DMs Guild Review: Safety Guaranteed
Art by Jen Vaughn Written by Kat Kruger Illustrated by Jen Vaughn DM Experience: Competent Player Experience: Novice Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ First played by the D20 Dames at Emerald City Comic Con, this little...
View ArticleExploring the Soldier Background
The soldier background in 5e offers a great opportunity to do some collaborative worldbuilding with your DM. After all, what is a soldier without an army? Here are some starting questions to help you...
View ArticleMaverick – Roguish Archetype for D&D 5e
This week on the Campaign Trail, I’m sharing a new roguish archetype that I created for a weird west/fantasy mix campaign I am planning to run later this year. Rogues use skill, stealth, and precision...
View ArticleCreating a Futuristic Campaign Setting P2
When one thought of the future years ago, people envisioned flying cars, intergalactic space travel complete with aliens, and robots everywhere doing the types of things that the average joe didn’t...
View ArticleExploring the Urchin Background
The Urchin 5e background offers a potential rags-to-riches story and any class can benefit from its skill proficiencies. It also comes with its own adventure hook: how did you get enough money to live...
View ArticleMonthly Encounter #9: A harpy attack on board (lvls 5-10)
Thumbnail art from Darin Walsh Here at Tribality, we’ve decided to provide our readers with Encounters ready to be added to your table. I’ll be creating new ones monthly for you to have a big...
View ArticleFour New Fey NPCs
I haven’t done a lot of writing about fey in quite some time, at least not here on Tribality. We’re working on a DM’s Guild release of fey content, so this article is all material that will go to my...
View ArticleFive D&D Creatures That Punch Above Their Challenge Rating
A huge part of being a Dungeon Master is choosing monsters for the players to face. Although combat encounters can occur that the DM didn’t expect, usually the DM takes time to craft an encounter. They...
View ArticleA Dozen Communication Methods to Add in Your Games
There are a variety of ways of communicating. All of them boil down to one word: Language. Of course, we all know about talking and writing. But this is the tip of the iceberg. In a fantasy setting,...
View Article5 great ideas for One on one D&D games
Thumbnail image from D&D Essentials Kit In the past weeks my article on why you should try One on One D&D and How to Do it received quite a lot of attention. What does this mean? It clearly...
View ArticleCardslinger – Sorcerous Origin for D&D 5e
This week on the Campaign Trail, I’m sharing a new sorcerous origin that I created for a weird west/fantasy mix campaign I am planning to run later this year. Sorcerers are those rare individuals who...
View ArticleReasons Why a Site Might Be Abandoned P1
One of the classic D&D tropes is a party entering a dungeon. Such places are either abandoned, in the middle of nowhere, or, sometimes, under a bustling city, but forgotten. Sometimes, these sites...
View ArticleTribality Publishing – Fey Gifts & Bargains
What Would You Give For Power? Beauty, dreadful power, and solemn promises: these are the tools of the fey. Mortals seek them out to bargain for wealth, magical power, or other blessings. The foolish...
View ArticleBeyond the Character Sheet, P1
A character is not a series of disconnected stats and abilities. They are the culmination of their stats, abilities, gender, race, genetics, decisions, and life experiences. When building a character,...
View Article4 Great Ideas for One on One Games, Part 2
Thumbnail image by David Edwards In the past weeks my article on why you should try One on One D&D and How to do it received quite a lot of attention. What does this mean? It clearly indicates that...
View ArticleUsing Tattoos in Your Game
Tattoos are often very personal things. They may represent a person’s oath, be a memento, or a way to access their power. But why limit it to those types of things? With a bit of thought and...
View ArticleUsing Tattoos in your game, P2
Magical Tattoos are complicated things both from a mechanical, social, and religious aspect. Last time we gave a definition of a tattoo, examined how different classes might use tattoos, looked at...
View ArticleNeverEnding: Level Up Your Story
In a time when many of us are playing tabletop games online or not at all, it’s great to see new tools getting developed to elevate the online play experience. That’s where NeverEnding comes in – look...
View ArticleDissident Whispers
There are a lot of great charitable fundraising projects going on right now, and I’m going to tell you about one of them. Dissident Whispers RPG Book is a collection of more than 50 one-page...
View ArticleUsing Tattoos in Your Game, P3
In part 1 we gave a definition of a tattoo, examined how different classes might use tattoos, looked at monster markings and tattoos, as w ell as tattoo power levels. In part 2 we talked about how...
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