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Arcadia Issue 30 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:00:48 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM And so, after 30 whole issues of Arcadia, we finally reached the end. It was a pleasure to have you readers with me along the whole journey. I may have skipped one or two for one or other reason, but almost all Arcadia issues have been reviewed, and I can’t begin to comprehend how it is that they maintained such level of quality. Big props to all the people that work at MCDM and those […]

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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants Review

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 22:04:15 +0000

My review copy of Bigby’s Big Book of Big Bois is here, and for the first time in a long time, I’ve actually got a little time to write about a new release! (Okay, I’m still working my way through the last UA packet, whatever.) As you undoubtedly know, this book is intended to do for giants what Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons did for the scaly bois. The Elephant in the Room Just to get this out of the way: I […]

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Arcadia Issue 29 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:00:44 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM A tiefling or demon with a shining red sword summoning a dark dragon…. EPIC! I am loving this cover, and easily inspires me to create some sort of general of this sort as a villain. We are rapidly coming to an end with Arcadia so let’s enjoy the few articles we still have left before the company decides to offer other monthly products. I know they will be just as rad as the ones from […]

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Arcadia Issue 27 Breakdown (SHARKADIA)

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 10 May 2023 13:00:54 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Oh man, look at that cover! It’s as if the shark from Jaws had been experimented with and transformed into some sort of eldritch creature from the depths, full of glowing eyes, and covered with kelp. Ok, let’s stop fangirling over that fantastic cover. It’s not even Shark Week and we are getting this amazing special issue. What is it that we may discover if we dive in? Hannah opens the letter from the Editor […]

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Arcadia Issue 26 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:00:35 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Let’s begin with that cover. Weird, right? I really like the faerie aspect of the dragon with deer horns, but butterfly wings. That’s what Arcadia is mostly about, right? Adding weird new things into our games. I dunno, now I want to create a stat block for that thing and make it a guardian of the Archfey palaces. In the Letter from the Editor, Hannah talks about the different ways magic works in each world, […]

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Arcadia Issue 25 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:00:13 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM @vorpaldicepress Inspiration has always been a mechanic I forget to implement in my games. I just end up randomly remembering they exist and that’s when I give them away. This article looks to make these points much more important by giving them away through in-game mechanics, as well as giving them other uses. The article talks about ways inspiration can be given away when critical successes or failures occur. I believe these ways of handling […]

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Arcadia Issue 24 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:00:12 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Dungeons… and DRAGONS… When we hear that name the first thing that comes to everyones’ minds if they don’t know much about the game is that we are going to be fighting those giant scaly lizards, but that’s mostly not the case. However, issue 24 offers us this champion impaling a dragon as its cover art, fear coming out of the winged creature’s eyes. This issue is in fact all about dragons! In the letter […]

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Arcadia Issue 23 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:00:16 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM @cconowitch My friend Mario is back here again bringing a whole new set of things to do with gemstones. As they are right now, gemstones don’t have much use other than being a replacement for gold. This article looks to change that concept touching a bit on high magic fantasy. It starts giving some ideas on what the different colors of the gemstones could mean, such as black gemstones for darkness, defensive magic, pink gems […]

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Unearthed Arcana 2022: Cleric and Revised Species Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:31:34 +0000

Welcome to the third packet of OneD&D public playtesting! In this article – as usual – I’ll be digging into the content of the packet: what it means now and what it might mean in the development of OneD&D. This packet brings us the Cleric class, the Ardling, Dragonborn, and Goliath Species, and new Rules Glossary sprockets. This one is mercifully shorter, at a mere 26 pages! Character Origins | Expert Classes | Cleric & 3 Revised Species The first two pages […]

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Dragonlance – Shadow of the Dragon Queen – Review

Michael Long — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 21:10:36 +0000

Dragonlance comes to D&D 5th edition with the new release of Dragonlance Shadow of the Dragon Queen. The book gives some background into Dragonlance with a little bit of history, some character options, a level 1 to 11 adventure, and appendices full of monsters of more. The book comes in three different covers that you can purchase. If you purchase the book online through Wizards of the Coast, then you can also get the digital version of the book on […]

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