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In the latest episode of Mastering Dungeons, Shawn announces that he's leaving leadership role at Ghostfire Gaming to join Wizards of the Coast as a contract (one year) game designer on D&D. Shawn is the second Ghostfire person to join during this wave of hiring.

Wizards of the Coast has made another D&D game designer - this time tapping Erin Roberts, creator of the Godsbreath setting seen in Journeys from the Radiant Citadel. Roberts announced the hire on social media over the weekend. Similar to the hires of James Haeck and Leon Barillaro, Roberts is...

For flavor reasons Magic Stone is the absolute best cantrip to fit my Artificer's story. But it does 1d6+attribute no matter what level you are. Why? Should this be house ruled as 1/2/3/4 by tier?

It's an RPG from Green Ronin out in PDF, with physical books coming soon. Based off of N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series, it's a game where the community is part of the character pool. The goals are to survive the "fifth season" which is a disaster storm that comes at random points through a...

https://jobs.hasbro.com/job/Renton-Creative-Brand-Manager%2C-D&D-Franchise-Wash-98056/1333565700/ What You'll Do: Maintain, update, and distribute D&D Franchise’s lore and reference archive. Research, organize, and curate D&D worldbuilding elements—characters, settings, storylines, and...

Tier 1 monsters, beasts and familiars are generally boring. The weak power level of a 1/4 CR creature means there isn't much space to do fun things. As I was building a custom inkling dragon, I riffed off the pseudodragon, because I wanted a familiar. Looking at the 2024 version and Black Flag...

Rather than the major chromatics being a species of dragons and collection of those that grow from egg to ancient wyrm, could D&D instead be a space where every dragon has different abilities, different temperaments and different looks? Sure, you'd still have a red -- Smaug like, hoarding of...

This May Target is going to carry a companion workbook about how to create a character within the 2024 rules. Early marketing clearly calls out that it is paired with the 2024 PHB. This almost certainly means that the PHB is about to be in Target again. Target is still selling the Essentials...

Dungeons & Dragons 5E lead designer Mike Mearls' latest project combines his current and former employers--on D&D Beyond you can now access a digital exclusive product from Chaosium which brings the Cthulhu Mythos to D&D 5th Edition. The supplement is called Cthulhu by Torchlight and includes...

Kobold has a shipping deal right now. I'm looking for a review of the Labyrinth Worldbook, because cheaper is good. I don't play in others' worlds, but love to borrow from elements and port them into my own.

It's fifteen pages, but a vast majority of the content is reminding a creator what is new. There are also revisions, name changes and format changes to track. https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/srd/guide/converting-to-srd-5.2.1.pdf

In the past D&D listed the Appendix N in the back. It was a large bundle of inspiring materials, absent from direct connections to various archetypes or concepts. Within Dragon magazine and various other essays official creators with TSR/WotC might share a more specific set of inspirations...

I've been playing with the idea that a Human should be able to take two Backgrounds. That would be their feature, which in 2024 means they get two Origin Feats (already the rule), two skills (one more than the standard Human) and a tool (one more than standard). Plus the added story, which...

Let's say you started play in a realm where there are tornadoes or hailstorms. Your characters level up to 5th level. Do those weather conditions get more severe because the group is now Tier 2? What would that mean for the town or village where they are? Would your heroes help the commoners...

Yes, the D&D movie was on Netflix previously (Canada, SE Asia/Pacific and some Europe), but Netflix makes its money and reputation in the US. They've spent some amount of money to get the US rights to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which releases in the USA on Feb. 26. It remains...

On a day with a new UA and a deep dive into 2025 Giants and a video about MagicCon's D&D presence, DnD Beyond also released a second Humblewood book. Humblewood Tales has light player options, and seems to be mostly adventure with setting material. Though I am interested in the Field Medic Feat...

One of the things that late-5e systems try to do better than the 2014 base model is making every monster interesting. In 2024 WotC D&D an example is the Ape, which now has a rock throwing ability. When perusing the Monster Vault from Kobold Press I went straight to the NPCs today. I've liked...

These weapons aren't about causing damage like a club. They're generally perceived in the Appendix N-ish literature to be light and/or finesse weapons that knock people unconscious. Well, due to hit points being that mush of meat and morale, that can't happen. So, let's say you had a 1d4...

The 2024 Ritual Caster feat is gated to level 4 and requires spell casting or pact magic to take it. How would an origin feat version of this need to be adjusted? I think there's space for a similar feat to tell the story of the not-quite caster who always has to have all of the accoutrements...

Up against powerhouses like Barbie and Spider-Man: Across the Universe it was D&D: Honor Among Thieves that won the Hugo as the best sci-fi/fantasy film of the last year. Honor Among Thieves was second in every round but the final one, finally surpassing Barbie. It currently sits as the 11th...