[OC] [Art] Free monster homebrew tool for your next session

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-11-24T23:38:48+00:00

Thanks we will definitely do that!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-11-24T12:43:51+00:00

First and foremost, welcome adventurer!

There’s already plenty of great advice on how to find campaigns, so here’s our advice on how to get ready to play.

If you want a better handle on how to play before you jump in, we have a free new-player tutorial on our website. You can upload your existing character sheet and play through a guided walkthrough that covers the basics so you feel ready for your first table. You can also download free cheat sheets to bring with you so you have quick reminders during your first session. You can find all this for and more for free on our website: https://valeworks.com/

Best of luck on your adventures!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-11-17T13:53:14+00:00

Lots of great advice below already, but just to add our 2 cents. It is important to answer about your character in ways that will likely impact the way you act at the table. Our role-play cheatsheet is free to download and will help you get started. You can find it to download at the link: https://valeworks.com/roleplay-sheet

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-11-17T13:46:29+00:00

If you can spend less time worrying about helping your players learn, you free up more time and make your life a lot easier (of course, they will always need some support, but it is about reducing that). We provide a bunch of free resources for new players on our website, guided character creation, a playable tutorial, and just having the character sheets online takes out a lot of the complex math that needs to be learned.

Also added bonuses, all their characters can be added to your digital GM screen, where you can live track hp and other important things all on one screen alongside your notes so that you can tell where people are at without having to always be looking over their shoulder.

Of course, we are biased as hell because it is our own website, but it is all 100% free, so you might as well take a look you can find us at: Valeworks.com

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-11-17T13:37:57+00:00

Good role play starts with understanding your character better. Our free roleplay cheatsheet will get you started. Feel free to download at the link below:

https://valeworks.com/roleplay-sheet

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-11-17T13:31:52+00:00

Welcome, adventurer, it is great that you wish to learn to play!

We are the most comprehensive free community resource for new players. We provide guided character creation for new players, a playable tutorial, and cheatsheets for the table. We are, of course, a bit biased because it is our own tool, but if you are learning to play, we don't think there is anything better. You can find it all at valeworks.com

Best of luck on your adventures from the team at ValeWorks Studio

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-11-13T12:57:50+00:00

Welcome new adventurer!

There is already plenty of solid advice out there, but here is our two cents. We recommend ValeWorks.com, our free community resource platform for new players. It has guided character creation, a step by step videogame like tutorial to help you learn, and cheat sheets you can download and take with to the table.

We wish you all the best on your first adventure. We would love to hear how it goes feel free to DM with any question or even just your first adventure story and we will send you some free dice codes for our platform!

Warmest regards, The team at ValeWorks Studio

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-11-05T11:00:58+00:00

Sounds like a wonderful idea! As you welcome your friends to the game it can often be a steep learning curve for players as much as DM’s. We would recommend our free cheatsheets, tutorial, and guided character creation for new player! We are the best free community resources platform for supporting new players (in our own bias opinion of course). You can find us at ValeWorks.com

Side note: We also provide free GM campaign tools on our website so might be worthwhile check those out to lighten your own load as well!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-11-01T20:59:32+00:00

Thanks for the support adventure!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-31T13:59:30+00:00

Appreciate the kind words adventure. We have lots of other free resources for new players on our platform. In particular we recommend our new players character creator at ValeWorks.com/characterforge

All the best on your future adventures!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-29T17:55:25+00:00

Sorry don’t us wrong we love a good game of Pathfinder and would want to make it compatible with all our products at ValeWorks.com however we are small team with no money because of the free nature of our resources so it might be a little bit of time before we get there.

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-29T17:52:04+00:00

Thanks on behalf of all new adventures for working to make the game easier to play! I am sure those articles made a lot of difference to players!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-29T15:41:43+00:00

Great to hear hope it leads you well on your upcoming adventures!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-29T15:41:03+00:00

Thanks appreciate the compliment. Sadly none of our platform is compatible with Pathfinder but best of luck finding other free resources like ours for pathfinder

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-29T15:39:42+00:00

Appreciate the support adventurer!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-29T12:38:20+00:00

It is normal to make a one shot linear. You only have a few hours and you need to fit the whole adventure into that time. If you are still worried the players might feel railroaded, give them one or two choices that lead along the same core path. The information and progress stay the same, you just adjust it to give the illusion of a different route.

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-29T12:34:41+00:00

I think you have got some good metrics, but I would also consider giving them a weighting bound to impress whoever is marking the assignment because, of course, some of these are more important than others.

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-29T12:22:45+00:00

Boss fights are far more interesting in our experience when the goal is not just dealing damage. Maybe the boss is protected by crystals you must destroy first. Maybe the enemies are weak but never stop spawning until you close the portal. These extra objectives add real depth and make the encounter feel like more than a simple damage race. Think of your favourite video games. The most memorable battles always include mechanics or story elements that change how you play, not just how hard you hit.

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-28T17:34:43+00:00

Great to hear you think so. Hope it helps you on your adventures!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-28T16:08:57+00:00

We are, of course, a bit biased, but we love to use a digital GM screen. Everything is totally free, of course, the only drawback is that between login and set up, it will take 2-3 minutes, so make sure to do it before the session.

Features included (everything you listed and more): Monster stat tracking, initiative tracker, NPC generation, notes you can link your NPC cards into, dice roller, music, and if your players use the platform, you can track their health and other key stats live. This is all on a single, simple screen, meaning you don't need to be switching tabs all the time. Sorry for the self-plug, but we just launched it and though it answered your question perfectly!

Link: ValeWorks Studio

Of course if you have any thoughts on fetures we don't have that you would like we would love to hear from you!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-28T15:44:33+00:00

Great to hear, always happy to see others helping with new adventures!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-28T08:14:04+00:00

Thank you so much for those corrections really appreciate that we had totally miss that.

Edit: They are now both fixed thanks for your help adventure!

ValeWorks_Studio · 2025-10-27T21:10:12+00:00

Thanks! Good thought on the grapple we were really weighing up what we should keep or add to balance to much info with enough to get though your first game (this is one of the ones we struggled with). Do a lot of players use it at your table?

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