The Tao of D&D

Our break with D&D's standard format arises as we become jaded with isolated adventures, which progressively provide less satisfacti...

Running a session as an advanced beginner, we steadily amass a collection of procedures in which we begin to rely upon practiced responses; ...

Here is an unquestionably valuable source for anyone wishing to get into waterborne adventures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pYqXrFx6S8...

Steadily, as we've described, as a dungeon master we acquire familiarity with the metrics of D&D and shifts towards automatic proces...

Posted this on my patreon, but what the heck.  It's an add-on. I've been writing about the difference between a novice DM and an adv...

 It falls upon us at this point to quantify the improvement of the novice to the second stage in Dreyfus's stage analysis, that of the ...

This example of the novice highlights an inaccuracy in the designation, "dungeon master." As Danielle Osterman notes in the book, ...

Acting as a dungeon master is not something that we learn to do in a structured environment. As we've said, there are no instructors, no...

 Before every session, there's typically a natural, unstructured conversation where players and dungeon masters chat about the game. The...

 Nearly all persons who have read to this point have spent many hours either playing or running... and no doubt, their engagement with the g...

For those willing to give it, I'm interested in criticism regarding the text layout of the book shown, BEFORE I use it. I cannot and do ...

The process of teaching, whether as formal as a classroom or as personable as a parent teaching a child, begins with a desire to instill con...