DM Gives Inspiration

Kyle discusses loot—when to give it, what to drop, and how to not totally break your game.

Season 4 of DM Gives Inspiration kicks off with a blast as Kyle explains time travel in D&D. Learn how to take on th... Read more

Kyle provides insight on what to do on your first adventure as a DM.

Ranger, fighters, barbarians, bards, and rogues. Kyle discusses leaving room in your campaign for player classes to shin... Read more

Kyle describes how to tell stories through NPCs.

Kyle explains how to gather information for your campaign during player character creation and use it to set the tone fo... Read more

Kyle discusses the reality of home games and drawing inspiration from things you love.

Kyle explains how to take a quest from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and use it in your own game.

Kyle talks spells—how to read them, how to help your players read them, and how to add just the right flavor.

Kyle goes over how to run a first campaign and how to do so digitally.

Kyle explains the bare minimum you need to start your own D&D campaign.

Clerics, druids, paladins, sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards. Kyle continues the discussion about leaving room in your ca... Read more

Kyle explains how to build better maps for your campaign.

Kyle goes over travel in an RPG setting and how to make it more fun and more meaningful.

When alignment doesn't matter, it's up to you as the DM to create a compelling balance in the world through villains.

Kyle answers questions about role playing, accents, and designing level-appropriate encounters.

Kyle answers questions about downtime, taking 10, something always happening, calculating time, organizing ideas, and tr... Read more

In this mailbag, Kyle discusses creating custom abilities, how to match the work you put into your campaign to how much ... Read more

Kyle breaks down how to build your first encounter and how to extract strategy from stat blocks.

Kyle goes over how to build a living, breathing dungeon.