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This is really great news. James has done excellent work. Glad to see folks from third party publishers bringing their experience to the...

I expect to be running this for my in-town family over the weekend and playing session two with my coworkers later this month. In my...

I have one huge gripe with the finale - Mike undermined his players' agency by having an NPC finish off Strahd! Yes, they had to...

We are all lucky that for years, Tim hosted a youtube channel where he answered fans questions. You can find more than 300 videos here...

That's terribly sad to hear. I think we're fortunate that the rise of gaming histories ensured that Mr. Kask's story, along with the...

The very first full-time employee of TSR, the company which created D&D, passed away last night after a sudden illness. A playtester...

Awesome! I'm glad to hear that.

James Haeck also just announced they are joining WotC as a Senior Game Designer for D&D. Announced it on the latest Eldritch Lore podcast.

And the survey is also supported in practice. Anytime D&D and/or DnDBeyond shared character creation data the Fighter was always number one.

There was a fair amount of market research as part of 5e, mainly because the gap between forums and the reality of sales was so large...

I can see how Vecna could make the mistake locating Max, but it’s still weird to me that he needs to read Will’s mind instead of just...

I think the last few episodes suffer from needing to set up the final batch. It created some weird structural issues with the story...

There’s a long history of crossover between gaming and sports. Back in the 1990s, they San Antonio Spurs had a LAN on their team plane...

Dungeons & Dragons fans seem to have short memories based on the number of speculative articles wondering why Wizards of the Coast...

Merric’s Goodreads page, which mearls mentioned, shows newly-read books added even today, so it seems Merric is still alive and...