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Monstrous Menagerie II: Hordes & Heroes is live! 300+ more monsters for your D&D 2024, or Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition games, plus new horde rules and rules for heroic monsters who level up alongside you--whether they be allies, companions, or foes! Back it now on Kickstarter!
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Designing RPG Adventures With the Players And Not the GM In Mind, Part One
One of the first rules they teach you in those pesky freshman-year composition courses is "know your audience." Before you sit down to write a text, consider who's going to be reading it and plan accordingly. When it comes to tabletop role-playing games, I've always considered the game master to be the primary audience of published adventures. Game masters are far more likely than players to read the text of an adventure, so why wouldn't a designer write with the game master in mind?
Our Friends The Machines & Other Mysteries – Tales From The Loop’s First Supplement Arrives!
Free League’s Tales From The Loop is one of the year's biggest breakout games, scooping up a host of nominations and awards, including no less than FIVE Gold ENnies – including the coveted Product of the Year. Today sees the release of their first supplement, a campaign guide called Our Friends The Machines & Other Mysteries. Available now as a PDF on DriveThruRPG, or in print or PDF through the Free League's own webstore, it should be hitting retail stores in early February.
How Did D&D Become a Best-Seller?
Dungeons & Dragons is back in the news again thanks to Xanathar's Guide to Everything ranked on several best-seller lists. This isn't a first for D&D -- several D&D books were best-sellers when they launched -- but it is remarkable for an edition that's now several years old.
New Hobby Releases In Stores & PDF Spotlight: 11th December 2017
A rundown of the New Releases that should be hitting games stores this coming week! Board games, card games, RPGs, Wargames, Miniatures and collectible games... hopefully something for everyone! In addition to the games hitting your local store we also take a look at a few RPG PDF releases from the last week that we hope may be of interest. For more information about any of the physical products please contact your local games store.
Don't Fall Down With The Toon Role-Playing Game
A lot has been made recently about specific games for gaming with your children. A lot of products in the last five years have focused on this with a wide variety options and feels from Hero Kids, Little Heroes and the upcoming Last Unicorn RPG from Playground Adventures. With that I thought I'd provide a review of a game I used for a long time to get kids into gaming – Steve Jackson Games's Toon.
The Journey To...North America, Part One
So here we are on the shores of my home, the continent of North America where I want to talk about the indigenous people here. As this series of articles has gone on, it has grown into more than a just a collection of alternative myths that you or I can utilize in our campaigns. As more than a few people have pointed out, these articles only scratch the tip of the iceberg in terms of getting to know people around the world, their personal mythologies, and how we might respectfully represent them in role playing games. We do our best to find good sources; it has been quite an education to be honest.
Sean's Picks of the Week (1204-1208) - Cops & Robbers Week!
We definitely took a crime-and-punishment approach to the Picks this week, inspired by the release of the preview version of Capers. These are products that focus on either the commission of crimes or playing the folks who take up the cause and the badge to deal with criminal intent. Whether you're looking to play gangsters and cutthroats trying to make a dishonest living, or the lawbringers who put it all on the line to protect the public.
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(KS) 5th Edition Monsters from Kobold Press in Creature Codex
Kobold Press’ Creature Codex brings over 300 new monsters to 5th Edition, including lotus golems, wasteland dragons, shadow goblins, and so much all. All Creature Codex Kickstarter backers can also submit their own original monster designs for possible publication.
(KS) Masters and Minions: A 5th Edition Supplement from Jetpack 7
Masters and Minions is an all new 5th Edition supplement featuring detailed NPCs and a focus on how to use their minions with convenient, time-saving, tips.
(KS) L’gat’s Tome of Amazing Creatures for 5th Edition
L’gat’s Tome of Amazing Creatures is a digital PDF of homebrewed and reskinned monsters for use with 5th Edition by Jarin.
(KS) The Blood Plague – A 3rd Level Dark Fantasy 5th Edition Adventure
The Blood Plague is a Dark Fantasy Adventure Module for 5th Edition for characters levels 3 to 5. The adventure focuses on a deadly plague that has struck the world of Penumbra and left it’s people reeling in horror at its ferocity.
(KS) RPG Fantasy Map Compendium
Steve Gaudreau returns with the RPG Fantasy Map Compendium, a mega-bargain for map lovers. After 15 campaigns he certainly knows what he’s doing – and with over 150 maps, and 900 icons and accessories to populate them, this will keep your table (virtual or physical) covered for quite some time! The complete set usually sells for over $600 so getting the ‘lot’ for only $109 is a true treasure hoard for adventurers and GMs alike!
(KS) Tome of Horrors Reborn for Fifth Edition
Unleash the first volume of Frog God Games’ iconic Tome of Horrors series, reimagined and redesigned for 5th Edition campaigns. Hordes of sinister adversaries, restless dead, and other horrific monstrosities to gleefully challenge your players’ expectations. Bursting with hundreds of creatures, new additions as well as converted classics, in a library-bound and stitched full color volume. Everybody needs more monsters.
