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Nov 18

Fortnite launched two new features for its battle royale game in its eleventh season, matchmaking and bots. The two features are important lessons on how players perceive status of other characters and how they can be fooled -- a lesson most game masters know is not easy to pull off in a tabletop game.

From the Freelancing Frontline – From Hobby to Career

Nov 18

Originally, all I wanted from my game writing was to sell enough RPG game articles to afford a subscription to Dragon Magazine. But once I had done that, I found I wanted to write more. Much more. So, I kept sending pitches to Dave Gross, at Dragon, and began looking for other venues.

Podcast #74: News Roundup: D&D, Critical Role, Eberron, Star Wars, and more!

Nov 16

This week, Morrus and Peter are back on their new regular day with all the news from the past week! D&D Unearthed Arcana, Critical Role signs with Amazon, Eberron: Rising from the Last War news, classic Eberron bundles, the Rick and Morty Starter Set, new charity D&D adventures, lots of new minis, new previews from Star Wars and Legend of the Five Rings, and a whole lot more plus a brand new...

Design Masterclass: 7th Sea

Nov 15

Anyone who knows me will wonder why it took me so long to get round to what is probably my favorite game of all time. However, I'm sad to say that in this example I'm not going to talk about the numbers. First Edition 7th Sea had some rather basic rules problems (mainly the importance of traits). While Second Edition actually fixes many of those issues, that isn't as useful as you might think...

News Digest for the Week of November 15

Nov 15

Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! New DM’s Guild products to benefit Extra Life plus more classic Eberron books to go with the big sale on DM’s Guild to celebrate the release of Eberron: Rising from the Last War whose table of contents we’ve now seen and teases for new products in 2020 and that’s JUST the D&D news this week! There’s a LOT more from Paizo, Fantasy...

D&D In The Mainstream - Again!

Nov 15

With the latest mainstream article (this time the New York Times for the second time this year!) from a major news outlet covering the resurgence of D&D, I thought I'd take a quick look at similar articles which have appeared on the radar of major newspapers and broadcasters recently, including The Guardian, the BBC, the Washington Post, and more!

PF2 Fireblood

Nov 14

It's a new edition for Pathfinder—and our 18th article in this new run of TRAILseeker, the weekly ezine where we publish Pathfinder-compatible material thanks to the support of our lovely Patreons! Born out of magma, passion, and quiet resistance, the fireblood are a new ancestry created by Jeff Gomez that provides you with the necessary tools to add a wondrous new people to your world—or to...

5E Eberron: Rising from the Last War Table of Contents

Nov 14

The table of contents of Eberron: Rising from the Last War was posted by NewbieDM on Twitter.

Dragon Reflections #27

Nov 14

TSR Periodicals published The Dragon Issue 27 in July 1979. It is 52 pages long, with a cover price of $2.00. In this issue, The Dragon celebrates a milestone, we explore lots of wargame content, and the Bazaar of the Bizarre introduces us to the bag of wind!

WotC Releases New Adventure For Charity

Nov 13

‘Infernal Machine Rebuild‘ is a 111-page adventure for 5th-10th level, available in PDF for $9.99. All proceeds go to the charity Extra Life.

5E D&D Gem Dragons Are Officially Back

Nov 13

So if you're (not) like me and you don't have the time or patience to watch Spoilers & Swag, you may have missed this awesome reveal... Gem Dragons are back! And I don't just mean back in a third-party book like Matt Colville's Strongholds and Followers (great book, check it out), I mean back officially for D&D 5e.

RPG Crowdfunding News – Vaesen, Deadlands: Lost Colony, and More

Nov 13

This week, I look at RPG crowdfunding projects that end between November 22nd through Thanksgiving (28th). Of the eighteen projects covered here, six end on US Thanksgiving eve or the day of Thanksgiving. It's a bold decision and I’m eager to see how many final 48 hours bids they pick up.

Gary’s Immersion in Castle El Raja Key: The Four-Way Footsteps

Nov 12

(Very early 1973, 1st level of my Castle El Raja Key) -- In November of 1972 four stalwarts of the LGTSA (Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association; of which I was then its current president)--namely Gary Gygax, myself, Ernie Gygax and my brother Terry Kuntz--experienced our first, and also comprehensive, RPG adventure via Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor setting. During it we also experienced the...

Robotech: The Macross Saga RPG Review

Nov 12

It was hard to know what to expect when opening up a Robotech RPG. Would it be a game about giant robots punching each other through space or 80s pop-star drama? Would it be a campy slice of entertainment or a weirdly edited tangle of confusion? The answer, it turned out, was "yes".

$299 D&D Anniversary Sapphire Dice

Nov 12

This just dropped into my inbox. $299.99, limited run, available directly from WotC.

2000AD Available now -- Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth & Cursed Earth Poster Map!

Nov 11

Now available for purchase from our store (and also at Dragonmeet in a couple of weeks). Both Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth (which is a whopping 160+ pages!) and the massive full-colour A2 poster map depicting the Cursed Earth in great detail!

Rick & Morty Starter Set Pre-Orders

Nov 11

The D&D Rick and Morty starter set comes out next week. It's the second based on a TV property; the first was the D&D Stranger Things starter set. It's $29.99, but the pre-order price is a little lower. You get a 64-page rulebook, a 32-page adventure (levels 1-3), DM screen, five preteen characters, and a set of dice. Please note, this boxed set will be available in North America only...

5E EN5ider #301: The Not-So-Lonely Road

Nov 11

Today's issue of EN5ider is a clever historically-sourced article that makes medieval overland travel exciting and engaging with just a few rolls of the dice!

5E Epic Monsters: Elizabeth Báthory

Nov 11

We’ve already seen her in the Mythological Figures side of this column but ENWorlder Rafael Martin pointed out that since her body went missing after her burial that surely she must be a terrifying undead. I’m inclined to agree! So it is that today’s entry in Epic Monsters features another version of the Blood Countess, one twisted by evil into something even more monstrous than the woman was as the mortal Elizabeth Báthory!

Tyranny of Dragons: A Review

Nov 11

Revising Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamet into one book, Tyranny of Dragons (which was always the name for the unified adventure) makes sense for the fifth anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons' 5th Edition. If you didn't buy the original versions, picking up Tyranny is an easy choice if you like this sort of adventure (more on that in a minute), but a more complicated decision if...