Critical Role Spotlight is a series of DM and player tips based on the events of this week's episode of Critical Role! Learn from the glowing successes and hilarious mistakes of the Mighty Nein and their illustrious Dungeon Master. This week, we shine a spotlight on guest players, and how the DM, the guest player, and the regular players can help integrate their guest into the party.
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Heroes of the Vale returns today with Todd Kenreck now for TJ Storm, Hope LaVelle, Adam Bradford, Lauren Urban and new cast member Jennifer Kretchmer.
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Modern Dungeons & Dragons is pretty different from its older cousin, the controversial 4th Edition of D&D. But love or hate the game, its Dungeon Master’s Guide had great advice for DMs playing any edition of D&D!
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A mysterious comet has brought misfortune to Nentir Vale, and heroes must band together to survive the dangers of this forgotten land. A new friend joins the heroes in their fight with Ruin!
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Todd talks with Mark Hulmes about his player and Dungeon Master tips at noon on D&D Beyond's own Twitch channel.
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Encounter of the Week brings you a brand-new D&D encounter every week! This week, the characters encounter a xorn—a bizarre creature of elemental earth. This shale-scaled mass of claws and teeth could be a dangerous foe, but it might be able to help the party if its hunger is satisfied. What’s it hungry for? Why, only the finest gemstones!
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Critical Role Spotlight is a series of DM and player tips based on the events of this week's episode of Critical Role! Learn from the glowing successes and hilarious mistakes of the Mighty Nein and their illustrious Dungeon Master. This week, we shine a spotlight on the reincarnate spell, with an alternative table that includes all current playable races.
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So the party screwed up. Bad. For players and DMs, this seems like a nightmare scenario. How can the campaign go on after a devastating loss? Here's what to do.
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Heroes of the Vale returns today with Todd Kenreck now for TJ Storm, Hope LaVelle, Adam Bradford, Lauren Urban and new cast member Jennifer Kretchmer.
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A mysterious comet has brought misfortune to Nentir Vale, and heroes must band together to survive the dangers of this forgotten land. They've been sent to Kiris Dahn on a quest to find and recapture Ruin, but this town holds many secrets!
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Encounter of the Week brings you a brand-new D&D encounter every week! This week, the characters encounter a minotaur... in an open field? Without a maze to guide it home, this creature is lost and confused! Will they help this creature, or attack it while it’s confused?
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Critical Role Spotlight is a series of DM and player tips based on the events of this week's episode of Critical Role! Learn from the glowing successes and hilarious mistakes of the Mighty Nein and their illustrious Dungeon Master. This week: learn how to make memorable NPC patrons!
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NPCs can sure feel like ungrateful jerks sometimes, huh? The characters went out of their way to save the village, the city, the temple, the kingdom, even the entire WORLD, and people still treat them like dirty tomb-robbers—or worse, ignore them! Let’s figure out how to make saving the realm mean something.
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Today, we are talking with D&D's Ari Levitch about the Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica and the Boros Legion. They are so devout to the concept of justice that if they have to, they will even break the laws of Ravnica.
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Encounter of the Week brings you a brand-new D&D encounter every week! This encounter is ready made to be dropped into a session of your home game, and focuses on one or more of the three pillars of D&D: combat, exploration, or social interaction. This week, the characters find a pool of shadows and encounter a unicorn in peril. Save it in time and they may find an ally. Linger too long, and the shadows may overtake this creature of light.
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Critical Role Spotlight is a series of DM and player tips based on the events of this week's episode of Critical Role! Learn from the glowing successes and hilarious mistakes of the Mighty Nein and their illustrious Dungeon Master.
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After my appearance on Dice, Camera, Action as a giff with James Introcaso, I’m raring to share my love for these spacefaring hippo-people with the world. Read on for giff roleplaying tips, enemy tactics, and even a super-duper unofficial giff race for players.
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This new series brings you a brand-new encounter that focuses on one or more of the three pillars of D&D: combat, exploration, or social interaction. It could be as small as a single character or scene, or it be as large as a five-room dungeon that inspires a complete adventure! This week, the characters find the grounds of an abandoned New Years’ festival, and must use their wits to puzzle out what happened.
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We're living in a golden age of D&D! Let's look backward to look forward: what new books, games, and accessories can we predict Wizards of the Coast and their partners will publish this year?
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Catch up with the latest adventures of the Mighty Nein in our recap of last night's Critical Role episode!
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Take a step back from tactical combat and try these alternate ways to create more abstract maps for your theater of the mind games.
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Warlocks gain power by making pacts with supernatural entities. Whether they’re making a deal with the devil, bargaining with an archfey, or stealing the power of a slumbering old god, warlocks are always close to power. Sometimes too close.
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Catch up with the latest adventures of the Mighty Nein in our recap of last night's Critical Role episode!
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Adam Bradford answers questions, gets excited about upcoming content, and more! It's the last Dev Update of the year!
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We show you how to run combat in a theater of the mind game in Dungeons & Dragons.
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Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage doesn’t have a singular story to tell. It’s a sandbox megadungeon filled with the pieces of a story that you get to put together in any way you want. If that sounds like too much, read on. It’s not as challenging as you think.