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There's this person or group that has been making maps since I think the early 2010s and just putting them online for people to use. I don't want to break their website or anything, but I was going over my old DM stuff and was like "oh yeah, random gigantic repository of high-res maps" so I figured I would share in case people just didn't know this existed?

https://dysonlogos.blog/maps/

you just click the map you want, it takes you to a different page, click the image again, boom hi-res

It looks like they have a Patreon if you want to support them, not sure if it's active still

The concept of a single language shared by an entire species always seemed kind of ridiculous to me. Humans in our world have more languages than we do countries. Why are we the only species that gets linguistic diversity?

A conversation with my daughter led to her coming up with the concept for this comic, so shares co-author credit on this one.

[You might recognize the Draconic script from a popular video game.]

More comics: Main series / One-offs

I recently met a fellow D&D player at a music festival who explained he was a forever DM and wanted to play again. I consider myself intermediate, but said I wouldn't mind running a one-shot with some mutuals who were all very new (I think they've only ever played BG3). I've played 2 different year-long campaigns, and tried to join/assemble a few other groups that never really lifted off. I think most people would say that is too new to the game to be considered a good DM. I would agree, there's still a lot of rules I don't know, and I'm still not even familiar with every class let alone subclass.

We started with session 0 with myself and 4 players, but got through creating characters and everything timely, so we just started playing. We played 2 more sessions until one player said they just weren't into it and another player had a sporadic schedule and couldn't make it. We dabbled with the idea of finding replacements, but I just wasn't up to it and wanted to do more research before DMing again.

Anyway, I just wanted to share how the experience changed the way I play, for the better I hope! I must acknowledge, was I a great DM? Absolutely not. I was less prepared than I should have been, and unsure how to handle a lot of things. But I survived, it was fun, and to be honest I think all the players enjoyed it, even if a more experienced DM would have ran a better game.

As a player I never realized DMs almost always have extra stuff for each setting. I used to step into a new town and think "the main quest lead me here, I want to keep following that." I never realized I can hit all the extra little side-encounters by just stopping and asking "what else do I see here" or "can I stop and chat with any local shops or anything like that in the area". From following DM guides, I now realize a town or forest is never just the next step in the main quest, it always comes with 2-3 side encounters, and as a player, I have not been disappointed with asking my home group DM things like this whenever we're in a new area!

Another change is how attentive I am to the DMs storytelling. For example, if my DM says you enter some location, in your surroundings you see you can easily go in direction X, Y, or Z. I used to think, what option would have the best outcome for my player? Now I think, okay one of those is probably something the DM has a ton of preparation for, and the other two not so much. So if I pick the less prepared option, I want to be ready as a player to fill in the gaps and roleplay.

One last thing - When the DM offers a shop, I will never again ask "what are they selling?". When I was DM that was such a hard question to answer. I instead say "I'm looking for these specific things, are there any shops where I could find those?" And also I try to just drop hints like that in general. When I was DM it was so hard to know what magic items the players would get really excited over, so now as a player I might casually say "it would be so cool if we found a whatever item"

TLDR - I sucked as DM, but it actually wasn't that bad, and it's made me a way better player having had the experience with knowing the right things to ask to get the story moving or get cool side encounters I would have skipped.

One of the characters in my campaign is a Plasmoid World Tree Barbarian made from sap from the World Tree, located in the Feywild. Essentially, the World Tree pervades all of reality and roots of it can be found across all dimensions. However, given it’s a tree, it can’t explore and act, it can only observe. The barbarian was formed out of its desire to see more, and learning of the suffering in the world, help where it can. After much hardship, he now wants to find where he came from.

I gave the barbarian Tree Stride at level 5 (insane, I know, but the campaign takes place in Amn, which is basically Magic Kansas), and he often gooped into trees as living sap often does.

Here’s where it gets insane.

In their quest to resurrect an ally, they found a glade containing roots of the world tree. Immediately recognizing it, he goops into the tree and feels the shocking connection to the World Tree and all of reality.

I have him roll a WIS save.

I think “Wouldn’t it be funny if-“

And he rolls a one.

So he Treestrides into a root in the Feywild.

I had every intention of having him go back, especially since they were about to revive the character that rescued him from poachers years ago. However, the Barbarian, elated to be home, books it into the nearby forest to find his original tree. To the players, he hugs the root, dissolves, and never returns. We resolve his journey and the resurrection side-by-side, and I give his character plenty of options to remember what he was doing moments before, and outs to get back if he wants them.

He finds the World Tree, and finds the sappy knot where he came from. He puts a hand to the bark and has a conversation with it. It is happy it is back, and wants to know what he learned. Above table, I ask what he plans for the character. After a moment, the barbarian steps forward, reunites with the World Tree, and we cut to black.

As the DM, I don’t know yet if he will return the character, but it was definitely the most inverted fortune I’ve ever seen on a natural one, since he went from accidentally plane shifting to completing his character arc.

Godspeed, Roc. Keep goopin’ in tree heaven. 🤘

I built the ultimate gaming table I might as well use it. I’ve had this homebrew idea in my head for years so I said why not. I think reached out to several old gaming friends and asked their interest. We just completed session two and the feedback has been great. I used to love creative writing and this lets me do that on a totally different scale. Wish I would have done this so long ago. For the setup I am using dynamic dungeons map editor on my left screen which displays the gaming map to the table. On my primary screen I’ve got d&dbeyond for my player characters, initiative builder, NPC info, and notes. Not in the photo is my dice setup on my right side and my tablet controlling scene music.

I genuinely love building this story out with my players. And they have been super engaged in the role play, story, and battles from the start.