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#DnD advice: No amount of careful planning will account for your players' attempts to invent new and increasingly atrocious weapons.

#DnD advice: Feel like you're leaving the wizard out with your rust monster encounter? Supplement the fight with Dire Moths to eat their robes as well.

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#DnD advice: Don't drink those potions, what if you need them later?

#DnD advice: Don't invest in useless skills! "Animal handling?" When the heck are you going to have to install handles on animals?

Nothing says adventure like a floor covered in caltrops! Pick your choice between LEGOs and classic Jacks. :D

#DnD advice: Create an immersive dungeon crawling experience by setting deadly traps in your game room as well as in-game.

#DnD advice: Get advantage on your next saving throw against nudity by visiting my Fourthwall shop and finding a snazzy new shirt.

Maybe Andrew Jackson knows where I could find some gauntlets of ogre power? 💵 #DnD #ttrpg

#DnD advice: Violence is the answer. You just need to rephrase the question until it's correct.

#DnD advice: Inter-party conflict is the spice of life - Backstab that barbarian who took your pillow when camping last night.

Kinda figured someone would wander by and do this. It remains wild to me that with still slightly over 48 hours before we even START this years run, we have already matched what we made in year one.

#DnD advice: Reddit, short-form videos, and old greentext posts are all you need to learn the game. Nothing could possibly go wrong from a media diet of entirely secondhand experience.

#DnD advice: Each spellcaster's approach to magic is different - Clerics get their magic through divine grace, sorcerers have honed their innate talents, warlocks made a shrewd barter, and the wizard spent several thankless years writing a dissertation on the merits of passwall for some reason.

#DnD advice: A balanced combat encounter is easier to create if all the player characters died in the last one.

Final preparations for #db2026 are under way! Prepare to embark on October 23rd, 2026.

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#DnD advice: Yelling at the table is encouraged.

#DnD advice: Grated parmesan makes great snow terrain for your miniatures!

#DnD advice: Dungeon bosses don't necessarily need to be the most qualified monster in the adventure! Maybe their dad knows somebody.

The party has been trying to reach you about your carriage's extended warranty! #DnD #ttrpg

#DnD advice: Ending every descriptive sentence, "or so you think..." will slow players down enough to not get past what you've prepped for tonight's game.

#DnD advice: Boring characters have the best luck. The more you care, the further away the 20 gets on your rolls.

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#DnD advice: Greet every challenge with a roll for initiative! That shopkeep was totally looking at you funny.

#DnD advice: Old rulebooks are no longer relevant - you can just use that Elder Evils book to level your table.

#DnD advice: DM's, your players' having a magic item with a very specific use is like receiving a "screw you" from your past self since you've certainly forgotten that they have it.

#DnD advice: After every fight, the warlock is going to need a little time by themselves to cry. It's okay, that's just the cost to get Eldritch Blast.

#DnD advice: Try and note a little bit of what a spell does on your character sheet. "Disguises elf" apparently does nothing to disguise elves.

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Could this dipshit stop trying to poison us

#DnD Advice: Be careful not to introduce invasive species on your interplanar travels! A few loose seeds in your boot could mean that the next adventurers to the Shadowfell are stuck dealing with a plane completely choked in English ivy.

Apparently the Kit-Kat jingle was just such a cannon-fodder 3rd idea, and a session musician missed out on years of residuals thinking he could safely duck out and take a bathroom break rather than play on the one the client definitely wouldn’t pick

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I GUESS 0 enemies could probably hold their own against 0 player characters for 3 rounds.. #DnD #ttrpg

#DnD advice: Xvarts are known to give their pot of gold to any adventurer who can pronounce their species' name.

#DnD advice: Earnest attempts to keep careful track of your inventory will always fail. Just go off of vibes.

#DnD advice: Take some time to reread your class features. Apparently my Barbarian can get some bonuses for getting really mad from time to time?

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#DnD advice: "Evil" is such an ambiguous alignment. Who's to say whether it was really an "evil" act to atomize that orphanage?

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#DnD Advice: Names are hard and almost never relevant, so don't waste much thought on them. That's why I'm playing Drew Ed the Druid.

When necromancers' profane work is done in the dead of night, away from prying eyes, a reliable way to maintain the guise of a productive member of society each day is critical. If a Crown Skeleton's wailing crow can't wake you up, the explosive alchemist's fire stored in its ribcage certainly will.

#DnD advice: The tactics from one class should be applicable to just about every other one - the sorcerer hangs back and throws spells at a pretty long range. Maybe your greataxe-wielding barbarian would like to give that a shot for a while.

#DnD advice: Spice up your roleplay with props! Your bard who plays haunting dirges on the kazoo will be the life of the party. Or its death, I guess.

#DnD advice: If your adventure doesn't look like a Saw movie, can you really be sure your characters are experiencing any growth?