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- November 10, 2026
20 Strange Things Washed Ashore After a Shipwreck
A roll table of 20 strange things to find after a shipwreck, each with a hook, a complication, and what happens if your players just walk past it.
- November 8, 2026
How to Run a Will-o'-the-Wisp as a Deadly Bog Lure (D&D 5e)
Turn the will-o'-the-wisp into a patient bog predator with three hooks, a guardian twist, and foreshadowing that builds real folklore dread.
- November 6, 2026
How to Voice NPCs in D&D Without Doing Accents
Skip the accents. Build distinct NPC voices from speech patterns, tics, and pacing with this ready-to-use toolkit for busy game masters.
- November 4, 2026
Run Rumpelstiltskin as a D&D Deal-With-The-Devil Hook
Turn the Grimm fairy tale into a D&D bargain hook: seed Rumpelstiltskin's true name, stat him as a homunculus, and stage the curse's return.
- November 2, 2026
20 Creepy Things to Find in a Graveyard at Night
A d20 table of eerie graveyard discoveries for D&D 5e, each with a hook, a complication, and what happens if the party walks past.
- October 31, 2026
Run an Ettin Encounter Inspired by The Red Etin
Turn your ettin fight into a riddling bargain gone wrong, with two heads at odds, three ready hooks, and an ungrateful rescue twist.
- October 29, 2026
What To Do When Players Derail Your D&D Plot
A GM's guide to redirecting D&D players who skip the hook, kill the wrong NPC, or wander off the map, with lines to say and a modular checklist.
- October 27, 2026
Run the Minotaur's Labyrinth as a D&D Dungeon Crawl
Adapt the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur into a 5e dungeon where marking your path matters more than rolling initiative.
- October 25, 2026
20 Things That Happen at a Crossroads at Midnight
A drop-in table of 20 eerie crossroads encounters for D&D 5e, each with a hook, a complication, and what happens if the party just keeps walking.
- October 23, 2026
How to Run a Mimic Encounter That Isn't Just a Trick
Stop running the mimic as a jump scare. Give it a want, five real hooks, foreshadowing clues, and a twist that needs its help to survive.
- October 21, 2026
How to End a D&D Session on a Perfect Cliffhanger
Four reliable cliffhanger cuts for D&D sessions, with sample lines, timing cues, and a five minute checklist for ending on the peak beat.
- October 19, 2026
Run the Pied Piper of Hamelin as a D&D Debt Hook
Turn the Grimm legend into a broken-promise revenge plot, with a rat swarm job up front and a charming piper villain who comes to collect.
- October 17, 2026
20 Omens to Drop Before a Storm Hits Your Campaign
A d20 table of eerie storm omens for D&D 5e, each with a hook, a complication, and a consequence for players who ignore it before the real danger hits.
- October 15, 2026
Run a Mummy Encounter as a Tragic Curse Story (D&D 5e)
Turn the SRD mummy into a tragic cursed guardian with three hooks, a betrayal twist, and foreshadowing drawn from the pharaoh's-curse tradition.
- October 13, 2026
How to Foreshadow a Twist Without Tipping Your Hand
Learn the plant-and-payoff method for foreshadowing in D&D: the rule of three, timing clues across sessions, and sample lines for traitors, curses, and...
- October 11, 2026
How to Run Baba Yaga as a D&D Villain (Slavic Folklore)
Turn the Slavic hag of the deep forest into a recurring D&D villain with riddle trials, three horsemen gatekeepers, and a bargain instead of a boss fight.
- October 9, 2026
20 Strange Guests to Drop Into Any Roadside Inn (D&D 5e)
A d20 table of 20 unsettling inn guests for D&D 5e, each with a hook, a complication, and what happens if the party ignores them.
- October 7, 2026
Run a Vampire One-Shot Inspired by The Vampyre (D&D 5e)
Build a D&D 5e vampire one-shot inspired by Polidori's The Vampyre: wedding hooks, foreshadowing, and the twist before the SRD stats matter.
- October 5, 2026
How to Run a Mystery Your Players Can Actually Solve
Use the three-clue rule to build D&D mysteries with no dead ends: redundant clues, fair red herrings, and a disguised monster as the culprit.
- October 3, 2026
Run the Three Billy Goats Gruff as a D&D Bridge Encounter
Adapt the Norwegian folktale into a toll bridge scene with a troll, three escalating player approaches, and a twist worse than the toll.
- October 1, 2026
Ten Strange Market Day Encounters for D&D 5e
A d10 table of odd market stall encounters for D&D 5e, each with a hook, a complication, and a cost for walking past it.
- September 29, 2026
How to Give Your D&D Villain a Motivation Players Believe
Build a villain's want, fear, and lie with a lamia and fire giant example, then reveal the motive through clues instead of a monologue.
- September 29, 2026
Clay Golem Encounter Ideas: Run It Like the Golem of Prague
Give your clay golem a soul: three hooks, a broken command word, and staging tips so its berserk rampage feels like tragedy, not a stat block.
- June 11, 2026
The Recap Now Delivers Itself
The Discord bot now posts the full session transcript and a written recap back to a text channel of your choice, the moment transcription finishes. Plus the diarization bug we fixed along the way.
- May 23, 2026
Can You Cast Two Spells in One Turn? (D&D 5e)
The bonus action spell rule, line by line: when you can cast a bonus action spell and an action spell, when you can't, and exactly what the 2024 rules changed about Quickened Spell.
- May 21, 2026
Can You Take an Opportunity Attack While Prone? (D&D 5e)
Knocked flat and an enemy sprints past? You can still swing. The rule, the one catch (disadvantage), and what the 2024 edition changed.
- May 20, 2026
Cover Rules in D&D 5e: Half, Three-Quarters, and Total Cover Explained (2024)
A complete guide to D&D 5e cover rules using the 2024 ruleset: half, three-quarters, and total cover, what grants each degree, how cover affects saving throws, and exactly what changed from the 2014 edition.
- May 7, 2026
ChatGPT vs LorePanic: a six-question head-to-head on D&D 5e rules
We sent the same six tricky 2024 D&D rules questions to ChatGPT (with the SRD PDF attached) and to LorePanic. Same source, two very different experiences, especially when you click the citation.
- May 1, 2026
Free SRD Search: One Search Box for Seven Tabletop RPG Rulebooks
A free search engine across seven open RPG System Reference Documents, including D&D 5e, Cairn, Mausritter, Blades in the Dark, and Fate Core. No account needed.
- April 24, 2026
Bring Your Own ChatGPT: Running LorePanic on Your Subscription
How we wired LorePanic into your ChatGPT Plus subscription. The device-code flow, the Codex Responses endpoint, and the two different OpenAI products we use for transcription.
- April 14, 2026
Your Table Keeps Playing. We Take Notes.
Why we put session recording inside a Discord bot that joins your voice channel, and how the notes get written for you. (Live transcription has since been retired; recording and recaps remain.)
- April 6, 2026
Designing The Crypts of Ember Hollow, our free demo adventure
How we wrote a full D&D 5e one-shot from scratch, released it under CC-BY-4.0, and built the LorePanic demo around it.
- March 31, 2026
Classic D&D Adventures Deserve a Second Life in 5e
A free tool that converts classic D&D adventures from any edition to 5th Edition, THAC0 and stat blocks included.