What’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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A few months back, I saw the preview art for the Wagadu setting, an Afrofantasy setting by Twin Drums. The artwork was beautiful and evocative, so I signed up to get notification when the project went live. Apparently I wasn’t paying attention when I signed up, because the project is even more ambitious than I thought it was. Not only
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I’ll admit it. I have a little bit of an axe to grind with Corellon Larethian. Corellon is the primary god of the elves, and is generally regarded as a “good” deity, and yet, in general D&D canon, they banished and cursed a whole group of elves for what one group of them did at one point in time in
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Wizards of the Coast has posted a job opening for a Senior Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. While Wizards has been under fire since Orion Black’s discussion of their time working for the company, I wouldn’t doubt that this position was already being created before that came to pass. In their statement, Diversity and Dungeons & Dragons, Wizards of
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There has been a lot of discussion about race in Dungeons and Dragons, and what the mechanics and terminology says about the biases we have in the real world. There have been several passes at this concept so far, including James Haek’s article on D&D Beyond, and Grazilaxx’s Guide to Ancestry (which I reviewed at the link). This has become
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I had a chance to look through Mythic Odesseys of Theros the last couple of days. This isn’t a full review (and I’ve got away from doing a lot of official WOTC reviews, because they are ubiquitous, and from more talented people), but there is a lot I wanted to mention. This first impression is based on the material released
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I’m pretty excited to see this. I loved the 3rd edition Green Ronin Book of Fiends, and the Fiendish Codex series (Hordes of the Abyss, Tyrants of the Nine Hells) were some of my favorite official 3.5 D&D books to see publication. Game On Tabletop: The Book of Fiends 5e When it comes to 5e material from Green Ronin, I
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More fun with Unearthed Arcana, as we get a new set of playtest subclasses, this time revisiting the previous Revived Rogue, Noble Genie Warlock, and Archivist Artificer, which drifted all the way over to becoming the Order of Scribes Wizard. It feels like we’re seeing a little more of the “second round” of some of these classes before final determination
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Psionics continue to evolve in Unearthed Arcana. If you haven’t been keeping track, WOTC’s first playtest of psionic material was the Mystic, the dedicated psionic “caster” class. That disappeared for a while, and last year, WOTC introduced several psionic subclasses, flavors of existing classes with psionic themed abilities. Online, many voices cried out that anything psionic must have a
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