#dndtips

Here’s how:

Try adding ambience to your sessions to engulf your players in your world, and add emotions only possible through sounds and music. A good channel to find these is here - >

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDzvgU9M06cXZHiMocsQ_Cw

If you can’t create your own imaginary planet from scratch then store-bought is fine

As with all forms of art reference is a key aspect: rivers split, but if you look at real rivers in the world we live in, you’ll know that tributaries join major rivers as they flow downhill - rarely in real life do rivers split and flow in two seperate directions downhill. So when I wrote the city of Mull, which sits on the spilt in a river that divides into the Salin and the Rikney rivers I decided that something special would have happened to divide the river so.

So to answer your question: lil of column a, lil of column b.

This isn’t, “the best way”. But the best advice I can give you, is to let your imagination run wild. Take inspiration from your favourite fantasy worlds (Lord of the rings, Game of thrones, fantasy set Anime, World of Warcraft, etc) use that inspiration to build a world that you like while making it completely your own and unique. And even after all that if you can’t think of something that’s fine too you can always use a store-bought world. It’s DnD as long as you’re enjoying playing it that’s the main thing.

You can actually calculate the chance of you succeeding at a check or saving throw!

You just take your appropriate modifier (like a +2 in Acrobatics), and add 1 to it (so it is +3). If that is equal to the last digit of the difficulty of the check (so 5 for DC 15), then your chance of success is 50%, every point of difference after that adjusts your chance by 5%, increasing it if your modifier is higher and vice versa (so since +3 is 2 smaller than 5, you have a 40% chance of success!)

Note 1: The DC number change is actually just -10, so it would be 12 for a DC of 20, but that sounds like math