After I wrote my first impression of Hit Point Press’ Big Bad Booklet Patreon, they reached out to me to ask if I wanted to look at more of their offerings. I said yes, and I received the bundles of previous Big Bad Booklets currently available. The first volume contains issues 1-6, and the second bundle contains issues 7-12. For
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Arcadia, MCDM’s D&D 5e focused publication, is back from a short hiatus. This hiatus was planned after the first three issues, to allow the company to take stock and evaluate content moving forward. Before we dive into the publication, the takeaway from the introduction cited the following observations and future directives: The publication has even more of a dedicated DM
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Last year Green Ronin put up the 5e adaptation of The Book of Fiends on Game On Tabletop. I had backed it at the time. Immediately after the crowdfunding campaign, a beta version of the book was available, but now the full version is here. The original Book of Fiends was released under the 3.5 d20 license for use with
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Back in the 3rd edition OGL era, Green Ronin produced a series of books that presented fantasy versions of various historical settings, from “biblical” fantasy with Testament, to Egyptian fantasy with the Hamunaptra boxed set, to Trojan War. In some ways, these were a third party spiritual successor to the HR series of green reference books put out by TSR
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I thought I would look at another Patreon providing Dungeons & Dragons 5e content, and this time around, we’ll be looking at Hit Point Press’ Big Bad Booklet Patreon. The Big Bad Booklet is a product created by Hit Point Press to provide a “boss monster” character that DMs can slot into their campaigns, along with plot hooks and support
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I’ve said it before, but I love books about RPGs. I enjoy the discussion of how and why we game, and why we do the things we do. Kobold Press has consistently been putting out various guides that address these topics from various angles, and the most recent one is the Kobold Guide to Monsters. Like previous Kobold Guide books,
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When I finished my review of Beowulf: Age of Heroes, I started following Handiwork Games for any future news about their projects. In doing so, I came across their Patreon, Handimonsters. This patreon publishes multiple monthly monsters for members, so I decided to check it out. No, I’m not obsessed with D&D monsters. Why would you say that, and no,
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There has been a lot of talk about WOTC’s 5th Edition d20 OGL, and the suitability of the framework for various roleplaying games. Some of this revolves around the “d20 Glut” that happened around the time that Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 was released. If you weren’t around for that, or weren’t paying attention to RPG news, effectively, many, many games
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What day is today? Its Unearthed Arcana release day, an irregular holiday that strikes when you least expect it! What is the subject of today’s UA? Draconic Options. When I first saw this, I was wondering if this was going to be a “second pass” on the draconic themed subclasses we got a few months ago. That isn’t the case,
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Some of my earliest fantasy touchstones were the stories of King Arthur and his knights that my sisters would read to me at night. The idea of an evil knight that stands for everything wrong in the world caught my imagination early. In my young mind, an evil knight specifically sworn to oppose everything good was a great villain. Yes,
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