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Free to Download: D&D – Spelljammer Academy

July 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Wizards of the Coast, the new owners for D&D Beyond, have promised that there will be further adventures for Spelljammer Academy. To get those, you must first unlock one adventure and then you’ll automatically get the next.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dndbeyond, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, spelljammer, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #129

December 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summarised from the week that’s just gone with reviews, interviews, bundle deals, competitions and crowdfunding projects.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, a couple of drakes, Achtung! Cthulhu, bandit camp, brindlewood bay, broken shield, carbon 2185, Chaosium, city of mist, Claim the Sky, cortex, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dc comics, defiant, dms guild, dndbeyond, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, edge, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, en publishing, fairy trails, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, game machinery, ghost hunters, gila, goodman games, Gunnar Roxen, haunted west, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, just crunch games, Legendary Games, legends of avallen, magpie games, Mana Project Studio, marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, nightfell, Nova, paranoia, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, root, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, Steffie de Vaan, storm crow, strixhaven, the dee sanction, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Matrix, The One Ring, traveller, truffle shuffle, Tuesday Knight Games, twilight imperium, Victoriana, World Anvil, xploringmap

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #121

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet-point speed as we look at where D&D might be going next, free Call of Cthulhu for year 40 and a host of promising new games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcanum Worlds, bloat games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, Claim the Sky, cyberpunk red, dice, dndbeyond, dungeon crawl classics, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, game wizards, gary con, goodman games, headless hydra press, holler, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, izegrim creations, James Ohlen, laidback dungeon master, level up, luke gygax, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, relics, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, SLA Industries, southlands, spelljammer, steve dee, strixhaven, survive this!!, the cthulhu hack, vast grimm, wizards of the coast

Most D&D fans can’t correctly answer “Who owns D&D Beyond?”

June 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When this post first went live, the data says that most D&D fans can’t correctly answer “Who owns D&D Beyond?”. Does it matter?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dndbeyond, Dungeons & Dragons, fandom, stats, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast

AboveVTT: A Chrome extension to turn D&D Beyond into a virtual tabletop

March 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once installed on your browser, the extension uses the DnDBeyond.com site to overlap virtual tabletop facilities.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: dndbeyond, virtual tabletop

Are digital RPG books about to become 20% cheaper in the UK?

May 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

By 2021, the UK government wants to make ebooks like digital tabletop RPG rulebooks 20% cheaper.

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dndbeyond, itch.io, onebookshelf

D&D Beyond unveils a combat tracker

February 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Track the initiative order of characters and monsters, auto-rolling for the monsters to save time.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dndbeyond

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #15

September 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve made it to Friday again and earned a chance to lean back, take a deep breath and scroll through seven days of RPG industry news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, anvl, Arc Dream Publishing, astral tabletop, black void, Chaosium, cortex, cypher system, Delta Green, dndbeyond, drivethrurpg, Evil Hat Productions, fandom, fantasy flight games, genesys, Green Ronin Publishing, king arthur pendragon, Monte Cook Games, pathfinder, routinely itemised, threefold, Usagi Yojimbo

(Probably) the most cliche character names in D&D

May 15, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

DnD Party Portrait by ncorva

As a result, we can see what the most popular names of characters playing their way through Xanathar’s Guide to Everything are.

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

D&D Beyond coupons shared on Facebook

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week D&D Beyond have been running adverts on Facebook with coupon codes to a chunky 25% off.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dndbeyond, Dungeons & Dragons, sales

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