Urg, this looks messy. Two years ago the movie producer Tom DeSanto (X-Men, Transformers and this summer’s Bumble Bee) struck a deal to ‘oversee the Gygax catalog of published and unpublished works’. Now, according to the widow of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator, she is being used by him and New Myth Entertainment for $30 million. […]
Wizards of the Coast using Eberron as test case for future D&D 5e settings
Today Founders and Legends is streaming on Dungeons & Dragon’s Twitch channel. The show features Luke Gygax, son of D&D’s famous co-creator Gary Gygax as he plays in three games and talks to host Satine Phoenix about the origins. In the first hour of the stream, now available as a video archive, Satine and Luke […]
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 […]
11 ideas for Tenser’s Floating Disk
Does your D&D Wizard have the 1st level Conjuration ritual “Tenser’s Floating Disk” but struggles to find a use for it? The challenge with the disk is that it stops moving if you are within 20 feet of it. Once your wizard is further away then it’ll try to follow you, floating 3 feet above […]
Gygax Magazine to close
There had been some dispute over the name of the Gygax Magazine. The magazine had Luke and Ernie Gygax on board if not the whole Gygax Estate but now that’s changed. The result means the magazine cease being published. In an email to subscribers, Jayson Elliot of TSR Games, noted; As you may have heard, […]
350 free dungeons and winning tips
The One Page Dungeon Contest is a chance to put your ideas and designs in front of the roleplaying community. This year Gary Gygax’s son Ernie Gygax will be a judge along with the famous Steve Winter of TSR and Wizards of the Coast fame. The contest has created more than 300 one page dungeons […]
Gaming history: Dungeons & Dreamers review
The 40th birthday for Dungeons & Dragons happened this year, the community celebrated it and the hobby basked in some positive press attention. Today is International GM’s Day and it seems a fitting day to look back at the hobby. As it happens, I don’t need to do any research for this at all. Sitting […]
The creation of Dungeons & Dragons: The Great Kingdom
This is the trailer for the documentary The Great Kingdom that follows the creation of Dungeons & Dragons. It’s about the great work of Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson… and then the troubles with TSR. I think the trailer looks pretty compelling. It’s just a few minutes long and seems to promise an interesting story. […]
Does anyone care? Happy 40th birthday to Dungeons and Dragons
Today is Dungeons & Dragon’s 40th birthday. While we can’t be %100 that the 26th is the exact date, as it was never announced, historian and author Jon Peterson presents some great research on his blog that really leaves little debate. The approach to the birthday has been covered here on Geek Native. There’s been […]
Celebrate the birthday of modern roleplaying
We’ve roleplayed for generations but Dungeons & Dragons is considered the first modern roleplaying game. It was published in 1974 and will be 40 this year. This blogger has asked Wizards of the Coast whether they’ll be celebrating the birthday of their flagship RPG. At the time this post was written the press team of […]