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Along with Gary Gygax, Perren created a set of miniatures rules called Chainmail that would later become the basis of a little game known as Dungeons & Dragons. One of the first three games published by the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, which would eventually, become TSR Games, the Chainmail miniatures game was the first commercially available miniatures game for fantasy settings. Chainmail[...]

Smith's Vornheim won the 2012 Technology Award at the International Festival of Indie Games, also known as IndieCade, a festival for independent game design in video games. One of the more recent controversies regarding Smith sprung up a few months ago when the Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition Players Handbook came out and Smith was credited[...]

By Christopher Helton Mike Mearls, the head of Research & Development for Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast did an Ask Me Anything at reddit the other day Most of the questions asked were those things that you would expect from fans being given open access, but there were some good questions that were[...]

Honestly…. From Dungeons & Dragons: Baldurs Gate, I think someone needs to learn how to drive with the… stick… Edward Scissorhands #1, launching at IDW, well the ice feature is clearly eye catching, but he might have left the rest of the decor go to pot a little It's not just ocation, location, location you know[...]

Depending on how a team sets up their fund raiser, 100% of the money will either go to the Children's Miracle Network, or their local member hospital. For the second year in a row, Dungeons & Dragons will be a part of Extra Life, as members of the Wizards of the Coast D&D development team and[...]

Phil Zoshak writes for Bleeding Cool: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak about Game Changer, a new nerd nonprofit program of Page 15, a

By Christopher Helton This past week our weekly gaming group decided that it was time to start up a new game, playing the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons We waited because I wanted the new Monster Manual in hand before we started playing It was a fun first session, and two of the characters were[...]

By Christopher Helton The new edition of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game has been rolling out over the last couple of months, first with the release of the Starter Set and now with the first of the core rule books, the Player's Handbook  I have to admit that before the releases started coming out, my[...]

By Christopher Helton Fred Van Lente is a multi-faceted writer of comics, including the New York Times Best-selling Incredible Hercules, Marvel Zombies,

By Christopher Helton Day three of Gen Con was probably my busiest day at the convention. I talked with a lot of people and was able to meet some

By Emily Dare Wednesday sees the long-anticipated release of Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini’s new title from Image Comics:  Low.  Several months ago I

That was the opening volley in the release of the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons from Wizards of the Coast With the release of the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set in stores, and the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules PDF on the Wizards of the Coast website, we have the beginnings of the fifth[...]

By Christopher Helton On July 3rd the rollout of the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons started with the release of the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set and the first version of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules PDF Unfortunately, this quickly became eclipsed by infighting among factions of online geeks, all because of two consultants[...]

By Christopher Helton Wizards of the Coast released an "unboxing" video for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set In the video were Dungeons & Dragons senior manager for the Dungeons & Dragons research and design team Mike Mearls, Greg Bilsland, a producer for Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast, and Trevor Kidd ("seen" only as an occasional set[...]

His blog is the long-running Greyhawk Grognard. While the book says that it is "compatible with most old school RPGs," most of mechanical writing (NPCs, spells, characters, etc) is fairly inline with the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons system Converting to Swords & Wizardry or Labyrinth Lord would take very little work to do. One of the things[...]

By Christopher Helton Back when information starting trickling in from the official sources about the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the first things that we discovered was that the early adventures would be written by Wolfgang Baur and Steve Winter of Kobold Press, and published by Wizards of the Coast as part of the official D&D game line[...]

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 of Dungeons & Dragons for free Previously mentioned as something "outside the box" of the Starter Set and being a free "15%" of the core rules, we now know that this PDF will[...]

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 of supplements for the D&D RPG In this position he is one of the architects for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition I got a chance to[...]

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

By Christopher Helton Of course, D&D has had organized play since the early days, but now they are launching something that they say is new and

By Christopher Helton Yesterday I reported about the new edition of D&D coming out this summer from Wizards of the Coast. If you read that piece

By Christopher Helton Despite the growing popularity of games like Pathfinder or Fate Core, there is one game that wags the tail of tabletop gaming, and that is Dungeons & Dragons from Wizards of the Coast This summer, at the Gen Con gaming convention, the first book of the new, fifth edition of the game that[...]

A number of years ago, Troll Lord Games started work on their version of D&D, the game called Castles & Crusades. What is Castles & Crusades? The short answer is that it is a cleaned up version of early Advanced Dungeons & Dragons or later Dungeons & Dragons with some more "modern" mechanics thrown into the[...]

Even the massive industry leader Dungeons & Dragons started out as a booklet made by some guys who wanted to share the game that they had been playing Today blogs and publishing sites like Lulu.com and RPGNow.com take the place of the photocopies and office supply raids of the self-publishers of old In this, hopefully[...]

By Christopher Helton One of the great mysteries of tabletop gaming has had an ending put to it with the reports of the death of former TSR Games artist

My longtime pal Mark Smylie dropped me a line recently, indicating that he'd just been to the MEFCC convention in Dubai and that he was wondering if