How to make D&D really scary
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DM: “The frost giant’s ice club smashes down, crushing the very life out of you for (rolls) 40 points!” Bored Player: “Eh I still have 29
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Ask a Dungeon Master: How can I make my games scarier? – Empathy
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During this Halloween season, inject fear into D&D. After all, going into a dungeon should be a scary thing as it involves life or death
Behind the Gear-spun Curtain: A Purely Steampunk Look at Game Design
Dungeon Mastering Team
Designing a campaign setting isn’t all about world lore and locations populated by classes, races, and monsters. You need to have things for those classes,
Behind the Gear-spun Curtain: A Purely Steampunk Look at Game Design
Dungeon Mastering Team
As the leaves turn and the skies grow cloudy, we turn our minds toward All Hallows’ Eve and things of an often creepier, spookier, or
Behind the Gear-spun Curtain: A Purely Steampunk Look at Game Design
Dungeon Mastering Team
Gamemastering at GenCon can be a blast. It’s a way to introduce people to a game you love, or even a game you’re trying to
Behind the Gear-spun Curtain: A Purely Steampunk Look at Game Design
Dungeon Mastering Team
Character classes are the gateways through which players enter our games. As DMs, it’s important for us to understand character class design and what kinds
Behind the Gear-spun Curtain: A Purely Steampunk Look at Game Design
Dungeon Mastering Team
Creating new races or writing for old ones can be a chore. Given that no matter how incredible our idea may be someone somewhere has
Behind the Gear-spun Curtain: A Purely Steampunk Look at Game Design
Dungeon Mastering Team
Pure Steam™ is first and foremost a campaign setting. Settings are important to films, TV, comics, radio plays, novels, and books of all sorts. Settings are
Adventure Seeds: Time Travel!
Dungeon Mastering Team
Who doesn’t enjoy a good time travel story? The idea’s been prevalent in fiction for centuries. Whether it’s something where time travel is usually just
Behind the Gear-spun Curtain: A Purely Steampunk Look at Game Design
Dungeon Mastering Team
There’s a collective sigh of relief and that figurative, though often literal, fist-pump when you’ve hit a milestone creating something you love. That’s how we