How to Defend Your Lair

Keith Ammann, author of "The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters," provides advice on how to defend yourself and your assets in a lair that feels as real and alive as your monsters. He teaches how to use real-world principles of building security and area defense to create strongholds infused with flavor, informed by narrative, and complex enough to force players to think strategically.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 08 December 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

The world is a dangerous place, especially when you're up to no good. Whether you're a rampaging monster, a calculating mastermind, or the current possessor of the Golden MacGuffin, someone's going to come at you. Probably more than one someone. You can't know when, but you can choose where. You need to be ready.

You need a lair.

In "How to Defend Your Lair," game master Keith Ammann pulls back the curtain on an underrated but crucial part of any tabletop roleplaying game: the theater of battle. Say goodbye to encounters in randomly generated dungeons and hello to a game in which where the fight takes place is just as important as who is doing the fighting.

This book teaches you how to use real-world principles of building security and area defense to create strongholds infused with flavor, informed by narrative, and complex enough to force your players to think strategically. You'll look at the strengths and weaknesses of both defenders and potential attackers, creating spaces that are strong enough to keep out ordinary intruders...and to provide thrilling challenges to extraordinary ones.

Including more than a dozen fleshed-out sample strongholds, "How to Defend Your Lair" is a crucial resource for any RPG gamemaster who wants to push players to think about how to solve problems before running at them head-on.

Weight: 520g
Dimension: 161 x 237 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781982171353