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Back at the start of April, I wrote about my inability to replay the old AD&D computer game, Pool of Radiance. The difficulty lay primarily in its user interface, which was clunky and difficult to use on a contemporary computer. Likewise, the graphics, which looked fine on the screen in the late 198

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My Aurikesh campaign has its own player species – I wrote new mechanics for humans and goblins, and wrote several new species. Only the githyanki PC uses D&D’s official mechanics. One of these new species is kagandi, who are lightly reptilian humanoids. In the narrative they’re as common and “defaul

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Morrus and Jessica talk with Rob Heinsoo about 13th Age 2nd Edition

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Chagrinspire cutaway was different to my sketchesThe second chagrinspire volume is on my patreon up now - its a draft and bigger than I wanted but I knew it wasn't going to be finished but it's bigger than I expected at 110 pages.Will update the book this week after some other commitments with some

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I gave the the Shadowdark adventure generators a turn to create a session for my Friday night open game. Whenever folk ask about adventure generators it is one that comes up alongside Worlds Without Number and Knave 2e. The Shadowdark one is quite terrain tied with a lot of it being in the 'quest' a

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One of the most valuable tools for a Night’s Black Agents GM to have behind their screen is the Agent Tracking Sheet. As with similar sheets from other GUMSHOE games, this tracking sheet allows you to record the ratings for all of the PCs’ investigation abilities. USING THE SHEET In most RPGs, I g

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  • The Iron Llama is painting Car Wars 3d printed minis. And painting them in horrifying interesting ways. - I don't think I'd be a good GM for it, but rewatching The Wild Bunch recently made me really have an interest in running an "Old West" campaign set way, way too late to be the Old West. Like
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This is a community submitted press release. Do you love trans and queer art, Actual Play, and raising money for great causes? Then have we got a webfest for you! Come celebrate Pride with us at Rainbow Roll Fest, an online webfest that exists to celebrate and honor innovation and achievements in th

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"More than any other class, the ranger is a new class."

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New Questing Beast Releases!Knave 2e, Summer’s End, and the print edition of Maze Rats are all publicly available now, along with the Knave 2e poster and patch! Get the PDFs at DriveThruRPG, or physical copies at Swordfish Islands. I also have flip-through videos of Knave 2e and Summer’s End so you

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The 2024 Player's Handbook arrives September 17, but you can immediately unlock digital preorder bonuses for your D&D Beyond account today! Learn about these preorder bonuses and others here!

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This is a community submitted press release.In response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine, Jesthehuman is hosting a TTRPG charity auction with support from 19 creators to support Save the Children’s “Children’s Emergency Fund.” Save the Children's team in the occupied Palestinian territory has be

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Dave Jones is too nice to be in a virtual interview with me, largely because he makes me want to be nice. More upsetting is the fact that it works! Through sheer geniality, Jones’ good guy persona becomes infectious and goddammit, now I just want to make Mister Halsin’s Voice Actor proud of me. So f

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This is a community submitted press release.Pantsless Tables, a TTRPG Actual Play studio based in India, dedicated to promoting Asian talent, is thrilled to announce the commencement of their highly anticipated 48 - um, now 52-hour charity event today. The event aims to raise funds for Trans Lifelin

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This is a community submitted press release. Built on the well-known Powered By The Apocalypse framework, Trilogy is a GM-led game that works best with 3-6 players, including the GM. Although it takes inspiration from other games in that family, it marks itself out as a game designed for telling a w

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This is a community submitted press releaseA megablock of capsule apartments, ruined amenities, gangs, and mysteries. A city with The City. Some residents have never left. Some make things you cannot find anywhere else. Most are desperate. The corpos and cops call it Stack #95563. But everyone who l

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This is a community submitted press release. Do you mourn more for the final pages of a book than any tragedy within? Do you find yourself wishing for just one more foray into the worlds that you’ve fallen in love with? Fear not, adventurer - we have the show for you! Who’s Taking Watch is a new Dun

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The revised Ranger from the 2024 Player's Handbook makes greater use of their trademark spell Hunter's Mark, get spellcasting earlier, and a lot more. Get a first look here!

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In the latest episode of their cotton candy podcast, Ken and Robin talk encouraging player independence, the discovery of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts, a fluffy planet, and Florida nephilim.

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In this video, Neal Litherland delves into the liminal horror of Changeling the Lost. The post The Liminal Horror of Changeling The Lost first appeared on Azukail Games.

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Intelligent alien creatures such as aboleths, as well as the occasional mad wizard or capricious deity enjoy tinkering with creatures to make them more suited for their environments or just as a thought exercise. Then the PCs have to go out and fight things like owlbears or chimeras. Doesn’t it 
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Scavengers’ Deep – Map 8 (300 dpi promo) The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. Generally, the elves only built underground when hiding their breeding and research facilities, whereas the forces of the kingdoms, assisted

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Some great GM tips today from our fellow GMs around the world. But before I share those, I wanted to remind Wizards of Adventure that our monthly GMing Q&A call happens in two days: this Saturday, 12pm Mountain. Get the call link and more details here. Let me, and your fellow smart GMs, help you […]

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My ongoing mission: read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis! This week, I'm looking at the comics at newsstands on the week of July 7, 1983. There was a freebie this week, DC Sampler #1. It has no real story in it, just two-page ads for DC Comics and all comics that are alrea

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Introduction So I was asked by @arms to write about the party roles and how each class would fit into them. As I am an enjoyer of Advanced Fifth Edition as opposed to other forms, I will be couching my discussion in such language, but I feel confident that you can work out who’s who very easily if y

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