Loading...Loading...|Home|News|Local|Workplace|Hobbies|Sports

Last updated: Loading...

Dungeons & Dragons

Hobby Community

Treat adventures like game design to sharpen your sessions

Treat adventures like game design to sharpen your sessions

Reframe adventure-writing as game design: define a clear gameplay goal, strip what doesn't serve it, and use design patterns to build encounters that deliver pacing, stakes, and player agency.

Jamie Taylor•2 min read•04:37 AM

Read Full Article →

More News

Gnome Stew’s Nine Steps to Running Tight, Satisfying One-Shot Adventures

Gnome Stew’s Nine Steps to Running Tight, Satisfying One-Shot Adventures

Learn nine practical steps to prep and run tight, satisfying one‑shot D&D sessions for cons, libraries, or pickup tables...

Jamie Taylor3m read

Darrington Press Unveils A Familiar Find Animal-Companion Game Launching April 7

Darrington Press Unveils A Familiar Find Animal-Companion Game Launching April 7

Darrington Press will release A Familiar Find, a familiars-focused card game on April 7 priced at $29.99, putting player...

Jamie Taylor3m read

HBO Developing Baldur’s Gate Live-Action Series Continuing Baldur’s Gate 3, Craig Mazin

HBO Developing Baldur’s Gate Live-Action Series Continuing Baldur’s Gate 3, Craig Mazin

HBO is developing a live-action Baldur’s Gate series that will pick up immediately after Baldur’s Gate 3, with Craig Maz...

Jamie Taylor3m read

Nimble TTRPG returns to Kickstarter for second printing and expanded books

Nimble TTRPG returns to Kickstarter for second printing and expanded books

Nimble returned to Kickstarter to fund a revised second printing and a much larger expansion, promising faster play, new...

Jamie Taylor3m read

DMs Add Book of Vile Darkness to 5e Campaigns with Safety Guidance

DMs Add Book of Vile Darkness to 5e Campaigns with Safety Guidance

DMs add the Book of Vile Darkness to 5e campaigns using community 5e mechanics and table-safety practices to manage its ...

Jamie Taylor3m read

UC San Diego's D&D Simulation Benchmarks LLMs, Finds Claude 3.5 Leads

UC San Diego's D&D Simulation Benchmarks LLMs, Finds Claude 3.5 Leads

UC San Diego used Dungeons & Dragons combat simulations to benchmark LLMs for long-term decision making, finding Claude ...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Unreleased Netheril Time-Travel Finale Would Have Ended D&D 5e

Unreleased Netheril Time-Travel Finale Would Have Ended D&D 5e

An unreleased, large-scale Netheril time-travel finale for D&D 5e was planned but never released; it would have tied bla...

Jamie Taylor3m read

Wizards Playtest Oathbreaker Paladin Rework on D&D Beyond, 2026 Release Possible

Wizards Playtest Oathbreaker Paladin Rework on D&D Beyond, 2026 Release Possible

Wizards playtested a reworked Oathbreaker Paladin on D&D Beyond via Unearthed Arcana, changing summons and auras and pro...

Jamie Taylor3m read

Practical checklist to speed D&D 5e combat and spotlight players

Practical checklist to speed D&D 5e combat and spotlight players

A compact checklist gives DMs concrete tactics to tighten combat pacing, boost player engagement, and reduce bookkeeping...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Exhaustive Session Zero checklist reconciles D&D Beyond and Daggerheart guidance

Exhaustive Session Zero checklist reconciles D&D Beyond and Daggerheart guidance

A reconciled Session Zero checklist combines D&D Beyond, Daggerheart, and community advice into one practical agenda so ...

Jamie Taylor3m read

Gen Con 2026 Badge Sales Start Feb. 8 at Noon Eastern

Gen Con 2026 Badge Sales Start Feb. 8 at Noon Eastern

Badge sales for Gen Con 2026 open Feb. 8 at noon Eastern; this matters for booking passes, hotels, and planning event si...

Jamie Taylor2m read

LEGO and D&D unveil display-style Red Dragon’s Tale set

LEGO and D&D unveil display-style Red Dragon’s Tale set

LEGO released details for a fan-designed Dungeons & Dragons set with a diorama, six minifigures, monsters, and a digital...

Jamie Taylor2m read

We changed to Milestone Point Levelling (from Wildsea rpg) in our dnd game and it completely changed our game.

We changed to Milestone Point Levelling (from Wildsea rpg) in our dnd game and it completely changed our game.

We changed to Milestone Point Levelling (from Wildsea rpg) in our dnd game and it completely changed our game....

Jamie Taylor2m read

Free D&D Basic Rules Offer Complete Start for New Players

Free D&D Basic Rules Offer Complete Start for New Players

The official Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules provide a free, concise set of core rules and reference material sufficient ...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Official D&D Resource Hub Centralizes Starter Tools for Players and Educators

Official D&D Resource Hub Centralizes Starter Tools for Players and Educators

Wizards of the Coast now offers a central Dungeons & Dragons resource hub that gathers beginner guidance, official downl...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Lazy DM Eight-Step Method That Cuts Prep Time to Minutes

Lazy DM Eight-Step Method That Cuts Prep Time to Minutes

Mike Shea’s "Eight Steps of the Lazy DM" lays out a compact, practical framework that helps Dungeon Masters reduce prep ...

Jamie Taylor2m read

How modern D&D adventures lost dungeoncraft and how to fix it

How modern D&D adventures lost dungeoncraft and how to fix it

A practical essay on how rulebooks sidelined dungeon-running skills and how DMs can restore them with prep, boxed text, ...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Critical Role, Roll20 and Wizards of the Coast Launch Wildemount Module

Critical Role, Roll20 and Wizards of the Coast Launch Wildemount Module

Critical Role, Roll20 and Wizards of the Coast added a playable Wildemount adventure to Roll20 with maps and encounter t...

Jamie Taylor2m read

One-stop beginner roadmap for starting Dungeons & Dragons at home

One-stop beginner roadmap for starting Dungeons & Dragons at home

A centralized beginner guide breaks down roles, session flow, character creation, and where to find groups. It points ne...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Practical Sly Flourish Tactics to Cut Prep and Improve Sessions

Practical Sly Flourish Tactics to Cut Prep and Improve Sessions

Sly Flourish, the long-running DM advice site by Mike Shea, offers pragmatic, session-focused workflows that help Dungeo...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Create a Dungeons and Dragons Character in 30 Minutes

Create a Dungeons and Dragons Character in 30 Minutes

This hands on walkthrough shows you how to build a playable Dungeons and Dragons character in under 30 minutes, aimed at...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Wizards publish SRD 5.2 under CC-BY-4.0 for creators

Wizards publish SRD 5.2 under CC-BY-4.0 for creators

Wizards of the Coast released SRD 5.2 under CC-BY-4.0, giving creators permanent rights with simple attribution. It expa...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit launched at Target to broaden new-player access

Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit launched at Target to broaden new-player access

Wizards of the Coast launched the Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit as a Target-exclusive boxed set, which arrived on st...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Veteran Designer Flags Stranger Things rule errors, Community Debates Authenticity

Veteran Designer Flags Stranger Things rule errors, Community Debates Authenticity

Veteran RPG designer Josh Sawyer publicly criticized rule errors in Stranger Things Season 5 after a scene showed an Adv...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Humble Bundle launches Forgotten Realms Vault with 40 novels, charity support

Humble Bundle launches Forgotten Realms Vault with 40 novels, charity support

Humble Bundle launched the Forgotten Realms Vault, a pay-what-you-want Humble Book Bundle of around 40 Forgotten Realms ...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Wizards Reveals All Cards in Roll for Initiative Superdrop: Seven D&D Drops

Wizards Reveals All Cards in Roll for Initiative Superdrop: Seven D&D Drops

Wizards of the Coast revealed full card lists for Secret Lair: Roll for Initiative, a seven-drop D&D-themed Superdrop ar...

Jamie Taylor3m read

Kobold Press' Two-Volume Labyrinth Kickstarter Funds Fast, Offers Multiverse Campaign Overlay

Kobold Press' Two-Volume Labyrinth Kickstarter Funds Fast, Offers Multiverse Campaign Overlay

Kobold Press' two-volume Labyrinth Kickstarter funded almost instantly, offering a multiverse campaign overlay with new ...

Jamie Taylor2m read

Moonwell Pylons force mercy-versus-power choices in gothic high-level D&D

Moonwell Pylons force mercy-versus-power choices in gothic high-level D&D

Design diary explains Moonwell Pylons force parties to choose between battlefield control and strengthening a boss, maki...

Jamie Taylor2m read

New playtest introduces four Mystic subclasses changing magic roles

New playtest introduces four Mystic subclasses changing magic roles

Designer notes and a playtest packet introduced four Mystic subclasses that change how characters interact with magic. T...

Jamie Taylor2m read