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Category: D&D Tips

D&D Tips: Balancing Party Composition

May 1, 2020 The Archmage 4 Comments

A balanced party makes everyone’s life easier. In this article, we look at what functions your party should have if you want to be prepared for whatever threat the DM puts in your path.

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Posted in: D&D Tips Filed under: carry, D&D, dnd, face, healer, party, roles, striker, support, tank

D&D Tips: Encounter Building Secrets

November 1, 2019 The Archmage 1 Comment

Three encounter building tips that aren’t in the rulebooks.

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Posted in: D&D Tips Filed under: build, challenge, difficulty, encounter, experience, XP

D&D Tips: Using Gold Rewards Effectively

July 26, 2019 The Archmage

How much gold is too much? It is a question that is asked quite often, and responses are invariably off…

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D&D Tips: Using Summoning Spells

July 12, 2019 The Archmage 7 Comments

Use these helpful strategies to make summoning spells easy and fun.

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Posted in: D&D Tips, Spellcasting Filed under: animals, beast, conjuration, D&D, elemental, fey, fiend, spells, summoning

D&D Tips: Perception vs. Investigation

June 21, 2019 The Archmage 10 Comments

Everything you need to know about the two most commonly misunderstood skills in the world’s greatest roleplaying game.

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Posted in: D&D Tips, Skills Filed under: D&D, dnd, intelligence, investigation, Perception, rpg, skills, wisdom

D&D Tips: Truth In Social Interaction Checks

January 11, 2019 The Archmage 1 Comment

The players have followed up on the quest hook you carefully crafted and met the young alchemist whose research notes…

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Posted in: D&D Tips, Dungeons & Dragons Filed under: contest, D&D, DC, insight, persuasion, skill, truth

D&D Tips: Bonus Action Spells

July 27, 2018 The Archmage 22 Comments

Very often, we hear that it is not possible to cast two spells in a single turn unless one of…

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Posted in: D&D Tips Filed under: action, bonus action, cantrip, D&D, item, spells, staff, wand

D&D Tips: Spellcasting Components and Focuses

April 15, 2018 The Archmage 10 Comments

The subtitle for this article is “A Pedant’s Guide to the Infuriating Minutiae of Spellcasting”. Spoiler alert: we hate spell…

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Posted in: D&D Tips Filed under: material, rules, somatic, spell components, spell focuses, spellcasting, verbal

D&D Tips: Multiclassing Like A Pro

March 30, 2018 The Archmage 45 Comments

This article is a 15,000 word, in-depth analysis of multiclassing. In it, we discuss the benefits and drawbacks of multiclassing,…

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Posted in: D&D Tips Filed under: 5e, 5th Edition, D&D, dnd, Dungeons & Dragons, multiclassing

D&D Tips: Handling Skill Checks & Failures

January 19, 2018 The Archmage 2 Comments

Everyone who has played D&D has a horror story about skill checks. Some of them are quite humorous, such as…

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Posted in: D&D Tips Filed under: automatic success, D&D, failure, skill checks, success

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