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D&D Belongs to You: Use Foundry and Roll20 et al but not WotC’s VTT, argues 5e publisher

July 1, 2023 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Chris Dias owns Dias Ex Machina and created Ultramodern5, the most successful non-fantasy book for 5th Editoins D&D not published by WOTC.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Dias, Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, foundry vtt, roll20, ultramodern5, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast

Collaboration, not substitution: 5e’s most successful non-fantasy publisher on AI in RPGs

June 16, 2023 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Chris Dias owns Dias Ex Machina, the creator of Ultramodern5, the most successful non-fantasy book for 5th Editions D&D not published by WOTC.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Chris Dias, Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, ultramodern5

Patron thank you gift: Dias Ex Machine Games’ Biohazard (5E) – A Modern Zombie Apocalypse

June 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Zombies overrun Happyland, and the characters are special forces sent in to find out why. If possible, find a cure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Dias, Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, Patreon, ultramodern5, zombies

The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2020

December 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a 3:2 tussle between Modiphius with Star Trek and Catalyst with Shadowrun and BattleTech to see which publisher appears the most often.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, Catalyst Game Labs, cyberpunk red, Dias Ex Machina Games, edge, Modiphius Entertainment, R. Talsorian Games, Shadowrun, star trek adventures, Tuesday Knight Games, ultramodern5

The best selling modern RPGs of 2020

December 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If the setting is broadly contemporary, then the fact that characters are witches does not disqualify it as a game with a modern environment.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alice is missing, Dias Ex Machina Games, drivethrurpg, game machinery, hunters entertainment, night horrors, onyx path publishing, stats, ultramodern5

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Dias Ex Machina Games

November 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The indie publisher in the spotlight for November is Dias Ex Machina, and this is a story of sex machines and a betrayal that hurt the very heart of Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Dias, Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, spotlight, ultramodern5, wizards of the coast

Kickstarting Ultramodern5: Use the D&D rules for any modern campaign setting

May 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The point of Ultramodern5 is that you can pick a modern genre and run a game in it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Dias, Cyberpunk, Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, sci-fi, ultramodern5, weird west

The best selling Western RPGs of 2018

December 30, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To round off the year Geek Native and DriveThruRPG has been going through the best selling RPGs from the retailer’s genre tags.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dias Ex Machina Games, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, genesys, hunters entertainment, kids on bikes, runehammer games, through the breach, ultramodern5, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures

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