Here at Lunch Break Heroes, we don’t wait until Halloween to indulge in scary stuff. It’s just what we do by creating D&D horror adventures on a regular basis. PS: If you’re reading this, use the code SIXITEMS at checkout for 25% off our adventures! Last post, we brought you a list of 20 horror […]
Category Archives: Storytelling
Horror is a difficult genre to portray in Dungeons & Dragons, for the simple fact that it’s a power fantasy. Horror primarily grows from the helplessness of the protagonist, whether they’re facing an unrelenting killer, space aliens, or the environment themselves. In D&D, each character is an action hero at worst, and a superhero at […]
I’ve heard it said that Dungeons & Dragons is, at its heart, a horror game. After all, what’s scarier than the idea of going down into a dark hole in the ground that’s populated by all manner of beasts, undead, and demons? Who knows what other terrors are lurking in those dark corridors? Who knows […]
Creating content for Dungeons & Dragons is no small feat. Here at Lunch Break Heroes, we create video content as well as beautiful PDFs that you can download and take with you. All of that takes a lot of work. Today, let’s take a dive into how we create the content for our PDFs. Step […]
The good-old-fashioned tavern setting has been the de facto standard for starting off a new tabletop RPG adventure for as long as anyone can remember. Sure it’s cliché, but clichés exist for a reason: they work! Despite the fact that it works, however, you might not want to start off all of your adventures like […]
If you’ve ever read an adventure module, you’re familiar with the concept of “boxed text”. It’s descriptive text, put there by the module’s author, so that you can read it aloud to describe an area, character, or event. It helps get everyone at the table on the same page, in terms of what the scene […]
It’s the final showdown. Your party is face-to-face with the ancient dragon. You roll initiative and charge into battle! Spells fire left and right, shattered stone rains down, and the rogue is running across the wall and shouting “PARKOUR!” before landing on the dragon’s head and lassoing it with a chain. Like anyone else, I […]
You can learn a lot from a snow globe. Like how to design a good Dungeons & Dragons adventure for mass distribution! The design of snow globes embody many of the same principles behind some of our favorite adventure modules. .Watch the video below, or continue reading after the break to find out more! Have […]








