DnD Accessories I Wish I Bought Sooner

20 DnD accessories you need for D&D. Including items used by DM's Matthew Mercer of Critical Role, Brian Murphy of Not Another DnD Podcast (Naddpod) and Bob World Builder.

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00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Beginner DnD Gear 1, 2 and 3
01:05 - Beginner DnD Gear 4
01:47 - Beginner DnD Gear 5
02:00 - Beginner DnD Gear 6
02:25 - Beginner DnD Gear 7
02:50 - Medium DnD Gear 8
03:08 - Medium DnD Gear 9
03:45 - Medium DnD Gear 10
04:00 - Medium DnD Gear 11
04:20 - Medium DnD Gear 12
04:35 - Medium DnD Gear 13
05:00 - Advanced DnD Gear 14
06:05 - Advanced DnD Gear 15
06:15 - Advanced DnD Gear 16
06:32 - Advanced DnD Gear 17
06:50 - Advanced DnD Gear 18
06:55 - Advanced DnD Gear 19
07:20 - Advanced DnD Gear 20
07:35 - Advanced DnD Gear Final

[atheistboomer]

Notepad hacks:
#1 always leave a few pages at the beginning of the pad to use as an index,
#2 number the pages as you go
#3 record the numbers of the pages you want to refer back to in the index.

[bigcarguy]

My 48 year old eyes saw those tiny dice and instantly said, “Don’t think about it, old man.”

[qoora]

on minis! I stopped using minis when I saw a Reddit post about someone who used various sweets and monsters and whatever player killed them got to eat them, I have trained my friends to have a pavlovian response to combat.

[owenhiggs]

I use Lego minifigures for mini's a lot of the time as they're not too expensive and allow for a lot of customisation. Plus if you get the custom mini stands from Wicked Bricks they fit perfectly in a 5x5 square on a battle map.

[stonebrew]

For the dice, you can just use regular dice and write a table out. 1=clear, 2=cloudy, 3=rainy, etc.

[YuvalMargalit]

The best D&D accessory I own is a phone box, one of those small rectangular cardboard boxes you get when buying a cellphone: the box replaces the dice bag, the lid the dice tray, and they can be easily modified for other things (mine also has mini storage, I turned one into a easily portable dice tower for a friend).

[hyperdrivepics]

You just blew my mind with the "upside down glasses for flying characters" hack. Woah.

[catduck]

thank you so much. i'm planning to be a DM for the first time and this video helped a lot

[jakeholmes]

One of my best weird dm accessories I got is a d6 that has; Yes, No, Yes and, No and, Yes but, no but. This dice has been so helpful for those moments when you’re unsure of something. I often get my players to roll it and it’s been really fun, mostly when they ask if there’s something in the room I haven’t planned for or something like that.

Also sand timer. For moments where you want to build tension.

[HereComeMrCee-Jay]

I would really disagree w probably 50% of your recommendations... they just aren't necessary or important. But, the video is very well made and I appreciate your hard work.

[thethan]

i highly recommend a white erase board. They are fantastic for tracking initiatve; hit points etc. it allows you to track non-permanent notes in a non-permanent manner; as you can easily erase and re-write the same information for the next combat. it's also lighter and thinner than a notebook.

[lilacundiff]

I’ve got a die with body parts on it so when a player hits you can vividly describe what limb they’ve damaged and they(and I) love it

[vonether]

On your GM note pad: If you can find one that is quad rules (grid paper), even better. This makes sure you can't confuse your GM pad with work/journaling note pads. It also makes it easier to make your maps and write notes. Bonus feature, you can write your notes in either portrait or landscape mode.

[PaulGuy]

The best D&D accessory you can buy is your own house to play in.

I gotta say, the amount of players who don't have a Player's Handbook is infuriating. Especially if they're playing on a regular basis. When I started in the 90's, the idea of not having your own book was crazy. That's where the rules are! And the spells!

[oxybe]

For dice I carry 3 sets: two distinct black numbers on solid white and one distinct white number on solid black dice. These generally give me enough d6's and d10's for most tasks in most TTRPGs, while also giving me contrasting colours: The Aliens TTRPG, which only uses d6's, uses "stress" dice which are the only ones that can do the equivalent of a "crit failure". Rolling 7 white for my normal skill+2black ones for stress makes things easy to figure out. These dice are also carried in a zip up case/rolling tray, which means they don't take up any room the case doesn't already use. Those small mini dice would just get lost under a couch or the void the second they accidentally fly off the table.

I actually made my own GM screen. I went to michael's, bought some hard flat canvas panels, taped some transparent sheet dossiers to it and set it up to fold. This way I can re-use my screen for whatever game I want and put in what charts and info I feel I need. It's scuffed as hell, but this means I don't need to buy one screen for every edition of D&D, one for pathfinder, one for Aliens, one for... you get the picture.

For maps and minis, I make use of those transparent dossiers. Inside put in a page that's just 1x1 inch grid on both sides and using dry erase markers of various colours I can make whatever map I want. I usually have 2-3 of these out, one for combat, one for the player mapping and one for my own personal note-taking during the fight. For minis I use... Kinder surprise toys. They're a guilty pleasure and telling the party the gaggle of squirrels and rabbits are actually a horde of undead always makes me chuckle. I keep the toys in the same bag as my markers, pencils, erasers and sharpener.

Regular and wipe-away index cards! Great for handouts! Great for note taking! Great for making a makeshift 3x3 square huge monster you didn't expect the players to piss off!

I actually have a pretty in-depth way of tracking weather/moon/etc... moon phases are cyclical so you can easily map these out in advance. For weather if you google "4 Hex Flowers for the 4 Seasons" you'll get to the page with the way I generate my weather. This way I can generate and map out the weather over a long period of time. Sunrise/Sunset and average temperatures are all things you can easily find by grabbing a real-world location similar to the one your game is set in and grabbing that data off of meteorological websites.

For those of you who are... artistically challenged like myself and suck at making maps... go on Steam and wishlish one of the Civilization games. When it goes on sale for like 12 bucks or whatever, you not only get a good videogame: you get it's hex map generation tool. These aren't just tilesets for mountains, deserts, plains, woods, tundra, water, etc... but resource tags you can use to mark important mines for ores or gems, dangerous locations, towns the party can visit, the places where nomadic tribes tend to settle, etc...

Finally I would recommend getting a cheat-sheet of your player's character's abilities and any important magic gear they might have or share between the party.

[PsiQss]

I think it's worth mentioning, that out of the 3 core books - the Dungeon Master's Guide is the least necessary, especially for a new GM and a group that's just starting out. It is useful, don't get me wrong, but you can safely leave it for later if you need to cut costs somewhere. This is because it's mostly focused on creating your own worlds, adventures and campaigns, and new GMs would most likely run official campaigns, or standalone modules prepared by someone else.
Player's handbook is (quite unintuitively) a necessity for a GM, and Monster Manual is REALLY helpful, as it is referenced in most adventures you can find online.

[RIVERSRPGChannel]

Yes the bag is awesome.
I use the weather dice a lot since the Druid in the party always wants to know the weather before he cast call lightning

[JamesMillsNeutralBase]

Eggs & Milk sounds like a fun duo of Kobold merchants.

[justinfierce]

I'll say a resin printer is a great addition to the list. A little expensive for a one time purchase but I've print over a hundred unique minis

[mrvampire]

Back in my day pro D&D accessories included 3ltr Mountaindew and jumbo Cheetos packet.