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Podcast #42: April Fools Games This week, Morrus and Peter tickle their funny bone with the best tabletop RPG April Fools pranks of 2019 and go over several humorous roleplaying games available to keep the laughs coming. Plus...	Paizo Product Roundup: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Dawn of Flame and Tyrant's Grasp Adventure Paths Hello again my lovelies and welcome once more to your favorite compilation of all things from the Golem – that’s right, it’s time for the PAIZO NEWS UPDATE! How spoiled are we that once again the new...
New D&D Adventure Reveal On 17th May at 'The Descent' WotC has announced the reveal of the next D&D adventure hardcover, which will be unveiled at 'The Descent' in LA on Friday 17th May at 4pm PDT (midnight BST). ..	EN5ider #264 & #265: Tiger Eyes Mini-Adventure & Zeitgeist #6 - Revelations of a Mad Man (Part 2) We’ve got a double dose of adventure this week at EN5ider! In addition to the usual dose of the ZEITGEIST Adventure Path there’s a new type of article with Tiger Eyes—a supplemental mini-adventure...
News Digest: John Wick and 7th Sea to Chaosium, Next D&D Announcement Announced, Paranoia gets a Video Game, and more! Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! John Wick and 7th Sea going to Chaosium, Wizards of the Coast announces the announcement date for their announcement of the new campaign...	Murders, Capers, and Laughter: An Interview with Craig Campbell Most companies design an RPG and use the same rule set, with or without new editions, for everything. With NerdBurger Games, Craig Campbell created three RPGs using three very different sets of...
Paizo Product Roundup: Tyrant's Grasp Maps, Chronicle of Legends, Occult Adventures, and Ultimate Wilderness We’re back, my wonderful friends! A single update wasn’t enough to contain everything Paizo, so here we are with another edition of the PAIZO NEWS UPDATE! There’s plenty of goodness to be had here in...	Unboxing The Starfinder Beginner Box I was a big fan of the Pathfinder Beginner Box, so I've been looking forward to this one. Paizo has posted an official "unboxing" of their upcoming box, which includes books, dice, 80 pawns,...
You Can Now Preorder The Acquisitions Inc Book On Amazon With a release date of June 18th, you can now preorder the D&D Acquisitions Incorporated hardcover on Amazon. Explore a wealth of peril and personalities in this campaign book for the...	Epic Monsters: Black Shuck (5E) This entry in Epic Monsters is one I am definitely fond of—a big black dog hailing from the easternmost bit of England, the one and only (or many, as you like) Black Shuck! Black Shuck is an...
It's Not A Cartoon, But What Is It? Matt Corley is a freelance RPG writer for Kobold Press and Petersen Games. He recently tweeted the image below with the caption "Pre-hype, hype for an amazing project coming to Kickstarter this...	EN5ider #266: Herbalist's Knapsack Adventurers out in the wilderness and making Investigation, Perception, or Survival checks? EN5ider has some fun things for them to find and use! Lately on EN5ider: #266. Herbalist’s...
3D Printing D&D's Demon Lords Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes is full of demons and demon lords, and Miguel Zavala has 3D printed them all! These include Baphomet, Demogorgon, Grazzt, Juiblex, Orcus, and many more. In...	RPG Crowdfunding News – Critical Role, Contagion Chronicles, Forbidden Library, Castles & Cats, and more Between April 19th and 25th, there are at least 18 RPG and RPG-related Kickstarters ending. Of those, I look at ten including the largest animation/RPG project ever on Kickstarter, Critical Role, as...
New Acquisitions Inc. Art Over on Sage Advice D&D is a handful of images from the pages of Acquisitions Inc., the D&D hardcover coming out in June.	Lancer: Narrative Characters & Tactical Mechs Lancer is a new sci-fi RPG just launched on Kickstarter with a phenomenal out-of-the-gate backing of nearly 3,500 backers. It describes itself as a "mud-and-lasers RPG" and features narrative...
Podcast #43: Why is D&D So Popular? This week, Morrus and Peter attempt to definitively answer the question of why D&D is so popular. In the news, our sketch becomes reality as Wizards of the Coast announces the announcement for the...

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A Look At The D&D Acquisitions Inc. Book D&D Beyond has a look at the upcoming Acquisitions, Inc. D&D sourcebook, scheduled for a June 18th release date. Details include: Authors: Shawn Merwin, Teos “Alphastream” Abadia, and...	The Fortenite-ification of Everything The online battle royale video game Fortnite has become a smash hit that is changing the industry. But what makes it so popular are the same elements that are behind Dungeons & Dragons' recent surge....
One Page Adventure: The Mystery of Mordecai's Monster It's time for this month's ONE PAGE ADVENTURE! There's a monster running loose, the uncontrolled creation of a mad wizard who likes to sew creature parts together. Can the PCs track down the...	Want A Job As WotC's Community Manager? For those who want to work at Wizards of the Coast, there's a new job opportunity opening up. Current Community Manager Satine Phoenix's contract expires this month, and the spot has opened up for...
News Digest: Acquisitions Inc Preview, Call of Cthulhu Censored, New Pathfinder and D&D Minis, and more! Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news. Preview of Acquisitions Inc. sourcebook, Call of Cthulhu books destroyed by the government, new Pathfinder and D&D minis from WizKids, and...	There's An Altered Carbon RPG Coming Based on the Netflix show and the novels of Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon is set in a Bladerunner-esque future where people can transfer their minds from one body to another, even after death....
Vecna v Acererak v Larloch? Who's The Most Powerful Lich? Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood was recently asked who was the most powerful lich: Vecna, Acererak, or Larloch. Here was his reply! "Heh. I've been asked this many times before,...	EN5ider #263 - Intriguing Organizations: The Stone Path EN5ider is traveling across time today with the Stone Path! For a comparatively small sum you too can travel to the distant future—as long as you don’t mind making the trip as a statue! [/URL]...
Mythological Figures: Atalanta (5E) Mythological Figures is headed back to Ancient Greece today with a huntress by the name of Atalanta! This is one of Ancient Greece’s righteous ladies—both because she was a...	RPG Crowdfunding News – Arcana of the Ancients, Seas of Vodari, Ultraviolet Grasslands, Ultimate Spheres of Power, and more The number of Kickstarters have decreased from the highs of February and March. Between April 12th and the 18th, there are 9 RPG Kickstarters and 1 RPG zine ending, all covered below. 5e sees...
Acquisitions Inc. Book Officially Announced WotC has just sent out the official press release for the Acquisitions Incorporated D&D book. I know we all already know about it, but here's the PR just for completeness'...	John Wick Sells 7th Sea to Chaosium A couple of years ago, game designer John Wick acquired the rights to his 1999 roleplaying game, 7th Sea from publisher AEG, and launched a record-breaking Kickstarter for a 2nd Edition which sailed...
James M Ward: Meeting Gary Gygax and Learning D&D Thank you all for the very kind welcome onto the EN World pages. A writer always glories in the kind words of his readers. Also I want you to know I will be very responsive to the interests of the EN...	7 One Page Adventures I have now made 7 of my One Page Adventures. I try to vary the style a bit, so they're not all dungeon crawls, or not all event-driven. Each is an entire adventure contained on a single page. It's...

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News Digest: Pathfinder Playtest Update, Harlem Unbound 2nd Edition, Playtest for Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica, and more! Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! Pathfinder 2nd Ed Playtest updated, Harlem Unbound 2nd Edition?!, a playtest for D&D’s Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica, Games Workshop seeking...	SJG's The Fantasy Trip Opens To 3rd-Party Creators Following on from the phenomenal success of WotC's Dungeon Master's Guild, Steve Jackson Games is opening up its latest (revived from the 1970s) RPG, The Fantasy Trip (currently on Kickstarter), to...
D&D = American + European Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons draws on a rich mythology from the works of European authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and Michael Moorcock. And yet D&D was also influenced by American authors like Fritz Leiber, Jack...	Mythological Figures: Blackbeard (5E) We’re on the high seas for today’s entry in Mythological Figures with one of the most infamous pirates in all of history: Edward Teach, or as he’s better known, Blackbeard. The precise...
New Hobby Releases In Stores & PDF Spotlight: 20th August 2018 Welcome back to our weekly New Releases & PDF Spotlight Column. This week we see the release of the Trudvang Chronicles RPG into stores (Trudvang was voted the "most anticipated game of 2017" here on...

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Watch These 4 Trailers for Ravnica Want to get a quick feel for the upcoming Ravnica setting for D&D? Then check out these four trailers for the setting, originally produced for Magic: the Gathering.	From Boardgame to RPG - Zombicide The RPG Announced Zombicide is the latest boardgame that is making the leap to the realms of roleplaying. The Zombicide RPG is being designed by Francesco Nepitello (The One Ring) with longterm collaborating partner...
Roll20 Weighs in on Esports You might recall that Roll20 (owned by the Orr Group), a popular online platform for role-playing games, also happens to own an esport team. I asked Nolan T. Jones, co-owner of the Orr Group, what he...	News Digest: New D&D Books Leaked, Pathfinder Video Game Pre-Orders Open, Spiel des Jahres Winners, and more! Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week's gaming news! New D&D books leak before official announcement, Pathfinder video game pre-orders open, Asmodee may have a buyer for the company, and more! ...
New Hobby Releases In Stores & PDF Spotlight: 30th July 2018 GenCon is almost upon us, but for those of us who can't make it we still have new and interesting games to check out down in at our local FLGS! Welcome to this week's rundown of the New Releases that...	Warhammer FRPG 4th Ed PDF Pre-Order Goes Live on DriveThruRPG! Cubicle 7 Entertainment have launched the digital pre-order for the forthcoming Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fourth Edition Rulebook on DriveThruRPG. Although not available to download right away, the...
Strange Machine Games Announce New Robotech RPG Strange Machine Games have announced a licensing deal with Harmony Gold to develop and publish a brand new Robotech Role Playing Game! SMG plan to publish a core rulebook that has equipment and story...	From RPG to Boardgame - Trudvang Chronicles becomes Trudvang Legends CMON announced the Zombicide RPG earlier this week – turning the popular boardgame into an RPG. Now the tables have reversed and the same company has announced they are producing Trudvang Legends – a...
DM's Guild Roundup: Eberron, Eberron, and More Eberron Welcome to the DM's Guild Roundup! This issue we have three tomes that talk about Eberron, introducing new players to the fantastic world and welcoming back those who have been there before. Let's...	The Fatebender: Basic Class Information Every person is born amongst the strands of fate, finding themselves interwoven by probability and chance into the cosmic tapestry. Fatebenders find themselves at the extreme edges of the tapestry...
Epic Monsters: Hastur (5E) Epic Monsters continues with the most enigmatic of the Great Old Ones, the strange entity wrapped in mystery and tattered yellow robes: Hastur! Epic Monsters is part of our weekly Mythological...	Exploring the Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron When WotC announced the Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron as a PDF release it caused a great disturbance as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and frustration. The joy is because the most...
RPG Crowdfunding News 107: Flotsam: Adrift Amongst the Stars, Ancient Worlds: Atisi, Woodfall, Esoterica, Zombie World, Inn of the Red Dragon, Tera Dice This week brings us a GM-and-dice-less game of those we usually overlook in our sci-fi games, an Egyptian themed setting for Dungeon World, a system-neutral hexcrawl setting that'll be great for your...	NA Hobby Games Market Increases To $1.55B; D&D Remains On Top ICv2 has released its latest industry report, including the top 5 roleplaying games for Spring 2018. Unsurprisingly, D&D holds the top spot still (it has for some years now), with Starfinder still...
Fantasy Grounds Usage Stats Confirms D&D #1, Followed by Pathfinder, Savage Worlds Hot on the heels of ICv2's latest industry report are the Quarter 2, 2018 usage statistics for the virtual tabletop, Fantasy Grounds. They tell a similar, but not identical story, with D&D 5E in the...	Behold This Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD Tabletop RPG Hardcover! For those following along 2000 AD roleplaying games news, the hardcover core rulebook of the Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD official roleplaying game is finished, and we have a shiny copy here...