In part one of this blog series I detailed the PC’s in my impromptu Spelljammer campaign who’d be adventuring across wild space. To be honest, updating and adapting the rules of Spelljammer using D&D 5e and Weird on the Waves took longer than expected. It lives as a collection of pen scribbles on sticky notes…
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GameJoy: Returning to the Waves (Weird on the Waves is now FREE!)
Weird on the Waves was originally published in May 2020, around the beginning of the pandemic. To date it’s the biggest set of game rules and adventures I’ve ever published at a whopping 224 pages. It took me almost three years to write, design, and lay out, put together in small pieces of spare time….
GameJoy: Twilight: 2000 Impressions
Just before Christmas I received a real big box from the folks at Free League. Inside was their latest box-set roleplaying game; the new edition of Twilight: 2000. When the PR hit me that Free League was releasing this game, it took me by surprise. I’d honestly not heard of this roleplaying game before, but…
GameJoy: Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos Impressions
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos is the latest D&D offering from Wizards of the Coast, and it is a far cry from your usual D&D campaign or setting. This book provides all the rules, mechanics, NPC’s, maps, and structure to have players attend magical university over four in-game years of play.
GameJoy: GM Advice: Spelljammer but it’s 2021 (Part 1)
Back in early October this year we received a new Unearthed Arcana playtest PDF from Wizards of the Coast. ‘Travellers of the Multiverse’ offered up some deep cut character options not seen since 2nd edition in the early 90’s, all of them races from different parts of D&D’s multiverse of different worlds and campaigns settings….
GameJoy: GM Advice: Make Your Own Snail Races!
The Wild Beyond The Witchlight has rekindled the crafty DM spark in me, and I’ve found myself once again wanting to draw handmade maps and make miniatures and terrain for play. The Witchlight Carnival is full of possibility for miniature scale set pieces, but the one that caught my attention first was giant snail racing. The…
GameJoy: D&D DM Screen: Dungeon Kit Impressions
A week ago we received the D&D Dungeon Master’s Screen: Dungeon Kit for review. This is the sister product to last year’s DM Screen: Wilderness Kit, and contains a lot of the same tools and cards, but this time suited to dungeon exploration. Inside the kit is a cardstock card box as well as cardstock…
GameJoy: Three Different Campaigns To Run Using Fizban’s Treasury Of Dragons
Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons provides a ton of new options and pieces of lore for players to use if they want their characters to have more of a draconic feel them: from playing new kinds of dragonborn, to playing characters with ties to benevolent or malign dragons in their past. It creates a lot of new…
GameJoy: Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons Impressions
Once again the folks at Wizards of the Coast have given us a peek into the mind and learnings of one of D&D’s iconic characters. We’ve already gleaned a ton of insight and campaign inspiration from Xanathar, Volo, Mordenkainen, Tasha, and recently Van Richten. Now we’re turned over to Fizban and his wide breadth of…
GameJoy: Three Different Ways to Use ‘The Wild Beyond The Witchlight’
The best D&D adventures and modules are the ones that are replayable, offering up a variety of tools, monsters, and setting details to be used in your home campaigns. Even if the latest D&D hardcover adventure isn’t to your players’ tastes, quite often the best ones have one or more things that can be re-used…