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Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual 2024 Review
Posted: Sun, 02 Mar 15:53:05
Category: Features, Reviews, RPGs
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Posted: Sun, 02 Mar 15:53:05
Category: Features, Reviews, RPGs
The final, updated supplement for the trilogy of Dungeons & Dragons 2024 core rulebooks has been released. The Monster Manual 2024 debuted as a 384-page, full-color hardcover book with standard and premium covers. D&D Beyond and Roll 20 offer a VTT version of the Monster Manual, too. The standard cover, illustrated by Tyler Jacobson, features Vajra Safahr and Minsc facing off against a beholder; the premium cover, credited in the book to Olena Richards, is a metallic blue mindflayer with gold foil print. Both books are high quality-printed hardcover books with illustrated end pages and feature gorgeous, thematic illustrations by over two dozen artists.
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D&D 2024 Dungeon Master Screen Review
Posted: Wed, 29 Jan 19:33:29
Category: Flames Rising, RPGs, dm
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Posted: Wed, 29 Jan 19:33:29
Category: Flames Rising, RPGs, dm
The new Dungeon Master’s Screen (2024) is now available! Priced at $20, the screen is compatible with the new Player’s Guide (2024), Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024), and Monster Manual (2024). The screen is packaged in a sealed envelope made of cardstock for protection. Inside, is a folder that allows you to shelve the screen and […]
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Review of the Dungeon Master’s Guide 2024
Posted: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:05:40
Category: Features, RPGs, DnD
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Posted: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:05:40
Category: Features, RPGs, DnD
The Dungeon Master’s Guide 2024 has just been released. The second book of three, the new 384-page guidebook offers updated, hands-on advice and rules to help DMs run sessions of Dungeons and Dragons.
As a companion to the Player’s Handbook 2024, this hardcover, full-color book is a welcome and gorgeous addition. Also available in digital format on D&D Beyond, the Dungeon Master’s Guide 2024 is a comprehensive, deep dive to help people run Dungeons & Dragons and create new materials for their campaigns.
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Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook 2024 Review
Posted: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:36:54
Category: RPGs, DnD, dnd5e
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Posted: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:36:54
Category: RPGs, DnD, dnd5e
The world's greatest roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons, has issued a brand new, 377-page Player's Handbook 2024 with streamlined rules.
The hardcover, full-color book is beautifully designed with gorgeous end pages and museum-quality art. In the introduction, both DMs and players are provided with an overview how to use the book and what's changed since the 2014 version. Many of the changes--easier character creation, enhanced classes, upgraded weapons, new and enhanced spells, are clearly elements that have been refreshed for playability and ease-of-use.
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Review of The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977
Posted: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:39:55
Category: Nonfiction, RPGs, DnD
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Posted: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:39:55
Category: Nonfiction, RPGs, DnD
The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977 is a 576-page, glossy-paged tome with silk bookmarks, color-coded sections, and a short commentary by gaming historian Jon Peterson. A museum-quality book that weighs a little over two pounds, the lightly annotated contents are reproductions of notes, drafts, and publications filled with handwriting, illustrations, and antique typefaces. Combined, they chronologically tell the story of how Dungeons & Dragons was designed and how its early concepts evolved from miniature war gaming to tabletop roleplaying.
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Review of The Wishing Pool Short Story Collection
Posted: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:00:17
Category: Fiction, horror, short-stories
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Posted: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 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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Quests from the Infinite Staircase DnD5E Review
Posted: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:52:24
Category: Reviews, RPGs, DnD
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Posted: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 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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Review of Vecna Eve of Ruin Celebrating 50 Years of D&D
Posted: Tue, 07 May 2024 12:24:29
Category: Features, RPGs, DnD
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Posted: Tue, 07 May 2024 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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Review of PocketQuest Loot Goblins
Posted: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:35:22
Category: RPGs, indie rpgs, rpg
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Posted: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:35:22
Category: RPGs, indie rpgs, rpg
Hiya, I am breaking a review hiatus to offer a review of Loot Goblins, by Michael’s Mind Online. The creator generously offered me a review copy, and I am happy to support their game design efforts-especially since this is their first, published game on DriveThruRPG! Loot Goblins was designed for PocketQuest 2024’s HEIST theme and, […]
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Deck of Many Things Review
Posted: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:45:11
Category: Reviews, RPGs, DnD
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Posted: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:45:11
Category: Reviews, RPGs, DnD
The Deck of Many Things Bundle is the latest Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition sourcebook and game accessory. Included in the physical product is a 192-page sourcebook titled The Book of Many Things as well as beautifully-boxed Deck of Many Things containing 66 cards and a hardcover 80-page card reference guide.
The 22-chapter sourcebook, which is available in standard and alternate printings, features Asteria (p. 188) on both covers and is structured around The Deck of Many Things as well as a standard deck of playing cards. This information-dense guidebook includes an introductory chapter written for history buffs that explains the origin and evolution of this titular magic deck. Following Chapter One: Fool, The Book of Many Things offers thematically-appropriate dungeon master tools, character creation options, factions, guilds, and cults, adventure locations, maps, monsters, and statistics for the deck’s creators (the human warrior, Asteria, and the medusa, Euryale) in twenty-one, idea-packed chapters.
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Planescape Adventures in the Multiverse Boxed Set Review
Posted: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:52:35
Category: Reviews, RPGs, DnD
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Posted: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:52:35
Category: Reviews, RPGs, DnD
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse is a boxed set available in standard and alternate full color editions of Morte’s Planar Parade, Sigil and the Outlands, Turn of Fortune’s Wheel, and a Planescape-themed campaign screen. The alternate edition offers the same content, but is printed with collectibility in mind; all four pieces are part of a […]
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Phandelever and Below The Shattered Obelisk Review
Posted: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:25:25
Category: RPGs, dark-fantasy, DnD
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Posted: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:25:25
Category: RPGs, dark-fantasy, DnD
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk is a campaign supplement for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition that recently debuted in September 2023. Geared for DMs, the supplement builds off of The Lost Mine of Phandelver included in the Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set. That same adventure is reprinted in this supplement as well, and it's worth nothing that the material has been slightly edited to better fit the campaign. The monsters from Chapters 1 through 4 are not included in the Bestiary, however, so if you require rules for non-named NPCs and creatures along with common magic items, you'll need a copy of the Monster Manual and the Dungeon Master's Guide.
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