Maxime Bonnin

Maxime Bonnin

What is a West Marches Campaign?

West Marches Kampagne bedeutet Erkundung rund um einen zentralen Ort

A West Marches campaign in pen-and-paper RPGs is a campaign style that differs from traditional roleplaying campaigns, focusing on a central town where players start and return after adventures, with unexplored wilderness containing quests and dungeons to explore.

Creating Dungeons and Dragons Encounters

Dungeons and Dragons Encounter mit Greif

One of the most important parts of roleplaying games are the fights. Whether the group is facing a griffin in its lair or being ambushed by a few goblins on the road, it's important to find the right balance between danger and fun. Here you'll find helpful tips for creating your Dungeons and Dragons encounters.

Backstory Tips for D&D Characters

Stift Backstory mit Rollenspiel erstellen

Especially for new players, it's often difficult to integrate their character into the world in a way that feels natural. Here you'll get some tips to better incorporate your characters (or those of your players) into roleplaying through their backstory.

Roll20 Tutorial – Basics for Dungeon Masters

Roll20 Grundlagen für Dungeon Master

Many pen & paper groups play online and use Virtual Tabletop (VTT) programs for this. The most used VTT is the free and browser-based Roll20.net. Here you have an interface where you can show your players battle maps and world maps and they can move their characters as tokens. This extremely helpful tool is not entirely intuitive to use, so here's a Roll20 tutorial with the basics for you!

Dungeons and Dragons Gift Ideas

Dungeons and Dragons Geschenkidee

Do you know someone who plays Dungeons and Dragons and want to give them something useful? Then you're in the right place. Here you'll find the best Dungeons and Dragons gift ideas for players, no matter how experienced they are.

Battlemaps for D&D and Pen & Paper

Battlemaps helfen bei Pen&Paper

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.

Paying for D&D Sessions – I Tried It Out

D&D Sessions bezahlen

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!