Books, movies, and television shows benefit from one major advantage: the entire story is planned before the audience experiences it. D&D campaigns don’t have that luxury. Players miss clues, chase unexpected leads, ignore carefully crafted plot hooks, and sometimes decide that the villain’s plan sounds surprisingly reasonable. As a result, even the most carefully prepared … Read more
Some listener questions come in and just HAVE to be answered. This was the case with a question that came in from longtime friend of the show, Dr. DM himself, Jason. His son’s school D&D club was planning a seriously epic finale to multiple campaign tables in a stupendous one-shot. Everything was gong well until … Read more
Birthday games are 3WDs specialty… and it has now begun to grow. New DMs are joining in on the fun and running new, unique, and exciting games in all types of systems and taking on the challenge of one-upping the Wise DMs. In this episode, Tony, Chris, and Dave sit down with returning guests, Bonnie … Read more
Greetings, 3WD-verse! DM Chris here. In our most recent podcast, we discussed an interesting question that one of our favorite DMs, Matt Colville, posted in a video. Most of you know the 8 player types (if not, hold tight) that we can use to help identify a player’s style and tune the game accordingly, but … Read more
Recently, Matt Colville of the Running the Game YouTube series and author of the new Draw Steel TTRPG, discussed the concept of “DM Style.” With someone who has been involved in all things tabletop for over 40 years, you would think that he would believe in developing a DM Style. However, his hot take was … Read more
Maybe you’ve run some one-shots or even multi-night campaigns. But now you’ve made the decision to run a long-term campaign for many levels – maybe all the way to 20th. How do you make the jump? What do you need to know that will make the transition seamless? What are the differences between running a … Read more
Over the course of twelve episodes, we have enlisted the help of all our listeners to create the first-ever crowdsourced and collaborative campaign setting – what we call Boomtown! In this episode, Tony, Chris, and Dave sit down to reveal the end of this very successful experiment… well, maybe not the end, but a very … Read more
You’ve seen the trailer. You saw the #MinisMonday post… Tony’s birthday game where Chris and Dave teamed up to run our group through a tabletop wargame in our own custom Marvel Universe of 6-1-SHIT, where the heroes were brought to Battleplanet to fight the SECRET WARS! In this episode, Tony, Chris, and Dave sit down … Read more
Greetings, 3WD-verse! DM Chris here. If you haven’t been listening to the podcast lately, we’re in the midst of creating a homebrewed world from scratch called Boomtown. It’s an effort between our listeners and us in what we believe is the first attempt to assemble a collaborative campaign setting that anyone can use for their … Read more
One of the easiest ways to make your campaign and your setting feel real, immersive, and unique is by taking away the certitude that magic is always going to act the same way. This mysterious, world-altering energy should not ever be completely understood by your characters, as the discovery of it is a big part … Read more
