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Unpopular opinion: every adventure should be its own box set with battle maps, poster maps with stickers for exploration ala Gloomhaven, monster minis/pawns, monster cards ala Inkwell Ideas' 5e creature decks (the official ones with oversized cards are annoying) and magic item cards. The PHB...

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Wizards has been awfully silent about anything and everything to do with Greyhawk, and given the drama going on with Gail Gygax and folks from the OSR crowd, I'd bet we don't see anything Greyhawk any time soon, if ever. So I'll just repost what I said on Twitter: It'll be guides for...

My co-conspirator Leon and I are recruiting Game Masters (a.k.a. GMs or ‘Judges’) for a Marvel Super Heroes campaign inspired by the characters and events in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Using the MCU as our foundation, the players will make decisions and suffer the turns of fate that their...

Yeah, that killed this release for me. It's such an interesting idea and very useful in theory, but that quality-level makes it a no go. I'll just find pix of it once it's released and make my own dry erase tools to cover the best parts of this release. Really too bad.

That is one heck of an awesome team you've assembled!

Good riddance. Anyone who makes a business practice of doubling down on defending serial harassers and abusers, and designs releases specifically to profit off of minimizing the voices of victims should fail.

The lack of digital versions of the extras definitely is something that's going to affect prestige businesses (in this industry and elsewhere, I imagine). A push for better VTTs (I just followed no less than 3 Kickstarters in the past 3 months, many of which started development well before covid...

Which is weird, because the rights are held by Wizards of the Coast utterly and completely, based on everything one can dig up about ownership and licenses on DMsGuild, D&D Beyond, and their other third party vendors. So what that really means is "WOTC doesn't want to hand over digital...

Oh true! I meant more of a way of making it clear what they're tactics are, something you get in The Monsters Know but that doesn't really come through in the Monster Manual, for example. Not full automation, but clearer routines and such. There's also the whole "monster reaction/attitude" that...

Haven't found it. D&D4e spiritually went there, but massively over complicated it. Strike! is a sort of successor to 4e but way stripped down, but I've not played enough to see if it hits the right notes. Gloomhaven's on the right track, but a step too far into board game territory for my...

Folk of Dalentown Volume 1 for 5th Edition is out now on itch.io and DriveThruRPG, and we couldn't be more proud of this release! It is easily one of our most ambitious, featuring three fully developed new ancestries ("races" in 5th Edition lingo). "Fully developed" means there's a detailed...

A couple weeks back we launched the Tales from Dalentown series of campaign setting and adventure supplements with a free gazetteer for 5th Edition. Now it’s out for OSR games by way of Necrotic Gnome‘s amazing Old School Essentials retroclone of BX D&D. It’s fully compatible with a host of...

When my cousin and I published DeScriptors we began with a one page "word-bidding" diceless game and loved how the wordplay involved encouraged creative description and put a lot of the ball in the player's court for driving the story forward. More importantly, it ensured a story arc: a player...

If you picked up this title before 4/28/2020, check your email because you should've recieved a coupon from DriveThruRPG to get Adventures in Dalentown for 5th Edition for 50% off!

Update! You can get the map of the Western Frontier in a couple styles (including unlabeled) along with the Worldographer file for it here: https://timbannock.com/tales-from-dalentown-trueland-gazetteer-western-frontier-hex-maps/

Today we launched a spin-off of our popular Dalentown series, expanding the world and adding new opportunities for adventure. Say hello to Tales from Dalentown! This series boasts new adventures, adventure sites, and lots of material to help a GM get up and running quickly. In fact, it’s geared...

There's a great article here: The Gold Problem, and Solving it with Rest Variants It doesn't fully flesh out things, but it's a great start, and includes some ideas on switches and dials so you can concentrate on the stuff relevant to your campaign. So if you don't want to focus on strongholds...