Is There a Right/Wrong Way to Play D&D?

Is There a Right/Wrong Way to Play D&D?

There is a wrong way to play that has nothing to do with what the books have printed in black and white. How you approach the game, how you think about the other players, and your attitude while you play can be right or wrong.

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Monsters Mastered: Orcs

Monsters Mastered: Orcs

A warrior race, bred for untold centuries to be perfect killing machines. Instructed by their god to brutalize and destroy all others. Trained from birth to fight and win. Taught that there is no such thing as honor or disgrace, only victory and defeat. They do not fight because they have to. They fight because they revel in it. They fight because they must.

This is what it means to be an orc.

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Beginner's Guide to Half-Orcs

Beginner's Guide to Half-Orcs

Few playable races in D&D live lives as fraught with persecution, apprehension, and harsh treatment as the half-orcs. The product of an eager, ambitious race and one that is renowned and feared for its savage and bloodthirsty nature, half-orcs are unwelcome or at least approached with trepidation by most folk… and rightly so! With their particular genetic cocktail, half-orcs are not a folk to be trifled with, easily among the strongest and most cunning races in D&D’s fiction.

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Beginner's Guide to Half-elves

Beginner's Guide to Half-elves

Half-elves are one of the most popular races to play in Dungeons & Dragons 5e. They have mechanical advantages over other races, a lot of versatility in their bonuses, as well as an angsty roleplay hook by being alien in both human and elven societies. Half-elves may just be the objectively best player character race in DND.

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Beginner's Guide to Goliaths

Beginner's Guide to Goliaths

Goliaths: towering hulks of bravery and brawn that look down on all the other DND races…literally! While Dungeons and Dragons can be a power fantasy for many people, few character races physically embody it more than the goliaths. They are a race of humanoids that make their home in harsh mountain environments.

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Beginner's Guide to Warforged

Beginner's Guide to Warforged

Among the many and varied races you can play in Dungeons & Dragons, few are as truly unique as the warforged. Unlike other humanoid races, the warforged are not limited by their biology. Instead, their appearance and abilities are limited only by the imaginations of their creators.

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Kenku Mimicry: A Word Puzzle

Kenku Mimicry: A Word Puzzle

A kenku cannot express themselves verbally without having the appropriate phrase said in their presence before, and must repeat that phrase instead of voicing their own. This prospect can be very intimidating to many players, and may cause them to avoid the 5e kenku D&D race entirely... but don't worry! There are options...

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Beginner's Guide to Grungs

Beginner's Guide to Grungs

Grungs are a fierce, proud race of tree-dwelling, amphibious, frog-like humanoids that typically hail from jungle and rainforest climates. They are only three feet tall on average, but are fierce combatants despite their size, relying on their natural advantages and ingenuity over sheer power...

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Beginner's Guide to Drow

Beginner's Guide to Drow

The Drow originate from the Underdark, an otherworldly layer of the Prime Material plane far below the surface where most other races live. The Drow aren’t just subterranean elves, however. The Underdark is more like another dimension or plane of existence. It is suffused with foreign magic and alien forms of life. Their prolonged exposure to this magic (called “faerzress”) has fundamentally altered their elven biology...

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Tabletop Taboos

Tabletop Taboos

What should you be sure to AVOID doing while at the D&D table? What could you do that will earn the ire of your fellow players, a stern word from your DM, or an invitation to leave the game?

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