What Dice Do You Need for D&D? Meet Your First Dice Set
Learn which dice you need for D&D, what each polyhedral die does, how to read dice notation, and whether one seven-dice set is enough to start playing.
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Do You Need Miniatures to Play D&D? Miniatures vs Theater of the Mind
Do You Need Miniatures to Play D&D? No — But They Can Change the Game There’s a dragon in front of you. Your fighter is somewhere near its left wing, the rogue is hiding behind a ruined pillar, the wizard is probably far enough away from the claws and then somebody asks: “Wait. Where am…
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How to Create Your First RPG Character: From Idea to Adventure
How to Create Your First RPG Character: From Idea to Adventure Forget the character sheet for a minute. Seriously. Put it down. Before your first RPG character becomes a collection of numbers, abilities, equipment and suspiciously specific proficiencies, they need to become something much simpler: someone you want to play. Maybe you want to be…
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What Is a GMless RPG? How TTRPGs Work Without a Game Master
What Is a GMless RPG? Who Runs the World When Nobody Is the GM? The party reaches a ruined gate. There’s something moving on the other side. Everyone looks around the table. Normally, this is where the Game Master smiles in a deeply unhelpful way. Except tonight… there isn’t one. Nobody has secretly prepared the…
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Can You Play a Tabletop RPG by Yourself? A Beginner’s Guide to Solo RPGs
Can You Play a Tabletop RPG by Yourself? Welcome to Solo RPGs The party is ready. The dice are on the table. The adventure is waiting. There’s only one small problem. You’re the entire party. Good news: that’s not actually a problem. You can absolutely play a tabletop RPG by yourself. A solo RPG is…
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Can You Play a Tabletop RPG With 2 Players? A Guide to Duet RPGs
Can You Play a Tabletop RPG With 2 Players? Absolutely. You don’t need five people. You don’t need four. You don’t even necessarily need three. Sometimes the entire adventuring party is sitting across the table from you. Two people can absolutely play a tabletop RPG. Depending on the game, that might mean one person acts…
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One-Shot vs Campaign: Which TTRPG Format Is Right for Your Group?
One-Shot vs Campaign: Which Adventure Fits Your Table? There’s a question every tabletop group eventually has to answer. Not: “Which game should we play?” But: “How much adventure are we actually signing up for?” Maybe you’ve finally managed to get five friends around the same table and want a complete story before midnight. Maybe you’ve…
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What Is a One-Shot RPG? A Beginner’s Guide to One-Session Adventures
What Is a One-Shot RPG? One Night, One Adventure, One Complete Story Friday night. Four friends are finally free. Nobody has committed to the next six months. Nobody has read a 200-page campaign. Nobody has promised to be available every Thursday until winter. And yet, by midnight, the group has broken into a ruined temple,…
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What Do You Need to Play a Tabletop RPG? Beginner Checklist
What Do You Need to Play a Tabletop RPG? Less Than You Think Search for “tabletop RPG setup” long enough and you might reasonably conclude that your first adventure requires three rulebooks, forty painted miniatures, handcrafted terrain, seventeen sets of dice and a dedicated room with suspiciously atmospheric lighting. It doesn’t. All of those things…
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Best Tabletop RPG Games for Beginners: Choose Your First TTRPG
Best Tabletop RPG Games for Beginners: Find the Right First Adventure There’s a strange piece of advice given to new tabletop RPG players: Start with the easiest game. We don’t entirely agree. The easiest rules in the world won’t help much if nobody at your table cares about the world they’re attached to. A group…
