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Chest puzzles are some of the easiest and fun puzzles to put into a Dungeons & Dragons game. I mean, a big part of the reason players enter the dungeons and face the dragons is because of the treasure chests hold at the end of it. And what better way to secure that treasure than … Read more

How do you create a logic puzzle for D&D? Find out how to do logic puzzles on the fly or craft elaborate logic puzzles that span an entire campaign.

Dungeons & Dragons is a cooperative game. Without teamwork players will fail at most tasks and D&D puzzles. Learn how to create D&D puzzles that require teamwork.

A puzzle room in D&D is a singular room that holds multiple puzzles which are all somehow interconnected. Solving one puzzle will lead to the clues needed to solve the next, until the last puzzle yields the big outcome players were searching for. Here’s how to create them

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just push a button to generate a D&D puzzle that is fully illustrated and ready to use? Well, unfortunately, I don’t have such a generator. But I do have an alternative handcrafted D&D puzzle generator that works just as well, but better.  Intrigued? Okay, I’ll spill the magic … Read more

What do running large groups and running D&D puzzles have in common? Both can be very challenging. To do both well simultaneously is no small feat. But these tips will make it a LOT easier. Here are my top tips for running puzzles for large groups in a fun and easy way: 1. Waiting your … Read more

Are you looking for ways to include puzzles in your library or on books? Then I have just the thing! Here are six puzzle setups for bookwurms. And I start of with a free puzzle for your personal use. 1. The Library Puzzle Entrance The first puzzle in this list is a free puzzle I … Read more

There are three types of tile and terrain puzzles for Dungeons & dragons: In this article we’ll explore all sorts of tile and terrain puzzles. I’ll be using my illustrated tile puzzles to demonstrate the concepts, but you can easily apply the concepts to your homebrew puzzles as well. What makes D&D terrain tile puzzles … Read more

Introduce politics into your D&D campaign. Create endless political factions to align with, manipulate, bribe or blackmail. Political intrigue at its best.

A friend of mine – who is new to DMing – asked my advice about how to manage a large group of D&D players. That got me thinking: How do I manage large D&D groups?