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Just as every Dungeon Master has a personal style for running the game, so too do we often have a “signature”—a small element that runs common in many of our campaigns. Something that seems to crop up regardless of the other elements in the story. Me? I love dogs. Without me specifically...

I wrote up a piece going over the changes to the game defined in the Rules Glossary in the first playtest packet. You can read it here, but here are some bullet-point takeaways: Natural 1s and 20s now work with all types of rolls (as long as the difficulty wouldn't be easy or impossible) and...

I took three 1st level characters for Fifth Edition and then reconstructed them using the "Character Origins" playtest rules to see how the changes affect things mechanically (so far). The example below is just the first page of one of them. I write out the whole breakdown plus let you see the...

I love D&D and am a bit of a folklore junkie. So I made a video exploring the legend of the Banshee vs. her depiction in Dungeons & Dragons. (There is also a dose of Disney and something about owls for good measure.) Happy Halloween! Enjoy this content? Please consider supporting me on...

An Extra Life team asked me to run a streaming D&D campaign this year, and I knew wanted to save time on game prep without running a published adventure. So I decided to give the Lazy Dungeon Master method a try for an all-original story set in my own vaguely-defined game world. It all went...

So I'm going to be putting together the Pengoi race as community content on the DMs Guild—complete with kick-ass art by Jason Engle! Brainstorm with me ... what abilities, limitations, etc. make sense for an anthropomorphic penguin? This relates to a pledge-challenge I'm doing here. Jamie...

I wrote a guest article for the Roleplayer's Chronicle website about how I pulled in influences, inspiration, and practical considerations when writing a D&D-compatible adventure. Click here to check it out. I'm interested to know what your process is for writing either home-campaign or...

Something is terribly wrong in the town of Shadowhaven and it's only getting worse with each passing night. This curse may be linked to the community's founder, whose remains are interred in a cavern under a hill. But the evil that stirs thrives in darkness ... and there is no place darker than...

I thought about how folklore helped create the initial monster list for early D&D, and how these critters have evolved over 40+ years many many editions of the game. The kobold is a great example, going from a non-described sub-goblin to a little dog-man to tiny cousins of dragons. I created a...

Folks, Larry Elmore is donning his wizard robes for a second season of the Brothers Barbarian web series -- the fantasy/comedy series featuring barbarians, orcs, evil witches, terrible curses, and an unreasoning hatred of sheep. They are raising money for a second season over on Kickstarter --...

Many gamers and WoW players out there may be familiar with the Internet-based series The Guild. Margaret Weis Productions has helped to organize a screening of the entire first season, along with a special introduction created just for the Gen Con attendees, on Thursday at midnight. (Yes, that's...

MARGARET WEIS PRODUCTIONS BRINGS MORE SERENITY Contact: Jamie Chambers (262-725-3518) October 8, 2007 (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin) — Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd. is pleased to announce it has reached an agreement with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group to produce additional role playing...

Folks, I thought some of you might enjoy this -- a little peek into the production of the Dragonlance Movie. It's an elven hymn, with music by composer Karl Preusser and lyrics (written in Qualinesti elven) by Tracy Hickman. The art you see are background plates and concept art from the film...

Folks, Some of you might know a little bit about what we're doing with Dead Gentlemen Productions and the upcoming Demon Hunters Role Playing Game (which will ship with a free short film on DVD in every book). I thought you might be interested to know you can now see the preview of the Demon...

The Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game from Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd. goes on-sale for the first time at the Gen Con Game Fair in Indianapolis, Indiana on Thursday, August 16, 2007. The product will be available in the US hobby and book trades in September. The game is based on the...

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are thrilled to announce the world premiere of the trailer for the upcoming film, Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, at the Gen Con Game Fair in Indianapolis, Indiana. The trailer for the animated fantasy film will be shown on Thursday night at 6:00 PM CDT...

Contact: Jamie Chambers (262-725-3518) April 18, 2007 (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin) — Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd. has reached an agreement with Warner Bros. Television and DC Comics to produce role playing game products based on the hit television series, Supernatural. "We like role playing...

Happy Holidays! I'm very pleased to announce that the Serenity Role Playing Game has been nominated for the 2005 InQuest Gamer Fan Awards. We are up against some very worthy competitors (who made some great games!) this year, but we hope those of you who have played and enjoyed the Serenity RPG...

http://www.thegpa.org/index.php/pressrelease/MARGARET_WEIS_FINDS_SERENITY (The following is an unformatted, text-only version of the release.) PRESS RELEASE DATE: April 26, 2005 CONTACT: Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd. Margaret Weis/Jamie Chambers Tel 262-248-2419...

Good morning, everyone! Sovereign Press is pleased to present a free online preview of our epic mega-adventure Key of Destiny. In order to reward fans who have been patiently waiting for months, we have created a print-quality, 39-page PDF--longer than many companies' published adventures! We...