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While nearly every player wants to play the biggest and baddest warrior on the block, or the wizard with the power to level mountains and reshape continents, having characters that excel at everything can quickly become boring in Dungeons and Dragons. What is the fun of playing an adventurer with stats and skills so finely tuned that the chances of them failing at something becomes nearly improbable? Many amazing stories can come from high risks and lucky rolls, but if you’re not really taking a risk by jumping across the street from rooftop to rooftop trying to escape a burning...

So your party is approaching the final battle of the story arc, and you want to make the encounter epic. This isn’t some back alley brawl or tavern fight, this is a boss encounter to end all boss encounters! You need to make this awesome! So where do you start? In this blog, we will be putting together a mock encounter using tips, tricks, and suggestions from several experienced game masters they use to build unique and dynamic encounters. It will be using Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition classes and monsters for ease of understanding, but many of these can...

Sometimes getting started is the hardest part of any adventure. With this in mind, here is a short single-session quest you can have your party of fresh-faced adventures journey on based on the location created in our Where to Begin Your Dungeons and Dragons Campaign blog. The battle maps can be made using a Squire Dungeon Set along with a few pieces from the Palisades Kit. All story aspects have included enough information to build off of, but have been purposefully left vague enough to allow you to weave the adventure into your own broader story. There are stats for...

So, you and your friends decided to give one of the many tabletop role-playing games a chance, and you have been elected to run the adventure. Lucky you! But where do you start? You may be tempted to craft a vast story full of incredible plot twists, cinematic battles, and heart-wrenching betrayals, but let’s slow down. Best not to go biting off more than you can chew as a new game master. Before building an epic world full of intrigue and monsters, let’s practice our world-building on a smaller scale. This blog will run through a simple system to develop...

This is it! The time has come for your party to accomplish their Dungeons and Dragons final task! Defeat the big-bad, save the kingdom, rescue their loved ones, and set the world right! Or maybe they will defeat the forces of good once and for all, bring their enemies to heel, and claim the land and its treasures as their own. Whatever the final hurdle may be for your party of adventurers, the moment for them to stand victorious or reap what they have sown is upon them. As a Dungeon Master (DM), the finale of your adventure should be...