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Originally previewed on Dexterto, here is the alternative cover for 2025's new Monster Manual, featuring a mind flayer! The alternate cover for the Dungeon Master's Guide featured the super goddess Lolth, and the Player's Handbook was a gold dragon drinking tea with an adventuring party. The...

In Level Up's core rules, characters often stumble across travel scenery--interesting window dressing which doesn't (although that doesn't mean it can't) turn into an encounter, but which makes journeys more interesting. Of course, the players don't know whether they've stumbled across travel...

Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this boxed set expansion! This beautiful boxed set rockets your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! It's compatible with the core D&D rules and with our A5E rules. Voidrunner's...

Following on from the news that Demiplane's Adam Bradford had been hired by Fantasy Grounds, it turns out that Demiplane itself has been purchased by Roll20! Demiplane is an online TTRPG tools suite and character builder which seeks to do for some game systems what D&D Beyond does for Dungeons &...

We just got back from UK Games Expo where we were selling Level Up, Awfully Cheerful Engine, and What’s Old Is New. Four days of hard work, and tons of fun. We had a team of 9 this year, including folks on the stand and GMs demoing our games. Also, I accidentally bought a sword. UK Games Expo...

SmiteWorks, owner of the Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop, announced today that they hired Adam Bradford as their Chief Development Officer. Bradford was the founder of D&D Beyond, before leaving to join Demiplane, a generic D&D Beyond-style platform aimed at some game systems. SmiteWorks USA...

…. accidentally bought a sword at UK Games Expo this weekend? A story in 4 images... The stand was Sword Kings. I also saw all the Lord of the Rings swords, and a bunch of swords which are apparently from video games. I was working on our stand a row down, and spent all day Saturday saying...

Here's a sneaky peek at the whole boxed set, which includes the Voidrunner's Codex hardcover, Star Captain's Manual hardcover, Escape from Death Planet softcover adventure, Narrator's Screen, poster maps, and monster and starship tokens! Comes to Kickstarter very soon--click here to follow...

The cover of the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide has been unveiled.... in the Mirror, a mainstream newspaper in the UK. The cover art features villains (as opposed to the heroes on the Player's Handbook cover revealed last week), with skeletons in the foreground, the classic villains Skylla and...

I know I can calculate this myself, but it would make my life easier if there was such a table. I'm referring to when a monster's stat block or similar says X (YdZ+W) damage. So if I know I need in the region of 17 average damage, or 35 average damage, or whatever, I can just lo9k at the table...

The upcoming Voidrunner's Codex takes inspiration from some of the best sci-fi shows as it expands your 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition games with a comprehensive set of sci-fi rules! Invert the polaron frequency! Reconfigure the shield harmonics! Recollimate the reciprocating interface...

In the new 2024 edition of Dungeons & Dragons, WotC is redesigning its iconic dragons. ComicBook.com got a close-up and personal look at the brand new gold dragon, with a gorgeous art piece by Chase Stone. The dragon is, as can be seen, wingless--or at least with greatly reduced wings--in a nod...

According to Reddit poster bwrusso, who was in a small group investor meeting with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks last week, Hasbro's CEO (who was previously President of Wizards of the Coast before being promoted to his current position) currently plays in a Kara-Tur campaign and would personally like...

This coming October, a 360+ page hardcover which delves into Dungeons & Dragons' various worlds and settings will be released. The book isn't from WotC--it's from Ten Speed Press--but it's by Adam Lee, who wrote for Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus and Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. The book comes...

The Voidrunner’s Codex is getting ever closer. We’ve looked at that book a few times, but now it’s time to turn our attention back to the Star Captain’s Manual, which—as you may have guessed—is all about starships! We previewed that book’s introduction chapter here. Starships come in a wide...

Here are a few more tidbits from Game Informer's magazine coverage of the new edition's rulebooks. Iconic characters like Bobby the Barbarian, or Raistlin and Caramon Majere feature in the art. Each class and each subclass has its own piece of art. Species now include Aasimar, Goliath, and Orc...

Brainshopping these. Very much works-in-progress. They probably won't all get used. Thoughts? (Also better names are welcomed!) Agonized An agonized creature has disadvantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution ability checks. An agonized creature is unable to maintain concentration, and...

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According to Game Informer — “the surprising importance and inclusions of what is arguably the oldest D&D campaign setting of them all – Greyhawk.” So how does Greyhawk fit in? According to GI, the new 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide contains a sample setting—and that setting is, indeed, Greyhawk...

Game Informer has revealed the cover to the 2024 Player’s Handbook. The cover features a gold dragon behind the old-school D&D characters Strongheart the paladin, Mercion the cleric, Elkhorn the dwarf fighter, and Molliver the thief. Ringlerun the wizard is absent (then again he got his...