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The NoXP Discussion Forum The above link is to a discussion forum on reddit dedicated to discussing beginner questions and questions about how to teach D&D, as well as any suggestions people have for content on this site. Matt Colville’s Running the Game This is an epic youtube series from a guy who’s been DMing for 30 years. I don’t even normally watch youtube, because, seriously, who has the time? ...

I’ve added a tool I built that didn’t seem to exist anywhere else… a random magic items selector. This one, unlike many on the internet, has every official magic item that exists on D&D Beyond. None of the info exists on this website except a list of links. The tool just chooses random links based on rarity. It’s very simple and dumb, and I’m ok with that. Check it out here. ...

A post on reddit (no, I’m not going to link to it) managed to cram three different truly bad campaign ideas into one player, and I figured this would be a good subject to write on. Here’s a non-comprehensive list of really bad ideas that you should absolutely avoid in your campaign. Evil Parties / PCs Everyone eventually thinks they want to run a badass evil PC, or maybe all the players decide they want to run an all-evil party. ...

I wanted a custom calendar for my campaign world, to keep it feeling authentic and like it existed before the characters started wandering around in it. However, I didn’t want the players to have to look up all my random month names every time I used them. What’s the solution? Well, at first I thought I’d just make up names that basically start the same as the existing months (luckily the month names in english are all pretty unique)… but I’m honestly terrible at coming up with names on my own. ...

I had an interesting thought about naming things today. I had a name I liked for my planet (Athos), but a crappy name for the continent where my campaign takes place (Loroth). And it occurred to me that I don’t actually need a name for the planet. Our own planet doesn’t really have a name. The Earth just means “the dirt”… i.e., this thing right here that we’re all standing on. ...