Ready to creep into the deepest chamber of the dungeon, where the most dangerous of all denizens is lurking, plotting and sending out their tendrils to degrade the world around it? Have a good idea how to design that deepest chamber? That’s what Fantastic Lairs is attempting to solve for D&D 5e game masters. Fantastic Lairs is a product that
Read moreThis topic has come up a lot, and it’s not new to D&D 5e. Adjusting the number of hit points that an opponent has is one of the “difficulty sliders” that can be utilized in D&D, but the “permission” to do that has shifted a bit over time. For example, earlier editions of D&D strongly implied (if not directly stating)
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Once again, James Intracaso was kind enough to share the current issue of Arcadia, the D&D 5e magazine published by Matt Colville’s MCDM, with me. Let this be my disclaimer, I received a review copy, but after the last issue, I’m glad I have the opportunity to see how the magazine develops in the second issue. Atlas of Arcadia The
Read moreWhat’s going on today in RPG circles? Wait, what, the size of a puppet’s . . . that’s not what I was expecting. Not what I was expecting at all. So Wizards of the Coast has been promoting the Stuff of Legends show, which has just debuted. If you haven’t heard of this show, it is a show where we
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I feel like it was just yesterday when all the Unearthed Arcanas said “2020,” and it was literally the only good thing to contain the numbers 2020. But, low, what rises from the ashes of such a cursed year? A new Unearthed Arcana, clothed in burial shrouds, carrying with it predation, curses, and unlife. That’s a fitting follow up to
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There are times when I could swear that I have visited a topic before, and yet I can find no evidence. I backed the Kickstarter for The World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game: The Zine, and I’ve been enjoying the content so far. You can find some of the individual articles here on DriveThruRPG. As a backer, I’ve been getting these in
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One thing I have really enjoyed about the more recent D&D 5e adventure offerings is that they have spawned a lot of interesting ancillary Dungeon Masters Guild products related to the locations and the storyline. For Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, we received offerings detailing Candlekeep, and alternate scenes that could be used to start the adventure from Elturel or
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In a normal year, if someone were to summarize everything they worked on in the previous year, they would do it fairly close to the end of the previous year, instead of almost making it to February before that summary appears. Then again, the year we’re talking about is 2020, so I’m not going to hold myself to unrealistic standards.
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Warduke Press is an organization that has recently started to run an organized play group for Kobold Press’ Midgard setting. Warduke Press appears to be the next iteration of the Greyhawk Reborn group that has been maintaining a Greyhawk based organized play group, so they appear to have some experience in managing a third party organized play group. As a
Read moreThis time around, I thought we’d explore a nice, uncomplicated topic, like what makes cyberpunk feel like cyberpunk. No possibility for controversy there, right? Specifically, I want to take a look at hacking, netrunning, entering the Matrix, etc. What does a game need to do to feel like cyberpunk, specifically when the hacker is trying to invade a computer system?
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