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Rich is an incredibly underrated adventure designer. Forge of Fury is one of the best D&D adventures ever, and Phandelver probably has...

Ben Riggs talks to Richard Baker. Author of the Phandelver starter box that in 2018 alone sold 300 thousand copies in the US.

Part of that is due to the printing disaster with Eberron. It was supposed to be out now

Dark Sun's not coming. After releasing only two books from January through August, the end of this year is very release-heavy for...

I can tell you that while I've personally enjoyed them, as a retailer I find it somewhat difficult to sell games that use "funky dice"...

Reading Tondro's substack...he seems like a cool guy. Book of Many Things is a gem, weird and wonderful, one of the best things...

A few months ago, I was a lock for at least the player's book. Was trying to get a 5e24 campaign launched and while I probably wouldn't...

Not updated too frequently, but: "All of which brings me to the Forgotten Realms." "I’m the project lead for the new Forgotten Realms...

Good Game.

I enjoy doing that.

The SCAG reads like a desperate apology to older fans for the 4e timeskip. Every section presumes that you know the topic from 3e days...

SCAG was the last of the farmed out books that were written by outside design teams (in this case, Green Ronin). I 100% blame this...

I sincerely hope so: the SCAG let me down. Tremendously. I've mentioned before how could the writers go on about Neverwinter but not...

Consider buying the Beginners Box. Between the Player's Reference Card(PRC) and the last two pages of the Game Master's Guide, you have...

I don't think it's possible to know "everything you need to know." I wouldn't even try. Go into your session to have fun, look up rules...