Here’s the link: Inside the launch of the new Dungeons & Dragons with designer Mike Mearls Mike reveals a lot of fascinating information in this post, including how the starter adventure will include role-playing hooks for the pregenerated characters. Continue reading Mike Mearls reveals a lot about Dungeons & Dragons 5E to The Escapist
If you haven’t seen the latest Legends & Lore article, it would be a good idea to go and read it now. As we suspected, Wizards of the Coast are releasing a free version of D&D, which they’re calling Basic D&D. It will be distributed in a free PDF, which initially will only have the rules for character creation, but eventually will expand to allow … Continue reading D&D Basic announcement – A more Adventures-orientated D&D?
The second session of Dead in Thay at Goodgames Ballarat once again had 21 people attending – 17 players, 3 DMs and me as the co-ordinating DM. This session saw the player enter the Doomvault proper, each group taking one section of the dungeon and exploring it. We began with everyone together, waking up after the explosion of the Bloodgate in the last session. The … Continue reading D&D Encounters: Dead in Thay – Session 2
At a retailer conference earlier today, Wizards announced that about 15% of the Player’s Handbook would be available for free online. This portion of the rules will contain the character creation system that will allow basic characters to be created. This is, of course, all sorts of awesome. And, from everything I’m hearing, it isn’t all they’ll be releasing. After all, Mike Mearls did say … Continue reading D&D 5E: Online Resources and More on What’s in the Game!
Well, I didn’t see that coming as the next announcement – or so soon – but it must be said that Organised Play is near and dear to me. I’ve been participating in one form of Organised Play or another for the last decade, with my participation being quite a bit more in the last three years as the D&D Encounters programs have run. For … Continue reading Dungeons & Dragons Adventurers League announced
Mike Mearls has enlightened us a little more about the contents of the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set. And there’s a big surprise for people buying the set: No character creation rules are in the D&D Starter Set! Well, that’s not what I expected – or had inferred based on his previous posts. Mike has clarified that the Starter Set is aimed at Dungeon Masters, … Continue reading More on the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set
This report is a little late – apologies for that. Illness and general business have kept me from writing it before now. Running launch events can be a stressful experience. Running them at the same time as a stupidly popular Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament with about 16 people in it is tricky. Running a Launch Event with 17 players, 3 DM and one Co-ordinator where everyone is … Continue reading D&D Encounters: Dead in Thay – Session 1
Apart from the starter sets and core rulebooks, Wizards of the Coast are also holding a new storyline of adventures and related products. It’s called Tyranny of Dragons and is set in the Forgotten Realms, which looks very much like being the best-supported setting of the new edition (as it basically has been since 2nd edition). It may not have escaped readers of this blog … Continue reading Dungeons & Dragons 5E Releases: Adventures and Miniatures
The three big releases at the end of the year are, of course, the three core rulebooks for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. They’re not all coming out at once, but instead are being released in a staggered format. This is not particularly surprising given their cost! At US$49.95 each, I expect a number of cash-strapped players will be going to discount sites like Amazon … Continue reading D&D 5E Releases: The Big Three
Well, here we go! The long wait is over! The fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons is going to be released in just a few months, and Wizards of the Coast have been busily released information on what’s coming up. The cost of getting everything is going to be quite high, though. $50 core rule books? One wonders what price they’ll be in Australia… Anyway, … Continue reading Lots of Dungeons & Dragons releases on their way!
