In a duet the DM and player can approach their storyworld as one they’re both responsible for making together. Focusing more on what happens off the table, this post discusses ways to create the world together.
For DMs
PC Adaptations for 1-on-1 D&D: Empowered not Overpowered
Adjust your party’s stats and abilities for a duet by scaling the number of enemies faced in combat and uniquely empowering them with adjustments to casting and subclasses and personalized magical items.
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.
In-Session Notes
Duet-specific adjustments to notes that can help protect your game’s rhythm an not slow things down. Note-taking nerds with a lovely, fun, nerdy hobby—unite!
Identify: Cantrip Candles
Our review of Cantrip Candles, a candle maker specifically catering to the needs of the tabletop community with scents inspired by common fantastical environments including musty and mysterious libraries and dank dungeons.
Cervidae
The cervidae is the fey equivalent of a unicorn, wandering Sylvan forests on the Material Plane and in the Feywild. The cervidae resembles a large deer, with male and female alike bearing large and beautiful antlers hung with vines and flowers.
Shadow Satyr
Like their fey brethren, shadow satyrs enjoy drink and revelry. However, the effort required to sustain pleasure in the Shadowfell has twisted their sense of indulgence. They need a constant influx of not only stimuli, but also captives, who they use to shield themselves from the powerful, negative emotional space around themselves.
