D&D Shop Ideas: 8 Ready Examples
Complete inventories with items, prices, shopkeepers, and mystery goods you can drop into any D&D session.
Guides and studio notes
Ideas for your next session, and notes from building ScryRPG.
Featured guide
Loot and treasure
D&D Loot Tables: 8 Ready-to-Use Treasure Drops
Eight D&D 5e loot tables for bandits, tombs, shipwrecks, and dragon hoards, with gold, magic items, and advice on making treasure matter to your players.
How to Split Loot in D&D: 6 Methods (and When to Use Each)
Six fair ways to divide D&D treasure, from need before greed to a self-balancing loot auction, each tested on the same hoard so you can pick one tonight.
How Many Magic Items Should I Give My Players?
The answer isn't a number. It's knowing what kind of power you're giving. A framework for evaluating magic items by impact, not rarity.
The Psychology of Loot at the Table
Why rolled treasure feels better when probability, scarcity, reveal, and table politics all matter.
Cursed D&D Items Your Players Might Choose to Keep
Eight homebrew cursed items for D&D 5e with tempting powers, clues, clear ways out, and a scene showing how to introduce a curse without a gotcha.
Your Players Have Too Much Gold
Your TTRPG economy is running on one person's effort: yours. Gold sinks won't fix that. Tradeoffs will. Here's how to build an economy that works for you.
Unidentified Items in D&D
Why mystery items deserve a place in your game, and how to make the reveal land at the table.
Need or Greed in D&D: Bring WoW Loot Rolls to Your Table
Bring the thrill of WoW loot rolls to D&D. Need or Greed gives your party a quick, fun way to split magic items after the boss falls.
Shops and economy
D&D Shop Ideas: 8 Ready Examples
Complete inventories with items, prices, shopkeepers, and mystery goods you can drop into any D&D session.
D&D Magic Shop Inventory: Three Shops with Prices and Stock
Three D&D magic shop inventories with homebrew prices, limited stock, trade-in terms, and official 2024 magic item values by rarity.
Beyond the Vending Machine: TTRPG Shop Design
The design principles that separate forgettable shops from ones that make your entire economy come alive.
Let Your Players Shop Between Sessions
Shopping episodes drag because they make four players wait while one buys. The fix is not to cut shopping. It is to move it off the clock, between sessions.
Encumbrance Punishes the Players Who Use It
The most dropped rule in TTRPGs fails because it penalizes engagement. The fix is giving players a reason to care.
Encounters and combat
Balancing D&D Encounters: What the Math Gets Right (and What It Can't See)
How the DMG's XP budgets, multipliers, and difficulty thresholds work in plain language, where the math goes blind, and the heuristics that fill the gap.
Running the table
D&D Session Notes That Help Next Week
A practical template for promises, clues, NPCs, loot, unresolved threads, and prep reminders your future self will need.
How to Run Your First Session Zero
What to cover, what to skip, and how to make session zero fit your table.
Track Your Party's Inventory in Discord
Party inventory does not break at the table. It breaks between sessions, when the notes stop matching the game. The fix is keeping the record where your table talks.
AI Dungeon Master Assistant: What Actually Helps at the Table
AI can help a GM run a better campaign, but only when it supports prep, notes, rules lookup, and campaign memory instead of replacing the table.
Best AI Tools for D&D in 2026: A Guide by Task
Compare AI tools for D&D prep, rules, session notes, NPC voices, character art, and battle maps, with free options and practical advice for choosing one.
Printables
How to Make Printable D&D Item Cards (Free)
Make free printable D&D item cards from your campaign's gear. Build a deck in ScryRPG, choose a layout, and print or export a PDF, with optional QR links.
Printable D&D Monster Cards and Spell Cards
Stop running combat out of three open books. Build monster, spell, NPC, item, and encounter card decks in ScryRPG, with printing and exports free on every plan.