A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing Between Dungeons and Dragons and Vampire: The Masquerade

I've been playing Vampire: The Masquerade for a month now and I adore it. However, I can't help but compare it to Dungeons and Dragons, which I've been playing for the past eight years. Although I'm more familiar with the latter, I'd like to offer a comparison of both games for prospective players. I will give you an...

Did Honor Among Thieves Bring Honor to Dungeons & Dragons?

My love of Dungeons & Dragons is well-documented at this point. I have ranted and raved about the game to anyone who will listen, and I have shared some of the chaos of my campaigns too. So you can understand why I was both thrilled and nervous about the latest movie adaptation. It turns out that I...

Chaotic Things D&D Players Say

This ramble will, without a doubt, be the dumbest post to date, but I want to share these with you. For a while now, I have been taking notes while playing Dungeons and Dragons. Not the usual kind about plot twists, essential NPCs and shared inventory. Nope, not that helpful information. That's Ben's job, anyway....

Is this the Death of Dungeons & Dragons?

Well, this is a nightmare. I put off writing this as, frankly, I hoped Wizards of the Coast was going to release a statement saying "yeah, this isn't the case at all" but their continued silence is deafening. It looks like the leaks are accurate. They are trying to bury their head in the sand,...

Meet Hecate Iriosal

A new campaign means a new character! I mentioned in my last ramble about the new Out of the Abyss game my group are starting tomorrow that I would introduce you to my newest character. Well, here she is in all her glory!  Hecate by the talented Mimmikko Hecate Iriosal is a water genasi druid. Like Daphne...

Into the Unknown, Out of the Abyss

When one campaign ends, another one will begin.  After about a year or so of playing Curse of Strahd, we are swapping Barovia for the Underdark. Both are frankly dark and depressing places, with potential death a constant companion. My group really needs to play a more light-hearted campaign soon, as this is a worrying pattern.  I...

Our Season Finale of Curse of Strahd

After over a year's worth of suffering, angst and all-around bad times for our characters, our Curse of Strahd campaign had its season finale last Sunday. In short, we decided to move on to another campaign for a while, leaving Curse of Strahd on a cliffhanger we will return to at a later date.  Oh man, it's been a...

Stranger Things Read-A-Like

I am still recovering from Season 4 of Stranger Things. That ending, ouch.  I might be a bit late since it stopped airing a while ago but I needed time to heal. Yeah, still not 100% there, but the show must go on. My goto curse for a broken heart? Reading to fill the void.  So,...

Dungeons and Dragons 2023: What Do We Know?

With Stranger Things, Critical Role and The Adventure Zone catapulting D&D into the mainstream, I guess it should not come as a surprise that Hollywood would decide to cash in. Considering how the previous movies about the game, namely Mazes and Monsters and Dark Dungeons, portrayed the game as evil and fed into the satanic panic, maybe this film can be seen as an...

Strahdaversary

Today's ramble is just a bit on the short side, as I wanted to share a little milestone with you guys. Last Sunday, my D&D group celebrated our "Strahdaversary". We have been playing our Curse of Strahd campaign for a year now. Time flies when you are fighting for survival in brutal Barovia. So far, our kill...