GM’s Advice – Dice Monkey

Helm’s Deep and Running the Battle Your Players Can Actually See

The Battle of Helm’s Deep is one of the great fantasy battles. The rain. The wall. The torches in the

One of the strangest things about The Fellowship of the Ring is that one of its most important chapters is

There’s a version of gaming we all imagine: Everyone shows up on time, the table is clear, the GM has

Somewhere along the way, a lot of us picked up the idea that every fight in an RPG needs to

The megadungeon is one of the oldest and strangest structures in tabletop RPGs. At first glance, it seems simple: a

I had a good response to my last article from Rob Donoghue, who is one of those voices in the

Every Game Master has sat down with a notebook, a blank document, or some overpowered worldbuilding software, and started creating

Every RPG comes with a rulebook. Some are sleek and tight. Some are sprawling tomes that double as blunt weapons.

You don’t have to spend hours painting up miniatures to create an immersive game. There are cheaper and quicker ways

I’ve been running D&D for a long time, but Fourth Edition remains one of the most misunderstood tools in my