Your D&D session can really get away from you sometimes -- the clock says it's time to head home, yet the PCs have barely accomplished anything. Where did the time go? Did your session lack structure and lead to aimless meandering? Did you spend a half hour trying to figure out the grappling rules? Was time lost as you rifled through your notes in search of an NPC's stat block?

This week's Quick Tip offers three organizational tips for DMs.

Strap yourselves in, folks -- the Drogans' new adventure has begun, and Session 1 is now live on YouTube.

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It's been two months since I'd played any D&D -- which is a long hiatus after playing twice a week for a couple years -- so I was a little rusty going into tonight's session. I had a case of The Giggles and could barely get through two sentences without bursting into a fit of laug...

The final match-up for the Dungeons & Drogans PvP Tournament has been posted -- Coltaine vs. Rekoj.

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Wow. What an exciting conclusion to this series.

Match one, Coltaine fought an uphill battle against sour luck, and Rekoj completely dominated the battle, hammering Coltaine into submission and setting up the warlord for an exciting comeback.

Match two, luck turned to Coltaine's side as the warlo...

In his column, "The Dungeon Master Experience," D&D senior producer Chris Perkins explained the important role that humour plays in our favourite hobby.

"It makes for a refreshing change of pace to inject a bit of silliness now and then. [...] Humour is best used in small, judicious doses and in situations that work within the context of the encounter or scene.

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"You can punctuate a fairly serious campaign with humorous moments and interludes without ruining it."

I currentl...

In his latest Legends and Lore column, D&D designer Monte Cook stated:

"Having lots of tools to customize characters is good for players. Lots of complexity is bad for players."

Cook began by explaining how earlier editions of D&D offered little in the way of customization for PCs, but followed it with an observation that rings true with me:

"By having no skills, feats, and so on, you could—in theory—create anything at all."

When I first played D&D, no Samurai class existed. ...

The sixth match-up for the Dungeons & Drogans PvP Tournament has been posted -- Rekoj vs. Rhekd.

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Well, that was exhausting.

Rhekd didn't have a snowball's chance in any of the Nine Hells of Baator. The only way Rhekd could win a match was by sending Rekoj down the pit -- and Dave fought tooth and nail to make that happen.

It's unfortunate that you guys couldn't see the notes Dave was sending m...