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Old D&D products carry a new disclaimer on the DMs Guild

July 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 20 Comments

Some old D&D products such as Oriental Adventures (1e) and Fiend Folio (1e) have a disclaimer at the bottom of their DMs Guild listings.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

Orion D. Black walks from Wizards of the Coast with a scathing critique of the company

July 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Despite that indie success, though Orion says they never really got any work from WotC, although some ideas were stolen.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: orion d. black, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #55

July 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

One week of RPG news: A battle in the Gygax family of D&D’s legacy, too sexy vampires and a game designer disowning their award-winning edgelord adventure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Alligator Alley Entertainment, astral tabletop, beowulf, Chaosium, cubicle 7, curse of hearts, daniel kwan, dms guild, earthdawn, ENnies, Esper Genesis, fasa, Gary Gygax, GURPS, Jon Hodgson, Justin Achilli, kobold press, lamentations of the flame princess, luke gygax, Malleus Monstrorum, Massif Press, onyx path publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rebellion, routinely itemised, Steve Jackson Games, vampire, warhammer 40k, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, world of darkness, wrath & glory

Wizards of the Coast bans Twitch streamer in sexy content row

July 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

This week model Lizbeth Eden was kicked out of the Magic Creator Program for linking Magic:TG and sexualised postings.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, magic the gathering, wizards of the coast

Too sexy for D&D? Wizards of the Coast working on a decency code for third-party content

July 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The work with Wizards of the Coast also means the DMs Guild will no longer be in the awkward position of trying to guess what the Hasbro-owned multi-national might find acceptable, guided (or biased) by common cultural trends, and will have guidelines it too can refer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: curse of hearts, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, oliver clegg, onebookshelf, wizards of the coast

Curse of Hearts pushes the DM’s Guild too far, and sparks debate about representation

June 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Last night, ENnie-nominated game designer Oliver Clegg tweeted that his adventure Curse of Hearts had been removed from the DM’s Guild.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: curse of hearts, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, oliver clegg, wizards of the coast

2020 ENnies nominations announced

June 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 2020 ENnie Judges Spotlight winners and 2020’s nominees have been announced.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Ad Infinitum Adventures, alien rpg, Arc Dream Publishing, beowulf, burning games, Call of Cthulhu, cubicle 7, Delta Green, electric bastionland, ENnies, exalted funeral, Expeditious Retreat Press, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hit point press, humblewood, icarus, Inkwell Ideas, lancer, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, Massif Press, mork borg, nibiru, oliver clegg, Pelgrane Press, quest, Renegade Game Studios, river horse, rowan rook and decard, Stygian Fox Publishing, the halls of arden vul, the ultraviolet grasslands, the yellow king, thousand year old vampire, Tuesday Knight Games, wet ink games, witch+craft, wizards of the coast

Unbreakable author wants D&D to pull Oriental Adventures from shops

June 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

In recent years, more D&D fans have been uncomfortable with how the 1985 published book treats its subject matter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: daniel kwan, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #54

June 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summary featuring Wizards of the Coast news about D&D, Paizo on Pathfinder and Starfinder, R. Talsorian Games on Cyberpunk Red and The Witcher, with lots more.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alice is missing, bundle of holding, campaign cartographer, Chaosium, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, defiant, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, gale force nine, game machinery, humble bundle, hunters entertainment, icewind dale, Joe Manganiello, jp chapleau, kobold press, Pacesetter Games and Simulations, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, patrick rothfuss, Pelgrane Press, R. Talsorian Games, rime of the frostmaiden, routinely itemised, Sanguine Productions, Skeletonkey games, starfinder, the witcher, Troll Lord Games, tunnels & trolls, warhammer, wizards of the coast

Three kobolds in a trenchcoat get a statblock

June 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The kobolds seem to be pretending to be a human, or a humanoid of human height, standing on each other’s shoulders to fill up a trenchcoat.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, humour, monsters, rime of the frostmaiden, wizards of the coast

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