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So you're eager for dungeon and dragon magazine. You're eager for dungeonscape. You're eager for the ogl. Yeah, I get it. You're upset and you think wizards of the coast has failed because they haven't delivered these things yet. Take my advice. Just. Wait. It's been 2 months since the first...

So, shuriken are basically daggers, right? And monks can use their martial arts ability with monk weapons, right? So at high levels, a monk can throw four "shuriken" at d10 a piece by spending 1 ki. I just got a flashback to the ninjas handbook and anime from my pubescent years. Excuse me while...

Here Comes the Player's Handbook

Feats of Game Design. We now have a list of feats, and some idea what they are about.

Tomorrow evening I will be running the new D&D Starter Set (5e) for a group of 4 complete beginners. I've been thinking about what to say to them, because I want to preface the first session with an overview of D&D and RPGs in general, but I'm not sure what I should say. I want to keep it short...

I would like to take a moment to point out and appreciate the following: In OD&D, before Supplement 1: Greyhawk hit the stores, the highest bonus you could get from a magical weapon or suit of magical armor was +3. When Supplement 1 dropped, that is when gamers started seeing +5 weapons and...

Over on Google+, Bruce Callan managed to snag a copy of the Starter Set early and posted some photos of the Rogue and the Wizard character sheets back to back. These will stay up unless WotC decides to upload better scans at some point. Surprising things: we knew that expertise would now...

Did anyone catch this? Makes even smaller simpler weapons pretty dangerous depending on the size of the wielder.

Monster Excerpt They posted a page from the excerpt that was also screen shotted from the unboxing. So we have the Nothic, the Ogre, and the Ochre Jelly.

Magic Items

Looks like it's a wilderness map this time. Looks good, the quality one is used to seeing from WotC.

The D&D twitter account released the ToC for the starter set adventure, the Lost Mine of Phandelver, unfortunately it has sticky notes that prevent spoilers. Except one of the notes is a spoiler. So there is that.

Bringing a Game to Life

Starter Set: Excerpt 3

This was posted on the D&D google+ account, but I couldn't find an article on the wizards website.

Clicky here. Thaumaturge

The DMG have had their prices reduced to the lowest I've seen since I preordered them when they went up. Both books are currently $34.33. Dungeon Master's Guide (D&D Core Rulebook) by Wizards RPG Team Monster Manual (D&D Core Rulebook) by Wizards RPG Team

It's amazing to think that 14 years ago, we were waiting for 3rd edition to hit the gaming stores, devouring every piece of information from WotC on Eric's site. There was no facebook, twitter, instagram, blogger; there was only Eric Noah's Unofficial Third Edition News Site. And now we read...

Do they lead into each other or does one have to create the lead between them? Or neither?

So wizards posted a page with an expectation of what they are doing at GenCon. http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Feature.aspx?x=dnd/feature/gencon At they bottom they have a daily seminar where they will answer questions about Next and walk through character creation. Honestly, you could probably...