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…
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…
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…
