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Tim Bannock writes lots of house rules, advice articles, and gathers useful links from all over the web to help you improve your Dungeons & Dragons gaming sessions!

Interview with Joe Wetzel of Inkwell Ideas – New DungeonMorph Dice and Cards Kickstarter and More

Joe Wetzel is the mastermind behind the many roleplaying game accessories created by Inkwell Ideas. Mapping software like Cityographer, Dungeonographer, and the newly revamped, all-inclusive Worldographer; monster cards for SRD, OGL, and Kobold Press’ Tome of Beasts and Creature Codex monsters in the 5E Creature Decks and the Deck of Beasts; and geomorph maps in the form of DungeonMorph Dice and various map tile sets. All of that is designed from the get-go to help you run games at your table.

And there’s a new set of DungeonMorphs now on Kickstarter: DungeonMorphs Revenge – RPG Dungeon Dice & Cards!

Join us as we chat about the new Kickstarter, Inkwell’s many products, the company’s origins, its future, and more!

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Time Tracker and Exploration Manager for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition

If you’ve cut your teeth on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, grew up with OD&D, are revisiting old school gaming styles via a retroclone on Fantasy Grounds, or as part of an experiment in playing through the origins of the hobby, one of the things you pick up on real fast is that time is a major component of the game’s tension: it takes time to search for secret doors, discover hidden treasure, disable traps, and map dungeons…and all that time taken means more wandering monster rolls! Light source durations, spell durations, and all sorts of other mechanics impact this aspect of the game, so it’s no surprise there are a lot of “time trackers” out there.

Now there’s one for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition! More info below.

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Pregenerated Characters for Dungeons & Dragons

Here’s an entire folder on Google Drive with pre-generated characters of various levels from all different sources.

  • Most of the folders contain level 1-10 pregens as well as the D&D Starter Set pregens by Wizards of the Coast. These are originally available from their site as well as on DMsGuild (click this link to search all pregens on DMsGuild!).
  • One Thousand Pre-Generated Basic Characters and One Thousand Pre-Generated Commoners by Roger Carbol. (Original source – you might find updated files there!)
  • The Baldur’s Gate characters appear in Jim Zub’s Baldur’s Gate series of comics; character sheet layout redesign by 9bit.
  • Homebrew Level 1 characters by Tim Bannock (that’s me!).

UPDATE! NPC Creatures as Pregens uses the NPC monster stat blocks from Monster Manual and various official WOTC books, plus the DMsGuild releases Adversaries & Allies by Dan Layman-Kennedy and The Complete Book of Allies & Enemies by Scott Holden and adds random art I found through Pinterest to act as pregens in low-level campaigns. The NPCs are generally Challenge 1/8 or 1/4 with 2-3 Hit Dice, making them ideal candidates for a simplified starting character in a level 1-3 adventure. Included are both Google Slides and PDF versions in case you want to fiddle around with the format and make them look prettier or add your own pictures.

Greyhawk Calendar

The following link is to a landscape layout version of the Greyhawk calendar here, and all respect goes out to the original designer!

Here’s the landscape version:

Greyhawk Calendar – landscape version

Baby Bestiary Index of Monster Traits and Stats

The Baby Bestiary by Metal Weave Games is a brilliantly inspired two-volume set (as of this writing) of cute and cuddly — and sometimes horrifically dangerous! — monsters that are perfect for rearing in the fantasy roleplaying game of your choice. I’ve created a shared Google Sheet that acts as an index for all of the monsters that appear across both volumes, lists their rearing traits for easy reference, and links to several monster stat blocks for your game of choice, whether it’s Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, Swords & Wizardry, or Pathfinder (1e)! Click below to check out the table.

Here’s the link!

Note that some of the monsters don’t appear in online SRDs, so you’re going to have to go to the official monster book of choice and find the monster or some equivalent. If you have ideas for cool variants and other references, post ’em in the comments below!

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