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    • Everything You Need to Know About Acquisitions Incorporated: The Book
      Mar 28, 2019 by James Haeck

      Acquisitions Incorporated is going to be a D&D book published by Wizards of the Coast in partnership with Penny Arcade! A boatload of new information was revealed today at PAX East, so let's dig through the announcements!

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    • Roleplaying 101: Improvising Your Way to Victory
      Mar 27, 2019 by James Haeck

      Want to have more fun playing your character? Want to get deep into your character’s head and lose yourself in the story? Want to form meaningful relationships with your fellow party members? Look no further. We’re going to build you into a better roleplayer. 

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    • Heroes of the Vale Recap – Episode 9: The Bag World
      Mar 26, 2019 by Lauren Urban

      Five heroes far from home struggle to survive and save this new world from an impending doom!

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    • Encounter of the Week: Ensnared by Ettercaps
      Mar 25, 2019 by James Haeck

      Encounter of the Week brings you a brand-new D&D encounter every week! This week, the PCs encounter a group of faerie dragons trapped in the web of a herd of ettercaps. Will you help them escape, or simply take the dragons’ treasure and run?

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    • Critical Role Spotlight: Episode 56
      Mar 22, 2019 by James Haeck

      Critical Role Spotlight is a series of DM and player tips based on the events of this week's episode of Critical Role! Learn from the glowing successes and hilarious mistakes of the Mighty Nein and their illustrious Dungeon Master. This week, we shine a spotlight on one of Matthew Mercer's DMing choices that could help you improve your D&D game.

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    • Spell Spotlight: Phantasmal Force & Phantasmal Killer
      Mar 20, 2019 by James Haeck

      Phantasmal spells have a place in any good illusionist’s combat toolkit. Learn how to adjudicate them cleanly and dramatically as a Dungeon Master. Plus, check out a table of spooky illusions to help you DM these spells on the fly!

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    • Encounter of the Week: Flameskull Faceoff
      Mar 18, 2019 by James Haeck

      Encounter of the Week brings you a brand-new D&D encounter every week! This week, the PCs come face-to-face with a fearsome flameskull. This arcane abomination yearns to recover its long-lost memories, and begs—nay, commands!—the adventurers to help. Do they dare help this undead monster? Is there even a fool’s chance that it could have good in it?

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    • Critical Role Recap: Episode 55
      Mar 15, 2019 by James Haeck

      Critical Role Spotlight is a series of DM and player tips based on the events of this week's episode of Critical Role! Learn from the glowing successes and hilarious mistakes of the Mighty Nein and their illustrious Dungeon Master. This week, we shine a spotlight on one of Matthew Mercer's DMing choices that could help you improve your D&D game.

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    • Beware the “Eyes” of March!
      Mar 13, 2019 by James Haeck

      Xanathar has every reason to be paranoid. Enhance your Waterdeep and Skullport campaign with this short story about infighting within the Xanathar Guild by none other than the famed author Volo! Observant players could even learn a thing or two about the organization’s weak points—where to travel to reach Xanathar’s audience chamber, who’s a traitor, and who’s weak-willed enough to be bribed or intimidated.

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    • Encounter of the Week: Werewolves on the Warpath
      Mar 11, 2019 by James Haeck

      Encounter of the Week brings you a brand-new D&D encounter every week! This week, the PCs are beset by a pack of werewolves hunting a traveling caravan of werebears. These werewolves don’t care that the characters are innocents: they just want a meal.

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    • Critical Role Spotlight: Episode 54
      Mar 8, 2019 by James Haeck

      Critical Role Spotlight is a series of DM and player tips based on the events of this week's episode of Critical Role! Learn from the glowing successes and hilarious mistakes of the Mighty Nein and their illustrious Dungeon Master. This week, we shine a spotlight on one of Matthew Mercer's interesting DMing choices that could help you improve your D&D game.

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    • How to Play a Werewolf Like an Apex Predator
      Mar 6, 2019 by James Haeck

      The How to Play series returns with this tactical spotlight on werewolves—with a brief diversion into other lycanthropes, including neutral good werebears and true neutral weretigers.

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    • Heroes of the Vale Recap – Episode 8: The Other Wight Meat
      Mar 5, 2019 by Lauren Urban

      Trapped in a strange land with an entire displaced town, our heroes must discover how to survive and work to find a way home.

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    • Encounter of the Week: Hippogriff Hunters
      Mar 4, 2019 by James Haeck

      Encounter of the Week brings you a brand-new D&D encounter every week! This week, the PCs discover that a dragon is preying upon the reclusive hippogriffs of the arid badlands. Will they defend their nests from invaders, or ally with the evil dragon to share in its bounty?

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    • Critical Role Spotlight: Episode 53
      Mar 1, 2019 by James Haeck

      Critical Role Spotlight is a series of DM and player tips based on the events of this week's episode of Critical Role! Learn from the glowing successes and hilarious mistakes of the Mighty Nein and their illustrious Dungeon Master. This week, we shine a spotlight on the shoosuva, a fearsome being that attacked the Mighty Nein in this episode’s frantic battle.

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    • Welcome to Saltmarsh: An Introduction to D&D’s Saltiest City
      Feb 27, 2019 by James Haeck

      Saltmarsh has come a long way since it was first created by British D&D authors in the '70s. If you plan on running the upcoming anthology adventure Ghosts of Saltmarsh, you would do well to learn about this sleepy port's sinister history.

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    • Heroes of the Vale Recap – Episode 7: Wing and a Prayer
      Feb 26, 2019 by Lauren Urban

      Trapped in a strange land with an entire displaced town, our heroes must discover how to survive and work to find a way home.

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    • Encounter of the Week: Sharkfin Shipwreck
      Feb 25, 2019 by James Haeck

      Encounter of the Week brings you a brand-new D&D encounter every week! This week, the characters are traveling by ship on a stormy sea, and the treacherous tides threatens to dash them against the reef. If they do, then things quickly go from bad to worse as sahuagin pirates swoop in to pillage the wreckage.

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    • Critical Role Spotlight: Episode 52
      Feb 22, 2019 by James Haeck

      Critical Role Spotlight is a series of DM and player tips based on the events of this week's episode of Critical Role! Learn from the glowing successes and hilarious mistakes of the Mighty Nein and their illustrious Dungeon Master. This week, we shine a spotlight on the shoosuva, a fearsome being that attacked the Mighty Nein in this episode’s frantic battle.

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    • Spell Spotlight: Contagion
      Feb 20, 2019 by James Haeck

      Contagion used to be one of D&D’s most troublesome spells. Let’s take a close look at this formerly problematic spell and see what makes it tick, how the D&D developers fixed it, and how you can tweak it to fit your home game.

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    • Heroes of the Vale Recap – Episode 6: Into Darkness
      Feb 19, 2019 by Lauren Urban

      Trapped in a strange land with an entire displaced town, our heroes must discover how to survive and work to find a way home.

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    • Encounter of the Week: Sanctum of the Reptile God
      Feb 18, 2019 by James Haeck

      Encounter of the Week brings you a brand-new D&D encounter every week! This week, the dread naga Explictica Defilus has returned from the beyond to wreak vengeance upon humankind. Her fledgling cult of humanoids and lizardfolk worships her as a god, and her heinous power is transforming their human sacrifices into reptilian abominations!

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    • Critical Role Spotlight: Episode 51
      Feb 15, 2019 by James Haeck

      Critical Role Spotlight is a series of DM and player tips based on the events of this week's episode of Critical Role! Learn from the glowing successes and hilarious mistakes of the Mighty Nein and their illustrious Dungeon Master. This week, we shine a spotlight on long-distance travel, and how to make travel meaningful while still moving the story forward.

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    • Roleplaying 101: Character Identity
      Feb 13, 2019 by James Haeck

      Want to have more fun playing your character? Want to get deep into your character’s head and lose yourself in the story? Want to form meaningful relationships with your fellow party members? Look no further. We’re going to build you into a better roleplayer. 

      Read More
    • Watch Heroes of the Vale: Episode 5 – "Boom Boom Boom"!
      Feb 12, 2019 by Lauren Urban

      Trapped in a strange land with an entire displaced town, our heroes must discover how to survive and work to find a way home.

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    • Encounter of the Week: Medusa’s Marble Menagerie
      Feb 11, 2019 by James Haeck

      Encounter of the Week brings you a brand-new D&D encounter every week! This week, the characters stumble upon a garden of eerily lifelike statues teeming with a petrifying collection of monsters.

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    • How to Remix Waterdeep: Dragon Heist to Play it Again and Again
      Feb 6, 2019 by James Haeck

      Can you play Waterdeep: Dragon Heist again with the same group of players and still make it feel new? I say it can be done! Let’s break down how you can make Waterdeep: Dragon Heist feel new again. 

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