Rhys's DM Notes

Gold In D&D Is Boring - What's Wrong With Gold ...

Want free D&D adventures? Get them in our Discord, every month. When I run D&D, my players don’t care about gold. Why should that be?  Gold is at the heart...

Make Your Players Create Heroes!

The theory of the heroic compass that I’m putting forward here is a work in progress, and certainly not a holistic analysis of all fictional characters. However, if you disagree...

Sandworms and Setting Shapers: Dune and Dragons

What is the Fantasy of Dune? How To Make Your D&D Game More Dune: Sandworms Dune is gargantuan, not just in page-length (or run time), but in conceptual scope. So...

We're on Bluesky!

We're also on Twitter, but that's not really an announcement!  Thanks to Matt Colville we got an invite code! Looks like an interesting platform, especially for the tabletop community, so...

Chants of Sennaar, and Toward Better D&D Languages

I’ve been using Game Maker’s Toolkit’s YouTube Channel as a source of inspiration for a while now. His discussion of game design, though it focuses on video games, is perfect...

Albion - the Megalithic Prints Flagship Setting

Albion, like much of our setting, is not an original name. But it is the right name. The Megalithic Prints Albion setting is part of the larger Lithos setting; an...