An actual play video of a one-on-one D&D 5e game! We play through our introductory duet adventure, and we’ve also included some bonus content for your homebrew worlds!
For New Players
How to Play D&D: A Guide for New Players
This post aims to help you feel more confident heading into your first D&D session by explaining the basics of what goes on in a session and what your character can do. I also cover some key terminology, explain which dice you need when, and discuss a few of the different elements of your character sheet.
How to Create Your Player Character for D&D: Determining Motivation
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.
How to Get Your Partner to Play D&D
How do you convince your partner to try out D&D? Patience, digging into why they don’t want to play, trying out a gateway game, and figuring out what aspects of RPGs they’ll like.
First Blush: An Introductory Duet Adventure
Our first adventure, “First Blush,” is now available for download on DMs Guild! Great for new and veteran players, it’s a two-part, four-to-six hour adventure for a first-level character and their DM.
In-Game Mechanics: Role Play
In a duet, the DM, and possibly the player, will more often be in a situation where they are playing multiple characters who are interacting all at once. The goal in these cases is to not carry on a one-sided dialogue and to keep both people at the table as engaged as possible. Here’s how to do just that.
How to Create Your Player Character [PC] in D&D: First Steps
We suggest, if you’re new to role-playing games (RPGs), that you base your character on an aspect of yourself so that you have relatively quick access to their emotions and personality. But more importantly, it makes for a really fun way to play. We use the term primary character to further designate the main character of your game, your central protagonist. Basically, you’ll need one character whose life and story drive the plot of your narrative. This is a bit different than games with larger numbers of players whose PCs work together, as a party, to collectively tell a story. In a duet, it’s all about the primary character!
D&D for Two
It all started with a typo: Duchess and Dragons. It has since become one of our very favorite things to do, something to constantly look forward to, and an amazing way for us to spend time together and have fun. We hope that this blog will fill a bit of a gap in the online D&D-verse for two-person games, specifically duets. By calling it a duet, we want to emphasize the collaborative aspects of playing a two-person campaign. D&D is already about working with others to tell a story together, and duets depend even more on that collaboration, which is part of what makes them so wonderful!
