World Anvil Worldbuilding

worldanvil.com

09 October 2026 18:17

Travel eats up a huge chunk of most DnD campaigns, and it's usually the most boring part. Here are 5 tips (and a bonus video) to fix that.

Tavern Publishing

tavernpublishing.bsky.social

02 October 2026 12:20

One of the things we kept coming back to while designing the first three One Night Adventures was that getting five adults around a table is already hard enough. A quick adventure shouldn't require you to schedule four more sessions before you find out how the story ends.

ewen_cluney.txt

nekoewen.bsky.social

30 September 2026 10:37

It's hard to tell where specifically it started, but the term "Game Master" actually predates D&D, and notably was used to refer to facilitators of play by mail games of Diplomacy. "Dungeon Master" likely came from the D&D community first (specifically the APA-L zine), and was soon adopted by TSR.

SPOOKYsnout

snoutmaster.bsky.social

30 September 2026 10:14

But also, I was that autistic kid who played GBA Fire Emblem, Breath of Fire, pined after Tales of Phantasia reading about it in Nintendo Power. Valkyrie Profile, FFT, I loved it. But, they didn't have dialogue trees like KOTOR2 or FoNV, or ability scores like DnD. But why couldn't they?

Rosetti

rosetti.bsky.social

20 September 2026 22:43

Two more dnd baddies; Lancaster and Monarch, members of Valmar's special forces, the Providence Unit.