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Card based characters?

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As I explore options involving D&D (including creating my own system), I have come to think that for players who want to stay away from digital tools, cards might be a better format than [...]
[tl;dr: I used AI to write a song, The Ballad of Bitey Boy Brock at udio.com, and you could too!] In one of my D&D classes one of the players wants to have a pet badger. I try to run my teaching [...]

Kids DMing: Coffee Wizard!

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In the How to be a DM class the kids have been taking turns running some short encounters. One of the students knows D&D pretty well already, but one has never played the game before. So I put [...]

Terrain Crafting Paint Choices

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This is a list of the paints and techniques I use for the terrain I craft for my own uses. I highly suggest everyone who crafts terrain make their own list, or use mine, so their work remains [...]