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 Review of The Wishing Pool Short Story Collection
Posted: Wed, 24 Jul 19:00:17
Category: Fiction, horror, short-stories
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories is a brand new collection of fourteen, masterful tales written by American horror writer Tananarive Due. Due, a multi-award winning writer, presents a bloody tapestry of Black horror across multiple timelines, ending with Afrofuturistic stories. The celebrated author’s first collection was published in 2015; now, almost ten years later, […]

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 Explore the Darkest Reaches of Space with 50% Off Select ALIEN RPG Titles
Posted: Wed, 24 Jul 18:57:05
Category: Articles, aliens, demiplane
In honor of the cinematic release of ALIEN: ROMULUS in theatres, get 50% off select titles in the ALIEN RPG catalog on DriveThruRPG, Roll20, and Demiplane for the month of August. Space is vast, dark, and not your friend. Try to scream, and no one can hear you—hold your breath, and you rupture your lungs. […]

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 Celebrate DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Golden Anniversary at Gen Con 2024
Posted: Thu, 18 Jul 19:58:01
Category: Features, News, dungeons & dragons
It's a banner year for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS! Coming off the acclaimed film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and the smash hit video game Baldur's Gate 3, D&D is celebrating 50 years of the WORLD’S GREATEST ROLEPLAYING GAME. More than 64 million D&D fans love rolling dice, slaying monsters, and envisioning themselves as the amazing heroes they all are inside. This year at Gen Con 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS will be debuting the 2024 Player’s Handbook making D&D more accessible than ever before. Wizards is bringing 3,000 copies of the 2024 Player’s Handbook hot off the presses to Gen Con 2024 – each of which features the 50th anniversary logo in gold foil, along with a commemorative "Gen Con 2024" bookplate making it even more exclusive and distinguishing it from other first-run copies.

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 Quests from the Infinite Staircase DnD5E Review
Posted: Tue, 16 Jul 18:52:24
Category: Reviews, RPGs, DnD
To mark the 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons, Wizards of the Coast delves into the past, to dig up six, classic D&D adventures and present them with light updates, new art, and 5th edition rules. These beloved classics include “The Lost City” (1982), “When a Star Falls” (1984), “Beyond the Crystal Cave” (1983), “Pharaoh” […]

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 Dive Deep into D&D’s Origin with The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977
Posted: Wed, 19 Jun 19:56:11
Category: Articles, DnD, history
How are you celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons? If you’re a fan or history buff, take advantage of a brand-new, 500-page, gilded crimson tome titled The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977. Included in this massive volume are never-before-seen handwritten notes, drafts, and ephemera published in a collectible, coffee table-style edition. […]

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 What’s New at Roll20? New D&D Character Sheet Preview + Bonus for Pre-Order
Posted: Tue, 18 Jun 13:25:10
Category: Articles, DnD, roll20
Roll20 is proud to fully support D&D 2024 with a brand new suite of best-in-class tools to play online. Starting today, the new Roll20 D&D character sheet is available to preview during a public Alpha period. The virtual character sheet offers a modern design, enhanced spell and inventory management, greater customization and automation, and compatibility […]

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 SFWA Awards the Late Jennell Jaquays the 2024 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award
Posted: Thu, 30 May 13:07:59
Category: Articles, awards, sfwa
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association is pleased to announce that the 2024 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award will be presented posthumously to Jennell Jaquays at the 59th Annual SFWA Nebula Awards® ceremony on June 8, 2024. The Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award is given by SFWA for significant contributions to the science fiction, fantasy, and […]

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 Going to Gen Con: Indy 2024? Check out these 10 Writer’s Symposium Events!
Posted: Wed, 29 May 20:05:38
Category: Articles, Features, Conventions / Events
Are you heading to GenCon: Indy? This year, Gen Con will be held from Thursday, August 1st, 2024 through Sunday, August 4th in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Writer’s Symposium, featuring over seventy award-winning authors, poets, experts, and game designers, will be held on the second floor of the Indianapolis Downtown Marriott at 350 W Maryland St, […]

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 Through the Gates with Onyx Path Publishing
Posted: Tue, 28 May 14:54:25
Category: Features, Interviews, dark-fantasy
At the Gates is a high fantasy tabletop roleplaying game about burgeoning heroes struggling to survive, fighting for what's right, exploring dangerous places, and saving the world. Onyx Path Publishing is currently running a crowd-funding campaign over at BackerKit.com. We had a chance to catch up with Danielle Lauzon, creator and lead developer of At the Gates, to talk about the game a bit.

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 My 2024 Schedule for the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium
Posted: Thu, 23 May 20:03:51
Category: Blogs, gencon, gencon2024
This year, GenCon: Indianapolis takes place Thursday, August 1st through Sunday, August 4th. I’m presenting this year at the GenCon Writer’s Symposium and am offering a couple of workshops for ten dollars and am participating in several free-to-attend events. In addition to these events, I’ll have some wares on hand. I’m bringing print copies of […]

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 Review of Vecna Eve of Ruin Celebrating 50 Years of D&D
Posted: Tue, 07 May 12:24:29
Category: Features, RPGs, DnD
Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a campaign book for characters of levels 10 through 20. Compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, the campaign tasks the players with a seemingly-impossible job: to save the multiverse from annihilation. The campaign book is offered in two editions: standard and an alternate cover. The standard edition cover, illustrated […]

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 Goliath Coins to Feature New Pathfinder Coin Collection
Posted: Tue, 30 Apr 19:04:22
Category: Articles, coins, pathfinder
Goliath Coins and Paizo Inc. have announced a partnership to create a series of large, collector's coins featuring Pathfinder creatures and characters. The coins, which are currently available for preorder, will ship in June. This initial series of coins has been in the works between Goliath Coins and Paizo for quite some time, and the Pathfinder Remaster Project's new dragon designs gave Goliath Coins the perfect opportunity to craft collector's coins that are steeped in Pathfinder imagery. The designs on the four coins in this set are: the Diabolic Dragon, Dragon Turtle, Feiya and Daji, her familiar, and Lini and Droogami, her animal companion.

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