Unearthed Arcana: Bard and Paladin Breakdown
Another Unearthed Arcana already? Honestly didn’t expect this gift, and it makes me suspect that there’s a big announcement coming for the first half of next year. In this round of subclasses, we currently have coverage for barbarian, bard, monk, ...
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus Review
I’ve received a review copy of Descent into Avernus, with the ridiculously gorgeous limited cover. Let’s see if I can complete a review in a single article! Descent is 256 pages – shorter than Dungeon of the Mad Mage, longer ...
Baldur’s Gate Descent into Avernus – Preview
Welcome to Avernus. The new D&D book that has been released today! Avernus was an ancient name for a volcanic crater near Cumae, Italy, in the region of Campania west of Naples. Avernus was the entrance to the underworld in ...
Heart RPG – the City Beneath
There is a world full of awesome roleplaying games out there, and the more we play, the wider range of ideas we bring to the table when we play or run games. Today we look at Heart, a new RPG ...
Social Combat (5e)
The following are some optional rules I have been working on for goal based social battles for Fifth Edition. I wanted something that would not take much work to learn, so I followed the framework of regular combat. Let me ...
Five Tips for New Dungeon Masters
You’ve taken on the responsibility of Dungeon Master for your Dungeons & Dragons group. What pushed you over the edge? Curiosity about the game? Broken scheduling promises from other DMs? A love of fireball throwing, button pushing, murder-hobos? Even if ...
Additional Human Variants
For… almost as long as I’ve been writing Harbinger of Doom, I’ve been talking on and off about how we talk about humans and, as a result, non-humans in fantasy roleplaying, especially D&D. That linked post is very dated at ...
Tips and Rules for Gambling
The following are some tips and rules for running a gambling session. Gambling can be fun and found in a variety of formats in campaign worlds. This article provides quick tips and four detailed options to get you started running ...
Unearthed Arcana: Sorcerer and Warlock Breakdown
Well, I thought I was going to miss a second week in a row of writing, but here we are with a UA release and I just can’t not write a breakdown article. This time it’s a new sorcerous origin ...
D&D 5e Essentials Kit is Available Everywhere
This press release was just sent out by D&D’s PR team. The kit has been out at Target for a while and is finally available everywhere else. I’ve had a copy since it first came out. I haven’t had a ...