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Do you have a for your campaign? Spice it up or get it started with my new post: "Ten Ideas To Include In Your D&D Campaign Wiki"! 💻📝🎲

Ten Ideas To Include In Your D&D Campaign Wiki Starting a D&D wiki may seem daunting. But don't worry! I've got plenty of prompts to get you started below. Here are my top ten ideas for fun things to include in your TTRPG campaign wiki…

Check out my latest article: "How To Run Big Cities In TTRPGs: Stories", the fourth and final installment of my worldbuilding series. It's full of helpful tips on managing stories within big city settings. 🏙📝🗣

https://ghostlorestudios.com/how-to-run-big-cities-in-ttrpgs-stories/

How To Run Big Cities In TTRPGs: Stories In this four-part series, I'll go over my tips for what I think are the most important areas of developing and running a big city in a TTRPG: Framework, Culture, Population, and Stories.

My worldbuilding blog series continues this week with "How To Run Big Cities In TTRPGs: Population". Check it out for tips on populating your cities with factions and NPCs!

https://ghostlorestudios.com/how-to-run-big-cities-in-ttrpgs-population/

How To Run Big Cities In TTRPGs: Population In this four-part series, I'll go over my tips for what I think are the most important areas of developing and running a big city in a TTRPG: Framework, Culture, Population, and Stories.

Just posted the second article in my four-blog worldbuilding series, "How To Run Big Cities In TTRPGs"! This week we'll cover how to establish the culture of your city. 🌇🎉🎆

https://ghostlorestudios.com/how-to-run-big-cities-in-ttrpgs-culture/

How To Run Big Cities In TTRPGs: Culture In this four-part series, I'll go over my tips for what I think are the most important areas of developing and running a big city in a TTRPG: Framework, Culture, Population, and Stories.

Check out the first article in my four-blog worldbuilding series, "How To Run Big Cities In TTRPGs"! This one focuses on creating the framework to get your city started! 🏙📝🎲

https://ghostlorestudios.com/how-to-run-big-cities-in-ttrpgs-framework/

How To Run Big Cities In TTRPGs: Framework In this four-part series, I'll go over my tips for what I think are the most important areas of developing and running a big city in a TTRPG: Framework, Culture, Population, and Stories.

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Bard In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 🎶🎻🕺

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The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Bard In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a bard character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Sorcerer In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 💥🐉🌟

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The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Sorcerer In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a sorcerer character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Cleric In Your Next D&D Campaign"! ⛑💫🛡

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The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Cleric In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a cleric character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Rogue In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 👤🤫🗡

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The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Rogue In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a rogue character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

New blog out today!

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Monk In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 👊🏻🧘‍♀️💫

https://ghostlorestudios.com/the-top-eight-reasons-to-play-a-monk/

The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Monk In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a monk character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

My 50th blog post is out today! Can you believe it? 🤯

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Wizard In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 🔥🔮⚡

https://ghostlorestudios.com/the-top-eight-reasons-to-play-a-wizard/

The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Wizard In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a wizard character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Ranger In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 🏹🐻🏞

https://ghostlorestudios.com/the-top-eight-reasons-to-play-a-ranger/

The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Ranger In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a ranger character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Paladin In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 🛡🔨⚡

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The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Paladin In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a paladin character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Barbarian In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 💪🏻😡⚔

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The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Barbarian In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a barbarian character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Warlock In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 😈🔗💥

https://ghostlorestudios.com/the-top-eight-reasons-to-play-a-warlock/

The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Warlock In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a warlock character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Druid In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 🍃🐻⛈

https://ghostlorestudios.com/the-top-eight-reasons-to-play-a-druid/

The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Druid In Your Next D&D Campaign Here's the top eight reasons you should build a druid character for your next Dungeons & Dragons game...

Thinking about what class to choose for your next character? Check out my latest article, "The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Fighter In Your Next D&D Campaign"! 🗡🛡🏹

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The Top Eight Reasons To Play A Fighter In Your Next D&D Campaign Here are my eight reasons fighters are worth checking out the next time you're itching to create a character...

Are the rigors of running a keeping you from taking time for yourself? Check out my latest article,"Self Care Tips For Dungeon Masters"! 💆‍♂️🎲

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Self Care Tips For Dungeon Masters Dungeon masters, are you taking care of yourselves out there? If not… it's time to start!

Thinking of bringing a friend into your game? Make their introduction special with my latest article, "How To Welcome A New TTRPG Player To Your Table"! 🙋🏻‍♂️🤩

https://ghostlorestudios.com/how-to-welcome-a-new-ttrpg-player-to-your-table/

How To Welcome A New TTRPG Player To Your Table Thinking of introducing a new player to your tabletop role-playing group? These quick tips can help smooth the transition!

Need a little help getting into character? Check out Ghostlore's latest article: "How To Use Personality Quizzes As A Resource In Your TTRPG Roleplaying"! 📝🤩

https://ghostlorestudios.com/how-to-use-personality-quizzes-as-a-resource-in-your-ttrpg-roleplaying/

Looking for a hit of nostalgia today? Jump back 20 years with this week's post, "The Top Five 2000s Songs For Each D&D Class"! 🎶💿🎲

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The Top Five 2000s Songs For Each D&D Class It's just so fun picking the top five songs for each D&D class throughout the decades! Now let's delve into the early 2000's!

This week I'm continuing my musical D&D lists through the decades with "The Top Five 90s Songs For Each D&D Class"! 🎶🎧🎲

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The Top Five 90s Songs For Each D&D Class I took a look at some of the best songs from the 90s and assigned each D&D class a top five.

Do you love 80's music? Ever think of D&D classes when you hear specific songs? This is the post for you! Check out this week's article, "The Top Five 80s Songs For Each D&D Class"! 🎶🎲👩‍🎤

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Ever wish you could use basic cantrips in your everyday life? Which ones would you choose? Check out this week's article, "The Top Ten 'Most Useful In Real Life' D&D Cantrips" for my top picks! 🔥🌱💫

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The Top Ten "Most Useful In Real Life" D&D Cantrips Can you imagine if you could use something as simple as a cantrip in your everyday life? I ranked and listed the cantrips I think would be the most beneficial if they were real...

Want to try a fun new method for writing your TTRPG characters? Check out this week's article, "How To Use Tarot Cards As A TTRPG Character Writing Tool"! 🃏📝🎲

https://ghostlorestudios.com/how-to-use-tarot-cards-as-a-ttrpg-character-writing-tool/

How To Use Tarot Cards As A TTRPG Character Writing Tool Here's my step-by-step process for simple character development using nothing more than a deck of tarot cards...

Looking for a way to sharpen your storytelling skills or get out of a DMing rut? Check out my latest article: How To Start A "Choose Your Own Adventure" Twitter Poll! 📊🐦📝

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How To Start A "Choose Your Own Adventure" Twitter Poll I realized that the "Choose Your Own Adventure" format could be replicated using Twitter's poll tweet function. Without thinking too much, I went ahead and...

This Halloween marks Ghostlore's first birthday! Come check out some of the fun stuff I've released this year in my latest article. 😉👻🎉

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Ghostlore's First Birthday! I've accomplished so much of what I set out to do and it has been a wonderful experience! Check out these highlights from Ghostlore's first year…

It's here! The final volume of my free Buffy The Vampire Slayer homebrew series, "Hellmouth: 5e Buffyverse Homebrew". Play in the grey area between good and evil with two new classes, Half Demon & Vampire! 🧛‍♀️😈🎲

https://ghostlorestudios.com/hellmouth-5e-buffyverse-homebrew-half-demon-and-vampire-classes/

Hellmouth: 5e Buffyverse Homebrew: Half Demon And Vampire Classes This free 5e homebrew supplement takes you into the world of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The Hellmouth: 5e Buffyverse Homebrew PDF series includes...

This week I'm continuing my Buffy The Vampire Slayer homebrew series with two new classes, Witch & Civilian! Check out the latest free volume of "Hellmouth: 5e Buffyverse Homebrew". 🔮🕯🎲

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Hellmouth: 5e Buffyverse Homebrew: Witch And Civilian Classes This free 5e homebrew supplement takes you into the world of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The Hellmouth: 5e Buffyverse Homebrew PDF series includes...

Are you a fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Check out "Hellmouth: 5e Buffyverse Homebrew", a free series of D&D classes. This week I've released Slayer & Watcher! 🧛🏻‍♂️⛼🎲

https://ghostlorestudios.com/hellmouth-5e-buffyverse-homebrew-slayer-and-watcher-classes/

Hellmouth: 5e Buffyverse Homebrew: Slayer & Watcher Classes This free 5e homebrew supplement takes you into the world of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The Hellmouth: 5e Buffyverse Homebrew PDF series includes...

Have your dice been betraying you lately? Get the luck back in those rolls with my latest article, "A Quick Look At Dice Rituals & Superstitions". 🎲🕯🔮

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A Quick Look At Dice Rituals & Superstitions Some like to say that rolling dice is about "probability" or "logic". But these tried and true dice superstitions and spells say otherwise...

Looking for game design tips? Learn from my mistakes in this week's post, "Ten Game Design Tips I Had To Learn The Hard Way"! 😅🎲🎮

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Ten Game Design Tips I Had To Learn The Hard Way Being a self taught game creator, I had to go through quite a bit of trial and error before I perfected my methods...

Need a way to generate, organize, and curate ideas for your TTRPG games or projects? Check out this week's post, "How To Curate A Game Master’s Idea Vault"! 💡🔒🤓

https://ghostlorestudios.com/how-to-curate-a-game-masters-idea-vault/

How To Curate A Game Master's Idea Vault Here's my process for generating, organizing, and curating ideas for TTRPG sessions and projects, which I like to call an idea vault.

Looking to hone your skills as a GM? Check out this week's post, "Eight Essential Skills That Every Game Master Should Develop"! 🤓🎲👍🏻

https://ghostlorestudios.com/eight-essential-skills-that-every-game-master-should-develop/

Eight Essential Skills That Every Game Master Should Develop What skills are most important for an aspiring or current GM? I've compiled a list of what I think are the most essential skills a GM can master.

Ever wonder what D&D creature types would be like behind the DM screen? Check out this week's post, "If D&D Creature Types Were Dungeon Masters…" Which one are you? 😈🎲🤓

https://ghostlorestudios.com/if-dnd-creature-types-were-dungeon-masters/

If D&D Creature Types Were Dungeon Masters... I rarely see this style of article focus on creature types. There are so many that I thought it'd be fun to explore what each one would be like as a dungeon master!

This week's post, "The Eight Best Ways To Support Your Favorite Indie Creators", is a quick read on how to support the creators that make the TTRPG community great! ❤👍🏻👏🏻

https://ghostlorestudios.com/the-eight-best-ways-to-support-your-favorite-indie-creators

The Eight Best Ways To Support Your Favorite Indie Creators If you want to support your favorite creators, here are eight really easy ways you can!

Struggling with layout design? Check out my latest post, "Layout Design Tips For Your Next TTRPG Project" to feel more comfortable when putting together your books and PDFs! 🖥📖🖱

https://ghostlorestudios.com/layout-design-tips-for-your-next-ttrpg-project/

Layout Design Tips For Your Next TTRPG Project I wanted to cover the most overlooked and surprisingly nuanced aspect on this topic: layout design. I see people struggling with it all the time...

Want to publish your TTRPG, but feel overwhelmed by the world of professional printing? Check out my latest post, "The Printing Process Demystified For TTRPG Creators" for tips on the basics! 🖨📤📚

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The Printing Process Demystified For TTRPG Creators Moving forward in this series, I wanted to delve into the world of print. I see a lot of TTRPG creators on social media talk about mistakes they've made while trying to get their games published and printed...

Want to DIY a logo for your next TTRPG project, but don't know where to start? Check out my latest article, "A TTRPG Creator’s Guide To Logo Design" for an in depth look at the logo design process! ✏💻🤔

https://ghostlorestudios.com/a-ttrpg-creators-guide-to-logo-design/

A TTRPG Creator's Guide To Logo Design This week, we'll explore a topic I see come up a lot on social media… logo design for TTRPGs! While I always recommend hiring a graphic designer for logo design, it's not always in the budget for independent TTRPG companies.

Is a graphic designer not in the budget for your next TTRPG project? Check out my latest article, "Free Graphic Design Resources & Best Practices For TTRPG Creators" for the basics of DIY design! 🖱📏✍🏻

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Free Graphic Design Resources & Best Practices For TTRPG Creators Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing graphic design tips for TTRPG creators. What better place to start than with the resources you'll need to get started on a budget?