small details that actually allow functionality, or do you begin wi ..read more

Grappling in 5e Guide article image is from the Dragonlance manual. Additional images come from the Monster Manual, copyright Wizards of the Coast. This article contains affiliate links to put gold in our coffers. Grappling in D&D 5e is a melee attack action in hand-to-hand combat. While the mechanics of grappling are fairly straightforward, a player or a dungeon master can gain many strategic ideas from exploring this action. In this article, we’ll examine how players can use grapple as an action, including unique ideas to utilize in encounters. We’ll also evaluate grapple mechanics for ..read more

Mörk Borg (“Merk Borg’)’ is a doom metal fantasy tabletop roleplaying game by Pelle Nilsson of Ockult Örtmästare Games, Johan Nohr of Stockholm Kartell, and published by Fria Ligan (Free League). The game’s aesthetic feels inspired by Heavy Metal magazines, Mad Max, Ralph Steadman’s artwork, and hyper carnage shows like adult swim’s Metalocalypse and Superjail!. You know this game is metal AF because it’s pronounced in cursive and uses these two dots above this “o.” I mean come on, they commissioned a vinyl album soundtrack of industrial doom metal for an adventure, and then printed that adven ..read more

I’m a sucker for survival mechanics. I always try to include them in adventures I run. I’ve recently come to the end of a year-long campaign I’ve DMed that centered heavily on survival. My players have traveled hundreds of miles through dense fey forests, along continent-spanning rivers, and across frigid arctic plains, and I’ve come to one conclusion: The survival rules in D&D kinda suck. But don’t worry, I’ve learned a lot from this campaign, and I’m here to distill those lessons into an article to fix survival in D&D. Or at least, greatly improve it. You can skip right to the rules ..read more

Thaumaturge art is provided by Benjamin Huffman from commissioned artists for the Thaumaturge class content. This article contains affiliate links to put gold in our coffers. I’ve been given a review copy of the D&D 5e Thaumaturge class by Benjamin Hoffman. The target audience for the Thaumaturge specifically would be people who are interested in making numerous character-defining decisions when building a character. The design is meant to engage players and keep their attention with its spellcraft features when it isn’t their turn. The Thaumaturge goal is to be a class that feels like an ..read more

This article about mastering Strahd von Zarovich contains affiliate links that may add gold to our coffers at no expense to our readers. Support our small business by using those links! We also utilize Midjourney AI art which we composite and edit to provide additional visual resources for readers, as full disclosure. They’re finally there! Your players have reached Curse of Strahd’s climax. All their hardships and efforts, hours of playtime, and months of scheduling culminate in one moment: battling Strahd von Zarovich. You roll Initiative. Wow, the party mostly rolled higher than Strahd. No ..read more

Colin Robinson D&D 5e character build featured image and in-content images are produced by Midjourney AI. This article contains affiliate links to put gold in our coffers. “What We Do in the Shadows” is a popular comedy, and it features a drab side character, Colin Robinson. As an energy vampire on Staten Island, Colin lives a mundane life feeding on human energy at an office. He is a roommate to several traditional vampires. A comment on our YouTube channel encouraged me to make a D&D 5e build for Colin Robinson, energy vampire. After a fit of laughter, I wrote down the suggestion. To ..read more