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It’s a Long Way To The Top, If You Want To Play a Bard: DM Chris’ Top 5 Tips for Playing Your Best Bard in D&D

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Greetings, 3WD-verse. DM Chris here! The Bard class in D&D is a fickle thing. Much like being an actual musician, teasing the right notes out of your wandering minstrel can be challenging. As a guitarist myself, I’d often admired the cool eccentricities of the Bard from a distance, but when DM Dave first mentioned the Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen campaign, I knew it was finally time to pull the trigger. Enter, Rasgueado Vilhuela. Herein lies the top 5 tips and tricks I used (and learned through experience) as we traveled through Krynn to make my Bard truly sing.

RPG Mythbusters: The Tavern is the Best Place to Start Your D&D Adventure

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The tavern. It’s the start of 23 different campaigns that DM Tony has been in over the last three decades. It’s a fantasy adventure trope and gets a lot of hate out there for being basic and unimaginative, but is that necessarily a bad thing?

In this episode, Tony, Chris, and Dave return to our RPG Mythbusters series and test the myth, “Is a tavern the best place to start an adventure?” Will it be confirmed, plausible, or busted?

Forged in Fire Part Deux: Our Top 3 Homebrews For 5e: Narya, The Ring of Fire, Excalibur, and the Nazgul!

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In a recent episode, we discussed a listener question about homebrewing magic items that are based off our favorite books, movies, myths, and television series. This is something that every DM and GM is going to do… heck, it might even be the reason you got behind the screen in the first place!

Invasion! 3 Wise DMs Dungeons & Dragons And Dungeon Master Advice Podcast Invades YouTube To Offer All Our Tips And Tricks!

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That’s right, 3WD listeners… we’ve packed our Explorer’s Packs, donned our Breastplates and Shields (so as not to gain Disadvantage on Stealth checks!), sharpened our weapons and entered the “Dungeon of YouTube!”

In an effort to increase our ever-growing community here and invite new listeners (and viewers!) to experience our unique, conversational brand of DM advice, we have begun uploading our episodes from our return this past March with Back in Black: The Players Wrap-Up to the Absolutely Epic Curse of Strahd Finale with Vampyr, the Star of Blood

So, all we ask of the 3WD-verse is to shoot on over to our YouTube channel, Subscribe and, if the mood strikes you, or someone you know is in need of some friendly advice, or you just want to scream your love of us from a mountaintop (hey, guys can dream, right?) SHARE, SHARE, SHARE… help us defeat the dragon that is the YouTube algorithm.

I’m Ready For My Spotlight: 7 Tips To Help Your Character Find Their Voice In D&D and Other TTRPGS

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Greetings gamers from all systems, places, and timelines.

Recently, we released a podcast from a listener’s question on how to handle a player that wants to be in every scene as if they were the star of the show. But, just as many times, we have encountered a wide range of equally reserved players, who can be anywhere from being somewhat uncomfortable with taking the lead in a scene to doing a five hour impersonation of Silent Bob. This could be for a number of reasons, such as that they are newer to the system or haven’t found their groove at the table. 

Likewise, this can happen with experienced players who are on their seventh character and this particular one just isn’t clicking. Because how you conceptualize someone in your head is almost never how they end up once the game starts. Like Gerald who was intended to be a fearless knight, but during the actual game ended up more like John Ritter from Three’s Company. If any of this sounds familiar then you are in luck. As we have composed a list of seven tips to help you bring out your character’s potential without turning you into an obnoxious power gamer, like myself, in the process.

Damage, Inc. – 3WD Discuss What Hit Points Represent And How To Improve Your D&D Game By Changing Your Perspective

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What do Hit Points represent? Who knew that this was a controversial question on par with asking about Alignment? Following our episode reviewing the Avatar Legends RPG and their use of Fatigue and Conditions, we posed the question regarding what hit points represent on our socials and the response was impressive.

In this episode, Tony, Chris, and Dave take a deeper dive into what Hit Points represent in their games, how they describe the loss of them, and how other systems approach one of the oldest traditions of D&D.

Fatigue and Conditions: An Excellent Mechanic From The Avatar Legends RPG To Add Depth And Roleplay To Your D&D Combat.

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In our most recent episode, we reviewed our experience with playing the Starter Set for the new Avatar Legends RPG developed by Magpie Games, as well as the tips, tricks, and pitfalls we’ve found with running brand new systems that are very different from traditional d20 systems.

During the episode, we got into a discussion regarding one of the mechanics that we were a bit divided on. But I thought it was an interesting way to make the effects of combat more cinematic and narrative, as opposed the the tried-and-true mechanic of hit points.

So, I thought I’d break out the mechanic a bit more in this article to introduce you to something that might inspire you to look at your combat encounters in a slightly different way: Fatigue and Conditions.