Hey, Hey, It’s Game Day (Jan 2026, Home Edition)

Greetings, fellow weapon masters! TGIF. An upcoming weekend can only mean one thing: our family gamers have a new opportunity to roll some dice and have some laughs. Let’s review what DM Ben’s prep looks like for January.

Surprisingly, we were able to play a DnD home game in December, and boy howdy, did we have a great time! And we’re defying the evil scheduling Gods again by playing in early January. Crazy, right?!

Before we get to today’s Dungeon Master prep post, let’s do a quick update on our beloved mascot of 3DRPG Studios, the adorable Winnie Lou Who. This beyond-cute Cavapoo pup is actually DM Ben’s new dog, as he sadly lost his 13-year-old pup in November. Both our family and our office DnD players love pups and her new arrival, so she’ll certainly be spoiled rotten. She came home on 12-13-25, just in time for Christmas. Winnie Lou is the best, but snakes alive, she requires a ton of constant attention.

Before we recap our last sesh and explain what DM Ben has prepped for this Saturday, we have a new gamer group development to cover. Since we have many younger adult gamers in our home game, we added another player to make future scheduling a bit easier. Hence, we added another Fighter to the party.

The current party makeup is like so:

• Amara Shadir, Elf Warlock/Genie
• Grace, Human Wizard
• Iris Xiphium, Half-Elf Rogue/Soulknife
• Rhogar, Dragonborn Cleric
• Maeve Amidala, Elf Fighter
• Beldroth Zopyros, Human Fighter

Maeve and Beldroth will basically swap in and out of the, depending on who can play in any given month.

With all those updates out of the way, let’s talk about what these adventurers accomplished last sesh. Our typically hyper-focused group moved a bit slower this last time, but still completed some important missions.

• Shopped and then purchased a horse and cart to travel to The High Forest.
• Had another Terry the Troll Bridge Crossing (without incident).
• Survived an Axe Beak stampede!
• Realized the Night Hag has her eye on them.

We had less time than usual, but the group made solid progress nonetheless.

The players’ core mission remains the same here. Find out why so many children from Waterdeep have gone missing and learn the fate of the original rescue party that went deep into The High Forest to find them.

• Venus Print Traps
• Stone Cold Trouble
• Witch Way Did She Go?
• The End is Near
• The Scarecrow Knows
• Wandering Monsters: #5, Rat Swarm
• Wandering Monsters: #16, Harpies 

That’s a sizable list to burn through in a single Saturday, so DM Ben feels pretty good about having enought DnD game content to pull from…alas, RPGers are never predictable.

Until next time!