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Upcoming D&D sourcebook Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons focuses on all things Draconic in Dungeons and Dragons
At D&D Live 2021, we learned about the next sourcebook for 5th Edition: Fizban's Treasury of Dragons. Shortly before the event, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons showed up on both Amazon and D&D Beyond, so I'm comfortable saying that's what we're talking about in the first D&D Live panel of the day.
How to decide if you should be using a different game than D&D
I once spent three months painstakingly kludging rules together for 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons so that my friends could play in a game that was more like a fantasy anime like The Vision of Escaflowne, only to realize I was breaking my back to do something Exalted already did, but better.
How to handle the power overwhelming of high level D&D games
Most Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, especially in fifth edition, end around level 10.
Summer Games Done Quick 2021 has started! Don’t miss these 12 standout speedruns
It's my favorite time of the year: Summer Games Done Quick.
How toxicity in gaming affects the people who make the games
Game developers are human beings with feelings.
10 great games that you should pick up from the Steam Summer Sale
The 2021 edition of the Steam Summer Sale has begun, and a lot of games are included in it -- too many for us to realistically talk about them all.
This weekend, Blizzard Watch will be streaming another episode of our D&D adventure in Otherweald
Last month's TTRPG stream was a special Mass Effect-themed one shot game, but now Joltin' Joe Perez is back to DM us through another installment of his Otherweald campaign, and the gang will set out from their current location in the desert towards the jungle location of the ancient temple of Lilith to reclaim a jeweled chalice sacred to Hela, goddess of death.
Exalted Essence is a unique approach to onboarding new players to an established game
Okay, I'm a long time fan of Exalted, the game originally made by White Wolf and now maintained by Onyx Path, which is a roleplaying game about the mythic past where nearly divine beings called Exalted helped shape the destiny of creation.
The latest Legend of Vox Machina video gives us a look at Phil Bourassa’s art design of the characters
When you're watching what is essentially a promotional trailer for an upcoming project, you expect it to be effusive in its praise and to try and hype up what it is talking about, so when I started watching The Legend of the Design of the Legend of Vox Machina I figured it would be them talking up the design process.
Tips for starting your first TTRPG campaign
I remember when I decided to start my first Dungeons and Dragons game as a DM, and found about a month into it that I'd accidentally created my own campaign world.



