Lately, I have been focusing my campaign on using more passive perception and passive investigation so there aren’t as many die rolls. I’ve stopped asking for so many skill checks, and instead rely on a listing of the character’s ability ...

The city of Quaymire is a coastal city in the perpetually fogbound swamp, although the name “city” is a bit of a misnomer because the settlement itself is little more than a series of interconnected docks, a dozen some odd ...

A look at The Fifth Element, and how to create your own awesome world.

Aquatic | Arctic | Cave or Underground | Desert | Forest | Grassland | Jungle | Mountain | Swamp Are your adventurers freezing to death on their way to a frozen temple? Did your party just escape a prison to ...

A look at running stories for tabletop games through the lens of the WWE's House of Horrors match.

This, my friends, is the first week of the rest of our lives. (I mean, that’s never not true.) We’ve left the weekly UA schedule and returned to the monthly, but naturally it’s the first of a new month, so ...

Wizards of the Coast reached the end of their flurry of Unearthed Arcana last week, but they haven’t gone into hiding. This week we get five revised subclasses: Path of the Ancestral Guardian, the bard’s College of Swords, the fighter’s ...

King of Games Background By: Jesse C Cohoon   The King of Games is a concept that’s in popular culture: in the animes everything from the ones based around the game of “Go” (Reversi) to fighting monster games such as ...

Greg Tito and Shelly Mazzanoble lead us on the Official D&D podcast Dragon Talk. This is just a great podcast that has stellar interviews, new game reviews, along with visits from Wizard of the Coast Alumni such as Jeremy Crawford, ...

Clear your calendar! International Tabletop Day (ITTD) is on Saturday, April 29, 2017. Over 1800 locations are participating from more than dozens of different countries around the world in the event this year. ITTD is a world-wide celebration of the ...