There are more rumors swirling around “Dungeons & Dragons”, as there often are, but these might be worth listening to. According to Tenkar’s Tavern on Youtube, there are somewhat credible rumors regarding not only a new edition of D&D being

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So the ridiculously-popular D&D 5e campaign “Dungeons of Drakkenheim” is being reworked into a new edition for “Daggerheart” (see the Kickstarter campaign here). This may not seem like a big deal, but I expect this news has some folks over

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There’s a new update coming for “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” in January. This isn’t really news, I’m aware. There are actually two updates coming, one free and one paid, although for a mere pittance ($5 for the Switch 2 update,

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Well, Halloween is coming up this weekend (Friday, specifically), and for a lot of us, this provides the perfect time to break out some horror-based tabletop roleplaying games for some one-shot fun! But what sort of horror games should you

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So, lets make one thing perfectly clear: I am a dedicated Console Peasant, and my two consoles of choice are the Nintendo Switch, and more recently the Xbox Series X. PC gaming is just too damn expensive anymore, and I

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So I have been thinking a lot about what setting I should use for my next game. I was considering reworking one of my old games from the 90’s, and just using its setting with a modern system, but I

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There is a lot of talk today in the Tabletop RPG Design scene regarding AI, and the use thereof. AI used to create “art” for TTRPGs, especially for small creators (and big ones, like “Wizards of the Coast”). AI used

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So recently I wrote a post regarding an idea I had for dice mechanics in my upcoming game. It was highly influenced by “Powered by the Apocalypse” dice mechanics, but tweaked significantly for what I was doing. In the moment,

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So recently the world’s largest tabletop roleplaying actual-play, “Critical Role”, announced that they would be playing “Dungeons & Dragons” 2024 edition for their upcoming Season 4. This was rather shocking news to many, since Darrington Press (the publishing arm of

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So I see a lot of creators arguing that they need to use AI artwork in their TTRPG projects, because it is too hard to make their own, or too expensive to hire artists to do it for them. Well,

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