Brandon asks – Do you enforce encumbrance? Brandon, the very unglamourous answer is “it depends.” While I’m all for playing most games with the rules as written, I do think that incorporating “house rules” or tweaks to some of the more boring mechanics of certain games make for a better overall experience. In some circumstances, …
CJ asks – I’m running a campaign that’s about ten sessions old and two of the players want to split off and hunt down an artifact that I kind of mentioned by accident. Is the whole “never split the party” thing good advice or should I let these two go on their search? CJ, yours …
Chris asks – I’m someone who has just recently gotten into tabletop gaming as player, though I’ve been accumulating ideas for a game of my own down the line. I’ve started writing down the initial plotline, and thankfully, I still have some time before this game could get started in proper, so I can map …
It’s November again and that means it’s National Novel Writing Month, where writers attempt to write a 50,000-word novel from November 1st until November 30th. It is safe to say that there is an intersection of storytellers who want to write a novel and those who run games of Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, and other …
Role playing and tabletop games are wonderful in that they require very few supplies, save your imagination, character sheet, and a set of dice. However, in the ever evolving world of gaming, no longer do Crown Royal bags cut if for packing your crit machines around. In the past few years there has been a growing …
We have put it off as long as we could but there is not turning back from fate, I guess. All of the other avenues we explored didn’t pan out so it looks like there is no other choice but to swing this hammer to save the world. We four adventurers knew this day was …
Listen, cultists, you have to stop trying to blow up the world with dragons or earthquakes or sentient balls of lightning or whatever. We are just going to grab a group of our four best friends and kick your bottom all up and down the Sword Coast. Now I am hearing that y’all are getting …
Maybe a few poor decisions were made this week. Who is to say? Do we have any regrets? Sure we do. Would we like to go back in time? Yes, most definitely. Your adventurers may be a little worse for wear but are bound together in a race to save their lives. (please forgive some …
A quick note: We had some audio issues this week, and we apologize for the lack of quality. We have a plan moving forward that should dramatically increase our audio quality. This week on Drunks and Dragons: Our heroes come face-to-face with one of the dwellers of Shadowspar, and battle quickly ensues. Will the gang …