Tabletop RPG

Hey, Matt?

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.

This week our tabletop gaming crew dove back into D&D, but instead of more clone adventures in the Riatan our adventurers found themselves in the town of Last Hope in a Weird West one shot adventure.

This time we've got not one, but two D&D games to recap, as things have been pretty crazy this April as we've run not one but two D&D sessions and two one shots -- the second of which will be this Saturday, April 25, which you should definitely listen to on our Twitch channel.

The Blizzard Watch crew usually gets together once a month to play a D&D game that I can only describe as wacky and wonderful.