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Returning to Gen Con
I’ve missed Gen Con, really missed it. I’ve been lucky enough to be a regular attendee for the last few years, and it’s become something of an addiction. I’ve met so many amazing people over the years, Gen Con has become less of a gaming con for me and more of an opportunity to hang out with friends I can only see once a year. Even with its return last year, those of us outside the US were...
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All Aboard the Invisible Railroad!
What if I told you it was possible to lock your players on a tight railroad, but make them think every decision they made mattered?
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Religion in Your Campaign – Festivals and Worship
While it’s all very well to talk about Gods and priests, religions are also very much about the ordinary men and women that follow it. How they practice a religion shows how it relates to a community and connects to everyday life. As I mentioned in a previous article, you need not be a faith leader to follow a religion. How a religion operates outside the leaders and powerbrokers often tells...
Dungeons & Dragons  Peregrine's Nest 
Religion in Gaming—Types of “Priest”
In previous articles I’ve somewhat simplistically used priest as a standard term for a religious leader. It’s not the best option by any means but it’s a functional one at least in terms of “person who is leading the religious community in some way”. But even that is a very broad category and the role of any “priest”—be they an Imam, Shaman, Vicar, Rabbi, Abbot etc—in any faith is usually very...
Peregrine's Nest  Reviews  World of Darkness 
The Black Hand Review – Playing the Sabbat
This Storyteller’s Vault offering comes with a very experienced pedigree. Not only is there a lot of experience on the writing team, but one of them also worked on the official Sabbat book.
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Religion in Your Campaign – Priests and Congregations
As we mentioned in a previous article, you need not be a priest to follow a religion. So in this article we continue a look at religion in terms of how priests might relate to the religious communities they lead.
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Are Video Games Ruining Your Role-playing?
I love RPG video games, but they might be causing some sub-optimal habits in our tabletop role playing. So what’s a GM to do about it?
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A Question of Religious Character
At the forefront of any discussion of religion in campaigns are the clerics and priests who organise, develop, and spread it. These people are often the PCs.
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Defining Religions in Your Campaign
Dr. Ninian Smart’s Seven Dimensional model of Religion is an excellent tool for world building and crafting your own religions. This article introduces the seven dimensions and how to use them in your game.
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Making Religion Matter in Fantasy RPGs
Religion is a powerful force in any culture and difficult to ignore when creating a gaming setting. Here's some things to consider when incorporating religions into your campaign.
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Character vs. Campaign
You know what can really derail a game? Making a character that conflicts with the guidelines the GM created for the campaign.
Peregrine's Nest  World of Darkness 
Halloween Horror: Building Fear
Hopefully you are gearing up for a horror game this festive season. Here’s how I do it.
Peregrine's Nest  World of Darkness 
Halloween Horror: Fear, Not Trauma
As we’re coming up to horror game season, it’s worth discussing safety tools.
Peregrine's Nest  Reviews  World of Darkness 
Game Design Masterclass: Ars Magica
While there are many games with interesting and clever rules, there are few that introduce new concepts and ways to play. Ars Magica stands out as offering not one but three RPG innovations that were new to me when I first picked up the game in around 1992 in its second edition.
Peregrine's Nest  Reviews 
Game Design Masterclass: Emberwind
Conventions are great places to find gems you might not have seen in the sweeping ocean that is the internet. Emberwind was one of those for me and since picking up a copy a few years ago the line has gradually expanded with another two adventures and a system book. The first thing to grab me about Emberwind was the art, as they don’t stint on that at all. The setting is also great, and I look...
2d20  Peregrine's Nest  Star Trek 
Game Design Masterclass – 2D20
I work for Modiphius on Dune: Adventures in the Imperium and Star Trek Adventures, so it’s no surprise I’m a fan of their 2D20 system. But its only recently with Dune that I’ve had to take a deep dive into the rules and noticed that 2D20 does a lot of things that make it more than worthy of an article.

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Eat The Reich Is Here For A Bloody Good Time, Not For A Long Time
Play a vampire and kill nazis in WW2!
Other Games  Reviews 
Play To Lose Yourself In The Zone
You won't survive this tragedy of doomed heroes!
Other Games  Reviews 
Parsley Turns Classic Adventure Games Into Fun For Everyone
A new spin on a retro form of text adventure games.
Cypher System  Reviews 
Use This Ghost To Show Off The World Of Old Gods
A one-shot adventure which evokes the generational horror of Stephen King.

Dungeons & Dragons

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Something Terrible Is Happening With Bags Of Cheese
Get in, nerds—we’re going to Curdello.
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More D&D 2024 Tidbits: Aasimar, Goliaths, Town-Eating Gelatinous Cubes
Here are a few more tidbits from Game Informer's magazine coverage of the new edition's rulebooks.
Dungeons & Dragons 
The D&D Cartoon Heroes In The 2024 PHB
Art by Dmitry Burmak.
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How Does Greyhawk Fit In To The New Edition?
Dungeon Master’s Guide contains a sample setting—and that setting is, indeed, Greyhawk.
Dungeons & Dragons 
New D&D Edition's Player’s Handbook Cover Reveal
Game Informer has revealed the cover to the 2024 Player’s Handbook.
Dungeons & Dragons 
More Adventurer Corpses But Not Their Loot
Possibly the most ecologically-friendly Intriguing Organization yet.

Industry News

Industry 
5E-Powered Adventure Time Joins Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club
D&D-powered cartoon fun from Cryptozoic Entertainment.
Dungeons & Dragons  Industry 
Kobold Press' Black Flag System Reference Document Released
Developer tool released under Open RPG Creator (ORC) License.
Dungeons & Dragons  Industry 
2024 D&D Core Rules Will Be Added To SRD In 2025
SRD 5.2 will be released under Creative Commons next year.
Dungeons & Dragons  Industry 
Field Guide to Floral Dragons Joins Million Dollar Kickstarter Club
One of only two TTRPG creators with four separate million dollar Kickstarters!
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