The first evening of tabletop roleplaying, as we would recognise it today, was run by Dave Arneson in 1971. The campaign setting was Blackmoor, and the game system was a modified version of Chainmail. Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren created Chainmail, both members of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, after being inspired (in part) […]
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica cover artist and two other D&D illustrators banned from entering America
Titus Lunter is an illustrator and concept artist who has worked on Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: the Gathering and for companies like Riot and Valve. Anna Steinbauer is an illustrator who has also worked on Magic: the Gathering. Magali Villeneuve is an artist and fantasy author who’s worked on (no prizes for guessing) Magic: the […]
Genre Police: Pulp Fiction(s)?
So, Pulp. I’ve left this one off for a long while because I think we needed to discuss a few of the other genres to get here. When someone mentions Pulp tales, we all know what we are talking about. We’re fighting Nazis on a plane wing, discovering lost valleys with golden temples, escaping dinosaurs […]
9 flying ship battle maps for your Eberron campaign
Cosmic Cartographer shares their D&D and Pathfinder battle maps under creative commons license over at Deviant Art. That means while you can use them in your campaign you can’t put the art into a sourcebook of your own and sell it on the DMs Guild. You can find all of Cosmic Cartographer’s Eberron creations in […]
Free to download: Svilland campaign setting demo
Svilland is a campaign setting for 5e inspired by Scandinavian myths, especially the Viking age. Dream Realm Storytellers will be bringing Svilland to Kickstarter on September 4th and have a free to download demo to whet your appetite. While Svilland itself is a fantasy world rooted in dark TV adaptations of Viking mysticism and brutality, […]
Exclusive House of Paper Shadows preview
This post contains a lengthy preview of the adventure House of Paper Shadows so if you’re a player who might play it, please be fair and skip past this post instead. This download is a horror-themed wuxia adventure for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate from Bedrock Games. Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate is a vast […]
The 15 worst character classes in D&D by rank
Picking a character class is no simple matter. Not only do you need to have a character you can have fun with but you need to contribute to the success of the group. Wait, no, scratch that. This is a joke. There is no such pressure. Just pick a character that fits with the game […]
Mimics do not always need to appear as chests and doors
In Dungeons & Dragons there’s a monster called a Mimic that can polymorph into an object and back again. In 1970 in his book Future Shock the futurist and businessman Alvin Toffer coins the phrase Overchoice. The two are related because Overchoice is a mental state when people have a difficult time making a decision […]
EN Publishing announce Judge Dredd and The Worlds of 2000 AD RPG Kickstarter
Towards the end of September, we’ll get the chance to back a Kickstarter from EN World’s publishing arm to make the Judge Dredd and The Worlds of 2000 AD RPG a reality. EN Publishing has the license from 2000 AD owners Rebellion. There are a few things to get your head around here. The first […]
Mutant Year Zero’s good year continues with The Eternal War and Hotel Imperator
Mutant Year Zero is a game by Paradox Entertainment. That’s the same company who own the rights to Conan the Barbarian, Mutant Chronicles and Kult. It is not Paradox Interactive the company who owns White wolf and Harebrained Schemes as that’s become independent. The tabletop roleplaying game Mutant Year Zero, which Geek Native recommends, was […]
