Following on from Into the Borderlands and The Isle of Dread, Goodman Games is next bringing 1980’s sci-fantasy adventure Expedition to the Barrier Peaks to D&D 5th Edition. Announced at Gary Con this Source
You may benefit, as a GM, from understanding where your players stand in the spectrum from Romantic to Classical game player. The terms derive from music and philosophy. I discussed one point of view about game playing styles in an earlier column (“Different look at playing styles“). This one is much older in origin.
This started with a comment about D&D formatting errors by James Introcaso (the comment, not the errors) on Twitter, and WotC’s Chris Perkins joined in. Other quickly chimed in with further questions. James: When you write an NPC’s statistics in parentheses next to their name, it Source
D&D historian John Peterson (Art & Arcana) has posted the full original OD&D (Original D&D) illusionist manuscript by Peter Aronson, from 1975, along with a discussion of the history of illusions and illusionists in OD&D. Head on over to his website to see the full thing!
Hello everyone, Darryl here with this weeks gaming news! Pathfinder 2e release information announced, Fallout gets not one but two tabletop RPGs, ICv2 sales numbers for the RPG market reveal shocking change, and more!
This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by “Your Editor Darryl”, Darryl Mott to talk about Shadowrun and the Sixth World! In the news, we have a shocking update from ICv2s RPG industry sales rankings, more Ghosts of Saltmarsh release news, Invisible Sun gets a PDF release, the Judge Dredd Kickstarter fulfillment has begun, and …
Jim Zub, writer of comics including Marvel’s Avenger’s, IDW’s Dungeons & Dragons, and more, shared his thoughts on why D&D has surged so much in the last few years. “This is a constant conversation Source
Critical Role has just launched a Kickstarter for an animated show based on their livestream campaign. It broke a million dollars in about an hour, and has 45 days left to go…
I mentioned back in December how much I liked the Giant Book of Fantasy Battle Maps I bought at Dragonmeet – big dry-erase maps in an enormous book designed to lay out flat. On Friday, guess what dropped though my door? The Giant Book of Sci-fi Battle Maps! Source
Role-playing games clearly use a lot of writers and artists, but these people are only one part of the team that gets a book published. The rest of this team are often underappreciated even though their work is just as essential. But writing and art remain the jobs people think of when they want to …