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D&D’s official Acquisitions Inc book goes on pre-order
The original Acq Inc dates back to 2008 and was a collaboration between Penny Arcade and Wizards of the Coast in order to promote the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG.
Instantly generate a whole culture for NPCs in your fantasy RPG
This site generates whole cultures with sample names, foods, clothes and religions.
The Mollu: This D&D supplement introduces slugs and snails as a PC race
Christopher Zito’s “The Mollu” is a four-paged D&D 5e supplement from the DMs Guild that only costs a Dollar.
Treasures of Drakon: The Phantom board game goes to Kickstarter
Australian company Frew Games has a license to make a board game based on the comic book character The Phantom.
Roxy Comics: Me, Creating my D&D Character
In this comic we see that sometimes characters are roleplayed differently than how they originally appeared in their creator’s mind’s eye.
Genre Police: Sonnets & Sorcerers
We need to talk about how cool Shakespeare was.
Game Science: Story structure as network graphs
Good adventure design is essentially a structured story that captivates the audience. And story structure is in its most straightforward nature a sequence of events placed chronologically by the designer.
The next Dungeons & Dragons storyline and The Descent
The next Dungeons & Dragons storyline is coming and we’ll learn more about it in a heavily streamed live extravaganza next month.
Chaosium buys the 7th Sea RPG
All of the 7th Sea product and merch will now be moved to Chaosium’s warehouses and shippers who will take over fulfilment.
