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This is a question I often ask myself, but now, with the release of the D&D 2024 books, I think it's a good time to ask it again: What do we think the RPG hobby needs now? What's missing? What would make it easier for new players to get into the hobby? What makes it easier for existing players...

Ruins of the Grendleroot, my book of ten adventures set in the subterranean realm of BlackClaw Mountan for 5e, is on sale for $5! This ebook bundle includes Ruins of the Grendleroot in epub, PDF, and Markdown along with an art and map pack usable on the VTT of your choice. Across these ten...

WOTC just released the first Errata for the D&D 2024 Player's Handbook: https://www.dndbeyond.com/changelog#2024CoreRulesErrata and in PDF! https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/errata/PHB-24/PHB-2024_v1.pdf https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/errata/DMG-24/DMG-24_v1.pdf...

We've seen various clickbait titles that "D&D 5e is dead!" or "is the OSR dying?" which, I know, is just there to get a reaction. But the question is interesting to me because of how different this hobby is from many other electronic gaming hobbies where a core company controls the fate of a...

Dale Critchley of Wyrmworks Publishing launched the Free5e Kickstarter today: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyrmworkspublishing/free5e-a-free-open-source-dungeons-and-dragons-alternative The intent is to build three full core books for 5e that are 100% Creative Commons and able to be...

Mike Mearls had two interviews recently, one with Ben Riggs and one with Professor Dungeon Master. In both of these interviews he brought up a thought that really resonated with me: The idea that RPGs and GM-focused accessories are really like designing expert software for expert users – think...

Looking at the D&D 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide Oil of Sharpness: The old one from 2014: Do we think this is a typo or the intent to make permanent +3 magic weapons?

Paul Hughes, the lead designer of the Level Up Advanced 5e Monstrous Menagerie and writer of the excellent Blog of Holding, wrote an article building the D&D 2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card where he analyzes the statistics of monsters in the D&D 2024 Monster Manual and compares them to...

The Ray Winninger interview got a lot of attention but I failed to talk about Mike Mearls's interview with Stan! on the same channel. Mike brings up a really interesting thought that might have gotten buried in the other thread I wanted to pull on: The different modes of RPG play. Mike brings...

Hello friends! I did a segment on my Lazy RPG Talk Show (posting tomorrow) about independent spaces on the net for RPG discourse. Basically, where can we meet fellow TTRPG enthusiasts and have great conversations about it. Yochai Gal had a good post just today about the topic. For my show, I...

Stan!, a longtime employee and contractor for TSR and Wizards of the Coast has an amazing YouTube interview shoe he’s been running talking to many luminaries who worked at TSR and WOTC. You can find the playlist here. Thanks to @MerricB for pointing it out! He had a recent interview with Ray...

I'm spending some time thinking back over the news and notable products of 2024 and thinking about what I'm looking forward to in 2025. Here's my list! What are yours? Big Things in 2024 D&D 2024 Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide Tales of the Valiant (Adventurer's Guide, Monster...

I'm thinking about the RPG products I find myself coming back to time and time again as a gift guide for others. What RPG products do you find yourself using year after year? Which products provide the biggest impact at your table? Here's my list: Pathfinder Flip Mat Basic and Staedtler...

Hello friends! We're in the final hours for the City of Arches Kickstarter! If you've enjoyed the work I do and want a fantastic high-fantasy city sourcebook built for lazy GMs, I really hope you'll check it out. If you're on the fence, please check out the 42 page free sample including an...

Comicbook.com has an interview with the new D&D Vice President Jess Lanzillo. Here are some interesting quotes with my own commentary. This feels like misdirection. The question had nothing to do with a false dichotomy between players who play online and those who play in person. She steered...

Chris Cocks was interviewed on the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast. The D&D stuff largely starts at the 40 minute mark. I'm attaching a machine-generated transcription if you'd prefer to read it. Here are some tasty quotes: On layoffs: Dan Dillon, one of the people laid off in the 2023 Christmas...

Kibbles Tasty posted this over on Reddit but I thought it'd be great to have a copy over here on EN World. These are all their words and comments, not mine: Some of these are balancing issues. Some of these mistakes in the rules. Some of these exploits or loopholes. Some of these are just...

Hello friends! As fans of high quality RPG products, I wanted you to know about the City of Arches Kickstarter going on right now! You can find it right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slyflourish/the-city-of-arches-a-high-fantasy-5e-rpg-city-sourcebook?ref=dmuv04 The City of...

Hi A5e friends! My Wednesday group is now deep into our first foray into A5e. I know there's not a full-featured character builder out there, though I love the Google Sheet that @Anselm posted! One thing I'd love to see is a database of printer-friendly pregenerated characters for all classes...

Hi friends! My eternal quest to find a downloadable, self-hostable, open-source, and modifiable option for building characters led me back to More Purple More Better, an Adobe Acrobat-based PDF with a pile of JavaScript which lets players build character sheets with info from various imported...