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Extra Life – Play Games. Heal Kids. 2015

Dungeons & Dragons Extra Life Team The Extra Life charity event planning has finalized, and the Dungeons & Dragons Team from Wizards of the Coast is taking on an increased goal of $100,000 donations this year for Extra Life. They will ...
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WotC Unearthed Arcana – Modern Magic

The next installment of Unearthed Arcana is out today. Daniel Helmick gives us variant rules for Modern Magic, with the details on rules for City Doman for Cleric,  Warlock Patron: Ghost in the Machine, Wizard Arcane tradition: Technomancy. Hacking Tools ...
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Tribal Knowledge: Dramatic Reveals

I love the Dramatic Reveal that a mystery story provides, but I can never seem to get them to play out at the table (d20 system). I present a standard series of gated challenges to gather clues. Then either players ...
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Jurassic World’s Indominus Rex – D&D 5e Homebrew Monster

Jurassic World has already made over 1.5 billion dollars at the box office worldwide. Last weekend, my family was able to get to the movies after our vacation and see Jurassic World. I already posted a couple of dinosaur related ...
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2015 Diana Jones Award Winner

At the annual Diana Jones Award and Freelancer Party on Wednesday 29th July in Indianapolis, a representative of the DJA committee announced the winner of the fifteenth Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming.
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Psionics, Part Five

Welcome back to History of the Classes, after a week of ridiculous polling and a week off. We return to the history of psionics in D&D, already in progress. This article discusses psionics in Third Edition D&D. I think I ...
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Gen Con – D&D Adventurers League

We are signed up for D&D Adventurers League All-Access Pass games (run by Baldman Games). The four of us all ready to go. Well actually, I wasn’t. In preparation for the four games, I have to choose a player character to use. It’s ...
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Deities of the Nentir Vale (4e) for D&D 5th Edition

The Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Player’s Handbook includes the awesome Appendix B that provides deities for running your game in the multiverse worlds of the Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Dragonlance and Eberron. It also provides the Celtic, Greek, Egyptian and ...
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Role Initiative Podcast, Episode 12: 4 Effective Uses of Weather ...

This episode I look at weather and how to use it effectively and in many different situations.
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Aquatic Campaign Outline for 1st-20th level

In this series I have been presenting creatures you can use for villains, lieutenants, minions, and wild encounters for 5th edition aquatic games, as well as encounter seeds for these villains at each tier. This article is the second presenting an outline for ...