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Jeremy Crawford's new Sage Advice column has launched on the official D&D website. The inaugural article looks at the concept of such a column and discusses the difference between Rules As Intended (RAI) and Rules As Written (RAW), two acronyms you'll find in abundance on any roleplaying game...

This is really great! Thanks to Rodney for sharing and Morrus for posting it here. This should be easy enough to replicate in my campaign notebook. And I noticed how Rodney uses the advice from the DMG on building your own random encounter tables per adventure; seeing his example about random...

My guess is these articles will evolve into more complex pieces as time goes on. The hint dropped at the beginning of the article about guest columnists from outside the walls of WotC makes me think we'll see articles from many of their past designers and I'm assuming those will be a bit...

Another interesting part of Jeremy Crawford's post is the snippets about finishing work on Princes of the Apocalypse. From what I could gather, the WotC team is working much closer on that book than I had thought. It seemed to me that WoTC's strategy in farming out the APs is to put the bulk...

Pretty cool of Jeremy Crawford to send out that write-up of the D&D team. I have seen these threads the past few days about 8 people working on D&D and it seems those estimates were a bit off judging by Crawford's count. As an aside, I had a chance to meet and chat with Jeremy Crawford (along...

I have to say, I'm very much liking the Shifter and its sub-races, especially the Wildhunt sub-race.

Recently, I have been using a book called Parsantium to set my 5E game in. Parsantium is a sprawling city that does a great job of meshing a traditional medieval fantasy setting with Greco-Roman, Indian, and Middle-Eastern influences. The city itself is chiefly based on historical Byzantium...

After having pored through 5th Edition Foes, I'm very much hoping for a 5th edition version of Tome of Horrors Complete. I'm also hoping that Richard Baker's work on the Starter Set and on Princes of the Apocalypse means his system mastery of the 5th edition rules will be used towards a 5th...

Pardon me sir, but I have just completed the sale of all my belongings and will be purchasing a Bell AH-1Z Viper Attack Helicopter just as soon as I get the rest of the millions of dollars required. Now we'll see who the fool is.

Thanks for the info! It sounds as though a gaming club at a college would be able to get AL support then. I have a player in my homebrew game who attends college and he's wanting to try his hand at being a DM by starting a D&D group at his school. AL sounds like a good way for him and his...

MerricB When you write "game clubs" what does that mean? More specifically, how does AL define a game club?

Certainly WoTC wants its brick and mortar partners to stay in business but I doubt the way D&D is handled has any impact on M:TG. M:TG doesn't seem to need any help making money and the argument can be made that it's M:TG keeping many FLGS open. In fact, the more cynical types like to say that...

I had been unable to download my copy of 5th edition Foes too. I kept getting logged out of my account when I click on the link or I got an error message in the browser that the connection was reset. I tried to download it with three different browsers all with the same results. I also tried...

I'm hoping that the references to Sigil sprinkled throughout the core books and the fact that monsters like the modrons were included the MM are indications that Planescape will be revisited in some way or another in a future AP. And I would love to see new Ravenloft material too; maybe an AP...

GMforPowergamers I can't say I know much about 4th edition but I can sympathize with your sentiment overall. I was playing in Adventure League for while at a local place that also hosts Pathfinder Society and an Indie RPG night. For the most part, everyone is polite and friendly but a couple...

I DM a group comprised of two old-timers who returned to D&D after a two edition break, two youngsters (son and daughter) of one of the old-timers, and a college kid I work with who is a life-long PC-gamer playing tabletop RPGs for the first time. As for me, I stopped playing D&D somewhere...

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Monster Manual It would seem that, rather than get bogged down in trying to provide something shiny and new, the design philosophy behind the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons was to delve into the game's past in order to define its future. This is no...

I like this track of thought. After the Corruption in Kryptgarden event (hundreds of players simultaneously working towards the same goal) at this past Gen Con, I can see the Princes AP being a set-up for a multi-plane adventure path that kicks-off with a Gen Con 2015 mega-event: a couple...

I backed this project a few days ago and I told some folks at my FLGS about it too. I checked out the army builder on the Game Mash website; it looks like it'll be easy to use and with room to add plenty of customizations. Also, I'm really hoping the metallic dragons in the stretch goals get...