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Joining Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, and WotC’s own VTT plans, the Foundry virtual tabletop is getting official D&D support. You can se their announcement video below. This will give yet another way to play D&D and that's some very good news.

I'm just finishing up a game of Dragon Heist game with a brand new DM. It was a great game and the DM really did a fantastic job for his first time. I talked with my fellow players and we decided to give him a set of Xanathar's eyeballs dice to remember the game by. That made me think about...

In just a couple of weeks our Dragon Heist campaign will be ending, and we're going to go back to my friend's Shackled City game. We recently had an almost TPK that soured everyone on 3.5 and so my friend who DMs it has converted the next chapter over to 5E. We are going to start at 12th level...

My DM is going to restart our Shackled City campaign in 5e. We are going to be starting at level 12 (where our old group was). I'm playing a Goblin Bladesinger wizard, level 12 with no multiclassing. The DM is letting us start with two Uncommon magic items and I'd love to get some suggestions...

For the first time in over two years, I'll be running a game for my group, and we're going to try Pathfinder 2. The last game I ran was Curse of Strahd in 5E so this will be a different experience. We are going to the the Beginners Box to learn the system (and how Foundry works) and then move...

I am playing in a Shackled City campaign and we just had two PC deaths (we are at the temple of Wee Jas and it's a pretty rough encounter). We picked up a druid with a dinosaur and a ranger with a dog and an ape animal companions so we have a larger group than we've had for a while. I have the...

I've been playing in a Shackled City campaign for some time now, and we have a tiny character who has joined the group. Not long ago, they had their weapons destroyed by hitting demons with an acid sheathe and so we're in a situation where they are extremely limited for fighting options at the...

I'm playing a 3.5 game at the moment after a very long time, and one of our party members is turning to grappling opponents to lock them down. This is great as I'm an Arcane Trickster who does ray attacks and tries to get sneak attack with them. The problem is that when they're grappled...

Hi everyone. I feel like Jim Anchower from the Onion, saying "Hola, amigos. I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya!" and it has. I'm going to be joining a 3.5 game of Shackled City, on Roll20. It has been a long time since I've played it, but I still have all my books. Just wondering...

Hey everyone, So about a month ago I mistakenly changed my user ID. I was the victim of auto-fill, actually. My old user name was SteveC, and I should be able to change back to it, but for some reason it will not let me. Is there anything that can be done? I can always change the user name to...

Just thought I'd let folks know that both Loot and Shadows of Eldoran showed up in print at my doorstep. The look nice in print, very shiny. That's both a reference to Firefly and actually true: the paper is very glossy and shiny. I am currently running Shadows, and have been using Loot for...

Update (12-12-14): Session 5 is live. As always, comments and questions are welcomed.! Hi everyone, I've been running a game of 13th Age at my FLGS (Pegasus Games in Madison Wisconsin, if you're curious) and I've been putting together a thread on my blog where I tell the story of the game...

So all of my friends who aren't nerds are keenly aware that I am one, and they keep telling me "OMG! You have to watch The Blacklist!" (I'm not making that up: they actually said "OMG!") So I wanted to ask ENWorld who is filled with people who like actual nerdish TV if it's worth watching. I'd...

Hi everyone, I just wanted to shill for my new blog let you know about a guide I wrote for new fall TV programs for nerds. The guide is below, but you can look at the original article here. September and the Discerning Nerd Fall and what you, the discerning nerd should do about it. The...

Hi everyone, I thought you might like to see my review and comments for FFP's new Board game Shadows of Brimstone. This is a bit of a hybrid: it's a cooperative board game, but it also has many role playing characteristics: continuing characters who grow, stories and a mission system. The...

Like many people, I'm working on a game in my spare time. Mine is called "Sword of Virtues", and It's finally starting to come together, and I'm writing a lot of the material to fill in the rules. One thing I don't like about many projects like this is that the author never comes out and tells...

Hi everyone, I see that Deep Magic is available for preorder here. My budget for casual purchases for 13th Age is pretty stretched for this month, but this does look interesting. I've seen some positive comments on the Pathfinder edition... just wondering if anyone has taken the plunge here...

I just saw that they are making a Kickstarter for an all-in-one gamebook for Fantasy Hero, which you can check out here. I first discovered Fantasy Hero back in 1985, and it was exactly the kind of game I was looking for. Since then, I've played in many campaigns with it, and really love the...

I am just about to start running Crown of the Lich King, and was wondering if anyone who's run it has some fun tactical maps that they'd like to share. I know that I don't need them, but I thought it might make the combats a little more immersive to the group to have some images. So if you've...

I had a friend point me to this very interesting article here. The article is about creating a credo or personal statement about your goals when running a game. As I thought about it, I think this sort of thing can be very useful to share with your players, because it tells them what they can...