Advantage and Disadvantage in D&D Advantage and disadvantage are two of the most important dice rules in modern Dungeons & Dragons. They are also two of the easiest rules to explain badly. At the table, the rule is simple: If you have advantage, roll two d20s and use the higher result. If you have disadvantage, roll two d20s and use…

10 Useful D&D Dice Presets You Can Save D&D uses a lot of repeat rolls. Attacks, damage, healing, saving throws, ability checks, random encounters, loot tables, spell damage, concentration checks, and character creation all come back again and again. That is why dice presets are useful. A preset is just a roll you do often enough that you do not…

A Field Guide to Dice Superstitions (Or: How We All Lost Our Minds) An anthropological study of the bizarre rituals players perform with plastic polyhedrons. Yes, I'm included. Yes, I have a dice jail. When I first started playing D&D, I was a rational person. A man of science and art. I understood that dice were simply random number generators,…