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New Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Brings Elements Of Evil To Your Campaign
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[...]
Mike Mearls – Head Of Dungeons And Dragons R&D Does Reddit AMA
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[...]
Gamers Helping Children Through Extra Life And You Can Too
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[...]
Nice Things We Can Have – Looking At The Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set
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[...]
Watching The Dungeons & Dragons Unboxing Video
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[...]
Talking D&D's Tyranny Of Dragons With Wolfgang Baur And Steve Winter
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[...]
Basic Dungeons & Dragons – Get Your First Taste For Free
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[...]
D&D Fifth Edition: Now With Organized Play
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[...]
More Developments On The D&D Front From Twitter
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[...]
The Summer Blockbuster Of Tabletop RPGs: D&D Is Back
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[...]
How To Get Work As A Fantasy Artist – Tom Braxa Gives Away His Secrets
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[...]