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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!

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. 

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?

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.

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!

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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. 

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.

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.