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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 […]
Monster Hunter meets the Great British Bake Off: Dragon Stew cooking in 5e
New cooking-themed character classes, dessert familiars, a pre-written adventure and, of course, rules for cooking and eating Dungeons & Dragon’s monsters.
Single-Player RPGs: What there is to know about solitary gaming
Many RPGs can be adjusted to fit a single player, and as a result, there are no limits to the stories that can be played alone.
The Blood Hunter: A DM’s Guild adventure for Matt Mercer’s Blood Hunter
The download is split into four chapters, and as the plot progresses there will be the chance to save a baby drow, meet Mordenkainen and in keeping with The Witcher inspiration – you also might get a bard sidekick.
