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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...

If you all like hexcrawls or sandbox play, check out the Populated Hexes patreon. It's OSR (using Old School Essentials), but the gist of it and the ease of swapping out stat blocks for 5e equivalents makes it an extremely useful series. It shows how to do the interconnectedness thing very well...

Thanks! Well, I can say that if you're specifically talking 5e, I've published Hexcrawling: Wilderness Survival and Random Encounters on DMsGuild. I saw a need for it because 5e specifically doesn't worry about what "getting lost" means: you just wander around for 1d6 hours (maybe trigger an...

I found adding a more interesting selection of weapons and Dungeon Crawl Classics' Mighty Deeds of Arms rules (or at the very least, inspiration from them) really helped the fighty classes sing a little bit more. My two resources for this: Steel and Fury (for DCC) Arms and Armor (for Castles &...

The Rules Cyclopedia was cool for its time -- really cool, IMHO -- but it still suffered from D&D's inability to organize information very well: certain rulings remain buried in a wall of text about exceptions, and there was often more words than necessary to describe something, leading to...

As a massive Greyhawk and Planescape fan, I gotta agree with this. There's literally nothing that WOTC could put out for the vast majority of their older settings that would be any more interesting than, "Here's how to mechanically build this obscure thing in 5E rules." I think people constantly...

If it's any consolation, so far WOTC seems largely uninterested in revisiting anything (campaign-setting related, at any rate) outside of the Realms, no matter how well it sells. D&D Stranger Things had tons of hype, Curse of Strahd is often cited as the "best" adventure so far on a great many...

For the RPG side alone, I simply can't imagine a model that continues to be cost effective for them with the likely exorbitant prices they must be paying for a SW license, and the fact that they pretty much dried up their release schedule by launching three big game books (with a lot of...