DND 5e Tips

Check out the full Hold Person guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/orcus-5e A DEMONIC SUCCESS STORY...Winner of the often disputed title “Lord of the Undead”, Orcus has been the big bad demon plotting the downfall of life itself since the 1st edition of D&D. Recently demoted somewhat from evil god to demon lord, Orcus is a supremely powerful but potentially defeatable foe for t...

Check out the full Hold Person guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/hold-person-5e-guide Hold person is a sweet and simple way of saying "screw you in particular" that's been with dnd 5e from the very start at the first iteration of the game. And while it doesn't seem that complicated as spells go, there are countless potential uses and quite a few questions and misconceptions s...

Check out the full Tarrasque guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/yuan-ti-pureblood-5e Yuan-ti are the terrifying snake people of D&D, they’ve been slithering their way through ancient temples and dungeons since all the way back in 1st edition. 3rd edition brought us the Yuan-ti Pureblood, who lean hard on the human half of their snake/human heritage and can even pass for human...

Check out the full Tarrasque guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/tarrasque-5e The tarrasque is a creature of legend, both in fantastical worlds and around the game table. The tarrasque has been terrifying players since the very first edition of dnd and while stats and lore may have changed as the years and editions have passed its role in your games hasn't. It's the biggest, th...

Check out the full Tarrasque guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/tarrasque-5e The tarrasque is a creature of legend, both in fantastical worlds and around the game table. The tarrasque has been terrifying players since the very first edition of dnd and while stats and lore may have changed as the years and editions have passed its role in your games hasn't. It's the biggest, th...

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Check out the full D100 guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/pages/how-to-use-a-d100 The dice you use are incredibly important in how you play Dungeons and Dragons. Use this guide to discover how to use a D&D dice d100 in your game. Playing Dungeons and Dragons is gaining momentum everywhere, with more players engaging in their own exciting adventures than ever before. What was once consi...

Check out the full Fall Damage 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/fall-damage-5e So, you’ve slipped off the edge of a cliff and are plummeting to your death, we’ve all been there. Falls and great heights are some of the few things that can outright kill a player and most veteran TTRPG players can recount at least one or two characters that have met an untimely end with an i...

Check out the full Point Buy 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/point-buy-5e So, you’ve got your character sheet and you’re all ready to go, then your DM casually mentions that you’ll be making your characters using point buy. What is point buy in 5e? How does point buy work in 5e? Gasp! Is math involved? No worries! 5e made this whole process super easy and we’ll teach you...

Check out the full Top 10 Storytelling tips for DMs guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/pages/top-ten-dungeon-master-tips In todays episode we are going to be talking about one of our favorite topics to discuss in all of D&D, and that’s how to tell a good story as a DM. Surely we don’t have to tell all of you dungeon masters out there that it is already hard to learn all of the rules in...

Check out the full Mystic 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/mystic-5e-guide Parry, thrust, now for witty banter! Swashbucklers dance their way through combat with a flashing blade and a disarming smile. They’ve gone through multiple iterations as D&D has gone on, sometimes blending elements of both rogue and fighter and sometimes becoming something altogether new. If the t...

Check out the full Mystic 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/mystic-5e-guide Ever since their early introductions to the game, psionics have been something of a dirty word in D&D. Psychic powers were a cool idea but they were built as a sort of separate thing that got dropped into an existing finely tuned machine. The end result was like trying to add a new engine part to a...

Check out the full Bugbear 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/bugbear-5e Perhaps the most misleadingly named of the fantasy races, bugbears are the hairy goblinoid boogeymen that have stalked the bestiaries since the very first edition of D&D. Now in 5th edition we get a chance to play the fuzzy beasties for ourselves. What are they? How do they play? Grab your talking trop...

Check out the full Goblin 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/goblin-5e Goblins are angry little monsters, usually eking out an existence raiding and stealing from the fringes of civilization. Each goblin is a tight wound little ball of spite and menace that lives for petty cruelty and selfish indulgence. But they have reason to be so angry. Goblins as a race are the butt of...

Check out the full Rogue 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-best-dnd-5e-rogue-class-guide The Arcane Trickster is a character type that's been around D&D for a long time, and it's essentially a delicious mix of Rogue and Wizard that works together like chocolate and peanut butter. The 5e Arcane Trickster is an incredibly easy take on the concept that is built into the R...

Check out the full Eberron guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/andrars-rumblings/3-things-to-know-before-an-eberron-campaign-in-dnd-5e So you want to go to Eberron. What brings you to this world, weary traveler? What are your intentions in this land? Perhaps, you’ve seen the new release of Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron and wish to explore. Longtime Dungeons and Dragons players may r...

Check out the full Lich 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/lich-5e While the dragon still sits as the defacto big bad guy of D&D, the lich makes a convincing grab for #2. The undead necromancer leading forth his undead legions is downright iconic, and liches have been lurking at the end of campaigns since the very first edition of D&D. So how should you run them in your adv...

Check out the full Eldritch Knight 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/eldritch-knight-5e The eldritch knight, a supreme armored titan and master of magic and the blade, it’s a shame the build in 5e is a bit rough. Eldritch knight is a fighter archetype that produces a glorious character image but has left a lot of players unimpressed. But the little magical fighter build is...

Check out the full Two Weapon Fighting 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/two-weapon-fighting-dnd5e Prepare for trouble and make it double! Slapping a sword in both hands is a time-honored D&D tradition and countless adventurers have campaigned using the old slice and dice. Some other systems and older editions made this type of build complicated, but thankfully 5th edition...

Check out the full grappling 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/grappling-5e Grappling is easy in D&D 5e! No incomprehensible grappling charts, no feat trees to make it work. If you want to put a wizard in a headlock you can just go ahead and do it. But how exactly does it work? What are the best ways to do it? Stay in that headlock for just a minute while we explain everyt...

Check out the full beholder 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/beholders-5e There is no creature more iconic and more unique to Dungeons & Dragons as the beholder. Nothing quite says D&D like a horrifying floating eyeball monster, and they’ve remained as a tentpole of every bestiary since the very first edition. There’s so much more to these monsters than meets the EYE (I’l...

Check out the full Mind Flayer 5e Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/mindflayer-5e The Illithids are called “mind flayers” by the people of the surface, “mind rulers” by the rightfully fearful denizens of the underdark, and “squidly diddlys” by me, because I think it’s funny. Illithids have been murdering adventurers for their sweet juicy brains since the 1st edition of D&D, a...

Check out the full Shifter 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/mindflayer-5e The Illithids are called “mind flayers” by the people of the surface, “mind rulers” by the rightfully fearful denizens of the underdark, and “squidly diddlys” by me, because I think it’s funny. Illithids have been murdering adventurers for their sweet juicy brains since the 1st edition of D&D,...

Check out the full Shifter 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/shifter-5e Eberron gave us warforged, sky ships, elemental powered trains, and with all that goodness it’s easy to forget that we also got werewolf people! Shifters are the descendants of Lycans (were-people) of one animal or another. Have you always wanted to be part wolf? Or part tiger? Or part anything el...

Check out the full False Hydra 5e Monster Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-false-hydra-5e The false hydra is a fan made homebrew monster that gained quite a bit of popularity for evil Dungeon Masters. This creepy bugger has been tossed around quite a bit with a bunch of different versions and iterations, but you can thank a guy named Goblin Punch for the original idea fr...