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Vecna: Eve of Ruin

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Vecna: Eve of Ruin Platinum Edition

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Voidrunner’s Codex

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Take your A5E games to space!
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The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977

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Quests From The Infinite Staircase

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D&D Player’s Handbook (2024)

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October 1 2024

Monstrous Menagerie II

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The sequel to the acclaimed monster book!
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November 12 2024

D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)

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Revised 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide.
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February 18 2025

D&D Monster Manual (2025)

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Revised 2025 Monster Manual.
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Morrus is the owner of EN World and EN Publishing, creator of the ENnies, creator of the What's OLD is NEW (WOIN), Simply6, and Awfully Cheerful Engine game systems, publisher of Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, and co-host of the weekly Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk podcast. He has been a game publisher and RPG community administrator for over 20 years, and has been reporting on TTRPG and D&D news for over two decades. He is also on the socials.

Brandon Chappell

Cassandra Macdonald

Cassandra Macdonald is a perpetual storyteller with a love for indie RPGs weird and unique. She was inducted into the cult of D&D at an age most would consider "too young", and hasn't quit since. Best known for her breakout DM's Guild title Skullport: Shadow of Waterdeep and the sci-fi western RPG DIESEL, she's been tinkering and homebrewing for over a decade now, and Must Be Stopped™. If you'd like to try, she can be challenged on Twitter @theicequeer.

Dawn Dalton

Dawn is a freelance writer, gamer girl, aspiring author, and former manager of a game/ comic store. When she's not gaming or writing, she likes to pretend she is a ninja athlete at Tough Mudder events. You can find out more at https://www.dawndalton.com.

Ed Greenwood

Forgotten Realms Creator

Yes, I’m the guy who created the Forgotten Realms. Back in the spring of 1965. You read that right: 1965, about a decade before D&D, which came along in 1974, and wasn’t seen by most of the world (all the places that weren’t colleges in or near Wisconsin) until 1975. This column is part of the D&D/RPG History series.

EN Publishing

EN Publishing is the producer of Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, the Awfully Cheerful Engine!, What's OLD is New (WOIN), the critically acclaimed War of the Burning Sky and ZEITGEIST: The Gears of Revolution adventure paths, and the Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD roleplaying game

Jim Ward

Drawmij the Wizard

James Ward, after whom the wizard "Drawmij" was named, is a game designer who worked for D&D's original pubisher TSR for many years. Amongst other things, he was behind titles like Deities & Demigods, Greyhawk Adventures, Gamma World, and Metmorphosis Alpha. This column is part of the D&D/RPG History series.

Jonathan Tweet

D&D 3E, Over the Edge, Everway, Ars Magica, Omega World, Grandmother Fish

You'll know Jonathan Tweet from Ars Magica, for being the lead designer on D&D 3rd Edition, and for co-designing 13th Age, amongst many other things. This column is part of the D&D/RPG History series.

Lewis Pulsipher

Dragon, White Dwarf, Fiend Folio

Lew was Contributing Editor to Dragon, White Dwarf, and Space Gamer magazines and contributed monsters to TSR's original Fiend Folio, including the Elemental Princes of Evil, denzelian, and poltergeist. You can follow Lew on his web site and his Udemy course landing page.

Owen K.C. Stephens

Owen K.C. Stephens is a veteran of the TTRPG industry with more than 20 years experience, including being on staff at Green Ronin, Paizo, and Wizards of the Coast and being the publisher of RogueGeniusGames.com. He has worked on numerous RPG lines, including being co-author of the Star Wars Saga Edition RPG and Design Lead for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game. You can support his writing and free content production at Patreon, and follow him at his blog, on Facebook and on Twitter.

Paul Hughes

Paul Hughes reverse engineers and reassembles D&D rules at blogofholding.com. He's the lead designer on EN Publishing's Monstrous Menagerie and Dungeon Delver's Guide, and also tinkers with projects such as 5e Monster Manual on a Business Card and the Random Dungeon Generator as a Dungeon Map. He believes that any rule can be improved by running it through a simulator 100,000 times.

Peter N Martin

Peter started his gaming career with GURPS back in the late 1990s, which imbued him with a great love of character customization abilities that, over 20 years later, has yet to wear off. He picked up D&D with third edition in 2000, and has been trying to wedge higher levels of technology into it ever since.

Rob Wieland

I am a game designer with over 15 years worth of game credits and industry experience. My work includes licensed games based on worlds like Star Wars, Star Trek and Firefly, classic game worlds like Dungeons & Dragons and Shadowrun and my own creations like Camelot Trigger and Save Game. I play a wide variety of games as part of Theatre of the Mind Players and have been the guest of honor at several conventions. I live with my family in Wisconsin, born near the heart of RPGs (and just a few short years younger than they are).

Robert J. Kuntz

TSR Veteran

Robert J. Kuntz landed on the designer's pad at Gary Gygax's house in 1968 and never looked back. Quick "peak" accomplishments: LGTSA President, 1970-1976, "King" and last editor of the Domesday Book, 1970-1972, TSR founding era employee, nearly 100 publishing credits to date including for D&D, Advanced D&D, D&D 3.0, etc. Charles Roberts Award Winner for board game design (Kings and Things); Golden ENnie Award winner for Maure Castle (Dungeon Magazine #112); and the taxi-meter of design and writing is still running with his Three Line Studio enterprise. This column is part of the D&D/RPG History series.

Ryan S. Dancey

OGL Architect

Ryan Dancey was the VP of Wizards of the Coast and Brand Manager for Dungeons & Dragons. He was also the primary architect of the Open Gaming License. This column is part of the D&D/RPG History series.

Shane Stacks

Shane Plays

Shane is a hopeless grognard -- er -- veteran tabletop RPG player, having first rolled the dice in the early 80s with Traveller, Villains & Vigilantes, Middle-Earth Role Playing, WEG Star Wars, Paranoia, Top Secret, Star Frontiers, Marvel Super Heroes, DC Heroes, Dungeons & Dragons and more.

He's an equal opportunity geek who loves a variety of interests and fandoms, including tabletop games, video games, comics books, sci-fi, fantasy, retro computers and more.

Shane is the host of Shane Plays Geek Talk, a terrestrial radio geek talk show and podcast, as well as the co-author of Dungeons & Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games 2nd Edition. Bree-yark!

Will Gawned

Will Gawned is an Australian human (CR 0) living in the UK. He's a writer, RPG designer, improv performer, and research administrator in his spare time.

Andrew Peregrine

Andrew Peregrine has been a freelance writer for RPGs for over 20 years. He has worked on Victoriana, Doctor Who (Cubicle 7), Firefly, Leverage (Margaret Weis), Judge Dredd (EN Publishing), Vampire the Masquerade (White Wolf/Onyx Path/Modiphius) and Dune/Star Trek (Modiphius) among many others. He also produces his own games as 'Corone Design'. However, for a real job he works as a lighting technician at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London's West End.

Ben Reece

Ben Reece (LongGoneWriter) is part of EN World's Columnist (ENWC) program.

Beth Rimmels

Beth Rimmels is a journalist, editor, and marketing professional. In addition to EN World, her game industry writing has ranged from CityBook VII to The Vampire Codex, as well as Awesome 8's, the multi-setting RPG she is currently designing. She has been a D&D Adventurer's League store organizer and taught a wide range of games at stores and conventions.

Charles Dunwoody

Charles Dunwoody is currently GMing Forbidden Lands The Bloodmarches. He freelance writes including articles for EN World and Geek Native. Charlie is a participant in the Noble Knight Affiliate Program and the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, both of which are affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Noble Knight Games and DriveThruRPG respectively. If you like the articles at EN World please consider supporting our Patreon.

Darryl Mott

Darryl Mott is a tabletop gaming and media journalist with bylines from outlets including Ain't It Cool News, EN World, and Zombie Orpheus Entertainment. He also makes videos for YouTube and does live streams on Twitch as well as doing post-production and editing for the Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk podcast.

David J. Buck

When he isn’t learning to play or writing about RPGs, David J. Buck can be found at Tedium: the Dull Side of the Internet, Nerdvana Media, Patreon, and Twitter.

Egg Embry

In Our Dreams Awake #2 is live and past its initial funding goal on Kickstarter. Dreampunk, cyberpunk, and fantasy in a comic book by John McGuire, Edgar Salazar, Rolands Kalniņš, and myself.

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Egg Embry is part of EN World's Columnist (ENWC) program as well as a columnist for Knights of the Dinner Table, d20 Radio, High Level Games, the Open Gaming Network, the Tessera Guild, and GAMA's magazine, Around the Table. His area of focus is tabletop RPG crowdfunding campaigns. In addition, he blogs about Ghostfire Gaming's Grim Hollow setting. His RPGs can be found through Egg Embry Publishing at DriveThruRPG (PDF) and Itch (PDF/Print).
If you enjoy the articles on EN World, please consider backing the EN World Patreon. Every dollar helps to make these articles possible.

M.T. Black

M.T. Black is a freelance game designer. Go to his website for a free, five-star adventure!

Michael Tresca

Mike "Talien" Tresca is the managing editor of the EN World Columnists Program, author of The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games, releases daily game-related content on his Patreon, and has over 50 D&D 5E products for sale on DriveThruRPG. He is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to http://amazon.com. If you like what we do here at EN World please consider supporting our Patreon.

Mike Myler

Mike Myler is a freelancing RPG goblin (or goblin that freelances for RPGs?), regent, the editor for the excellent EN5ider Patreon, and the Project Manager for Level Up: Advanced Fifth Edition. You can also find his marks in the N.O.W. book for the What's Old Is New RPG, on www.mikemyler.com⁠ (which has the neatest collection of free content around as well as links to his 6 hardcover campaign settings), and here on ENWorld.

What's next? The Mists of Akuma: 5E Eastern Fantasy Noir Steampunk Bonanza featuring a retooled and re-tuned full color 420 page campaign setting book, two encounter books for levels 1–20, and the Beyond the Great Divide adventure path!

Richard Jansen-Parkes

Richard Jansen-Parkes (Winghorn) is part of EN World's Columnist (ENWC) program.

Sean Hillman

SM Hillman is a freelance RPG writer and contributor to EN World. You can check out his Zer0 Means You're Dead podcast and his Zer0MYD Patreon where he has some cool stuff. Follow SM on Twitter @smh_worlds.