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DnD Party Portrait by ncorva Memories of kidnapped kids: Into the Duskworld RPG Explore the cold of space this winter: The Expanse RPG and Modern AGE list in the Bundle of Holding The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2020 The most popular D&D subclasses in D&D Beyond in 2020

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The most common party composition in D&D Beyond in 2020

December 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

DnD Party Portrait by ncorva

As we trundle to the end of a memorable year, we’ve been looking at D&D stats with the help of D&D Beyond.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dnd beyond, Dungeons & Dragons, stats

Memories of kidnapped kids: Into the Duskworld RPG

December 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Into the Duskworld is a good looking but sombre RPG from Italian publisher Alter Ego Games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, kickstarters

Explore the cold of space this winter: The Expanse RPG and Modern AGE list in the Bundle of Holding

December 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Green Ronin’s core Modern AGE rules, Threefold and The Expanse RPG all available in this modern bundle.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Green Ronin Publishing, modern age, sales, the expanse, the expanse rpg, threefold

The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2020

December 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

DriveThruRPG has kindly pulled some data from their vast marketplace of RPG goodness, and we can now see which RPG titles have come out top.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arcanist Press, Dishonored, edge, Expeditious Retreat Press, ironsworn, Legend of the Five Rings, Modiphius Entertainment, night horrors, onyx path publishing, R. Talsorian Games, Shawn Tomkin, sine nomine publishing, the halls of arden vul

The most popular D&D subclasses in D&D Beyond in 2020

December 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Where does this data come from? Once again there’s D&D Beyond and their juicy database of character records to thank.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dnd beyond, Dungeons & Dragons, stats

Free to Download: Let’s Kill the Moon (5e adventure)

December 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let’s Kill the Moon is a free one-shot D&D 5e adventure in which your characters side quest off from your main campaign to fight the moon!. Okay, the antagonist is Karaan, the god of lycanthropes who assumes the form of the moon so he can attack the party with lasers. [Download Let’s Kill the Moon] […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, werewolves

John Harper makes the Paragon system available for third-party commercial use

December 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The new rules for Paragon usage put Agon at the heart of the ecosystem as third-party games cannot quote from the book, only cite mechanics and references by page numbers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, john harper

The most popular D&D classes in D&D Beyond in 2020

December 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The five most popular D&D character classes picked in 2020 according to data from D&D Beyond.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dnd beyond, Dungeons & Dragons, stats

Genre Police: The Social Dilemma

December 13, 2020 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I’d posit that while social interaction is often the most thrilling or engaging part most RPG games, it’s maybe a difficult master to serve.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg tips

These are the five most common names for D&D characters in 2020

December 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Dungeons & Dragons is a game of imagination, storytelling and atmosphere we can surely expect some impressive character backgrounds, concepts and names.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dnd beyond, Dungeons & Dragons

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