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  • New Player’s Guide: Send in Your Questions!
    Jul 24, 2020 by James Haeck

    New Player's Guide is taking a break. In the meantime, we want to hear from you. What questions should we answer next on New Player's Guide when it returns?

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  • Encounter of the Week: Shelter from the Storm
    Jul 20, 2020 by James Haeck

    Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part five of this ongoing mini-series. The characters land in the port of Fireshear and make a pit stop at an inland town on their journey to Ten-Towns and the lands of Icewind Dale.

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  • New Player’s Guide: Customizing Spells
    Jul 17, 2020 by MellieDM

    Learn how to modify spells to tailor your D&D experience to the needs of your group. Want an iceball spell instead of a fireball? What if cure wounds were a wizard spell? Learn the basics of homebrew in this installment of New Player's Guide!

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  • Worldbuilding with Magic
    Jul 15, 2020 by James Haeck

    What spells are common in your world? How many high-level magic-users are there? Ask yourself these questions to reveal surprising information about your homebrew campaign setting!

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  • Encounter of the Week: Evil on the Icy Sea
    Jul 13, 2020 by James Haeck

    Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part four of this ongoing mini-series. While returning to the port town of Fireshear, a giant skeletal shark bursts forth from the icy sea and tries to take down their ship!

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  • New Player’s Guide: How to Homebrew on D&D Beyond
    Jul 11, 2020 by James Haeck

    So, you’re a player or a DM who wants to go beyond the rulebooks and create your own subclasses, races, feats, magic items, monsters, and spells? It will take some creativity, but D&D Beyond is here to help you do it with ease. Here’s how.

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  • Encounter of the Week: Ambush at Aurilssbarg
    Jul 8, 2020 by James Haeck

    Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part three of this mini-series of adventures in Icewind Dale and the Sword Coast North. The characters come to the island town of Aurilssbarg and discover that they are being hunted by a shadowy killer with a shocking past!

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  • Worldbuilding with your Players
    Jul 1, 2020 by James Haeck

    Why leave all the work of worldbuilding to the Dungeon Master, when you could share the load with yours? Dungeon Masters willing to let go of a little creative control over the campaign setting can actually make their game more fun and immersive by worldbuilding with their players! Here’s how.

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  • Encounter of the Week: Frost and Fear in Fireshear
    Jun 29, 2020 by James Haeck

    Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part two of this mini-series of adventures in Icewind Dale and the Sword Coast North. The characters arrive in the coastal town of Fireshear, and discover that their first package delivery might be more complicated than they expected.

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  • Spell Spotlight: Healing Word and Spiritual Weapon
    Jun 24, 2020 by James Haeck

    Spell Spotlight puts D&D’s most turbulent spells under a microscope. This time, two mighty low-level spells that form the core of many clerics’ offensive and defensive powers.

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  • Encounter of the Week: Icewind Mail
    Jun 22, 2020 by James Haeck

    The new D&D adventure is a fantasy horror story set in the frigid land of Icewind Dale. This Encounter of the Week series is a dark comedy that helps introduce your players to.

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  • Returning to Icewind Dale in ‘Rime of the Frostmaiden’
    Jun 19, 2020 by Todd Kenreck

    Pre-Order Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden on D&D Beyond to unlock pre-order rewards, including digital dice: https://dndbeyond.link/RIme

    Chris Perkins discusses the challenges of returning to Icewind Dale and what parts of the book have him most excited.

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  • What are Ten Towns & the Frostmaiden?
    Jun 19, 2020 by Todd Kenreck

    Pre-Order Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden on D&D Beyond to unlock pre-order rewards, including digital dice: https://dndbeyond.link/RIme

    Chris Perkins discusses the frontier settlements known as Ten Towns and sheds some light on the icy goddess who is plaguing them - Auril the Frostmaiden.

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  • Features of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden - D&D Beyond
    Jun 19, 2020 by Todd Kenreck

    Pre-Order Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden on D&D Beyond to unlock pre-order rewards, including digital dice: https://dndbeyond.link/RIme Chris Perkins discusses some of the features in Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, and hints at new magic items and spells in Dungeons and Dragons latest official adventure.

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  • Preorder Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden and Get Free Rewards
    Jun 18, 2020 by Todd Kenreck

    Digital dice are just the tip of the iceberg when you preorder the new D&D adventure! And the best part? You can use them RIGHT NOW when you preorder!

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  • The Next D&D Storyline is Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden!
    Jun 18, 2020 by James Haeck

    Just announced live on-stream at D&D Live 2020, Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden is this year’s new D&D adventure. Join us as we learn more about this tale of dark fantasy terror unfolds at D&D Live 2020!

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  • Encounter of the Week: Wrath of the Returned
    Jun 15, 2020 by James Haeck

    The Underworld of Theros beckons. You can use this encounter as a standalone one-shot, or as a follow-up to the introductory adventure in Mythic Odysseys of Theros!

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  • Welcome to Theros!
    Jun 12, 2020 by James Haeck

    Theros is a brand-new D&D setting crossover with Magic: The Gathering, inspired by Greek mythology. Mythic Odysseys of Theros is a book filled with monsters, magic items, gods, and even new character options—but with such a big world to explore, where should you start?

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  • Encounter of the Week: Harrowing the Hydra
    Jun 8, 2020 by James Haeck

    The Monster Manual is filled with monsters from Classical mythology. Mythic Encounters of Theros is on the horizon, so let’s use these iconic mythological creatures in one-shot encounters! This week’s encounter brings the characters into direct contact with a hydra that has made its lair atop a spring, causing a great river to dry up. 

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  • Mythic Odysseys of Theros is Now Live on D&D Beyond!
    Jun 3, 2020 by Todd Kenreck

    Legends walk the lands of Theros, a realm shaped by deities and the deeds of heroes. From the temples of omen-speaking oracles to the five realms of the Underworld, the champions of the gods vie for immortal favor and a place among the world’s living myths. Choose a supernatural gift that sets you on the path of destiny, align yourself with one of Theros’s fifteen gods, then carve a tale of odysseys and ordeals across the domains of mortals, gods, and the dead.

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  • Unlock Dice Sets and Fund Racial Justice
    Jun 1, 2020 by Adam Bradford

    Unlock two brand-new sets of digital dice for your collection: the colorful Pigment Pack and the fully-animated Mythic Set. As recent events have highlighted the systemic racial injustice that continues to exist in the world, we want to do something to help. For the next week, we're donating 50% of all digital dice proceeds to the Black Lives Matter movement.

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  • New Player’s Guide: How to Make Awesome Handouts
    May 29, 2020 by James Haeck

    My players wanted to research a monster, so I made this handout using image resources from D&D Beyond. Here’s how you can become the Dungeon Master of your players’ dreams with these tips and tricks for creating fantastic handouts.

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  • Beyond Heroes: Wildemount | Episode 17: The Worm
    May 27, 2020 by Lauren Urban

    The continuing story of old friends, now Heroes, as they explore Wildemount in the world of Exandria!

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  • Silver and Steel Episode 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
    May 26, 2020 by Lauren Urban

    With natural disaster looming and the threat of war imminent, can a lucky halfling, a former trickster god, an alchemist baker, and a strange warforged in a strange land herald a new age of prosperity and peace for the small hamlet of Port Argent?

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  • Beyond Heroes: Wildemount | Episode 16: Drop the Bass
    May 20, 2020 by Lauren Urban

    The continuing story of old friends, now Heroes, as they explore Wildemount in the world of Exandria!

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  • Silver and Steel Episode 5: Mom Genes
    May 19, 2020 by Lauren Urban

    With natural disaster looming and the threat of war imminent, can a lucky halfling, a former trickster god, an alchemist baker, and a strange warforged in a strange land herald a new age of prosperity and peace for the small hamlet of Port Argent?

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  • Encounter of the Week: Medusa's Marble Menagerie
    May 18, 2020 by James Haeck

    Mythic Odysseys of Theros is on the way, so it's time to think of adventures that you can include in your Theros campaign. Check out this classic Encounter of the Week from the D&D Beyond archives featuring a medusa in this a tragic tale of a woman desired by a vile demigod. 

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