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Which 3 Classic D&D Settings are Coming out for 5th Edition?

DM Shawn — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:56:19 +0000

Wizards of the Coast revealed some interesting news at D&D Celebration this past weekend. During Inside the D&D Studio with Liz Schuh and Ray Winninger, they shared that they’ll be focusing a lot more attention on settings. Three settings are on a shortlist and are receiving “active attention”. While they didn’t reveal which settings, they have been listening to fans. Usually, for my Campaign Trail column I share stories, stat blocks, rules, and more, whether I’m running published materials or […]

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D&D Edition Expansion as Told through the History of the WWE

Colin McLaughlin — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:00:30 +0000

A look at how D&D editions parallel the history of the WWE, and what we can learn from it.

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Dark Sun Psionics

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:00:50 +0000

In today’s History of the Classes article, I’m examining Dark Sun’s use of psionics in AD&D Second Edition. As far as I know, it’s the only 2e setting – out of the glorious variety of 2e settings – that deeply embraces psionics and makes it a centerpiece of the setting. My resources are the revised Dark Sun Campaign Setting (the one reworked to fit Skills and Powers), Dragon Kings, and The Will and the Way. I also have a copy […]

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Experiment: How To Play D&D With Two Dungeon Masters

A.A. Amirault — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:49:29 +0000

A few years back a friend and I had an interesting thought: what if we co-dungeon mastered a D&D game? That is to say that we would both be DMs at the same time, within the same campaign, to the same group of players. It was a fascinating concept that came out of our discussion on how my friend thought he was really good at running combat but disliked roleplaying and how I felt that I was the opposite. Unfortunately, […]

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UPDATED: D&D to Release Two Storylines a Year Through 2018

DM Shawn — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 06:31:42 +0000

Since I wrote this article in November 2014 quite a few things have changed, so I thought it was time to update the original article. In a recent interview, Jeremy Crawford commented that the official setting of the D&D tabletop RPG “is the multiverse, which includes all D&D worlds.“ On Twitter, Chris Perkins revealed he has something in the works for 2016, which just might be a new setting based on his own world called Valoreign. Errata documents will be […]

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High Power Races: Thri-Kreen

Rich Howard — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:27:28 +0000

Along with the aarakocra, the thri-kreen are one of my favorite non-standard races to play. Unique and alien, thri-kreen provide for unusual roleplaying opportunities and unusual flavor at the table. The challenge? Thri-kreen are a powerful PC race (see Behind the Development below). Converting them to a standard PC race while maintaining their flavor and popular, race-specific powers was a challenge and even with this conversion DMs should consider before allowing them in their campaigns. If used, DMs and players […]

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Dark Sun and Ravenloft D&D 5e Status

DM Shawn — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:19:53 +0000

In his reddit AMA today Mike Mearls was asked by JesterRaiin “And now, the question: could you confirm both [Dark Sun] and Ravenloft coming back?“ Mike Mearls responded: “I can’t confirm anything, but I can say that we’re big fans of the classic D&D settings. When we created the core 5th system, we new that it had to be flexible enough to both cover past D&D settings and have the ability to stretch to cover new ones.” So have faith […]

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