Christopher Helton Archives

By Christopher Helton On July 3rd the rollout of the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons started with the release of the Dungeons & Dragons Starter

By Christopher Helton Wizards of the Coast released an "unboxing" video for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set. In the video

By Christopher Helton The newest offering at the Bundle of Holding site is the latest version of the Paranoia roleplaying game. Darkly satirical, the game

By Christopher Helton It started with a tweet coming out of the Origins Game Fair this past weekend: WE'RE EXCITED!! RT @philipjreed: Munchkin comic books

By Christopher Helton Dan Didio gets a lot of grief over the management side of his work at DC Comics, but I have enjoyed his comic writing work at the

By Christopher Helton Growling Door Games has announced the acquisition of the license to produce a third edition of venerable horror roleplaying

By Christopher Helton This past weekend was the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio, one of the bigger tabletop gaming conventions outside of Gen Con. One

By Christopher Helton Monte Cook Games is going to have a charity auction, giving away chances to play in a Numenera game run by Monte Cook or a game

By Christopher Helton The FilmBundle website is a relatively new entry into the “humble bundle” scene. Specializing in indie movies, the site has recently

By Christopher Helton Gaming ‘zines are seeing an explosion in popularity again. It seems after so many years of gaming blogs pushing out a lot of the

By Christopher Helton The shortlist for this year's Diana Jones Award (given out each year at a special ceremony at Gen Con) has been announced. The Diana

By Christopher Helton Now up, for a very limited time, at the Bundle of Holding site is a bundle featuring the transhumanist roleplaying game Eclipse

By Christopher Helton Need more Fluxx in your life? Looney Labs has just the thing the thing for you, then, with new upcoming games of Cartoon Network

By Christopher Helton I tend to use the phrase “you could play for years off of this” when talking about a bundle up at the Bundle of Holding site.

By Christopher Helton The award winning Engine Publishing, the people behind the successful game mastering blog Gnome Stew and the books for game masters

By Christopher Helton I’ve talked before about the gems that can be found for tabletop gaming, the self-published games and supplements that go over the

By Christopher Helton Back when information starting trickling in from the official sources about the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the

By Christopher Helton Some of you may remember Deadlands from the announcement that it was being developed as a possible "television" series to be

By Christopher Helton The newest announcement coming from Wizards of the Coast this morning is that you will be getting the core of the new edition

Mike Mearls is the senior manager for the Dungeons & Dragons research and design team. He has worked on the Ravenloft board game along with a number

By Christopher Helton More news from Twitter on the D&D front. Once again, Mike Mearls's Twitter feed is proving to be an important part of the gaming