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The Sibriex, which first appeared in 2006, is a demon which is featured in the upcoming Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. Check out its entry below, courtesy of WotC's Nathan Stewart.

The popular Mythological Figures series continues with another character for your 5E games! Born to a peasant family (although her father headed the local watch and collected taxes in addition to farming), Joan of Arc was raised inside of a territory loyal to the French but surrounded by pro-Burgundian forces (an alliance between some of the French aristocracy and England). Starting at the age of 13 she began to have visions of the saints beseeching her to drive out the English and see to the coronation of the Dauphin (Charles VII) to Reims as the rightful ruler of France.

Chapter 9 of Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD contains an introductory adventure which can be played out differently by Judge, Perp, or Civilian characters. Here's a quick look at the first two pages of that adventure! We'll be sharing more of it soon. Be sure to sign up to the 2000 AD RPG mailing listfor the latest alerts!

In Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, real life is intertwined with a virtual overlay that permeates all of society. In the book and film based on it, James Halliday co-created the Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation (OASIS) a Massively Multiplayer Online Simulation Game (MMOSG), and its success made him a billionaire. It's hard to imagine now, but we nearly had our own OASIS with an immersive virtual world where every player had an avatar: Second Life.

New on EN5ider, the 5E Patreon. Take your 5th Edition spellcasting into new realms with this article by Edric Alan Leggett. Words of Power is a variant rule system which uses combinations of words to craft spells. This article contains fifty such words of power, arranged into Anchor Words, Action Words, and Creature Words, Effect Words, and Unfettered Words, which the caster combines into a Spell Phrase of between three and five words. Illustrated by Herman Lau.

Welcome back for this weeks rundown of New Releases that should be hitting games stores over the coming week, plus a look at a selection of PDF releases from the last week! Once again we have a mix of RPGs, board & card games, miniatures and CCGs! Highlights include the new solitaire Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Alone Against The Dark in print, the Mini Dungeon Tome from AAW Games in PDF containing 137 adventures for Pathfinder, the latest Magic: The Gathering release, Dominaria, and lots more! For more information about any of the physical products please contact your local games store.

Beyond the world of mortal ken lies another, a nightmare world of profane alien gods, nightmarish tomes of eldritch lore, bloodlines tainted by elder secrets, and forgotten places whose existence makes a mockery of established history. You will find a world where Cthulhu dreams no longer in his house at R’lyeth in Leagues of Cthulhu.

He's a divisive figure -- some love him; others hate him. But everybody knows who he is. The Crystal Shard came out 30 years ago, introducing the conflicted drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden to the world. This issue of WotC's in-house e-magazine celebrates his 30th anniversary, along with some previews of Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes.

Its a preview bonanza! Critical Role's Liam O'Brian posted a couple of photos of Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. Also, Fantasy Grounds has some preview shots! Enjoy!