Tabletop RPG

If you've been playing Dungeons and Dragons for any length of time, you've probably heard of the Drow.

Mythic Odysseys of Theros is now available digitally on D&D Beyond, ahead of its July physical release, and that means we get to take a look at a campaign setting rooted in concepts borrowed not from the standard Tolkien-inspired generic medieval world, but instead from a more mythical, classical idea.

Dungeons and Dragons is more popular now than it has been in years, if not more popular than it has ever been.

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The greatest power in Dungeons and Dragons -- in most tabletop roleplaying games -- is the dice.

That's right, the Blizzard Watch team once again we braved the virtual tabletop — complete with a 20 minute delay as the DM tried to figure out Roll20 — to play D&D and explore an ancient volcano lair.

Playtest content in Dungeons and Dragons — or Unearthed Arcana — is a lot of fun because it provides new options for everybody to explore and gives you a peek into what's coming out for D&D before it gets a book release.

Update: The game is over, but you can catch the replay on Twitch and it will be up on Soundcloud for podcast listeners soon.

We've talked a bit about how to run a D&D game, and we'll likely talk about it again, but since we've featured several Unearthed Arcana supplements and talked about books like the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, it feels to me like time to discuss a somewhat sensitive topic that every D&D group eventually confronts.

If you remember our Dungeons and Dragons Classes 101 roundup, we're using the same format here for our overview of the various races one can play.