DragonEater

You have 2:30 hours to infiltrate the gala, locate the papers secured behind a well guarded door in the host’s office. You must not be seen and no casualties should occur if possible. A carriage will be waiting for you in the backyard. Everybody likes a good heist, but it is often seen as something very difficult to accomplish in D&D. Having heard that the new adventure Waterdeep: Dragon Heist didn’t feature any actual heist, I thought I could design one myself. For these, I rewatched some of the most well known heist movies and took notes from the ones from GTA V (which are the ones I decided to take more from).   By TheGryph   Time limit (optional) Having a time limit is more of a flavor thing as most things in a heist happen almost immediately or in few minutes. However, it puts a sense of pressure in your players. Make them succeed at the last second and you’ll see how they start cheering. Having a map (optional) I’ve found out heists wor...

When a friend came to me saying he wanted to play D&D for the first time with our group of friends, I asked him if he was going to be DMing. He denied and suggested I did it instead, as I was the one who organized most of our group meetings. I didn’t know anything about D&D or DMing in general, but thought I could give it a shot. How hard could it be? Now, almost two years later, I can tell you it isn’t difficult at all! It can be time consuming at times, and require a bit of studying mostly from your part (even more if your players don’t ever read the Player’s Handbook , making you have to explain the game to them, or be the judge when coming to rules debates) but it ends up paying off in the end.  However, when I started running the game, I hadn’t even read the Player’s Handbook . The only thing I did read was the Basic Rules you can find for free here . What I used to learn everything I know about the game can be found on Youtube. That’s why I wanted to shar...