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DnD: Why BATTLEMAPS can MAKE or BREAK your FIGHTS.
Hello Everyone! Battlemaps are an integral part of many DnD campaigns, but what should be a canvas for near endless possibilities, often turns into a space filled with stationary creatures hitting each other until they pass out. Especially for large and complex battles, battlemaps can effectively convey the size and state of the combat, while…
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Cookbook Time: Magnificent Minestrone!
Hello everyone! Today, I will be making Minestrone, and because Cooking blogs that take ten paragraphs to get to the recipe annoy me, I’ll keep it quick and simple. In case you do want to know where I got this from, here’s a completely useless paragraph, feel free to skip it: The paper this recipe…
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Why YOU really should consider running “Phandelver and below: The shattered obelisk” and the Essentials Kit together
Hello Everyone! I’m currently running a DnD campaign composed of both of the Phandelver modules together with the Essentials kit. This mashup allows for a long sandbox campaign with a fleshed out world and many factions vying for dominance, giving you the perfect opportunity to homebrew connections between them. It’s especially practical when you consider…
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Fighting Chicken Mites With Home Remedies
Chicken mites can be a disgusting and problematic nuisance to the chicken keeper, but you don’t always have to buy harsh chemicals or costly wonder weapons to protect your flock. Instead you can try out some home remedies to take out those pesky insects. Before I start listing remedies, you should keep your coop clean…
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Rock Bottom: How Rocks Ruin Gardens
Many of you have probably seen a rock yard like this: Or a garden like this: The large rocks are usually sourced from quarries or similar mining operations and do not pose an issue, if used sparingly. The real problem lies with the small stones, pebbles and gravel usually sourced from riverbanks and riverbeds. They…
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DnD Creature Feature: The Third Eye
This Week’s monster will eerily follow your players, show up at the worst time, like while taking a long rest or after beating a tough boss. It will be visible to them and only them, while everything else goes to hell, but people blame it on other circumstances. The “Third Eye” is hellbent on killing…
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DnD: Tomb of Annihilation on maximum meat grinder mode
Running the DnD 5e Adventure “Tomb of Annihilation”, is a fun and rewarding experience for players and dungeon masters alike. But, it’s a difficult module for the players, since characters can’t be revived. It also boasts it’s own “meat grinder mode”, where death saves only succeed on a roll of 15 or higher. Well, I…