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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I rarely get gaming products for my birthday or Christmas, because even the geeks in my life have a hard time keeping up with what I have or don’t have. That said, as much as I have a weakness for GM screens, I haven’t been quite as ardently picking those up since, oh, around March of last year for some
Read moreThis took me a little longer to write, not because it is a particularly difficult topic, but because, well, it turns out I get a little unfocused when people schedule both a pandemic and a coup at the same time. Since we have a little bit of breathing space between national/global emergencies, this seems like a good time to pull
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I love magazine content to fuel my RPG obsession. Unfortunately, there isn’t much out there these days since Dungeon Magazine and Dragon Magazine were shuttered. I subscribed to D&D Insider, so I read many issues of the 4e version of Dragon Magazine, but that content always felt, I don’t know . . . safe? I enjoy Dragon+, but it also
Read moreThe holidays got in the way of some of my regular polls, but we’re back here, at the end of the year, to ring out 2020 with a new opinion poll. This poll will run until Thursday, January 8th, so there is a little bit more time to get in on this one. I took to heart some of the
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There is a category of RPG product that I think has really flourished in the Dungeons & Dragons 5e era. That’s not to say this category didn’t exist previous to 5e. I know, for example, Legendary Games started off by providing supplementary campaign products to Pathfinder adventure paths, but the campaign supplemental product is well represented on the Dungeon Masters
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Last Sunday I posted my most recent “What Do I Know About Opinions” poll, this time asking about new editions of role playing games. Specifically, I asked “Under what conditions do you consider it worth your time to pick up a new edition of a game?” I limited the responses to one answer per participant, and added the following options:
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