Welcome back, and welcome to 2013! Before I delve into the news, why not see how well you remember 2012? Or test your memory of classic TSR module artwork? Those two links may make it clear that...
With the holidays ongoing, a lot of well-known publishers have released a bunch of high profile PDFs at the last minute. Most of these are for popular systems so there are sure to be some of...
My Dark Sun game, in which I play a human psion named Polis Thaelin working to restore divine magic to Athas, is simple and uncluttered by the need for worldly possessions. Treasure is sparse...
Happy New Year, everybody! This is my last news post of 2012. The next one will be on Wednesday, the 2nd of January. Scroll down for a "state of EN World" at the end! Dungeons & Dragons News...
Whenever you’re lacking inspiration or need a last minute encounter in the middle of an adventure, cry. Otherwise, it’s always handy to have some random encounters lying around. I always create my...
Welcome to Waterdeep, the City of Splendours! A place beloved of many a D&D player who has thrown themselves at the mercy of a Forgotten Realms campaign, it’s little surprise that Wizards of the...
As you may have guessed, I live in a town called Greeneville, which is nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. My tabletop gaming group is named after the town. We’ve been...
New Releases for 24th/31st December 2012. This is Angus Abranson's regular list. The below will have hit some stores last week and will probably hit the rest this coming week due to the Christmas holidays. For further information please contact your usual suppliers.
Pathfinder RPG News Award-winning fantasy and SF editor Lou Anders gives a glowing review of the Pathfinder Tales novel Death's Heretic. As a holiday present to gamers everywhere, Super Genius...
There exists a spell in the original 1974 boxed set of D&D which forces a group of creatures to all make saves or fall asleep, rendering them unconscious and subject to being killed in their sleep...
There are so many hooks that are used to convince a band of heroes into taking part in an adventure. Sometimes it is the lure of a powerful artifact, sometimes the lure of a dragon’s hoard, and...
In my last column I spoke about the brick walls we encounter in life and in roleplaying. Deciding whether or not those barriers are worth breaking down or leaving behind. This philosophy is a...
I hope that everybody had a great Christmas, and got plenty of excellent gaming loot! If you have a quick spare second, "liking", "tweeting", or "Google+ing" EN World using the buttons at the top...
We hope you all had a good holiday, and more importantly, we hope you got all the rpgs that were on your wishlists. If you didn't, here are 14 interesting PDF offerings (and 3 adventures) from...
Announcing the Winner of Battle of the Bards 2012http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k2PiQh5YYE Community News EN World columnist Challenger RPG asks Fed up of Rolling Dice for High Level Players...
Are there times when you’re rolling more dice than role-playing? The players are asking you for modifiers and spell rulings more often than being creative? This tends to happen at high levels of...
Pathfinder News Today's Daily Deal over at the Pathfinder Kickstarter is an Old One Idol. Each Daily Deal is an in-game item that will give your character a little extra. The voting is now...
Pathfinder News http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9252_180.jpegPaizo's site is having problems. I know exactly how that feels. Anyway, they say: "We're having issues with the...
Last week, I posted the Part 1 of a review of the Mistborn Adventure Game, a role-playing game based on Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy of fantasy novels. Crafty Games has used an indie...
One of the first conversations I want to have with my players at the start of a campaign (assuming that we've already talked about player types) is the "buy in". This is where we have a big...