Review: Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica In a surprise move this summer, Wizards of the Coast announced a fourth book for their 2018 schedule—the Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica—breaking the pattern of previous years where there were only three major releases. Even […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Session 23 Session twenty-three is coming up. Well… being honest, it’s probably closer to session 28, if one includes the Tomb of Annihilation. But because I didn’t do blogs for each session of that dungeon, it would leave a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Tomb of Annihilation The last six or seven sessions of my Borderlands homegame were subsumed with the Tomb of Annihilation. I last discussed my game here with the entry into the Tomb. This week, my group finally emerged victorious from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: D&D Endless Quest Way back in 1979, the Choose Your Own adventure book series began, being published for almost twenty years. Just three years later, TSR launched their own modular path adventure book series, the Endless Quest books. There […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Creature Codex Roleplaying game publisher Kobold Press second big book of monsters is the Creature Codex. The book was funded on Kickstarter, with the project launching less than a year ago, in December 2017. The book defied the odds […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Waterdeep: Dragon Heist For the fall of 2018, Wizards of the Coast decided to release another two-part storyline adventure, and their first storyline adventure running from level 1 all the way to level 20. The first of these adventures […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Vampire 5th Edition Rising from death-like torpor, as if it were a vampire itself, game publisher White Wolf has returned and released a fifth edition of the Vampire roleplaying game. This time, White Wolf is aided in publishing and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Pathfinder 2 Playtest In early March of 2018, Paizo Inc announced they’d be publishing a major revision of their Pathfinder game in 2019, the 10th anniversary of Pathfinder the RPG. Prior to this, they would be conducting a mass […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron In a somewhat surprising move, Wizards of the Coast has released a 5th Edition update of the Eberron campaign world, written by the setting creator, Keith Baker. The Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron is a $20 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dungeons & Dragons, Inclusivity, and Toxic Fandom The month of June is LGBT+ Pride Month, a cause that Dungeons & Dragons owner & publisher Wizards of the Coast has embraced. They’ve sold rainbow ampersand T-shirts to raise money for charity and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Session Twenty-Two It’s been a while since my 5th Edition game went on break. http://www.5mwd.com/archives/4835 Since then I ran two games of the Fantasy Flight Games Edge of the Empire Star Wars game, and one of my players has […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes In a somewhat surprising move, Wizards of the Coast opted not to release a new storyline adventure in the spring of 2018, and instead released another sourcebook: Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. The spiritual sequel to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
