A Beginner's Guide for Dungeon Masters – Setting Up The Game
Hello! I’m Kenny, and I am the Dungeon Master (DM) for the Bard Rock Café podcast. In this series of articles, I wanted to talk a bit about how you can plan your own homebrew campaign. DMing is a lot of work, and takes a lot of preparation to do well. If you haven’t DMed […]
Bard Rock Cafe Episode 2: Waiting is the Hardest Part
Rook meets with Felix about a job while Epi investigates the obelisk. But we all know the real reason you’re listening is Brock filing an insurance claim! Bard Rock Cafe is a DND 5E real play podcast. Please consider Supporting us on Patreon. Want to listen using your preferred podcast service instead? Find this episode […]
Cube of Force - Let's Form a Party!
Welcome to Cube of Force, the article series where we build a Dungeons and Dragons themed Magic: The Gathering cube. Wizards’ two biggest properties have always had thematic overlap, and they have actually crossed over a few times with core DND books like Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica and Mythic Oddyseys of Theros. We even have […]
Felix The Cat Merchant’s Introduction to Dungeons and Dragons
Hello dear reader! If you are reading this, then you have been fortunate enough to come across a copy of my introduction to the world’s greatest roleplaying game, Dungeons and Dragons! It is, of course, a pleasure to be writing this – in no small part because I am a part of the game… and […]
Bard Rock Cafe Episode 1: The Ring of Fire
The campaign comes in hot with a fire at the Bard Rock! Can our heroes get out safely? Bard Rock Cafe is a DND 5E real play podcast. Please consider Supporting us on Patreon. Want to listen using your preferred podcast service instead? Find this episode and more on Stitcher, Podbean, Podchaser, IHeart Radio, Pandora, […]
Getting Gaming: (Player Perspective) RP in gaming
Gather around and take a seat, I want to ask you all a question. How does everyone feel about roleplaying in modern gaming? If you are playing a character in a game, how important is their background to you? And, if there isn’t a satisfying background provided- do you make your own? I ask because […]
RPG Riddles: The Good, Bad and The Ugly
As your party turns the corner they are able to see the fruits of their labor in front of them. The door that will lead them to the ancient treasure vault of the dwarven kings. Cautiously, you all press forward knowing that there are still dangers. Suddenly, in front of you, a grand creature appears. […]
Getting Gaming: Dungeon Design (Part 2)
So last time, we talked about the atmosphere and how it can make dungeons great. This time I want to follow up on that and talk about something I think is equally as important, what’s going inside ‘em. Monsters and traps are important but my favorite thing to add to my dungeons are puzzles. Puzzles […]
Let’s get down and dirty and teach these players something today. You have just finished a 3-hour fight and defeated the dread-dragon Urizona, the necrotic bile of his breath still bites into your gear as your bodies have just gotten used to the toxicity of his lair. All around you are treasures piled high as […]
Getting Gaming: In the Beginning
Why is the first Goomba of Super Mario Bros.(SMB) a better enemy than Alduin of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim (TES:S)? Because from the beginning, Goomba does more for the game than Alduin because he acts as the ultimate tutorial. The Original Goomba (OG) does three things correctly for the Mario series. OG’s first mark of […]