What are Battlemaps? Pen & Paper can, as the name suggests, be played with just paper and pencil. This is successfully practiced in many systems and gaming groups. The Dungeon Master describes the situation and players say how their characters react. Often the result is determined by dice rolls. This Theater of the Mind approach contains much of the appeal of Pen & Paper gaming.
If you've ever searched online for pen and paper groups, you might have stumbled across paid "professional" games. The Dungeon Master is usually paid per session by the players. But are the paid sessions actually better and was it worth it? I tried paying for D&D sessions. Here's how it went for me and whether it might be right for you too!
In mid-December, a draft of the new Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License was leaked, causing uproar in the tabletop RPG community.
Especially for newer players, it can often be overwhelming to read a rulebook with several hundred pages before you can even start playing. Here, the simple ruleset of How to be a Hero can work very well for first roleplaying experiences. But even for experienced players, this system offers a lot of freedom to quickly implement new settings and ideas and just get started!
Rasputin Must Die! is one of the craziest pen-and-paper adventures I've ever heard of. Pathfinder transports players to 1918 Russia during World War I.
The Disciples of the Horn were a cult I created for my first Dungeons and Dragons campaign. They were a series of villains who wanted to revive an ancient dead god and bring about the apocalypse.
Roll20.net is probably the largest Virtual Table Top (VTT) platform for pen & paper role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons or Das Schwarze Auge. There you can play online with friends from all over the world and experience adventures together. Unfortunately, Roll20 is sometimes designed in an unintuitive way and can be overwhelming, especially for new players who already have a lot to learn about the game rules.
Artificial Intelligence is getting better and more accessible. There are already many new applications for AI in the media and technology industry. However, Artificial Intelligence has become so versatile that it can also be used for Pen and Paper. Here we have compiled some of these possibilities for you. However, we would like to point out in advance that working with AI also always involves dangers and can never fully replace the work of human artists.
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is a loot shooter developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. It's a spin-off of the popular Borderlands series centered around Tiny Tina.
Exhaustion in Dungeons and Dragons 5e is one of the most dangerous conditions your character can have. You can suffer various levels of exhaustion, which make it increasingly difficult for your character to defend themselves or react quickly in dangerous situations. This quickly leads to a vicious cycle that can even end in your character's death!