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    RPG Evolution: Medieval Dragon Mug

    I got this mug as a gift and was impressed by the detail. The Good This mug is about four and a half inches high and four inches in diameter, with the handle adding an additional inch or so. The detail on this mug is striking. It's meant to be used as a drinking stein, as there's a stainless...
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    White Dwarf Reflections #6

    I went back and read the issue and filled in the blanks. It's pretty funny (don't let your players roll dice guys, THEIR TELEKINESIS MIGHT AFFECT THE GAME)!
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    White Dwarf Reflections #9

    Cleaned the series up, you can find it all here: White Dwarf Reflections I'll fix the skipped issue next week and rearrange the order once it's live. Thank you for your patience.
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    White Dwarf Reflections #9

    That's my bad. We'll post #8 next week.
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    White Dwarf Reflections #9

    I am obsessed with the origins of this thing. It was called a Lauren (possibly messing with the word "unreal"), but see [All Editions] In which we delve into the inspiration behind the game's monsters (part 2) | Dungeons & Dragons / Fantasy D20 Spotlight Weird times.
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    RPG Evolution: Game Cancelled, Now What?

    Good friends are an open-door policy. But steady gamers who I play with online are definitely expected to attend often, and if they can't, when we start a new arc, we shift gears. It's tougher than the sometimes fuzzy in-person games: playing online means being part of an online chat tool...
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    RPG Evolution: Game Cancelled, Now What?

    I see what you see what I did there. 😉
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    How the Monsters Have Changed in the 2025 Monster Manual: Arcanaloth

    I homebrew a lot, and finger of death is one of the most TPK spells. One failed save not only kills a low Con PC (likely a caster), it turns it into a zombie the next turn. PCs regularly pop up-and-down as the druid and life cleric revive them with a variety of spells. Finger of Death disrupts...
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    RPG Evolution: Game Cancelled, Now What?

    Picture courtesy of Pixabay. The cancellation of your regular tabletop gaming session can have a surprisingly significant psychological impact on players, and it certainly affects me as game master. There's no single word to summarize the disappointment in missing a game, which is why I turned...
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    Astarion Makes Another Cameo Appearance in 2025 Monster Manual

    I like you both. Mom and dad, please stop fighting.
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    Astarion Makes Another Cameo Appearance in 2025 Monster Manual

    And both of these are...hmm. They are more "hey, want to play D&D once because you saw this fun thing and your D&D buddies want you to play?" I felt like they weren't very serious attempts to get folks to play the game, and more just trying to give them a taste and hope that LIKE SHOW > PLAY D&D...
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    Astarion Makes Another Cameo Appearance in 2025 Monster Manual

    You do that and I will share it with my Blueskylings for sure!
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    Astarion Makes Another Cameo Appearance in 2025 Monster Manual

    The movie is definitely in there, but the secret sauce of BG3 is it's training future players. There are so, so many elements of BG3 that just teach you how to play D&D. Not quite like "regular" D&D certainly as it's a video game, but pretty darn close, close enough to make a BG3 player playing...
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    Astarion Makes Another Cameo Appearance in 2025 Monster Manual

    Interesting datapoint: On Bluesky, the algorithm absolutely believes BG3, Baldurs Gate, and any variant thereof = Dungeons & Dragons, and therefore places all their posts in the D&D feed even when that person does not post anything to do with the tabletop version of the game. Another...
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    Magazines Dragon Reflections #89

    Like you, I was obsessed with this class. I'm not even sure why. I think I liked the idea of a guard for the party, and always wanted to play one but never got the chance. Maybe I had characters backstabbed one too many times...
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    Magazines Dragon Reflections #89

    I screwed up, my apologies, thank you for pointing this out. As you can see, updated!
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    RPG Evolution: Goblin Skull Paint Holder

    As I paint miniatures, it's rare I find accessories that are both thematic and functional. This paint holder is both. The Good This goblin skull can hold up to eight different paints in cups. It's got a cover so you can keep the unsightly cups covered and away from debris (a common problem if...
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    Polygon: Indie TTRPG Companies are "sitting in their own little corners of the internet and wringing their hands"

    I do brand training for an ambassador group of thousands, and there's also a few other things going on that get people to fall into this trap: Top-to-bottom scrolling. We don't even realize the algorithm is deciding what we see, and it is not by importance, or relevance, or anything else, it's...
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