Incredibly helpful links, videos, and articles used by us and suggested for your game.

Please note, these are NOT sponsored links. These are suggestions to great people and resources for a successful DnD night. Support these people if you can and accept that I’m offering my referral simply based on how awesome they are and on what the do for the community of players.

Black Magic Craft

The godfather of terrain building. You’ll see a lot of my builds and pics from our games are using Jeremy’s techniques and ideas. Support him on patreon, watch his videos, bask in his ideas and make them your own. Seriously, great tutorials anyone can do and bring a huge playable field to your games.

Freddy Lopez

Freddy is one of the nicest guys you’ll meet online and is also an incredibly talented illustrator. He’s worked for some of the biggest game companies and hits up cons often. A great supporter of DnD he loves games, fantasy, and roleplaying. Check out his work at http://freddylopezjr.com/

AND he lets us use his artwork on this site. Please support this guy in any way, shape, form that is possible. He’s awesome and inspires me with every doodle. Keep that pencil moving, Freddy! And thank you.

DMHelper

A great program for using a monitor as mapping in your game. https://dm-helper.itch.io/dm-helper/purchase My only complaint is it does too much. All I needed was a second monitor that showed maps, a grid, and fog of war. Many programs do this but are costly and bloated (some wouldn’t even run on my Surface. DMHelper is the leanest one out there and, if you need it, does a lot more like campaign info tracking. Check it out.

Ten Foot Pole

Want to know if that adventure is worth your bucks? This blog reviews adventures and is *brutally* honest about them. Like, almost hurtful, but you do get the skinny on a lot of published adventures from micro to big publishers. Worth a read.

Need a FAST NPC?

Head over to https://fastcharacter.com/ to generate a 5e character FAST. Using whatever rule sets from whatever books you want. I’ve used this one often in my games, both in planning AND during game play – it’s that easy and fast. Bookmark this one.

Your Personal, on point, AI assistant

The problem with AI is that it’s TOO robust. Frick, I don’t need 5 million opinions on druids, what’s the books actually say on that obscure rule? Like, screw off Redditt user dragonpiss2343243, I don’t want to hear it.

In walks a great google tool, https://notebooklm.google.com/ in which you upload the references YOU want it to look for answers in and then answers it like a real person would. I uploaded a pdf of the 5E books I want for checking for rules (rule books and the setting books) in and now I have my own AI based solely on the data set I want the AI to reference. Dump all the DCC books into one, boom, all your DCC questions answered. Add in a document with all your house rules, tell it to prioritize those rules, and now it references then in addition to the actual rules. Put in a setting book and you can say “Give me all the mentions of THIS character.” Boom, done. “What’s with INSERT NAME OF ITEM?”, cause your players picked it up 20 sessions ago in a mega-dungeon and you can’t find that note? Boop. Here you go.

I’m sure this tool has more applications beyond gaming…