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    D&D General The Revival of D&D with Jeremy Crawford at Comic Con.

    The Revival of D&D with Jeremy Crawford at Comic Con in Spain. This is also about Jeremy and his journey with D&D and his part in the creation of D&D. He notes that it’s the first version that, unlike prior versions, sales kept growing and growing and they often wondered what was going on. He...
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    D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data.

    I'd like to take a moment to remember Rob Weiland, like Ben and Fred and Cam do in the video. https://www.enworld.org/threads/gaming-journalist-rob-wieland-passes-at-age-48.715723/ In 2013 a year before 5e released D&D sales dropped down to $15.5 million. I saw his presentation at Gameholecon...
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    D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e

    A gameholecon panel. Recorded by Mike Shea. A recording of the "Beautiful Mess of 5e" Gamehole Con seminar recorded on 15 October 2025 with Teos Abadia, Shawn Merwin, Mike Mearls, and Mike Shea. The intent was to discuss the nature of 5e and the cloud of games that are 5e clones and 5e...
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    D&D General Gameholecon Wardens OP allows PCs from variant 5e D&D systems

    The Wardens of the Western Marches organized play here are Gameholecon allows characters from TOV, Frog God, Kobold Press, and Ghostfire and WotC Both 2014 and 2024
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    Who is at Gameholecon?!

    I am!
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    Mearls helped design 5e and he crunches the numbers. Interesting that Johnathan Tweet chime in about timing with rests changes the balance which is out of the designers hands. Why not make a control part of the design? Like in the One Ring?
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    Drakkenheim Daggerheart Campaign Guide Announced.

    Dungeon Dudes, Ghostfire Games and Darrington Press join forces to kickstart a Daggerheart Drakkenheim campaign guide. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dungeondudes/dungeons-of-drakkenheim-daggerheart?ref=6tr8sv Thanks to Arrowed on discord for the info.
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    Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode One +

    A thread to discuss episode one directly. Plus thread cause reasons. I’m trying Beacin too, with a free code in the front page.
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    Critical Role Critical Role Season 4 DM says encounters will not be balanced.

    Brennan Lee Mulligan says, for CR4, the encounters won’t be balanced to the characters. They are what they are and the players can meet them as is. TPKs are a distinct possibility. This will be interesting. You Want A Blood Bath Also the dice will fall where they may. Death of PCs isn’t a...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Essentials Kit and Stormwreck Isle bundle $33 on Amazon

    The Magic:The Gathering store at Amazon has a bundle of these two boxes for $33, FYI. Long crazy Amazon URL.
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    Daggerheart Class Packs kickstarter is live.

    Daggerheart Class Packs kickstarter signup page is live. Also the advertising video is in YouTube. Edit: now live. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darringtonpressgames/daggerheart-class-packs
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    D&D General Dungeons & Dragons: Origins, Shannon Appelcline new history signup is live.

    From the Birth of Roleplaying to the Discovery of the Forgotten Realms, from the Rise of Basic D&D to the Fall of Mystara, historian Shannon Appelcline brings you the Story of OD&D, BD&D, and AD&D 1e in Designers & Dragons: Origins...
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    Critical Role Professor DM interviews Critical Role Cast

    Professor DM live chat with Critical Role’s Mathew Mercer and Travis Willingham.
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC invites Stinky Dragon to play the Heros of the Borderlands Box

    WotC invites the Stinky Dragons actual play podcast to come in and play the Heros of the Borderlands box from scratch. I do like the experiment. I’d love to have work invite another podcast that has never played and show that too.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Tyranny of Dragons 10 year anniversary Beadle and Grimm’s Legendary box set

    Tyranny of Dragons 10 year anniversary Beadle and Grimm’s Legendary box set up for preorder. Christopher Hutton mentions that @SlyFlourish contribution is a big highlight addition. It has handouts, trinkets, maps, miniatures, and the adventure plus that DM guide by Mike...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mastering Dungeons interviews Justice Arman about Heroes of the Borderlands

    Listening to it now. I guess they’d been planning this for a while. I submitted questions from ENWorlders I hope we get some answers! Thanks to Justice and Teos and Shawn. First thing first me is that the Hermit is in it?! Where! Now I need to go on a hermit hunt!
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    Marvel Multiverse RPG is now available in PDF.

    Matt Forbeck says it wasn't a licensing issue just that Marvel has a thing about PDFs, but internal discussions turned things around! There is so much there! I had no idea so many books had come out. Looks like the convention book and the Free RPG Day stuff is there too...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Borderlands Box Set Live QnA with Justice

    There is an upcoming live Q&A with Justice the author of the Borderlands Box set Wednesday September 17th at 1pm Central time. https://discord.com/events/516367331358801950/1416193351232917666 WotC has put up a post in YouTube were you can ask questions...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Baldur's Gate Premier Game Jam, from the DMSGuilds & Storytelling Collective

    They are partnering with Storytelling Collective, an online learning collective. Looks like they'll mentor and publish your efforts. I've participated in game jams as a customer but never a creator. Interesting that DMSGuild, and presumably WotC are doing this. Is this part of the new direction...
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    New Daggerheart void material. The Void 1.5

    Vael posted it in the Daggerheart + thread but thought a new thread would be a good idea. Is this what Christopher Perkins and Jeremy Crawford are working on? It’s a collection of adversaries and locations. Also I’m really liking the term Adversary. Also Reaction Roll is a video going over it.
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