Creating visuals for your campaign used to mean hours in Photoshop, fiddling with map generators, or settling for images that only kind of matched your vision. Now? You can generate detailed fantasy visuals — maps, scenes, towns, and more — directly inside ChatGPT, just by using markdown.

🧭 Introduction: The Third Encounter Pillar In every campaign, there comes a time when the players stop swinging swords and start asking...

Items That Do More Than Roll for Initiative Your players just looted a busted compass, a half-burned recipe book, and… a glass lizard...

“Roll initiative!” may be the most iconic phrase at any D&D table, but sometimes the most dramatic moments don’t come from drawing a...

Encounters are the moments that stick. They’re where stories unfold, secrets get whispered, dice hit the table, and players make choices the

AI Should Be Your Familiar, Not Your Master A new scientific study warns that artificial intelligence can erode our ability to think...

3 Act Structure Storytelling is hard, especially for new Game Masters. Many struggle with pacing, character depth, and making their...

AI is transforming how Game Masters (GMs) create, prepare, and run their campaigns. With tools that generate NPCs, flesh out...

In this blog we will focus on how GMs can use AI to uplevel combat encounters.

Many D&D games lean heavily on familiar skill checks like Perception, Insight, and Stealth, often to the exclusion of other skills.

Some of the greatest stories ever told weren’t written in isolation—they were shaped through collaboration.

Coming up with new ideas for a D&D campaign can feel overwhelming. After a while, the same plots, villains, and locations start to repeat...

You’ll learn the key elements of a good prompt, including Goal, Return Format, Warnings, and Context.

Over the next few weeks, I will walk through my process of creating a real, fully fleshed out, playable campaign.

Kurt Vonnegut had a way of making storytelling feel effortless. His sharp wit, direct style, and deep understanding of character made his

A character sheet tells you what your character can do, but it doesn’t tell you who they are.

The GM’s Eternal Struggle with D&D Player Unpredictability You’ve mapped out the dungeon, built out the villain’s motivations, and...

Session prep has always been a balancing act—managing time and effort while creating a structured plan that still allows players to take...

AI is a powerful tool for Game Masters, but like any tool, its effectiveness depends on how you use it.

Part 1: "The Caravan of Whispers" Dreaming Phase with AI Over the next few weeks, I will walk through my process of creating a real,...