If you don’t have any camping plans for summer, get your adventuring party and your favorite dice and make some.
Summer is a great time to go camping. Personally, I have about one weekend’s worth of camping in me per year until I switch from ‘Wow, this is fun’ to ‘I hate bugs, and I miss my bed.’ But that one weekend is a really good time. Talk your entire party into a couple of days of campfires and river tubing. And while you’re at it, bring some of these goodies and play your next session or two in the woods.
D&D Lights
Just because you’ll only be at the campsite for a few days doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make the space your own. And this string of light-up dice will do just that. They run on batteries so you won’t need to worry about where to plug them, and there’s a remote control and timer, so they don’t even need to stay on all night. Plus they’ll give you the perfect ambiance for a fun session of fighting monsters and finding treasure.
Demon Skull For Your Campfire
Campfires are great, fun, and one of the best parts of camping. And the best way to roast marshmallows in my opinion. But you know what would make one better? That’s right, a fun, themed “log” to burn. This fireproof demon-skull-shaped faux log is the perfect addition to your campfire. Especially if you’re trying to establish dominance over any nearby monsters who’ve gotten any ideas. I’ve seen a number of variations on this idea, including regular skulls and even a few dragons. But no matter how you do it, if you can (safely) make your campfire more fun, do it!
Similarly, what if you’re not planning on spending any time in the great outdoors, but want to help your players feel like they’re actually sitting around a campfire, discussing their latest dungeon crawl? This inflatable campfire is the perfect, silly prop to place in the center of the table.
BBQ Marshmallows
So you’re sitting around the campfire, RPing as your characters who are also sitting around the campfire. For your characters it may be time to cook up some dinner on the fire. But for you and your fellow campers, it’s time for marshmallows! These marshmallows come pre-sticked so you don’t need to go find the most reasonable stick in the woods to “clean” in the fire, and look like other foods that your characters may be roasting on their open flame. Personally, I love this kind of immersive-but-silly little touch. Plus, you can make a squid s’more.
Adventuring Cloak
Even in the summer, it can get cool at night depending on where you’re camping. It may not get cold, but ‘I should grab my hoodie’ cool isn’t unusual. But you’re going for a D&D adventure vibe, so why not instead get yourself a nice cloak? If you can’t wear a cloak in the woods with all of your friends, where can you? Sure, the Ren Faire. But where else? Everywhere because you’re an adult and you can do what you want? Obviously. We’re on the same page; get a cloak.
Color-Changing Fire Packs
Chances are you’re not as adept at magic as your character. But that’s okay, you can pretend. These packs will allow you to change the color of the flames in your demon-skull-shaped fire pit with nothing but the power of science. Just make sure you’re working with honest-to-goodness wood fires and not propane or gas “log pits” before you grab a box of these. Also, throwing stuff into the fire to make it pretty colors will never not give me Are You Afraid of the Dark / Midnight Society vibes.
A Boring, Run-of-the-Mill Clipboard
We’re playing D&D in the woods, not no-rules-pretend and not LARPing (not that we don’t love both of these as well). This means you’ll have your character sheet, a few pens or pencils, maybe some spell cards, and of course your dice. How will you keep your sheets from blowing away? Where will you roll your dice?
With two storage spots inside and a heavy-duty clip on top, there’s room for everything with space for a huge makeshift dice tray under. Is it boring and practical to the point of being almost painful? Sure, but hear me out. A hundred D&D stickers will fix that in seconds.
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