Tag: DM Lair

Tonight, Friday, May 17, at 8 p.m. Eastern US time, we’ll be having a dungeon master question & answer live stream over on my YouTube channel, The DM Lair. For more videos to help dungeon masters run awesome games, check out the DM Lair on YouTube.

Have your D&D players ever been heading straight toward a total party kill (TPK), and you saw it coming? Did you, as the dungeon master, drop them hints to help them avoid it? Did you intervene? Or did you let the course of events play themselves out no matter what the final result? In this […]

Creating a character is probably one of the most complex parts of Dungeons & Dragons. In this video, the Barbarian walks us through how he does character creation in D&D 5th edition. (And if the Barbarian can do it, everyone can do it.) For more videos to help dungeon masters run awesome games, check out […]

Tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern US time on my YouTube channel, The DM Lair, we’ll be going to finish up the D&D 5e adventure we’ve been working on, the Beholden Temple. Finally… (And this time I swear we’ll actually finish it!) For more videos to help dungeon masters run awesome games, check out the DM […]

I suspect all dungeon masters have been there. Your D&D players are in the middle of clearing out a dungeon, and then they decide they want to take a long rest. Now, as DMs we know that if we allow the players to take long rests however often they want, the game will lose much […]

Do your D&D players get distracted by everything? Do you find it hard to keep them focused on the main adventure? To a certain extent, it’s normal for Dungeons & Dragons players to chase butterflies or loot everything that’s not nailed down…from time to time. However, if it’s a constant habit, there are things a […]

Tonight on my YouTube channel, the DM Lair, I’ll be hosting a live DM Q&A session at 8 p.m. Eastern US time. This is how it works: you show up with DM or D&D questions. I give the best answers I can, or your money back. Guaranteed! Anyway, come hang out with us on this […]

What would you do if your D&D players said you, the dungeon master, didn’t have the courage to kill them? What if they taunted you, even dared you to try? Would you exercise restraint? Or lay into them? This is the story of a time a player challenged me to kill the party. Along the […]

In my latest video, I take a moment to thank everyone for subscribing and supporting my YouTube channel. YOU ALL ROCK! And to all the haters out there… Well, there’s a special message in this video for you, too. For more videos to help dungeon masters run awesome games, check out the DM Lair on […]

Recently I sat down with a level 20 wizard to see what D&D spellcasting tips he could share with me and my fellow dungeon masters. It turns out that much of the spellcasting advice he shared would be useful for both DMs and players of Dungeons & Dragons. The result of our interview was a […]