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Do me a favour - grab a 20-sided die (d20), pick a number between 1 and 4 to add to…
Do me a favour - grab a 20-sided die (d20), pick a number between 1 and 4 to add to…
This week, Wizards of the Coast will be releasing their latest D&D book as players will have a chance to…
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So there I was, raiding a wizard’s library as one does, and I found this book labeled For Review. Someone…
In Level Up, if a monster or NPC's spell is likely to see use in combat, we include it as…
Photo ©2021 Linda Whitson I’ve taken a good friend’s suggestion (challenge?) for Astral Projections: Come up with ideas for Halloween…
Multiclassing in D&D is a great way to add depth to your character. Customize your cleric with this D&D 5E…
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Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
If you’re have been thinking about cosplay as your own character, now is the time and these shops are here…
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Musician Jenny Owen Youngs discovered D&D during the lockdown and now her latest EP, Echo Mountain, as a musical homage…
The next generation of wargamers are out there – how do we get them to the table? As you may…
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Death House is a modern Dungeons & Dragons horror classic. The adventure was unveiled in the February 2016 issue of…
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
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Stonesinger Cenya is one of the pregenerated characters which will be available for free from this website. She is a…
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Building on Fantasy Flight Games’ legacy, Asmodee’s RPG publishing imprint Edge Studio has announced that it’s developing new Star Wars…
The tabletop studio Arcanum Worlds is chock full of ex-BioWare devs, and they’re back with a new 5th Edition Kickstarter:…
Explore the watery world of Grimnir in the Norse-inspired roleplaying game book for Dungeons & Dragons 5E, Raiders of the…
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Are you tired of your campaign? Here are three items that are all but guaranteed to bring it to a…
With Critical Role’s Campaign 3 premiering tonight, it’s the perfect time to catch up on an Intimate History of Exandria.…
There’s a dragon’s hoard of new previews just ahead of the release of Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons. Check out Ghost…
Cruel giants and demons devastated the land, forcing people to use primal magic to create a safer haven and portals…
Elden Ring, the much-anticipated open-world RPG that will inspire a thousand knockoff D&D campaigns, is taking applicants for a closed…
Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons brings with it new kinds of dragons, including the fey-touched moonstone dragon. Players of previous editions…
The Kickstarter is halfway through! Last week we shared the adept with you. Today, it’s the most frequently requested class of…
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Glorious Taverns Tabletop roleplaying adventures take many forms, and…
These aren’t the D&D sheets Gotham deserves but… they’re probably not the sheets it needs, either. This week we’re playing…
In D&D, anything and everything to be a Mimic with the right attitude. Here are five ideas to get you…
A writer from The Everhearth Inn generously pulled together this wonderful Halloween 5e D&D One-Shot article. Put on your wizard hats, purchase…
Thumbnail image from the reviewed product’s coverI’m a big fan of MT. Black’s work, so it was a no-brainer for…
Modiphius Entertainment and Arcanum World are partnering to produce Raiders of the Serpent Sea, a fantasy tabletop role-playing game inspired…
After last week’s Unearthed Arcana unveiled travelers of the multiverse, it seems like a plane-hopping setting is in the works.…
Austin Trunick, the author of The Cannon Film Guide, joins me on the podcast today. Cannon Films produced some of…
Richard Garfield, the creator of board games such as King of Tokyo, has designed a new game about dungeon-crawling called…
Backgrounds in Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (Kickstarter live now!) form part of your Origin, which consists of heritage, culture,…
Come take a look behind the scenes of Campaign 3, with a video showing off the new set. See it…
A 5e RPG expansion for the Iron Kingdoms: Requiem setting has attracted over 3,000 backers and shot well beyond $250,000…
It seems that the D&D is strong in the Diesel household after a video shared by Vin Diesel sets the…
The other week I posted a rundown of “The Future of Dungeons and Dragons” livestream from this year’s D&D Live…
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The D&D Beyond App is an indispensable tool at the table, putting all your character information and game rules at…
What’s worse than encountering a scary, disgusting, or threatening monster in D&D? Encountering an entire swarm of them! Swarms of…
Dingo was talented enough to make a YouTube animated series of their D&D campaign. Two dozen episodes, millions of views…
It’s October and that means it’s officially the spooky season. But don’t let Ravenloft have all the fun, here are…
With Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons just around the corner, D&D Beyond has released a free adventure where the players are…
Hot on the heels of Avatar Legends’ record-breaking Kickstarter, another beloved animated series is headed to the tabletop as a…
Multiclassing in D&D is a great way to customize your character. Round out your rogue with this D&D 5E multiclass…
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Staff at Paizo Publishing, the RPG company behind the sci-fi Starfinder and the fantasy that once outsold D&D, Pathfinder, formed…
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Race your friends through the dungeon mazes of Undermountain, in this lightning-fast and wildly entertaining scrawling adventure for the whole…
It’s a setting! It’s a manta ray! It’s a ship! It’s the Spelljammer! “It is the mightiest ship of space…
From an animated series to an adventure book and now a video game (in the earliest stages of conception), there’s…
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In "The White Dragons Hunt," the players are young white dragons tasked with retrieving a clutch of stolen dragon eggs from a…
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
Welcome back to another issue of Outside the Box – this week with news from Para Bellum Wargames, Raging Heroes,…
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Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
Patch 6 is live for Baldur’s Gate 3, and with it comes a new class, new spells, and a whole…
Moonlight Maps has a charismatic and funny Kickstarter pitch video and a product that speaks for itself. Now funded, Atlas…
In Business 3x3, a business retailer or executive will share their experience with three things they’ve done right, three things…
World Of Darkness announced today that they will be bringing two franchises back to TTRPG form updated to 5th Edition.…
Over 30 Paizo staff members from several departments have signed a letter announcing the formation of the United Paio Workers…
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Free RPG Day is October the 16th. There are all sorts of freebies available for people who can venture out…
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The Adventurers League, the official D&D organised play program, has released the latest Ravenloft: Mist Hunters scenario The Amber Dirge.…
“I tried as much as possible to make the wild shapes actually useful because being a giant wolf or a…
Go beyond simple healing in your next adventure and quaff one of these potions instead. Don’t let …of healing be…
If you have a character at your table who can’t not solve every puzzle they see, you have a perfect…
Hey, ICYMI, the miniature giant space hamster special cover they teased in the Future of D&D panel? It’s Spelljimmy. Spelljamster…
Ray Winninger, Head of D&D, spoke out about where the new Critical Role adventure Call of the Netherdeep fits with…
The CEO of Hasbro - the toy and games giant that publishes Monopoly and Jenga, as well as Magic: The…
Wizards of the Coast is changing the way that race works in D&D, leaving the door wide open for backgrounds…
Whilst there are plenty of explicitly horror-themed tabletop RPGs out there, there’s no denying the undying appeal of Dungeons &…
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A new book from Wizards of the Coast invites players further into the world of Critical Role in the newly…
The listing that slyly appeared for an untitled D&D hardcover has been revealed as Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep.…