The launch date for the forthcoming official campaign Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is September 18th. You can pre-order it on Amazon now. You can get a better look at it on Roll20 today, though! Not only can you also order the virtual table conversion you can glimpse inside various modules and get a good idea of […]
Tickets go on sale for a Dungeons & Dragons speed dating night
Come November, a group of adventurers will gather at a tavern in Birmingham to collectively face a challenge that can intimidate the fiercest barbarian or turn back the most devoted paladin. They’ll be meeting to experience a round of speed dating! Thankfully the cost of a shot and a glass of beer or wine is […]
Norse myths inspired Svilland launches on Kickstarter
Geek Native has a free to download Svilland campaign demo which seemed pretty popular. The 5e setting is now live on Kickstarter, and I can see it attracting some big name backers. It’s far too early to tell whether they’ll make their £4,680 target, but you can follow the progress on their campaign page. [Back […]
Bravery: D&D vs CoC
Roleplaying games are often about bravery. Characters charge into danger in order to rescue those weaker than themselves, to get to the loot first or just because it’s the right thing to do. But bravery comes in all different shapes and forms. In Dungeons & Dragons, your adventuring party equipped with magic weapons and divine […]
This handmade DM’s Guide is hundreds of dollars perfect
Imgur user 1DM Magic shared their custom-made Dungen Master’s Guide. It is a book of beauty filled with rules (especially those which are easy to forget), tables, lists and maps. The idea came from 1DM’s wish to have an easy to access and organised lists of names, riddles, magical items that were small enough to […]
What was the first RPG?
The first evening of tabletop roleplaying, as we would recognise it today, was run by Dave Arneson in 1971. The campaign setting was Blackmoor, and the game system was a modified version of Chainmail. Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren created Chainmail, both members of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, after being inspired (in part) […]
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica cover artist and two other D&D illustrators banned from entering America
Titus Lunter is an illustrator and concept artist who has worked on Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: the Gathering and for companies like Riot and Valve. Anna Steinbauer is an illustrator who has also worked on Magic: the Gathering. Magali Villeneuve is an artist and fantasy author who’s worked on (no prizes for guessing) Magic: the […]
9 flying ship battle maps for your Eberron campaign
Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron Cosmic Cartographer shares their D&D and Pathfinder battle maps under creative commons license over at Deviant Art. That means while you can use them in your campaign you can’t put the art into a sourcebook of your own and sell it on the DMs Guild. You can find all of Cosmic […]
The 15 worst character classes in D&D by rank
Picking a character class is no simple matter. Not only do you need to have a character you can have fun with but you need to contribute to the success of the group. Wait, no, scratch that. This is a joke. There is no such pressure. Just pick a character that fits with the game […]
Mimics do not always need to appear as chests and doors
In Dungeons & Dragons there’s a monster called a Mimic that can polymorph into an object and back again. In 1970 in his book Future Shock the futurist and businessman Alvin Toffer coins the phrase Overchoice. The two are related because Overchoice is a mental state when people have a difficult time making a decision […]