The Solo Adventurer’s Toolbox is a Fantasy Grounds MOD that adds in random quests, random encounters, the ability to create dungeons randomly, wilderness exploration and town settlements and NPCs. The toolkit creates random NPCs including merchants with shops, and they say infinite monster encounters.
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New Year, New Game: Download a free Pugmire preview
Pugmire is an RPG set after the Ages of Man have ended and new races have evolved. The dogs of many breeds now work within the tenets of their religion, with politics and adventure to rescue relics of fallen kingdoms and keep their borders safe.
Wow your players with living maps for Dungeons & Dragons
We first took a peek at Dynamic Dungeons in the first half of last year and checked out some of their living and moving maps for D&D and other RPGs. They have got a few new videos worthy of your time. Modular city sewer living map pack City jail and haunted prison maps What these […]
Don’t miss the new tier in the “New Year, New Game” sale at DriveThruRPG
Usually, at the start of January DriveThruRPG has a special offer on called “New Year, New Game!”.
What are murder hobos and where did the phrase come from?
The discussion was around the use of the traditional 10-foot pole. Early D&D games were full of dungeons traps, and paranoid characters would use a long pole to check for pits, poke treasure chests (in case of mimic beasts) and try to push doors open.
Bird with a Brush brings dice to life
What if your roleplaying dice had adventures of their own?
Mantic Games announce Kings of War RPG
The lead designer is the ENnie award-winning Marc Langsworthy of Red Scar Publishing.
The best selling RPGs at DriveThruRPG in 2018
Geek Native was lucky enough to be able to report on some of the successes at DriveThruRPG in 2018. We don’t have access to sales volumes but we did get the by-genre top ten. The genre charts looked to be quite a battle with some games storming up the rankings in only a matter of […]
A “quick and easy” guide to picking your D&D 5e character class
There are some unexpected outcomes in the flow of decisions including the recommendation that you should pick the Artificer character class because you’re weird.
Heartbroken Matthew Mercer replies to frustrated DM
Matthew Mercer, the DM of the hugely popular Critical Role, admitted a comment left by a fellow DM on Reddit’s DM Academy left him feeling a little heartbroken.
