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The Godless Lands: The Fall of The Divine

February 11, 2019 by The Chatty DM

"Graveyard of Dead Gods" by Shane Semler

As players were picking their character’s classes, I noticed that no one was jostling to pick primary divine-powered classes like clerics or paladins. That gave me a new idea to support my Godless Lands setting.

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Campaign Logs, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, the godless lands

The Selesnya Brief: Introduction

February 8, 2019 by Dave

Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica

Three Parts Dead put the idea of a fantasy legal thriller in my head. And I knew the Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica was coming out soon. Putting them together and The Selesnya Brief was born.

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Campaign Logs, Critical Threats, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, magic the gathering, mtg, ravnica, the selesnya brief

The Godless Lands: The Troupe

February 6, 2019 by The Chatty DM

"Graveyard of Dead Gods" by Shane Semler

Once we’d established the foundation of the Setting in which we’d play, we proceeded to create the party. True to the principles of Cheetoism, we gathered together, ordered food and discussed the character’s recent past to establish the adventuring party’s Raisons d’Etre.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, the godless lands

The Godless Lands: Genesis

February 4, 2019 by The Chatty DM

"Graveyard of Dead Gods" by Shane Semler

As we settled on the core setting, the ideas of playing in a world were all the gods were violently snuffed more or less recently still churned in my mind. I decided that this was a theme I wanted to explore.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Adventure Prep, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: the godless lands

The Godless Lands – Concept

January 7, 2019 by The Chatty DM

"Graveyard of Dead Gods" by Shane Semler

An alternate cosmology for D&D, Pathfinder, and other d20 fantasy RPGs.

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, the godless lands

5TDM: 5th Edition Team Deathmatch

November 29, 2018 by Bartoneus

Back on Sunday, November 18th we participated in a streamed match of 5th Edition Team Deathmatch, our team was up against the excellent team from Cheaper by the Dungeon and it was an incredibly fun evening of killing, joking, and telefragging (oh…so much telefragging.)

Filed Under: Actual Play, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5e, 5tdm, 5th edition, 5th edition team deathmatch, D&D, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, Kickstarter, pvp, roleplaying games

So You’ve Decided to Run Your Own D&D Campaign…

June 8, 2018 by Bartoneus

Dark Souls

If you’re thinking about starting your own D&D campaign you should pick an underlying theme as the structure with which you’ll build your world.

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Editorial, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games, The Architect DM Tagged With: D&D, DM advice, world building

Review: “Tomb of Annihilation”

November 27, 2017 by JonBolds

Tomb is an adventure module that blends three kinds of classic D&D gaming into a pretty satisfying whole, despite a few sore spots. It’s metaplot-driven campaign arc set in an exploration sandbox that gives way to a big dungeon crawl for the finale.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5e, D&D, d&d5e, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons

Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game Starter Kit Released

November 21, 2017 by Dave

The Starter Kit serves as an introduction to the Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game system, as well as to the universe of Sentinel Comics, made popular in the Sentinels of the Multiverse card game.

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: SCRPG

Queer Creations

September 18, 2017 by Chris Sims

7th Sea

The fifth edition Player’s Handbook, for the first time in D&D history, makes a bold statement about sexuality and gender. It encourages you to imagine different. However, a few failures of imagination exist with regard to depicting this sort of equality in games and other media.

Filed Under: Analysis Paralysis, Editorial, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5e, D&D, D&D 5e, the witcher

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