Legendary Lessons

Legendary Lessons is an ongoing series on RJD20 that focuses on providing advice to Dungeon Masters and Players with RJ's at-home adventures and campaigns as a back-drop. The series started in 2018 with Charming Beginners and continues to posit new ideas and give inspiration to D&D savants across the globe.

This page lists all Legendary Lessons articles in chronological order. It was last updated September 4, 2020.

2018

• Charming Beginners
• A Tome of Creation
• Submerged in Immersion
• Monsters Abound!
• Dungeons, Dragons, and Death
• Divine Intervention
• Holding a Successful Session Zero
• Building Better Battles
• Evolving Encounters
• Engaging Your Players
• Toying With Trinkets
• Starting a Story
• Creating Collaboratively
• Accepting the Flow
• Reality Versus Fiction in D&D
• Voices in My Head
• All About Monstrous Player Characters
• Sources of Inspiration
• Building and Preparing
• Group Size, Enjoyment, and D&D
• No One Is Omniscient
• Clearly Portraying NPCs
• Can't Play? Build.

2019

• New Horizons and Powerful Weather
• Building a Dungeon's Relevant History
• The Tone, Change It!
• Heated Disagreements at a D&D Table
• Great Ways to Use Spell Components in D&D
• Five Facets of a Compelling D&D Character
• Dungeon Masters, Study Your Players' Characters
• Building Better Battles 2
• Four Interesting Reward Types in D&D
• How to Introduce a New Party Member
• Session Starters
• Building the Story with Dice Rolls
• My Take on Matthew Colville's 5e Action Oriented Monsters

2020

• Don't Be Afraid of Using Powerful Foes in D&D
• How to Keep Track of Your D&D Campaign
• How to Run Allies in D&D
• How to Phase Out Player Characters in D&D
• How to Keep Battles Moving in D&D
• Playing D&D Online
• Avoiding Animus at the Table
• How to Begin a D&D Campaign
• Loose Plot Threads in D&D
• The Most Important Parts of D&D Session Zeros
• Player Character Cameos from Previous D&D Campaigns
• Dungeons & Dragons: A Lifetime For Improvement
• Dream Sequences in D&D
• Don't Be Afraid of Breaking D&D
• The Five Goals of a D&D Campaign's First Session
• How to Prepare for a D&D Session
• See How Far You've Come, Explore Old D&D Notes!
• How to Use One-Shots to Enhance D&D Campaigns

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