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What Kind of Leveling Should I Use for My DnD Party?

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
Once you start DMing for Dungeons and Dragons, there’ll be a lot of questions that pop up in the planning. Do I run a homebrew world or a pre-publi...
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Reading Dragon: A Look Back at ‘You Again! Enemies Who Never Go Away – and How to Create Them’

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
TSR’s Dragon Magazine, over the years, proposed and developed a variety of classes, monsters, gods, and characters for Dungeons and Dragons. It als...
A cropped illustration from the cover of The Yawning Portal Game. it shows a variety of adventurers at an inn, seated at a long table with different kinds of food laid out between them.

A Review of The Yawning Portal Game

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
This year, with the previous release of a Dragonlance sourcebook and the upcoming release of the DnD movie (which looks to mainly concern the Sword...
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Kobold Press’ Project Black Flag Available for First Round of Playtesting

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
This week, Project Black Flag has entered the first stage of playtesting, with its rules being made available on the Kobold Press Website.   Who is...
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Creature Feature: Bulettes, their History, and How to Include Them in Campaigns

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
One of the biggest draws to Dungeons and Dragons is the side array of monsters and creatures that you can use in the game. Some are adaptations of ...
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A Brief Overview of the Halfling Pantheon in the Forgotten Realms

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
Small, stout, and often sneaky, Halflings are a race of small humanoids derived from Tolkien’s hobbits.  Like Tolkien’s version, they’re a people w...
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5 Free Virtual Tabletops (other than Roll20) You Should Check Out

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
In the era of the internet, tabletop games have gone long distance. You could always play thus using theater-of-the-mind, of course, with detailed ...
A image of the box art for DnD Clue. It shows a red skinned tiefling in armor, standing in front of a cityscape and next to what looks like a puzzle box of some kind

A Review of Dungeons and Dragons Clue (5th Edition Version, 2019)

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
It’s almost always fun when Dungeons and Dragons crosses over with other kinds of media. It’s great to see them utilize the story and lore that has...
An illustration from the 3.5e players handbook, showing 3 fighters in leather armor and wielding swords seeming to charge into battle. Next to them are the words "Advice Lookback" in large font.

A Look Back at Our Controversial and Uncommon DnD Advice

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
Over the last couple of years, Divinations from the Collective has attempted to bring good information about boardgames, DnD, and other tabletop RP...
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5 Winter Monsters for a Seasonal Dungeons and Dragons Session

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
The winter months are a fantastic source of inspiration for fantasy stories, and for fantasy tabletop games. Dungeons and Dragons is no exception! ...
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Dungeons and Dragons and Me: A Personal History with Tabletop Roleplaying, and What It Means Over the Holiday Season

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
You’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again, that the holidays are once again here to greet us. Friends and family gather as they do once a yea...
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Reading Dragon: A Look Back at ‘12 Secrets of Survival’

Blog PostMorgan Carpenter
One of the original content resources for Dungeons and Dragons, TSR’s Dragon Magazine included a huge variety of articles, reviews, and rules for t...

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