5 Tips: Tuning Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) Encounters On The Fly

The main guiding principle here is to tune your encounters harder or easier on the fly in order to enhance the experience for your players. You want your players to feel the tension of real challenges and have them work together to solve them. Make the encounter harder when it will add drama, flair, and fun to a battle that is turning out to feel a bit flat…

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DM Tip: Character Flashbacks for Kicking Off Your D&D Sessions in Style

What if each of your live play sessions started with a scene that dramatically featured the backstory of one of the player’s characters in your campaign? What if it set the tone with evocative role play and drama and shed light on interesting parts of the characters around the tables origins and motivations? Flashbacks can be…

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