Recent content by Christian Hoffer

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    Chaosium Names New CEO, Mike Mearls Departs Company

    Chaosium has announced several personnel moves, including the hiring of a new CEO. A recent press release announced a bevy of moves at the company, with former COO Neil Robinson becoming the new CEO. Brian Holland, the marketing director of Chaosium, is becoming the Executive Producer for RPGs...
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    Jason Carl on White Wolf's Return, Mage: The Ascension Plans

    Earlier this month, Paradox Interactive announced that it was rebranding its World of Darkness group to White Wolf, with further plans to build out the group and shift much of its development efforts in-house. This came with several big questions, including what was to come of the relationship...
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    Wizards of the Coast Hiring New Lead Designer and Head of Game Ecosystem for D&D

    Wizards of the Coast seems to be hiring replacements for Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford. This week, Wizards of the Coast posted job listings for a new "Head of Game Ecosystem" for Dungeons & Dragons, as well as a new "Principal Game Designer" for the game. Both are high level positions...
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    New D&D Video Game Announced

    New video game developer Giant Skull is developing a new D&D video game. Variety announced the new untitled game today, which will be a single-player action-adventure game set in one of the worlds of the game. Giant Skull was founded by Stig Asmussen in 2023. Asmussen previously was the game...
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    WoD renaming, White Wolf returns

    FYI, we have an interview going up next week that will cover what all this means for the World of Darkness line.
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    D&D Debuts Playtest for Psion Class

    Wizards of the Coast is playtesting the Psion class for Dungeons & Dragons. Today, Wizards of the Coast provided a new Unearthed Arcana for the Psion, a new class for the current revised 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons. The playtest includes base class rules plus four subclasses - the...
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    Daggerheart Review: The Duality of Robust Combat Mechanics and Freeform Narrative

    Every check has one of four outcomes. Success with Hope - Player gets a Hope Resource, succeeds check with a narrative bonus of some kind. Success with Fear - GM gets a Fear Resource, succeeds check but with a narrative negative consequence of some kind. Failure with Hope - Player gets a...
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