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D&D Monster Intelligence: Stop Playing Them Like Idiots (Unless They Are)

D&D Monster Intelligence Stop Playing Them Like Idiots (Unless They Are)

Here’s the hard truth: if your wolves, orcs, and liches all fight like fearless sacks of hit points until they fall over, you’re not running monsters, you’re running target dummies.

Intelligence is the deciding factor in how a monster acts, reacts, and tries not to die.

Ignore it, and every encounter feels the same. Use it, and suddenly the dungeon feels alive and hostile – in the best possible way.

This is a guide to running monsters by Intelligence.

No theory. No fluff. Just behaviour you can apply at the table.

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Resources For Traveller Solo Campaigns

Resources For Traveller Solo Campaigns

To take a break from Dungeons & Dragons, and fantasy in general, I have been reading a lot of old Traveller rules and putting together some resources and ideas to run a solo campaign in that universe.

Having gathered all this material, I wanted to share what I have found in case you, too wanted to get into some Traveller – solo – or otherwise.

Below are four resources I have found that have been immensely helpful to me so far.

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d12 Monthly – Issue 53 – Bestiary (Beasts And Magical Beasts)

d12 Monthly - Issue 53 - Bestiary (Beasts & Magical Beasts)

Issue 53 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out! This one is all about monsters.

It focuses on beasts and magical beasts and lists information you won’t find in most other bestiaries: habit and lairs, diet and hunting, life and behaviour, culture and myth, encounters, and ecology and impact.

Issue 53 is the Bestiary (Beasts & Magical Beasts) issue. It features articles on:

      • An A-Z of bests and magical beasts, such as the Ankheg, Cockatrice, Gorgon, Hydra, Lamia, Unicorns, Winter Wolves, and many more!
      • This bestiary focuses on where to put your monsters and how they affect their environments.

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d12 Monthly – Issue 52 – Halloween 2025 (Necropolis Issue)

d12 Monthly - Issue 52 - Halloween 2025 (The Necropolis)

Issue 52 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out! This one is this years Halloween issue – all about a world-altering event with the arrival of the Necropolis and the Moribund.

Issue 52 is the Necropolis issue. It features articles on:

      • A new city of Necropolis
      • A new race: the Moribund
      • A world-changing events
      • New undead abilities
      • And much more! (See below for details).

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d12 Monthly – Issue 51 – The Bounded Hills

d12 Monthly - Issue 51 - The Bounded Hills

Issue 51 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out! This one is all about an area of my own campaign you can include into your campaign world.

Issue 51 is the Bounded Hills issue. It features articles on:

      • An old school map of the Bounded Hills area
      • Multiple settlements of varying sizes
      • Dangerous and unknown areas to explore
      • And much more! (See below for details).

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D&D Solo-Roleplaying – Choosing Your Focus

D&D Solo-Roleplaying – Choosing Your Focus

In short: Foci allow you to choose what you want to do each solo session and helps you find what it is about solo roleplaying you love.   

One of the biggest challenges in solo roleplaying – especially in an old-school Dungeons & Dragons style game – is deciding what your sessions are about.

Without a GM guiding the flow, you, as the lone player, get to decide which aspects of the game world deserve the spotlight.

This is one of the great strengths of solo roleplaying: you get to decide what you want to do.

And while this freedom is powerful, it can also feel overwhelming as you end up having too much to choose from.

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5 Ways You Can Use My D&D Zines

5 Ways You Can Use My D&D Zines

After having reached 50 issues (51 actually, as I started with issue 0) of my d12 Monthly Dungeons & Dragons zine, I thought it might be a good idea to let gamers know a few ways they can use them.

When I started my zine project, I never really thought about getting to 50 issues – I just kept writing and publishing them. Before I knew it, I had released 10, then 20, and then 40 – and all of a sudden I was thinking about what to put into issue 50.

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