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D&D TTRPG news and articles

Dungeons & Dragons is more than a game; it's a cultural titan and the gateway to fantasy adventure for millions worldwide. At its heart, D&D is a collaborative storytelling experience. Players create unique heroes, from mighty barbarians to wise wizards, and embark on perilous quests in a world brought to life by the Dungeon Master. The rules provide structure, but the real magic comes from the shared imagination of the group. Every roll of the dice and every player decision shapes a unique narrative, making each campaign a truly personal epic forged in creativity and chance.

The game’s enduring appeal lies in its powerful social core. In an age of digital screens, D&D brings people together to cooperate, solve problems, and build legends face to face. This spirit has fuelled its explosive resurgence in pop culture, introducing the magic of tabletop roleplaying games to a new generation. Yet for all its grand legacy, D&D remains wonderfully accessible. All it takes is a set of dice, a few friends, and a spark of imagination to unlock infinite worlds of adventure. It is the ultimate engine for heroic storytelling.

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Brutal Viking fantasy: A review of Svilland

September 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

If you like 5e and are tempted by a Vikings game, then I think you’ll like Svilland.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dream Realm Storytellers, Dungeons & Dragons, reviews, svilland

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #12

September 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let us retreat from the bitter winds of the outside place and concentrate on some decidedly warmer and in-door activities; tabletop roleplaying.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, baldur's gate, Catalyst Game Labs, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, ed greenwood, fantasy age, far away land rpg, Fat Goblin Games, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, Jack Norris, Mystical Throne Entertainment, Origins Award, Owen Stephens, Philip J Reed, Polyhedra Games, Rick Loomis, Rising from the last war, routinely itemised, Shadowrun, Simian Circle Games, wizards of the coast

A look inside Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus

September 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Photographs of an early copy of Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus shared on Twitter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: baldur's gate, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, previews

Lovecraftian sub-classes trialled in new official D&D playtest

September 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Wizards of the Coast just doubled the size of their new D&D playtest.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons

[Poll] How do you pronounce Tiefling?

September 4, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Tieflings have been part of D&D since the second edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. They were part of the original Planescape (1994) and were part-human and part-lower-plane, but not half-fiends.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, planescape

Historia: Could this work? Dark renaissance fantasy, D&D and anthros?

September 4, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Historia is a dark fantasy, lowering the magic in standard 5e and introducing rules for factions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, Mana Project Studio

Witchcraft: Magic of Hereva is a Pepper & Carrot D&D powered RPG

August 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

This is a D&D 5e powered RPG which introduces the Witches of Hereva class, based on Pepper & Carrot, and some sub-classes to support it.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #11

August 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Critical YAS! It’s coming up to the weekend, and this means here on Geek Native I spend some time summing up recent RPG news for you.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astral tabletop, blackmoor, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, eBay, funko, Jim Zub, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, Punkapocalyptic, raging swan press, Robert J. Schwalb, routinely itemised, runequest, Shadowrun, swordsfall, warhammer

The Wounded Earth: The dual system Eldritch Century Kickstarts

August 29, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A pledge of $5 gets you the Eldritch Century World PRimer, $20 gets you the PDF core rules and $60 the core rules in hardcover. There are plenty of other pledge tiers to opt-in and out of goodies.

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

$9,000 and counting: Rare original D&D woodgrain box set on ebay

August 29, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The auction for a rare woodgrain box set of original D&D is heating up on eBay. It contains first and second print runs of the game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, eBay

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