The How to Play series returns with this tactical spotlight on werewolves—with a brief diversion into other lycanthropes, including neutral good werebears and true neutral weretigers.

Saltmarsh has come a long way since it was first created by British D&D authors in the '70s. If you plan on running the upcoming anthology adventure Ghosts of Saltmarsh, you would do well to learn about this sleepy port's sinister history.

Can you play Waterdeep: Dragon Heist again with the same group of players and still make it feel new? I say it can be done! Let’s break down how you can make Waterdeep: Dragon Heist feel new again. 

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.

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!

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.

So the party screwed up. Bad. For both players and Dungeon Masters, this seems like the nightmare scenario. A TPK seems inevitable, or the villain looks like she’s going to escape with the idol, or so forth. How can the campaign go on after such a devastating loss? It’s not impossible, but it can be challenging to make failure sting without discouraging your players.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Take a step back from tactical combat and try these alternate ways to create more abstract maps for your theater of the mind games.

We show you how to run combat in a theater of the mind game in Dungeons & Dragons.

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.

There's more to D&D combat than just grids and miniatures. And in a break from editions of the recent past, fifth edition D&D was designed to be played with or without a grid—DM's choice. But with all the benefits that playing on a grid brings, why play gridless? Why play "Theater of the Mind?"

Undermountain is filled with ruthless enemies, and while they can all be fought, many can be reasoned with, distracted, or pacified. A manticore could be the first major gatekeeper your party faces in Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage. If you’re a Dungeon Master, do you know what makes a manticore tick?

If you’ve never played in a megadungeon campaign like Dungeon of the Mad Mage, you may be in for a rude awakening. Playing D&D in a purely dungeon-based setting is totally different from any other kind of campaign—here are some tips to help you survive this brand-new paradigm.

An introductory guide for D&D fans to the plane of Ravnica, and a guide for Magic: the Gathering fans to the D&D Multiverse.