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What is Confluence RPG? – Backerkit Campaign

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:03:49 +0000

When the Confluence team first approached me, they showed me what was in their beta and invited me to promote and hype the product if I so wanted to. Immediately seeing so many friends of mine from the TTRPG space (who I must say are all industry professionals) meant this was definitely going to be a banger of a product! What first caught my attention was the number of books included in it: 5 of them (of very different sizes […]

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The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977 – Review

Brandes Stoddard — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:43:48 +0000

What do you do, friends, when a mysterious traveler (i.e., a mail carrier) leaves a tome of extraordinary size (576 pages!), esoteric in its content, on your doorstep? You review it! The book comes to stores tomorrow: June 18, 2024. The book, in this case, is The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977 from WotC, with document curation and commentary by Jon Peterson. What the title alone doesn’t quite communicate is that it is chiefly a reproduction of early […]

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Flee, Mortals! Review

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:00:25 +0000

Having reviewed most of MCDM products, I wanted to go all in and review the Flee, Mortals! book as well. I backed the product, and received both the physical book and PDF. James Introcaso offered to give me a copy of the PDF as well, but it was not necessary. I wanted to have the physical book at hand before I did the review. This, I have been reviewing live over on Twitch, fully analyzing the design behind the monsters, […]

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Monsters of the Multiverse Breakdown, Part Five

Brandes Stoddard — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 12:00:56 +0000

In this, the fifth and probably final article on Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse, I’m digging into the individual stat blocks of some named monsters. Last time out, which was a few more months ago than any of us would have liked, I went through the stat blocks starting with A to identify major trends in monster redesign. The originals of these stat blocks are in Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. Part One: Aarakocra – Genasi | Part Two: Githyanki — Satyr | Part […]

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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse Breakdown, Part 1

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:57:20 +0000

With that mouthful of a title, I’m kicking off a deep dive into the newest book from WotC, which I received as a review copy in the recent gift set. In this case, I’m well aware that more readers than usual won’t have first-hand access to the text, so while I won’t be copying rules into the review, I’ll be going for explaining a little more than usual. For many book lovers who adore WotC merchandise, this new book may […]

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DM’s Guild Review: Van Richten’s Libram of Lineages

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:00:51 +0000

All art comes from the reviewed product In today’s article, I’ll be talking about a new product from the DM’s Guild named Van Richten’s Libram of Lineages. If you liked the whole lineage system from Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft (more on that HERE), should you get this product? Let’s check it out: Disclaimer: The people at Splinterverse were kind enough to gift us a review copy of their product. Art When reviewing products I always like to make a note […]

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Arcadia Issue 3 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:02:47 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Right before March finishes James Introcaso surprised me with another early copy of Arcadia. This is a big one! Again, we have 4 different contents as we had in the first issue. As James specifies in his Letter from the Editor this is the third and last issue from the three they planned to test the waters. They wanted to release just three issues at first to know if people were interested in a magazine […]

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Arcadia Issue 2 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:00:52 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Another issue of Arcadia has arrived! This time with 3 interesting new things. As far as the people at MCDM said, from now on we are only receiving three new contents per issue. I’m fine with that. With this level of quality that is more than enough! This issue started with a “Letter from the Editor” again (this being James Introcaso), in which, as he promised, talked mostly about the art from this and the […]

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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Four

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:00:25 +0000

It’s been several weeks, but today I’m back to continue this series, in which we dig into Tasha’s Cauldron and find out just what she put in that soup. Monk’s subclasses, while common in Rentonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, D.C. (I’m also covering paladins.) Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four Monk There are four new monk features, all of them extra stuff (that is, no replacements). Dedicated Weapon at 2nd level might represent the […]

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Arcadia Issue 1 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:00:45 +0000

Thumbnail Art from Arcadia Issue 1 cover When Arcadia was first announced, I had no doubt it was going to be amazing. I’ve been watching Matt Colvile’s content since I started DMing. In fact, it was thanks to him that I started DMing. If I hadn’t DMed I might have never played D&D, and there would be no chance I would have ended up writing for Tribality. So, in a way, I’ve got a lot to thank Matt for. However, […]

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