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With blank dice available through Amazon or via STL files it's just as easy to make the dice as it is to buy them.

If you are looking for a unified field theory for the WoD you won't find it here. Much of this edition is moving the "truth" of the setting deeper into shadow. It's one of the big things they took from the Chronicles of Darkness.

The new, new World of Darkness, which began with Vampire: The Masquerade Fifth Edition, seems to be taking cues from an unexpected source: Disney. More specifically the Marvel Cinematic Universe and their decision to move the Star Wars Expanded Universe to Legends continuity. It makes sense...

I guess I don't see duckfolk as silly having grown up with those same cartoons. At least no more silly then catpeople, birdpeople, magic powered robots or even legally distinct not-hobbits.

5e has had a lot of popularity doing it lately with owlfolk, rabbitfolk and so on. The non-traditional fantasy ancestries help Dragonbane stand out.

It seems that RPG boxed sets are everywhere from online sales to the shelves at the local Target store. There’s something primal about cracking open a box and digging into a brand new fantasy world. Even if the majority of these boxes are built as starter sets that offer up a fun experience in...

Wandering monster encounters are a staple of many Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. They also can be very polarizing. Some tables love the unexpected emergent play that occurs from a random encounter that feels more organic and immersive. Other tables don’t like how a campaign storyline runs the...

Terminology can be a tricky thing. Definitions drift and split as a term gets used or the thing its describing changes. Originally, the OSR referred to games that went back to earlier editions of D&D to focus on what made those rules so seminal. Now it seems to refer to games that have a certain...

The full adventure could probably go 5-10 sessions depending on how focused the crew is on finding the antidote. Though you could probably just do a "night out with the adventurers" as a one shot and generate stuff using the charts.

The tavern is just as central to the idea of fantasy role playing games as, well, dungeons or dragons. Millions of stories have spun out of a random tavern brawl, cleaning out some dire rats in the basement for room and board or a mysterious stranger selling a map in the corner. While the tavern...

This isn't made by Free League. Firelock Games is using the open license on the Year Zero engine. It's a third party game.

Role playing games have roots in historical wargaming. Gygax and Arneson were inspired to add fantasy elements to their wargame campaign which began the foundations of Dungeons & Dragons. While historical wargames have flourished, they have often struggled in the roleplaying arena. While there...