Yesterday at PAX East, Larian Studios gave a gameplay demo. We also got access to their opening cinematic. The mind flayers have rediscovered their flying Astral Plane travelling Nautiloids. These tentacled ships are powerful enough for them to launch an invasion, starting with a kidnapping run on Baldur’s Gate, grabbing people from the streets so […]
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Available for one day only: WotC’s Secret Lair
To mark International Women’s Day, Wizards of the Coast will sell Secret Lair boxes for $49.99 and give $25 for each sale to the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (in the States).
Soulbound reveals the Great Parch Map
Illustrated by Jared Blando the Great Parch map shows where Sigmar first unleashed his Stormcast Eternals and pushed back against the armies of Chaos.
Gorgeous wooden hit point trackers
Do you use dice to keep track of your current hit points? It’s a common approach because it’s fast, effective, and an excuse to keep dice around.
How do you stop players being murder hobos?
Sessions since last murderhobo incident: 0
Shadow of the Bat: The animated Batman series gets a board game
IDW Games’ latest Kickstarter is for Shadow of the Bat a Batman animated series board game. It’s part of the Adventures Universal Game System and fully compatible with it.
D&D Beyond unveils a combat tracker
Track the initiative order of characters and monsters, auto-rolling for the monsters to save time.
iHunt: A review of the TTRPG where you kill monsters to pay bills
Good RPGs, I think, are those that ooze atmosphere. iHunt swims in it.
Random Prophecy Generator
Seeing in the future is one of the hardest things a GM has to do, and yet it’s not uncommon to find fantasy games with spells or magic items that give the PCs the power to do precisely that.
Unearthed Arcana: D&D is testing magical power armour
Wizards of the Coast has just released the third Unearthed Arcana with subclass experiments in it. The Artificer, a graduate from Unearthed Arcana itself, is included this time along with Druid and Ranger. Many gamers will be downloading and saving the PDF, I imagine, rather than bookmarking the page to come back to later. The […]
