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With the new effort to republish popular game settings there is a desire to update them to 5th ed. What also tends to happen is the redesigning of settings to fit the new edition's rules. This is nothing new. In fact, many settings were designed backwards to fit the rules. 2nd ed Darksun is...

What Non-Hexagon symbols exist for overland maps in wargames and for early D&D? For example, dot = town or village circle = city square = fortress etc. Checking AD&D Land Adventures I find these different types of overland terrain: Plain Scrub Forest Desert Hills Mountains Marsh I can color...

With this week's Legends and Lore article suggesting many monsters will receive additional story or setting descriptions to go along with their mechanical designs, I was wondering how people prefer their Monster Manuals and Treasure Horde books created. I believe many of these works originally...

https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20140219 This one's all about the gods and how they might intervene in your campaign world.

I've been ignoring this since summer started, but it's becoming kind of odd. I can't seem to log in over at CIRCVS MAXIMVS anymore. I thought I had perhaps forgotten my password for my account, but password renewal isn't sending me an email. On top of that, no new registrations are receiving...

This one is all about Encounters and the concept of Wandering Monsters. Chime in with your comments. https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20131113

Certain monsters conjure up iconic adventure locations and even whole dungeons devoted to them. Who doesn't associate Tomb of Horrors with the lich? (archlich?) A vampire's castle done well inspired an entire campaign setting. And who hasn't heard of a mountain side red dragon lair looking not...

I thought they normally announced these along with the ENnie Award winners on Friday night. Maybe It's just too early yet to hear the news?

How would you publish the Forgotten Realms Setting for D&D Next? and... What do you think about this way? I have been been giving some serious thought on how I would publish the Forgotten Realms, both for what I need from a campaign setting and taking into account all the changes FR has...

The next Wandering Monsters article is up: https://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20130129 This one covers all of D&D's sphinxes in detail as well as chimeras and hydra.

The next articles is up by James Wyatt for Wandering Monsters. This one is all about Dragons. <link>

A new column on kobolds can be found here

Wandering Monsters - Construction Ahead This didn't seem to make it into the News threads. New article on all things Golem.

What are your plans for illustration? In monster manuals, adventures, settings, and anything else needing them. Are these going to be tied in as part of the rules again? Will I be able to hold up pictures and say "Your characters see this"? Will the pictures in adventures be part of the process...

Multiclassing is getting some buzz, so I thought I might try and explain how another option might work. Prior to 3e there wasn't really a mechanic for Character Level. Each character gained a separate XP total by Class and different classes could gain XP in different ways. This repurposed the...

The next monster description article went live yesterday. This one deals with Kobolds, Lizardfolk (or Lizard Men), and Troglodytes. EDIT: Lizardfolk (Dragon's-Eye View) just went live too. Comments and suggestions?

In the last round of playtest documents there were almost 100 pages of rules to read. Now a lot of the material was new, but a good deal was also edited work from before. I was thinking it might be easier to playtest, if edits to the previous documents were highlighted in some way or otherwise...

The playtest update mentioned how skills may be changed to keep certain classes appropriately skillful regardless of ability scores. This kind of breaks with tradition, which led me to my question. Where did the Ability (or Modifier) + Skill Modifier first appear? How about just in D&D? Was...

This was our first playtest session. Instead of using the materials provided for B2’s “Caves of Chaos” I converted them for the “Mouths of Madness” and related castle precincts sections of Castle Greyhawk (Castle Zagyg: Upper Works). The Mouths of Madness were Gary’s recreation of the Caves of...

EDIT: This is an ongoing thread of questions from our playtest games. I take down questions, comments, and critiques and post them here. Links are to later session posts: second third fourth We talked about a lot of the rules and character and monster powers and the group was divided on many...