I got into Norse mythology when I was a kid because of Marvel's Thor. Reading about Odin, Loki, the Bi-Frost, Heimdall and Ragnarok got me interested in
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Magic: The Gathering, the best known and widest played TCG on the market for the last 22 years with over 20 million players and fans world wide. For those
The newest campaign arc for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game from Wizards of the Coast is now available in your friendly local gaming/comic store.
Inspired by one of the earliest large scale, "mega" adventures for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Princes of the Apocalypse unleashes an ancient evil upon the lands of the Forgotten Realms…an[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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
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
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[...]
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[...]
Earlier today, Wizards of the Coast's head of R&D for D&D Mike Mearls took to Twitter:
Here's the big news about organized play and D&D fifth – http://t.co/OOEKJHYm2e
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) May 21, 2014
Organized Play, for those not familiar, is programmed adventures that are used in stores or gaming conventions[...]
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 you'll remember that I posted a tweet from Mike Mearls, the head of Wizards' R&D team for D&D:
Lots of questions about character creation and the starter set – you will[...]
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[...]
He's done character designs for Aliens Vs Predator and Van Helsing, and illustrations for Wizards of the Coast, Blizzard (the Warcraft folks), White Wolf and many more… all the folks that do most of the fantasy art employing.
So what topics does he cover in his book?
How to build an effective illustration portfolio
How to find fantasy[...]
The cover of the latest issue of the Limbaugh Letter, radio host Rush Limbaugh's monthly magazine, features this illustration by Christopher Hiers, which