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Who Killed the Megaverse?

The popularity of Dungeons & Dragons has helped establish a baseline genre of fantasy that makes the game easily accessible to those familiar with its tropes. But in D&D's early days, the idea of mixing sci-fi and fantasy was built into the game. ...READ MORE

News Digest: D&D Movie "News", a New Editor for D&D, More Eberron from Keith Baker, Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering Reprint, and more!

Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! Hollywood trades reporting on D&D movie news, D&D gets a new editor, more Eberron content from the setting’s original creator, Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering finally getting a reprint, and more! ...READ MORE

Casting Begins Soon For D&D Movie?

According to Screenrant, Paramount's (Summer 2021) Dungeons & Dragons movie is about to begin casting. ...READ MORE

F. Wesley Schneider Is D&D's New Editor

Pathfinder designer F. Wesley Schneider has just started a new job as an editor for Dungeons & Dragons! He worked at Paizo from 2003, starting as assistant editor on Dragon magazine, became editor-in Chief, and left in 2017. ...READ MORE

RPG Crowdfunding News - Snowheaven, The Veil: Inheritance, Manifest the RPG, Basic and Expert, and more

This week I sample a handful of RPG Kickstarters from among the 25 ending between March 29^th and April 4^th. As well, I have some quick links to 18 RPG zines (the last large grouping of them from Kickstarter’s Zine Quest). Adventures, 5e, reprints, Powered by the Apocalypse, there’s something for everyone among this ocean of RPG content. ...READ MORE

Podcast #40 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh!

This week, Morrus and Peter go way back to the original U1: Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh for 1^st Edition AD&D to discover what secrets may be in store in the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons 5e adventure, Ghosts of Saltmarsh. In the news, rumors of a new D&D campaign setting, Barrier Peaks getting a reissue, Labyrinth Roleplaying Game coming soon, new Starfinder products, and more! Plus Patreon Asked Questions, a new sketch, Our Favorite Game in All the World, and an actual hand-written letter to the show! ...READ MORE

Dark Places & Demogorgons: Peter Rottentail and the Pot o’ Gold

That rabbit being used to celebrate spring does not look quite right. And that leprechaun spotted in the woods cannot be real and guarding gold can it? Introduce a dangerous bunny and glittering gold to your Dark Places & Demogorgons or D&D campaign. ...READ MORE

Manage Your Game With RPG Encounters

There's a range of different campaign management tools available; some free, some not so. RPG Encounters is a free web app designed to work with and sync between all your devices. I hadn't heard of it before, but the creator sent me a hand-written letter to tell me about it, so I could hardly not take a look! ...READ MORE

EN5ider #262 - Bullet Wounds and Battle Scars

Today on EN5ider we take on the abstraction of hit points with a new optional rule: Vitality! Get the adventurers more invested in combat by diversifying the effects different types of damage have on the game with Bullet Wounds and Battle Scars. ...READ MORE

Morgrave Miscellany: Eberron Sourcebook from Keith Baker

Keith Baker, Eberron's original creator, and other authors have teamed up for a new 164-page PDF Eberron supplement, following up on last year's Wayfarer's Guide to Eberron. It's available for $14.95 on the DM's Guild. ...READ MORE

Epic Monsters: Shub-Niggurath (5E)

Great Old One or Outer God? That’s not what we’re determining here with the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young and instead I’ve conjured some statistics for the dubiously named Shub-Niggurath! ...READ MORE

Larry DiTillio, RPG & TV Writer, Passes Away

After a long illness, Larry DiTillio passed on March 16th at the age of 76. There's a good chance that DiTillio was a part of your childhood or your later geeky years and not even know it. While gamers will remember him as the writer for the Origins award-winning Masks of Nyarlathotep or T&T's The Isle of Darksmoke, he also wrote for Fat Albert, two He-Man shows, She-Ra (which he created), Beast Wars and the first two seasons of Babylon 5. ...READ MORE

Paizo News Update: Signal of Screams, Concordance of Rivals, Starfinder Beginner Box

Hello and good fortune, my lovelies, it’s time for another edition of your favorite EN World article and mine: the PAIZO NEWS UPDATE! The official release announcement of Pathfinder Second Edition crowded up our last update some, but even before that there’s enough to talk about for this upcoming month that we have another update just for you! Less news, I guess, and more update, but now in one convenient location! ...READ MORE

GameHole Con Hints At An "As Yet Unannounced Setting" for D&D This Year

Thomas Valley, GameHoleCon's Adventurer's League coordinator, is currently asking for volunteer DMs for the show in November. As part of the post he refers to "The premiere of an Epic event set in as yet unannounced setting" and "The premiere of adventures set in as yet unannounced setting". ...READ MORE

Who in the World is James M. Ward?

[Intro by Morrus] James Ward, after whom the wizard "Drawmij" was named, is a game designer who worked for D&D's original pubisher TSR for many years. Amongst other things, he was behind titles like Deities & Demigods, Greyhawk Adventures, Gamma World, and Metmorphosis Alpha. He has agreed to write a column here on EN World recounting his memories of those years.
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War Birds Dives Into WWII History: A Review

RPGs are commonly played to blow off steam and as a bit of wish fulfillment, but they can also be used to immerse yourself in a new experience as well as be a teaching tool. The game anthology War Birds by Unruly Designs definitely falls into the latter category. Set during WWII, it focuses on forgotten stories about the “Greatest Generation.” ...READ MORE

DriveThruRPG's Massive EN Publishing Sale Brings Ghostbreaking, Xenomorph-Hunting, Vampire-Slaying, Bounty-Hunting Goodness!

Right now there's a massive EN Publishing sale going on over at DriveThruRPG. Many books are up to two-thirds off! This includes not just the WOIN core rulebooks, but also things like the critically-acclaimed War of the Burning Sky adventure for D&D 5th Edition, and more! ...READ MORE

Bree-Land Region Guide: A Review

In the Lord of the Rings the quaint little town of Bree marked the place where a dangerous journey grew into a true adventure. Now, with the Bree-Land Region Guide it can easily play the same role for the Adventures in Middle-Earth, framing the party’s first few steps from humdrum civilisation into dangerous wilds. ...READ MORE

News Digest: Barrier Peaks for 5e, Labyrinth RPG Announced, Sneak Peak at Ghosts of Saltmarsh's Maps, Wardlings Mini Line Getting an RPG, and more!

Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! We’ll head once more to the Barrier Peaks and hope we don’t get caught in the Labyrinth as we take a glimpse of the Saltmarsh with the Wardlings and witness the Collapse of the Republic, and more! ...READ MORE

Podcast #39 Secrets of Running a Convention with John Dodd

This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by John Dodd from UK Games Expo, Dragonmeet, and more to tell us all about the behind-the-scenes secrets of managing a major gaming convention. In the news, Critical Role has a Kickstarter, two big new game announcements from Modiphius, Wizards of the Coast gets a new designer, Pathfinder 2^nd Edition release information, and more! Plus Our Favorite Game in All the World, a new sketch, and a brand new segment: Patreon Asked Questions! ...READ MORE
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Dark Places & Demogorgons: Peter Rottentail and the Pot o’ Gold

That rabbit being used to celebrate spring does not look quite right. And that leprechaun spotted in the woods cannot be real and guarding gold can it? Introduce a dangerous bunny and glittering gold to your Dark Places & Demogorgons or D&D campaign.

War Birds Dives Into WWII History: A Review

RPGs are commonly played to blow off steam and as a bit of wish fulfillment, but they can also be used to immerse yourself in a new experience as well as be a teaching tool. The game anthology War Birds by Unruly Designs definitely falls into the latter category. Set during WWII, it focuses on forgotten stories about the “Greatest Generation.”

Emissary Lost: Adventures for the Coriolis RPG

Who is hunting the mystics of Coriolis and why? Investigate to find out in Emissary Lost, an adventure for the Coriolis the Third Horizon RPG. Combine Emissary Lost with other Coriolis adventures for a long-term space opera campaign.
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