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How to create a compelling history for your RPG campaign
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How to create a compelling history for your RPG campaign

To tell a truly great story, you need to lay some decent foundations down first - such as a history for the world your ttrpg campaign takes place in.   The characters, cultures and events that your players will interact with over the course of your campaign, should all be shaped by the history that came before them. Otherwise, these elements can seem vastly underwritten and shallow. Afterall, human society didn’t spring from nothing.  But how to tackle such a daunting task as crafting the hist

A screenshot of a hexcrawl map made on the Legendkeeper platform.
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What is a Hexcrawl campaign and how do you make it?

Hexcrawl is an approach to planning, running and playing Dungeons & Dragons, and other tabletop roleplaying games, that prioritizes randomized exploration.  Why should you make a Hexcrawl campaign If you love video games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Dark Souls, for the fact that you can venture anywhere and find something unexpectedly cool, then a hexcrawl campaign is the D&D equivalent to this.  Maybe you want to plan and run an TTRPG campaign set in an epic world world wh

A photo of the inside of the Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Player's Handbook.
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How to make a DnD 2024 character

So, you’re finally playing Dungeons & Dragons - congratulations! However, if you’re not familiar with D&D or tabletop RPGs in general, you might have no idea how to create a D&D character. If so, then we’re here to help guide you through the process of making a Dungeons & Dragons character. In this case, we’re using the most recent version of the Player’s Handbook released for the 2024 edition of D&D. However, if you’re playing Dungeons & Dragons 5E, then we do have a page for creating character

    Artwork for Dungeons & Dragons: Candlekeep Mysteries, featuring two characters looking over an ancient tome.
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    How to come up with D&D campaign ideas

    Whether you’re already familiar with running Dungeons & Dragons or you’re entirely new to the hobby, the task of devising ideas for your next campaign can be equally as daunting.  If you’re not keen on trying out any of the prewritten D&D campaigns available from either official channels or the homebrew market, then the obvious option is to come up with campaign ideas yourself. However, that can be easier said than done - where the hell do you even start? We’re tackling this exact question in

    The best DM tools of 2025
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    The best DM tools of 2025

    One of the biggest draws to TTRPGs is the freedom to craft a world and use it to tell a collaborative story. To run a good RPG session, you’ll need to provide something for everyone at your table. With so many ways to play dnd, Dungeon Masters can find themselves overwhelmed with a lot of choices, with very little direction for which DM tools you should use. While there are some comprehensive tools that will provide everything you need, sometimes a combination of DM tools can better serve the