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The most recent State of the Role following the end of Critical Role campaign 2 has revealed what they'll be doing over the summer while they gear up for campaign 3 -- namely, playing D&D with new players and a new DM!

We all know I love dinosaurs, so it shouldn't surprise you that I'm about to write one more, because the discovery of and description of Australotitan is a big deal for more than just the behemoth's size.

We love Unearthed Arcana, which brings unique and unusual options to anyone's home D&D game.

The next two official sourcebooks for Dungeons & Dragons have been revealed -- The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: a Feywild Adventure is coming in September, and the next Magic: the Gathering tie-in Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos is due to arrive in December.

Lately I've been thinking about what it's like to play as a new player, something I haven't done in years -- I started playing RPGs when I was nine years old, in 1981.

If you're not aware, Critical Role is a web series that streams on Twitch every week on Thursday nights, 7 p.m.

Being a Dungeon Master for a TTRPG like Dungeons and Dragons means a fair amount of work involved in running an adventure for a group of players, but you may be surprised how often that is all for nothing.

If there's one thing that every Dungeons and Dragons game needs, it's a Dungeon Master.

I've been playing and Game Mastering various tabletop RPGs for a long time -- from old school Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder, to Wraith the Oblivion, Exalted, and Talislanta. I've run GURPS, Champions, Silver Age Sentinels, Unknown Armies, Conspiracy X, Call of Cthulhu, Earthdawn, Heavy Gear... it's a lot of games.

While we've been busy collecting Anima and restoring order to the Shadowlands, famed Pandaren chef Nomi has been on a culinary tour across Azeroth, Draenor, and the Shadowlands.