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This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by Shannon Appelcline to talk about managing an RPG community and researching RPG history. In the news, more Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft previews, Critical Role board game announced, new Pathfinder video game gets a release date, Gen Con badges go on...

BTW, I took a look at the preview for the "Kindle Version" and the text reads like gibberish. It's like someone had an AI write a synopsis of an American action movie then ran it through Google Translate about a dozen times.

While editing this week's podcast, I came across something weird going on with the listings for Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft on Amazon. Namely, it's not there anymore. That's the Wizards RPG Team author page sorted by publication date, which should have Van Richten's Guide at the top. It...

Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! More Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft previews, our first look at Adventures in the Forgotten Realms for Magic: The Gathering, first Critical Role boardgame coming soon, Gen Con and PaizoCon Online updates, and more! Don’t forget, you...

Did I say 2011? facepalm At least I got it right in the text version...

This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by Claudio Pozas to talk about the business side of RPG art. In the news, the Dungeons & Dragons live-action film has begun shooting, a big preview of Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, D&D Live 2021 announced, and more! Plus Our Favourite Game in All the...

It happens more often than you think. Or happened, at least. I'm not sure how it works now, but for a long time, there was a long process to get your own channel, even if it's just a cable channel. Regulatory hoops and making deals with all the different cable and satellite providers to carry...

Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! Previews of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, new D&D Live event with G4 announced, the D&D film is now officially shooting, Awfully Cheerful Engine coming soon, and more! Don’t forget, you can get all the news every week with Morrus’...

This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by Little Red Dot, Twitch streamer and content producer for Kobold Press to talk about the production and business side of Twitch streaming. In the news, Vampire: The Masquerade and Scion both headed to television, Jeff Goldblum on a Dungeons & Dragons...

The first edition of Cyberpunk was set in 2013.

Some quick fun facts about Goblinization: It did not happen all at once, it just started en masse on April 30 with new cases reported over the course of about a month before trickling off to only a handful annually. Goblinization is a days-long painful process where bones grow and rearrange...

Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! World of Darkness and Scion both coming to television and film, it’s Goblinization Day in Shadowrun, a new software looks to bring tabletop RPGs to Minecraft style video games, and more! Don’t forget, you can get all the news every week...

This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by Panayiotis Lines to talk about Shadow of Mogg – A Post Brexit RPG. In the news, a peek behind how Dungeons & Dragons is made, former BioWare developers launch tabletop RPG Kickstarter, free RPG Wicked Ones lets you play the monsters, and more! Plus Our...

Because Resolve isn't very intuitive (even by the standards of video editing software) and it's more "free" like a free-to-play game is free. Sure you can technically use it for free, but a lot of the features, effects, transitions, etc. are behind microtransaction-like paywalls.

I will say "The developer just released a major patch with new gameplay features" for a video game that's 23 years old was not something I expected I'd ever report on.