Ben Riggs caused a stir this week when he pronounced "The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead." Some part of the scene certainly feels like it's died in the last couple of years. So maybe it's time for a Fifth Edition Revival (5ER)? #dnd #5er #DnDRevival mtblackgames.com/blog/the-fifth…

M.T. Black Games Fear that if they do anything else, they lose their audience. Well, in that case, it wasn't your audience in the first place, it was Hasbro's. You should make 5E products because you love 5E and you have a vision. Not because you're afraid you'll lose customers otherwise.

Imagine if Thomas Huxley came out years after publishing an article in the Westminster Review assigning Darwin's eponym to biological evolution, and told us all we should start calling it "Huxleyism." He would have been pilloried, and rightfully so.

The Pulitzer Prize submission close in a couple days. If you believe that my work covering the breaking news of the D&D OGL issue in early 2023 was impactful, important, and worthy of recognition, please read and sign this open letter. docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

It will forever be known as “Jaquaysing a dungeon”. There is an “s” in Jaquays. I have spoken. Jennell Allyn Jaquays #jaquaysing

Let's talk about some games that AREN'T dnd youtu.be/WBz4sMMbv4M

Eureka! I found a treasure trove of misplaced and forgotten master copies of my 3.5 & 4E #DnD #maps last night. Layered hi-res Photoshop files going back to the first few #ttrpg projects I ever worked on. Gridless and spoiler-free player’s versions coming soon!

Come to #Chult, they said. It’s a tropical wonderland, they said. Well, today’s Side Trek from #TheEpicAtlas may have awesome #DnD maps for running Tomb of Annihilation or a homebrew campaign in The Forgotten Realms, but I’d like to have a “talk” with my travel agent! #ttrpg

Let him cook. 🔥

This post covers a lot of ground: Symmetrical rules, players making all the rolls, contests and their math, and stealth and ambushes. Yet somehow it turned out short. Usually, my topics grow in length. dmdavid.com/tag/never-have…

Another victory for the environment! The Florida Supreme Court has denied the appeal of developers who had their project to build 550 homes on the abandoned Calusa golf course challenged by the presence of a rookery. They now have to start from scratch with a new proposal!

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5e is the perfect engine for gothic horror now that vampires can *checks notes* grapple without a saving throw.

At the #GaryCon artist's booth I learned that Larry Elmore was willing to do the covers of the new Dragonlance trilogy but was told that they wanted a digital artist because digital art has more "pop." So instead of a cover like the one on the left we got the one on the right.