Rules vs. Continuity: Managing the Verisimilitude of Your Game
The 3 Wise DMs talk about their own problems with continuity and verisimilitude, when it becomes a problem, and how they manage those issues and the players they effect.
Can Good DM’s Fix D&D’s Racial Stereotypes Issues?
In this episode, the 3 Wise DMs talk about what’s happening, why it’s about time, and how hackneyed racial stereotypes don’t belong in your fantasy world any more than they do the real one.
Never Let the Dice Run Your Game
When we swap stories of games that went wrong, they usually have one thing in common: The players missed (possibly incinerated) an important detail. Which raises one really important DMing question: Why was it so easy to miss (or destroy) that detail? If your plot was ruined by a die roll, you have DMed poorly. … Read more
D&D Kit-Bashing: 3 steps to utilizing published material in your homebrew world
DM Tony and I have had several wonderfully reminiscent conversations about the great TTRPG that TSR produced in 1984 at the height of D&D’s popularity – entitled, Marvel Super Heroes (MSHRPG). We’ll dive deeper into the eponymous FASERIP system in future episodes and articles (maybe even a 3WD One-Shot!), but I’m bringing attention to this … Read more
Unclog the Slog: Tracking Initiative and Managing Combat in D&D 5E
Nothing kills a Dungeons & Dragons 5E game faster than combat becoming a bore. And nothing makes combat more boring than long turns, people not knowing who’s up next, and, the worst, a DM who takes longer to move his monsters than the party takes to kill them. The combat slog can turn into Artax … Read more
What Is 3 Wise DMs?
Hello and welcome to our new website for the upcoming podcast 3 Wise DMs. It’s a show for dungeon masters (for Dungeons & Dragons) and game masters (any other RPG) with problems. And when we say problems, we don’t mean the kind of things you find answers for in the gamebooks. Think of it as … Read more