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The 5e Wanderer’s Guide to Merchants & Magic crushes Kickstarter goals with ready-to-play magic shops

June 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The book’s success is partially due to the problem it addresses; there are no native rules for trading magic items in D&D 5e. How much are they worth? What can you buy? How do you haggle?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Eventyr Games, kickstarters

Five tips for teaching someone to be a Dungeon Master

June 4, 2021 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Teaching someone to be a Dungeon Master is one of the most valuable things you can do to support the hobby.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg tips

DriveThruRPG announces a dramatic price rise of premium colour books

June 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest newsletter from DriveThruRPG has warned customers that prices will go up dramatically.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, money, onebookshelf

D&D: Wizards of the Coast release a first edition post-apocalyptic Gamma World bundle

June 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 6 Comments

Gamma World is a post-apocalyptic setting for D&D. Characters might encounter mutant plants and twisted animals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Gamma World, James M. Ward, wizards of the coast

The Average Fantasy Bestiary (2.0) contains remarkable insights into D&D monsters

June 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dragons appear 42 times in 50 popular D&D books (which you can see listed below), and then Goblins and Zombies each appear 28 times.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bestiary, Dungeons & Dragons, monsters, stats

The Botanical Bestiary: A Leshy-only monster manual for 5e and Pathfinder 2e

June 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Botanical Bestiary will have stats for D&D 5e, and a variant will have one for Pathfinder 2e; both include 50 forms of Leshy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, monsters, pathfinder

Medieval style D&D 5e character sheets

June 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The digital download costs a few dollars and delivers three pages. The first page, as you’d expect, does most of the heavy lifting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: character sheets, dungeons and dragons, Etsy

Free to Download: D&D beginner adventure – Scales of Justice

June 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Supported by a Patreon community, MonkeyDM has released a free level 2 one-shot called Scales of Justice.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeons and dragons, free to download, Patreon

Ideal Hands reveals the latest stretch goal for apocalyptic RPG Collector

June 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Realm is all you have ever known and all you ever will. A vast heaviness wrecks you as you walk among the corrupted populace of your entropic slums.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, exclusive, kickstarters

Warhammer RPG: Soulbound adds a host of interesting playable races

June 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Games Workshop announced a new set of rules of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, including developments in the story with the end of the Necroquake and changes to the factions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of sigmar, cubicle 7, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar

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