D&D 5e Warlock Guide for Beginners: 5 Key Tips and Strategies

Always Talk to Your DM First! Few D&D classes put as much emphasis on the relationship between DM and player as the Warlock. While Wizards get their powers from careful study and Sorcerers get their magic from bloodline heritage, Warlocks get their abilities by serving a patron entity—and most likely it’s the DM who’s going to be on the one playing that entity. Your first step when building a Warlock is to make sure your concept sounds fun and agreeable to your DM, because it will create a bit of extra work for them too....

6 min · 1142 words · Nicole Turner

D&D 5e Wizard Guide for Beginners: 4 Key Tips and Strategies

Tip 1: Knowledge Is (Literally) Power While Sorcerers derive magic from their bloodlines and Warlocks get their arcane power by making pacts with otherworldly beings, Wizards gain power through careful study of the natural fabric of the world. As a Wizard, you’ll bemaintaining a spellbookthat contains the fruits of your study: the more spells you learn and collect, the more powerful you’ll be—because those are the only spells at your disposal....

4 min · 830 words · Daniel Meyer

D&D Campaign Settings Spotlight: Eberron, Explained

How Did Eberron Get Started? While other D&D campaign settings—like Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk—were conceived within the TSR and Wizards of the Coast offices (the companies that owned and publishedDungeons and Dragons), Eberron started elsewhere. In 2002, Wizards of the Coast put out a contest and called for fans to create and submit their own campaign settings for D&D. The grand prize was official publication of the submitted campaign setting, plus cash and the envy of tabletop nerds worldwide....

4 min · 811 words · Maria Roberts

Diablo III on Nintendo Switch: Impressions From a PC Player

Diablo III on Switch: First Impressions While there are some drawbacks that come from playing the game on the Switch, the port really is fantastic. It runs perfectly, feels great, and comes with all the content you could ever want. If you’re not interested in reading the nitty-gritty details and you just want to know whether you should consider purchasing the game even if you’ve squeezed it for all it’s worth on PC or console, the answer is…...

5 min · 1012 words · Eric Franklin

Discord Bots for Dungeons and Dragons: The Only 2 Bots You Really Need

What IsRPG-Schedule? RPG-Schedule is an incredibly practical and powerful tool that works with both Discord and its website. Basically, it allows you to use certain chat commands to launch the bot’s website and then create games. You can set games to repeat, set reminders for when a certain amount of time before the game, and so much more. Rather than just spamming the Announcement channel with games, RPG-Schedule keeps things more organized....

2 min · 426 words · Maria Boyd
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