Open Legend RPG
A couple of months ago, a reader reached out to be to say that he had created a new tabletop game, and he hoped I would consider an article on it. We had a good conversation about it, and I agreed. ...
WotC Sage Advice – Rules Answers: September 2016
There is a new Sage Advice article on the Wizards of the Coast D&D website by Jeremy Crawford. This time, Sage Advice answers questions on a variety of subjects such as Class Features, Feats, Combat, Spellcasting, Spells, Monster, Magic Items.
Domain Rulership, Part Ten
Last time in this series, I examined the Adventurer Conqueror King System. Alexander Macris came along in the comments section and offered me previews of five articles that will appear in the AXIOMS fanzine, expanding some particular elements of ACKS’s ...
Unearthed Arcana Breakdown: The Ranger, Revised
In today’s Unearthed Arcana article, Mearls returns to one of the most hotly discussed topics of 5e design: the ranger. This isn’t UA’s first take on an alternate ranger, either – and the blogging/third-party-publishing community has followed suit. That previous ...
Unearthed Arcana – Ranger Revised
The new and improved Ranger is here from Wizard of the Coast’s Mike Mearls! After a few cracks at the ranger, we get an 8 page PDF that renames its archetypes to conclaves and they hope will have everyone loving ...
(War) Craft Until You Hate Yourself
A quick word: this post is about the crafting system of the recent World of Warcraft (hereafter to be called WoW) expansion entitled Legion. I will be discussing the system in depth I am not attempting to spoil things, but ...
Tribality Publishing – Genies
SECRETS IN THE SANDS Tribality Publishing has recently released a new publication on DriveThruRPG. This is the eighth product we’ve released: Genies, written by Colin McLaughlin. GENIES offers new options for genies and those that seek to serve or master them. Inside ...
Free Download of A Great Upheaval (Storm King’s Thunder)
Like Curse of Strahd’s Appendix B: Death House before it, Wizards of the Coast has provided A Great Upheaval (Chapter 1 of Storm King’s Thunder) for free on the Dungeon Masters Guild. Like Death House (which advanced PCs to level ...
Storm King’s Thunder Review
The new D&D adventure Storm King’s Thunder™ just launched today (September 6th), and was released early to gaming stores back on August 26th. When I first received my copy from Wizards of the Coast last week, my initial impressions were ...
The Problem of Ogre Power
Dating back to… I think it was the release of D&D Basic, I’ve been rankled by the design around ability-score-boosting items in D&D 5e. I got to thinking about ability-score-boosting magic items. I’ll explain why, and I’ll offer alternatives – ...