One bard's take on D&D and other things

Month: September 2019

Consent in Gaming by Monte Cook Games

Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop roleplaying games are full of unexpected situations. This is part of what makes the game fun! No matter which side of the DM’s screen you’re on, you’re never completely in control of the game. What happens is up to a combination of chance and the players at the table.

So, it’s important for everyone to be comfortable and enjoy themselves at the table.

Monte Cook Games, a company known for the Cypher System and games like Numenera, has released a free PDF called Consent in Gaming by Sean K. Reynolds and Shanna Germain. It’s available at DriveThruRPG.

With the “Tackle mature content with confidence!” tagline, Consent in Gaming aims to give players and DMs/GMs “the strategies you need to make sure everyone at the table has a great experience, even when the game goes in a challenging direction.”

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Looking at UA: Bard and Paladin

New Unearthed Arcana is turning into a trend, and I’m not complaining! So far, we’ve gotten UA for the barbarian and monk, the sorcerer and the warlock, and now the bard and the paladin! (The classes who haven’t received UA in this round yet are wizard, druid, fighter, rogue, ranger and cleric—we’ve already covered half of the official classes!)

We’ve got a talkative bard subclass and a heroic paladin subclass in this article. Also, the survey for the sorcerer and warlock UA article is available.

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Speculation on Eberron: Rising from the Last War

A new D&D book was announced recently! Come November 19th, Eberron: Rising from the Last War will be available for purchase. This book will contain the official version of the Artificer and other Eberron content, including information relevant to running adventures in the Eberron setting.

In this post, I’m going to give a brief explanation of the Eberron setting, dig into what we already know about this book, and speculate on what else we might see!

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