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Eight Go In, One Comes Out! Sound the trumpets, strike the drums and unfurl the banners! The IRON DM 2022 Tournament is upon us. Let all rejoice! This year’s judges will be: @Deuce Traveler Three times crowned Iron DM (2012, 2015, 2016), Deuce has more wins than any other participant. He knows...

Over twenty years ago, one man had a dream,… to find the best, most creative DMs the internet had to offer. To this end, he crafted an arena in which DMs could test their creative mettle against one another, in an elimination fight to the finish to determine which deserved the title of IRON DM...

A few years back, we released The Curse of the Golden Spear Trilogy, set in the realm of Kaidan. These modules were well recieved, and encouraged us to begin work on a full campaign setting. We are glad to present The Gamemaster's Guide to Kaidan, a full campaign book exploring this oriental...

Welcome to Iron DM 2016! This thread is the actual game thread. We will use it for posting the contest ingredients, the actual entries, the judging of those entries, and all commentary on the entries. Be mindful that this thread is the place where it's all recorded for posterity. We encourage...

Welcome to Iron DM 2016! This thread is the thread for signing up for the competition and, subsequently for scheduling the tournament as we go along. The actual Iron DM tournament will take place in a separate thread. For this tournament, we need eight contestants. We will also accept up to...

Hello, my fellow EN-Worlders! It's that time of year again. The weather in these parts is turning cool. Cloves, cinnamon and ginger get mixed together in a certain proportion and added to just about everything. And the thoughts of people young and old alike turn to that age old question...

So, while I was researching arrows recently, I ran across the Youtube channel of Lindybeige, which has some really excellent stuff on the medieval period. One of his videos is on fire in the middle ages, and how they started it, or, more properly, how they didn't start fires... Give it a...

Something I was pondering today, after buying a couple of arrows preparatory to hunting some food... RPG arrows tend to be cheap. A Pathfinder longbow for instance cost 75 gp and 20 arrows costs 1 gp. In real life, arrows are actually quite expensive. A single cheap hunting arrow with a broad...

Now this looks like the sort of movie we need more of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBL9LMMxEds

Over in the 5th edition thread, "WotC's Nathan Stewart: "Story, Story, Story"; and IS D&D a Tabletop Game?" I had sort of a brainstorm epiphany about how to market the Dungeons and Dragons via Movies and Television,... So, I was curious, what villains from the Dungeons and Dragons line do you...

The Most Interesting Fan in the World... Owen Stephens, RPG guru, and all around clever guy started this on Facebook yesterday... Some favorites(with authors cited, unless they are my own): His ongoing campaign is so realistic, he has won the Noble Peace prize for saving the world. Twice...

I got wondering about how much crossover there is between the boardgame and RPG community, and then began wondering concerning how many avid RPGers (such as frequent this Forum) are also avid Boardgamers. And, how many are Boardgame collectors. Seems like it ought to be a pretty natural...

So elsewhere I ask people to convince me to buy the 5e books, and in the course of that thread, I have tried to be upfront that I'm not necessarily interested in playing 5e (at the moment) but am curious about the books. This has caused some confusion on the part of various posters and said...

Full Disclosure... I was never too enthusiastic for DnD 5e. 4e and the rollout was a major let down; Pathfinder has been great; I am a huge fan of the OGL. But... Over the last month or so however, listening to people talk about 5e, I have been slowly considering buying into it, at least to...

My daughter's 16th birthday is coming up and I would like to get her a nice gift, and could use some help brainstorming. She likes roleplaying, Pathfinder in particular is her game of choice and she likes Wizard characters in particular. She is extremely partial to dragons, metallic especially...

I think the answer for this is no, but I am trying to do due diligence... Has anyone done an actual update to the Thaumaturge class from Book of Fiends for Pathfinder with proper OGL accreditation? I have found two online versions which did not include the OGL, but I can't find an actual...

Two elves walk into a bar. The halfling was short enough he didn't even have to duck. Did you hear about the thief who took as his motto, "A dwarf and his gold are soon parted." His friends called him Stumpy. Dwarfish is a fascinating language, 63 different words for "dirt," 37 words for...

I know there is already a thread asking this question, but the general apathy of that thread made me want a more visual guide to the degree to which people are planning on buying the 5e Core Books (one or all 3) when they are released. So, are you planning on buying 5e at this point?

This came up on facebook actually, with someone wanting to know why Selective Channeling was useful for a Cleric. I pointed out that as a GM I have, at times, allowed Divine Channeling to bring unconscious foes around, much to the chagrin of the players who thought the fight was over. But...

Last week on facebook, someone posted a link to an article or discussion claiming that WotC was going to be bringing the electronic versions of Dungeon and Dragon "magazines" to an end. But the link did not work, I couldn't read the details and I haven't seen that news anywhere else. Can anyone...