Tumbling Dice – Using Board Games in Your D&D Game To Create Unique And Fun Sessions

3 Wise DMs

Most of us who enjoy TTRPGs like D&D also love board games… classic board games, strategy games, resource management games, and the list goes on. It won’t take long until you as a DM start thinking of implementing some of your favorite board games or board game mechanics into your D&D sessions.

In this episode, Tony, Chris, and Dave discuss the ways that they have utilized their favorite board games and board game mechanics to create some incredibly unique, innovative, and fun game sessions, or in the case of our Dragonlance game, the entire campaign.

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3:15 A Christmas “Board” Game in our Curse of Strahd campaign. Click here for the article.

8:45 Using a physical board during the session.

11:30 Mini games in your session for races, fair games, festivals, and card games.

14:00 Using skill challenges and existing game mechanics to build out something completely different: DM Tony’s Murder Mystery game (spoilers: think Clue)

17:50 Meeting Sir Miltonus of Bradley… playing through classic Milton Bradley board games in 5e.

21:00 A deeper dive into the Murder Mystery game and the difficulties with managing different, high-level skills and abilities.

25:00 Our experiences using the Warriors of Krynn strategy game in our Shadow of the Dragon Queen campaign.

29:45 Getting ideas from your favorite board games to add to your D&D game.

37:00 Final Thoughts.