Kobold Press sent me a review copy of The Art of Kobold Press, a book showcasing the artwork used by the company over the course of its lifespan. That gives me the perfect opportunity to recall my con...

https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GC_222_Combating-Analaysis-Paralaysis-final.mp3 Join Ang along with Jared and JT as they talk about how to combat analysis paralysis! What do you do wh...

https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GC_222_Combating-Analaysis-Paralaysis-final.mp3 Join Ang along with Jared and JT as they talk about how to combat analysis paralysis! What do you do wh...

Most RPGs tell a story of some kind. Some are deeper than others, but there is a story hiding under the cover of the mechanics somewhere. Since most RPGs are played in a group, this makes the storytel...

I’m going to remember to post here when the podcasts post and expand on the topic a little, as I did once upon a time, back when my soul wasn’t a shriveled wreck. Take a journey with me as we pretend I’m not dead inside! This week’s THAC0 with Advantage is a little different from our usual show. Ang was at Origins last week, so Chris and I recorded an episode talking about all the RPG news that hit early last week .

In high school, every summer, I would reread the Dragonlance Chronicles and the Dragonlance Legends novels. By my senior year, I was including The Legend of Huma and Kaz the Minotaur. Considering I used to read almost every D&D related novel that came out, I used to read a lot in high school. I developed some serious feelings over these characters.

Oh, hey, are you still here? Lots of cobwebs I need to clear out of here. I should dust more often. But hey, as long as you’re here, why don’t we talk about something RPG related? Have you heard about this Daggerheart thing? I’ve got lots of other stuff to say, but why don’t we get a little specific? Let’s talk about how Roll20’s Demiplane implementation is going to work for Daggerheart.

Defend a Viking lake town against an undead siege! An adventure for Tales of the Valiant and Dungeons & Dragons.

You may or may not have heard that Roll20 had determined that they aren’t going to develop a character sheet for Tales of the Valiant. This may not seem like a big deal, but that means they a…

I give you all a lot of GMing advice. I also take my advice as much as possible. The hardest kind of advice for me to take is the kind that affects my table style. It’s not that I am dismissive of my ...

My Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins from @KoboldPress@mastodon.social arrived today. I picked up the book and the battle map. There were several maps that I looked and and realized they would have b...

This isn’t very revolutionary because I’ve already taken a look at the Witch, but I wanted to touch base on the updates because I’m really interested in this project. If my thoughts aligned with so…

My FLGS (friendly, local, game store) has a Discord server where patrons can chat about all sorts of subjects in clearly marked channels. Most channels are highly active, and my heart is warmed by the...

Unless a fantasy setting is doing a very specific thing, I prefer the setting to be clever with its real-world analogies. What I mean by that is, if you’re going to have a fantasy nation that looks…

Full disclosure before I launch into my review of the promo issue of Shadowcat Magazine: I received the PDF for free (you can too!) from Chaz Kemp, the creator of the magazine. Additional disclosure: ...

A while back, I picked apart what Rangers were in pop culture and games and how all of that congealed in my head to create my core concept of what I wanted in a Ranger character class. Now that Wot…

Full disclosure before I launch into my review of the promo issue of Shadowcat Magazine: I received the PDF for free (you can too!) from Chaz Kemp, the creator of the magazine. Additional disclosure: ...

An interesting side effect of having multiple iterations of D&D 5th edition based on the 5e SRD is that some content allows publishers to produce content that works in their game but may also be helpf...

Players love getting handed real-life, physical artifacts that tie their characters into the ongoing adventure. There are oodles of props, maps, handouts, images, and so on that can be tossed over the...

Usually, I try to be more timely with reviews here, but I kept running into interesting hurdles while working on my review for Building Better Worlds. I had heard rumors that Alien: Romulus would remo...

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If you’re at Pax Unplugged, get a look at the newly released Daggerheart cover

You may have noticed some significant developments in fantasy games that rely on the 5e OGL for their core rules. Not long after the Great OGL Debacle of 2023, Kobold Press announced that they were wo...

Green Ronin has adopted a strategy of releasing smaller PDF products to support the various lines they publish. I like this development because some of Green Ronin’s properties have been extremely …

https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CG_202_Survivingtheholidays-Mixdown-1.mp3 Join Ang, Matt, and Senda as they talk about how to help your gaming group survive the inevitable scheduling...

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Creating DnD, 5e & fantasy Podcasts and RPG Content

Let’s start the month with a look at an adventure released for Under the Seas of Vodari, The Hunt for the Undine. If you haven’t looked at the setting, The Seas of Vodari is a third-party D&D s…

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Continuing my look at D&D Beyond 3rd party implementation, I’m going to look at one that is potentially even more extensive than the Illrigger class, which is meant to work with standard D&…

"I stand there and swing my sword." Even though this approach can be effective, it's horribly boring. That's why games in recent decades have expanded combat options to include different combat maneuv...

Tropes are frameworks for plot beats and character arcs. Cliches are the overused versions of those beats and arcs. Cliches, generally, should be avoided, but tropes are useful AF. They work like sign...