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Dungeons & Dragons is having another banner year as part of pop culture. The Internet has been abuzz arguing about the trailer for the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves trailer. The relationship with Stranger Things made Vecna a household name. I was at San Diego Comic Con last weekend and...

Fantasy gaming tends to bounce between two poles: fantasy epics like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter and gritty sword and sorcery stories like the Conan stories and The Grey Mouser series. Swords of the Serpentine, from designers Kevin Kulp and Emily Dresner, is on the sword and sorcery side...

One of the sad throughlines of the book is how TSR keeps finding amazing creatives, treats them like crap despite the popularity of their work, screws them over for the sake of a buck and then just stumbles across the next one.

OA isn't that surprising. It was the 80s and Japanese (and related) stuff was HOT.

I might, though it will probably have a lot of the same content as his Gen Con seminars. I remember him discussing something about an official audiobook but I don't know if that went anywhere.

One of the differences between Reckoning and Vigil is that the hunter orgs in H5 are portrayed as antagonists. Yes, monsters are scary, but so is Second Inquisition. There's kind of that private eye-police tension there where the PCs get rousted by the Arcanum for busting up a sorcerer's nest or...

Ironically, it's now the back cover of the book and has been heavily photoshopped.

During the interviews Justin Achilli did for Hunter, he mentioned that he expects Touchstones, Tenets and Convictions to be in each WoD5 game. He suggested that n some form or another, modified for specific games. For example, one of the Convictions every player might have in Werewolf is...

It's fascinating seeing the outpouring of suport for them after 20 years. I remember how much they were reviled when the original game came out in 1999.

To be clear, the way Danger works in the rules is like a ticking clock mechanic. My suggestion of a doom pool was more of an illustration of my preferences for something like this.

The modern World of Darkness is not very concerned with tradition. It blew up much of the setting of Vampire: The Masquerade to redefine it for a modern age. It remixed the Clans to better fit some of these newer ideas, such as the death-obsessed Hecata. It also surprised many fans when it...

Folks involved with pitches have told me such as well.

It’s hard to believe the Harry Potter series is 25 years old. It’s harder to believe that there hasn't been an official RPG in that time, though various industry stories have noted that plenty of companies have tried. A few games have tried to corner the magic school RPG market recently. Kids on...

The mechanics and explanations are cleaned up. Now if you roll doubles that counts as a crit fail/success, depending on how your action die rolls. It feels like the suffer moves are expanded and detailed. It's focused on space with sector building like Traveller or SWN. Part of the upgrade...

If there’s one campaign setup as classic as wandering fantasy heroes looting dungeons, it's space scoundrels flying from planet to planet getting into trouble. From Traveller to Star Wars to Firefly and beyond, there’s just something alluring about standing on the deck of a beat up spaceship...