Cawood Publishing, who pay $8 a month for Twitter Blue, have launched their new D&D Kickstarter campaign. The campaign in question promises new fantasy monsters for your Dungeons & Dragons 5e games. According to the Kickstarter page, the monster book “Monsters of the Dungeon: Brave the Darkness” is compatible with other fantasy RPG systems. The Monsters of the Dungeon: Brave the Darkness crowdfunding page promises colour illustrations, statblocks, and bios of “100-120 new monsters” across “160-175 pages” if the campaign reaches the lofty CA$32,000 goal. We can’t help but feel this goa ..read more

One rainy afternoon five or six years ago, while I was laying on my sofa nursing a hangover, the almighty algorithm recommended me a video of a group of high-energy voice actors led by Matt Mercer playing the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. In a state of bleary eyed semi consciousness I clicked on the thumbnail and my life was changed forever as I was introduced to Critical Role, and by extension, Dungeons & Dragons. I wasn’t alone in this experience. In fact over the years, many people have told me that Critical Role was their own introduction to Dungeons & Dragons t ..read more

As I sat in the cinema to watch the new Dungeons & Dragons movie, I can’t help but feel a sense of apprehension. After all, the original Dungeons & Dragons movie was a disaster of epic proportions, to put it lightly, and I was worried that this new film would suffer a similar fate. But as I settled into my seat and the lights dimmed, I found myself more than pleasantly surprised. The characters, or party, are immediately likable, each with their own unique personality and backstory that add to the film, rather than take away from it. Chris Pine is perfectly cast as a charismatic rogue ..read more

RPG content creator and Author If you take a look through the credits (and even sometimes covers) of the RPG books on your shelf, there’s a good chance you’ll see the name Darren W. Pearce. In fact, he’s been around the tabletop RPG industry, and even the videogame industry since around the year 2000. Darren is a prolific and progressive creator who has an impressive body of work, work which started out in the Dark Quest Games City Guide 1: Everyday Life alongside the likes of Joseph Carriker, Wil Upchurch, and Patrick Lawinger back in 2001 when it was published. Though according to our sourc ..read more

What is MythCraft? Coming hot in a wave of magic from Grant Mielke, CEO of Quasireal Publishing and host/creator of the Homebrew Podcast is a brand-new epic RPG saga. Say hello to MythCraft! Found here at this MythCraft Kickstarter link. Try out their free demo there too! It’s not often I get drawn toward a cool-looking TTRPG instantly, but there’s something about this one which caught my eye. They asked for £24,528 to get it going, and as of today (03/22/2023) we’re looking at a grand total of £70,886 at the time of this writing. Not bad at all! Just one look at this particular graphic give ..read more

Dead Channel Studios launches Kickstarter for Carbon 2185 | Legacy Rising. Tabletop publisher Dead Channel Studios have launched their Kickstarter campaign for Carbon 2185 | Legacy Rising, an expansion of the critically acclaimed D&D 5e cyberpunk conversion Carbon 2185. Carbon 2185 is a cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game released in July 2019 and created using the extremely popular D&D 5e ruleset. The cyberpunk hit has been featured in Forbes and New Scientist. Founded by Lewis Scott Fraser in 2020, Dead Channel Studios has built a small and fiercely loyal audience across their eight ..read more

Former VP in charge of Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast was asked why he thinks Wizard’s are doing what they are doing with the OGL 1.1. In a livestream, Ryan Dancey, one of the architects of the original OGL had this to say: “Okay, so, let’s talk about Hasbro and Hasbro’s valuation. Hasbro’s a publicly traded company in the fortune 500, which means that all their financials are public. You can go online and you can read their financial statements and their annual and quarterly filings about how they make money and what their costs are and all the things about their business. An ..read more

In the wake of numerous, and more recent controversies, such as the racist and transphobic content found in the playtest version of TSR LLC’s ‘Star Frontiers: New Genesis’. Wizards of the Coast, the current publisher of Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game, owned by conglomerate Hasbro has filed a preliminary injunction against TSR LLC in an attempt to prevent the publication, and sale of this new version of a beloved TTRPG classic produced by the original TSR. The lawsuit cites conflicts over the intellectual property, and reprehensible content which includes racist, transphobic a ..read more

Have you ever felt that your D&D games were lacking in fantastical plants, herbs, poisons, or even monsters? Well so did the team at Sarsen Games! They have brought the now fully funded “The Herbal Journal of Cicely Longbottom” to Kickstarter. You can check it out right here. “A selection of plants from the Herbal Journal” As Sarsen Games have put it on their Kickstarter page: “The Herbal Journal is a book of over 100 plants, herbs, recipes, poisons, potions and monsters all designed for DnD; Lovingly annotated by our fictional Botanist Cicely Longbottom and illustrated by an incredible mi ..read more