Review: Dungeon of the Mad Mage Coming hot on the heels of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is the pseudo sequel Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage. This makes the book slightly curiously named, as it probably spends less time in Waterdeep […] ↓ 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: 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: 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…
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…
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…
Benefits of Invisibility I think my very first instance of “shipping” involved the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon from the 1980s. This was long before I even knew what “shipping” was. I just mentally paired off Hank the ranger and Sheila the […] ↓ 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…
