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LitRPG Reads: Your Go-To Hub for RPG and LitRPG Content

Explore LitRPG Reads, your all-in-one destination for everything RPG—from tabletop classics like Dungeons & Dragons to immersive LitRPG storytelling. Here, we bring together a wealth of RPG resources, tips, and tools to inspire every player, Dungeon Master, and game enthusiast.

Discover RPG guides that break down essential game mechanics, character options, and strategies for unforgettable adventures. Our DND articles delve into classic items, unique character builds, and popular spells to boost your gameplay. Find quick access to our Random Tables and Fantasy Name Generators to help add richness and depth to your campaigns and storylines.

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Regularly updated with new articles and tools, LitRPG Reads is here to support your RPG adventures—whether you’re mastering a dungeon, exploring a fantasy realm, or writing your own LitRPG novel. Bookmark this page for fresh insights, character-building resources, and ideas to elevate your RPG experiences. Connect with us on Twitter or Discord to share your journey!

7 Proven Techniques for Managing Large D&D Adventuring Parties Without Losing Control

by Ana Libanski
Seven armored fantasy warriors, reminiscent of D&D adventuring parties, stand together under a dramatic sky. Magical elements, a glowing sword, and a soaring raven add mystique. Mountains and ruins form the backdrop for this managing large groups scene.

Gathering seven, eight, or even more adventurers around the Dungeons & Dragons table is a thrilling prospect—one that all but guarantees stories of wild heroics, spectacular chaos, and unexpected alliances. Yet with large parties comes a unique set of challenges, threatening to …

How to Engage Experienced D&D Players with Meaningful Rewards Beyond XP in 2025

by Amir Barakat
A woman in a hoodie sits at a desk with a laptop, painting a tabletop game miniature. The desk has dice, character sheets for D&D players, a mug, paints, and fantasy-themed posters on the wall behind her. The scene is warmly lit.

Veteran Dungeons & Dragons players have outgrown the dopamine hit of an experience point ticker. They’ve bested dragons, disarmed deathtraps, and pored over the Player’s Handbook so many times that spell lists now haunt their dreams. For these savvy adventurers, progression no …

How to Create Balanced and Fun Homebrew Bard Mechanics for Your D&D Campaigns in 2025

by Emily Thorne
A woman in medieval-style clothing sits at a wooden table in a rustic tavern, holding a lute—perfect inspiration for D&D campaigns or homebrew bard mechanics. Several mugs and a jug are on the table, lit by a single candle in the background.

Bards have always been the shapechangers of Dungeons and Dragons—masters of both magical arts and social nuance, slipping between musical spells and clever wordplay with a grin. Yet, for all their official versatility, there’s something almost irresistible about customizing bardic mechanics further, …

Dwarf Mining Clan Names: Legendary Surnames Inspired by Stone, Gold, and the Deep Earth

by Ajay Patel
A determined woman with braided hair, armored clothing, and a pickaxe over her shoulder holds a lantern while standing in a crystal-lined cave. The scene is depicted in a detailed, fantasy art style.

Dwarven culture, hewn from stone and steeped in untold millennia, is a tapestry of family, fortunes, and the deep-earth mysteries that pulse beneath mountain roots. Among its most revered traditions are the names borne by dwarven mining clans—each a title forged of …

D&D 2025 Class and Subclass Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Building the Perfect Character

by Rich Hunterson
A woman in medieval armor stands holding a sword, with a ruined castle and knights carrying red-cross flags in the background against a dramatic, fiery sky.

Dungeons & Dragons is as much about crafting a hero as it is about rolling dice or delving dungeons. At the heart of every character’s journey are the 13 core classes, each a distinct template shaping not only abilities and powers, but …

How to Seamlessly Weave Player Backstories into Your D&D Campaign Without Breaking the Plot

by Kenny Kings
A mysterious figure in a purple hooded cloak stands against a dramatic, fiery sunset sky—perfect for integrating into your next D&D campaign—with swirling clouds and windswept fields emphasizing their tense, determined posture.

There’s a magic in watching a player’s eyes light up when their character’s history suddenly becomes central to a campaign’s unfolding drama. As the tools of the tabletop—dice, minis, maps—evolve, so too do the ways we create our heroes’ origins. The rise …

The Hidden DM Rule No One Talks About: Why Great Dungeon Masters Lie (And When You Should Too)

by Ken Chan
A young woman sits at a desk lit by a lamp, surrounded by books, papers, dice, and a laptop. She wears a plaid shirt and looks thoughtfully at the viewer, suggesting she is planning or playing a tabletop role-playing game.

Roleplaying is a game of make-believe, and its biggest secret is written right in the rules: you’re here to create a living, breathing story, not to perform a flawless, clinical simulation. Yet, somewhere amid all those dice rolls and rulebooks, many Dungeon …

New Sage Advice Rulings Just Dropped… and the D&D Community Is Already Fighting About Them

by Isaac Hanson
A confident woman in ornate robes sits at a desk in a grand library, quill poised above parchment, ready to share sage advice and D&D rulings, sunlight streaming through tall shelves filled with ancient tomes.

There’s a peculiar electricity in the virtual air: the Sage Advice page has returned, refreshed at last for the 2024 Dungeons & Dragons rules overhaul. This isn’t just another rules update—it’s a moment eagerly awaited across dice-laden tables and bustling online forums. …

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Paul Bellow is a LitRPG author, decades-long gamer, RPG game developer, and publisher of several online communities. In other words, an old school webmaster.

He also developed and runs LitRPG Adventures, a set of advanced RPG generators powered by GPT-3 AI. Here at LitRPG Reads, he publishes articles about LitRPG books, tabletop RPG books, and all sorts of DND content that's free to use in your personal tabletop campaign - i.e. non-commercial use.

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