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-One 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…
Review: Midgard Worldbook RPG Publisher Kobold Press (née Open Design) is twelve years old, as is their campaign setting of Midgard. The campaign setting was created for 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons before elements of it were converted to 4th […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Midgard Heroes Handbook Kobold Press, the midsized RPG publisher, is famous for several things: crowdsourcing before it was cool, a fascination with Kobolds, being run by a guy legitimately named “Wolfgang”, and their campaign setting of “Midgard.” (Which has […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Star Trek Wave 2 Following up on their release of the Star Trek Adventures Core Rulebooks and its adventure anthology book, Modiphius Entertainment is working on the second wave of their (robust) product line set in the futuristic world […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session Twenty-One This will final session of this “season”, as it’s a good place to take a break as one of my players is itching to DM another adventure, while I have an idea for a Star Wars mini-campaign. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session Twenty Season Two of my Borderlands campaign is rushing towards an ending as I potentially resolve the second character arc, wrapping up the Red Mage’s quest, which has driven the last three or so sessions. The character is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session Nineteen With my homegame resuming and becoming weekly for a short period, I have precious little time to prepare. I don’t know how people manage weekly games…. (Well, I imagine they’re not doing daily quests in an MMO […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session Eighteen My homegame took a sudden, unexpected hiatus due to DM depression. Gaming, which is my primary escape, became mentally and emotionally associated with a stressor. This created a lovely feedback loop where I became stressed and automatically […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Until now, rules support for the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons has been limited to the small handful of classes in the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide and the races of Volo’s Guide to Monsters, with the majority of classes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Session Seventeen My last session was probably a textbook example of poorly executed Dungeon Mastering. My players jumped through a super obvious adventure hook, but a couple sessions before I thought they were going to. I responded with a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
