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  • From Icewind Dale to Calimport: A Sandbox of Adventure in the Forgotten Realms
    Oct 14, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Get ready to run adventures in five of the Forgotten Realms' most iconic locations with random encounters, lore, and monsters!

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  • Exclusive: R.A. Salvatore Talks The Finest Edge of Twilight and Forgotten Realms
    Oct 9, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Get an exclusive look at R.A. Salvatore's newest book: The Finest Edge of Twilight! Plus, read to get insights into legacy in the Forgotten Realms, morality in heroic fantasy, and why Breezy’s journey may be Salvatore's most personal tale yet.

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  • Get a Sneak Peek at Eddie Munson's Most Fearsome Creation: The Demodragon
    Oct 7, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Face Eddie Munson’s ultimate creation in Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club. Preview the terrifying Demodragon and explore how to make your players quake at the might of this abomination.

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  • Cursed Encounters: Use These 3 Curse-Warped Monsters to Terrify Your Players
    Oct 3, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Bring malicious maledictions to your table with ready-to-use cursed creatures—the Herald of Calamity, Sightless Agony, and Verminous Abomination—just in time for spooky season!

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  • Let's Build a Monster Hunter (With Ben Byrne from Ghostfire Gaming)
    Sep 30, 2025 by Mike Bernier
    Hunt the horrors of Etharis with the Monster Hunter, a gritty, new third-party class now on D&D Beyond. Learn how to track, study, and slay monsters using cunning tactics, deadly precision, and relentless preparation in this build guide!
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  • Transport Your Party to Hawkins With Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
    Sep 23, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Step into the strange streets of Hawkins and take on Eddie Munson’s unfinished campaign! Crack open this retro boxed set full of premade characters, tokens, spell cards, and 4 adventures built for late-game nights around the table in your basement.

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  • Play This Encounter Tonight in D&D Beyond Maps—No Subscription Required!
    Sep 17, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Maps is available for all D&D Beyond users to run their games—no subscription required! To help celebrate, here's a homebrew encounter you can run in your session tonight!

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  • Preparing for Adventure: Rollable Tables for the Ultimate Game Night
    Sep 12, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Stock your table with rations, music, and maps, and you’ll summon a world of adventure. This guide helps you prepare the essentials for a legendary Dungeons & Dragons game night.

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  • New Party Inventory: Hoard Treasure Together on Your Character Sheets!
    Sep 9, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    New to D&D Beyond digital character sheets, Party Inventory helps keep your loot in one place, your gold in one pool, and your MacGuffins accounted for. Try it out today!

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  • How to Use the Components in Heroes of the Borderlands as Props for Your Game
    Sep 4, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Heroes of the Borderlands doesn’t stop giving once your players surpass level 3. Its trove of tokens, cards, and maps remains a toolkit of valuable trinkets, offering props, story hooks, and tactical depth as your campaign grows into higher-level play!

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  • Class Boards: Building Your Character in Heroes of the Borderlands
    Sep 2, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Discover how the class boards in Heroes of the Borderlands turn rules into play, helping new adventurers learn Dungeons & Dragons through cards, tokens, and intuitive growth that levels up with their characters.

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  • In Case You Missed It: D&D News That's Hot Off the Press 
    Aug 19, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    From packed tables at Gen Con to thrilling new releases, the multiverse is heating up this summer! Click to get a sneak peek at the new Forgotten Realms books, along with the next chapter of partnered products and accessories rolling your way.

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  • How to Hook Your Friends and Family on D&D in One Night
    Aug 7, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Want to turn your friends and family into fearless adventurers? Learn how to hook new players on D&D in one night. All you need is a spark of imagination and some dice!

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  • What Is Heroes of the Borderlands? Your Gateway to D&D Adventure
    Aug 5, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Step into adventure with Heroes of the Borderlands—D&D’s biggest starter set ever! Learn more here about how this new experience is fast to learn, easy to run, and packed with magic, maps, and quests.

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  • Legendary Heroes: The Forgotten Realms' Greatest Adventurers
    Jul 31, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Meet the legends who shaped the Realms—Drizzt, Laeral, Minsc, and more—and discover how you can forge your own legacy in Faerûn!

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  • Become Investigators of the Eldritch and Unknown with Cthulhu by Torchlight
    Jul 25, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Unravel mind-breaking mysteries, confront unspeakable horrors, and risk your sanity with Cthulhu by Torchlight, a spine-chilling D&D supplement developed by Chaosium.

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  • How Eberron: Forge of the Artificer Reimagines These Five Iconic Species
    Jul 15, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Uncover the unique species that define Eberron—from shape-shifting changelings to living constructs—and see how Eberron: Forge of the Artificer reimagines them so you can tell bold new stories.

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  • What Is Eberron: Forge of the Artificer? Spark Your Genius in a World of Magic and Machines
    Jul 9, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Build, invent, and harness ingenuity with the ultimate creative toolkit. In addition to tools to help run games in Eberron, you'll find the revised Artificer class, 4 revised subclasses, 1 new subclass—the Cartographer, 28 feats, 5 species, 17 backgrounds, and new magic items!

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  • Your Dragon, Your Den: Customize Your Dragon’s Lair With Stickers in Maps
    Jul 8, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Want to create a hoard-worthy encounter in seconds? With D&D Beyond’s Maps VTT and the customizable maps from Dragon Delves, you can decorate and design your own dragon’s lair—just drag, drop, and roll for Initiative.

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  • How Dragon Delves Helps You Run a D&D Adventure for Just One Player
    Jul 1, 2025 by Mike Bernier

    Dragon Delves features three adventures that are well-suited for play with a single adventurer! Read on to discover how these adventures—and the Blessing of the Lone Champion—can help empower your solo hero to rise to glory and fame!

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