Baldur's Gate 3 is a great videogame. It's a terrible D&D game. Baldur's Gate 3 utilizes the D&D 5e (2014) rules to fuel its gameplay,...

Hello, all! The Helpful NPCs team are here to present a new and REVISED NPC for your games: the BODYGUARD! Player characters can hire...

Hello, all! The Helpful NPCs team are here to present a new NPC for your games: the BODYGUARD! Surely you've run into a situation where...

Hello, all! The Helpful NPCs are here to present to you a revision of the Wild Magic Sorcerer present in D&D 5e. One of the players in my...

Hello, fellow adventurers! Today, the Helpful NPCs crew are bringing you something that your game desperately needs: XP rewards for...

Hello, all! Today's offering by the Helpful NPCs is a cheat sheet for conditions in your D&D games! Since 5e has a boatload of conditions...

Pawtrucket, RI--In a move one executive described as “sure, why not?”, brand-purchasing megabrand Hasbro sent paramilitary organization...

Hello, everyone! In a previous post, we had a list of unusual adventuring motivations numbering 1-10. We weren't content with a mere ten...

For those who've played 'other editions', you may discover some similarities!

Low-level adventurers don't have a lot of spare gold lying around, so they're always looking for a way to save money. Discount potions...

Flames, flames on the side of my face! Today's One Page Encounter has the player characters rescuing the Sutters from destructive...

Hello, all! Before getting into our sorcerous libations, we'll take just a moment to direct you to our Kickstarter for Character Case,...

While Ryan and I have been hard at work Kickstarting our tabletop organizers, Character Case, we haven't stopped producing content for...

Another One Page Encounter awaits enterprising adventurers! Ogres have beset Frederique the merchant's carriage, and they're insistent on...

As promised, we have we have released yet another delightful one-page encounter! Today’s tale is meant to keep your heroes on their toes....

Hello, all! We're starting a new content series called One Page Encounters. We're aiming to include a fleshed-out encounter you can drag...

According to a leaked memo, Wizards of the Coast executives expressed concern that D&D 5e is too consumer-friendly to be profitable. The...

There are a million random encounter generation tables online. We've even made our own. But there are some questions encountered when...

The eccentricities of ancient wizards are known and well-documented. Here are but a few! A PDF is linked below, along with some .png...

How often do the player characters find themselves traveling along a road...only for nothing to happen? Point A time skips to Point B....