These impressive Dungeons & Dragon cupcakes are the work of Bianca Thomas. What do you see there? The Beholder stands out clearly to me as especially awesome! Can you buy them? Nope… made for her gaming group. However, Bianca runs the Etsy store BonBonAnon so you can get in touch and browse through her handmade […]
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.
Loot Crate have an exclusive D&D collectible
Loot Crate have an exclusive D&D collectible this month. As is their usual style; they won’t say what it is. You have to sign up and cross your fingers. March’s Loot Crate is using ‘Playback’ as a theme and they’ve got stuff from Back to the Future, Sonic the Hedgehog and The Simpsons as well. […]
International GM’s Day 2018
March 4th is International GM’s Day (and the anniversary of Gary Gygax’s death). Every year the RPG publisher community rallies around to support GM’s Day in the form of sales. It can be a bit busy and a bit hard to keep track of. The purpose of this page is to keep tabs on the […]
Three years into the Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons and Dragons
Cavegirl Productions and X-Ray Films have spent three years interviewing artists and insiders with stories to tell from the last 40 years of Dungeons & Dragons. With a GenCon premier in mind the team turned to Kickstarter to raise finishing funds and succeeded. At the time of writing there’s 15 days still on the clock, […]
Tomb Of Horrors: Inside D&D’s most deadly, divisive and downright famous dungeon
It’s 2006. Our party are trapped on a frozen island on a forgotten continent, miles from Faerun. Unable to leave due to a binding spell placed on us by our enemies, we have searched the island for a way out. Finding evidence of ruins beneath us, we start to dig our way in. After the […]
35 ideas for a non-musical bard
Bards are an important character class. They can make the difference between party success and party failure… but do they need to have some skinny character prancing around with a lute? No, they don’t. Here’s some ideas for a non-musical bard! Orators Your bard could be a storyteller, diplomat, motivational speaker, poet, philosopher, puppeteer, political […]
Dum Dum Die: Its a boobfest out there
“Its a boobfest out there” is the title of the first episode of Dum Dum Die. This is a podcast of a homebrew D&D and as the title suggestions it is played by an all awesome, all female, gaming group. The success of Twitch and YouTube Live has created a boom in tabletop streams. Dum […]
The most popular RPG Kickstarter ever? Strongholds & Followers
Matt Colville is a gamer designer who’s worked on computer games like Evolve, the designer of the original Dune CCG and RPG, he worked on the Star Trek RPG, designed the Knights of the Dinner Table card game and even did the official comic for Critical Role. His Twitch channel has over 20,000 followers. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/255133215/strongholds-and-streaming […]
Genre Police: More Than Just Semi-Nudes – Sword & Sorcery
Welcome to back Genre Police, a series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. Today, we are going to round up our fantasy sub-genres for now with the most venerable tradition of all – […]
11 Discord servers to interest tabletop and RPG fans
Update: This post is several years old and Discords come and go. Many thousand new Discords have arrived since this post was written. The green button on the bottom of your Discord app can be used for server discovery. Geek Native has (just) launched a Discord and you join here. If you notice any of […]
