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The Monster Team, by Ioana-Muresan of Deviantart. The worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, and its many inspirational spin-offs, are filled with all kinds of intelligent life forms. Elves, beholders, and countless creatures more derived from all manner of older folklore and recent pop culture. Only a...

Drive-Thru RPG Store Page. Back around mid-late 2022, Red Panda Publishing came onto the scene with a rather daring product: the Adventurer’s Guide to the Bible. Taking place during the life and times of Jesus Christ, it was an open world historical fantasy sandbox. Drawing heavily from...

Quote from the front page: This is concerning news. The wiki was a valuable resource for the setting, and I hope that as much of the old articles get restored.

Official store page. While the most popular 5e adventures are longer campaigns, a significant amount of gaming groups cannot commit to such lengthy endeavors. Be it testing the waters with new players, giving people the opportunity to try out alternate PC builds, or just a short change of pace...

Drive-Thru RPG store page. Goodman Games store page. During the early Aughts, a third party setting for 3rd Edition D&D was released. Its production schedule would be sparse, interspersed with long periods of time between system updates. In late 2014 it got an update to the Pathfinder system...

While I think that most gaming sessions are homebrew, there's quite a bit of published adventures with critical acclaim. But there's only so much time in our lives to dedicate to playing them all, so inevitably some fall by the wayside. I'm interested in hearing from EN World what are their top...

And to all a Happy New Year! Whether you celebrate the holiday or not, I hope that you have a good day with those you love.

For the purposes of this thread, I’m referring to monsters that are of good alignment as the default, as opposed to being potentially good. Blink dogs, flumphs, and the like. Most monsters are either neutral or evil, which makes sense given the implicit assumption in most campaigns that the PCs...

It’s been a while since I did one of these surveys. But as I’m equally eager to cover any of these books, I don’t mind letting the crowd have their say on what I should focus on for the immediate future. With Islands of Sina Una nearing completion, it will most certainly be my last Let’s Read...

Storefront Page, PDF Storefront Page, Hardcover When it comes to non-European fantasy counterpart settings, Dungeons & Dragons has traditionally been rather sparse. 2nd Edition onwards saw an increased amount of such settings, be it regional examples like with particular domains and...

Drive-Thru RPG Store Page Itch.io Store Page The history and legends of the Indian subcontinent are full of material suitable for heroic fantasy, from the dynastic wars of the Mahabharata to the fearsome tales of asuras in their endless struggle against the devas. Such things did not escape...

Although most OSR games tend to keep their number of classes on the low side, there are many zines and supplements that add more specialized and novel ones. However, it can be hard justifying new ones that are already served by the existing core options, and by adding too many that can result in...

Publisher Website. Drive-Thru RPG Product Page. Itch.io Product Page. Released around a year ago, the Valley of Flowers sailed relatively under the radar at first. Yet it’s steadily grown in acclaim, mentioned every so often with praise in OSR communities. Intrigued, I picked it up for...

Drive-Thru RPG Product Page. Io Publishing Store Page. Finally, a sourcebook asking the important questions! Why Slay Dragons When You Could Be FISHING (abbreviated as WSDWYCBF from here on out) is a detailed mini-game supplement for 5th Edition. It converts all matter of fishing techniques to...

Dungeon Master’s Guild Product Page. The sportspeople of Mexican wrestling have an entire mythos built around their personas, from masked identities that evoke various archetypes and gimmicks to horror films where they fight supernatural monsters. The author of this book, Josh Pacheco, sought a...

Edit: The author appears to keep company with people whose values are strongly against my ethos, so I deleted this review.

Drive-Thru RPG Store Page. The evil-aligned PC. The very phrase stirs many emotions: fear by the Dungeon Master, of players indulging in repressed fantasies; frustration from players, suffering from inter-party conflict; curiosity in all, of trying a subversion of the typical RPG story, where...

D&D by angiewolf of Fur Affinity. Sometime last year I reviewed the Delver’s Guide to Beast World. The initial concept is a D&D world dominated by anthropomorphic races, with a specialized social class of adventurers roaming the lands in customized wagons. Although not a pre-existing IP, it...

About a year ago, I wrote a review for a furry-themed campaign setting for 5th Edition, the Delver's Guide to Beast World. It entranced me with its in-depth world and neat ideas, and over time I began thinking of things to add into a potential campaign. After sprucing some of them up, I'm...

The OSR is no stranger to thematic trends among publishers. Grimdark and weird fantasy were popular about seven to ten years ago, and Conan-style swords and sorcery can be spotted in publications like DCC's Lankhmar. But I've noticed among some of the more popular products a hewing towards...