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How to Create Your Player Character for D&D: Determining Motivation

May 24, 2019 by Beth Leave a Comment

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This post discusses how to uncover your character’s primary motivation. I first walk through some sources of inspiration, both to further develop your character’s personality and to figure out where they came from and where they want to go. Then, we look at why motivation is so important.

Filed Under: Character Creation, For New Players, Playing a Duet Tagged With: For DMs, For Players

Step-by-Step Setup for Multiple Characters in Combat

May 21, 2019 by Beth Leave a Comment

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This post builds on the character-focused approach to combat with some practical steps you can take while setting up that will further streamline running multiple characters at once.

Filed Under: DM Resources, Mechanics, Playing a Duet Tagged With: For DMs, For Players

Running Multiple Characters in Combat, Simplified

May 18, 2019 by Beth Leave a Comment

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This post offers a strategy for simplifying running multiple characters in combat: knowing a character’s primary motivation and plan. This emphasizes a character’s personality and experience and allows them to feel real while maintaining the practical matters of running multiple characters at once.

Filed Under: Mechanics, Playing a Duet Tagged With: For DMs, For Players

Dealing with PC Death

May 10, 2019 by Beth Leave a Comment

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This post discusses what to do if your primary character dies and how to have a plan in advance for narratively solving PC death, especially to avoid conflict with your duet partner.

Filed Under: Playing a Duet Tagged With: For DMs, For Players

Incorporating Multiple Eras in Your Homebrew World

May 2, 2019 by Beth Leave a Comment

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Part of creating a vibrant, full world is working with multiple timelines. Just as understanding the past allows us to make sense of our political, cultural, and personal present, knowing your game world’s history helps you to determine conflicts, alliances, trade relationships, religious practices, and more. In this post, we will work through some practical steps and questions for thinking through these past eras.

Filed Under: Building Your World, DM Resources Tagged With: For DMs

Worldbuilding on Patreon

April 30, 2019 by Beth Leave a Comment

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We all know how time-consuming planning a campaign can be, and that investment increases even further when you’re creating your own world! That’s where we come in! On our Patreon, we’ll be creating unique mini-adventures each month that can easily be inserted into your homebrew campaign or can add variety and intrigue to an officially-published campaign.

Filed Under: Building Your World, DM Resources, Playing a Duet Tagged With: For DMs, For Players

Third Time’s the Charm: A Duet Adventure

April 26, 2019 by Beth 2 Comments

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The third installment of our introductory duet campaign series is now available for download on DMsGuild! Third Time’s the Charm takes you through the forest and tests what you’re willing to do for what matters most to you.

Filed Under: Duet Adventures, Our Playable Content Tagged With: For DMs, For Players

Keeping Romance on the (Gaming) Table

April 17, 2019 by Beth Leave a Comment

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In this post, I break down a few different ways to RP sex and sexuality in-game. From fading to black to a detailed manuscript, there are multiple methods for incorporating characters’ intimate practices into their in-game character development so long as you and your duet partner are on board for what that looks like in the game world and at the table.

Filed Under: Playing a Duet Tagged With: For DMs, For Players

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