Role Playing
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 155: Rrakkma
“Rrakkma,” by Chris Lindsay, is not necessarily the first Adventurer’s League module that goes into the planes—though I’m pretty sure that it is, I’ve had a legitimately difficult time discerning if there’s something earlier…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 154: Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
A year and a half after Volo’s Guide to Monsters made its messy debut into the world, Wizards of the Coast released a follow-up in a similar vein. And yes, I know we’re skipping…
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Heroes of the Borderlands: An Anecdotal Review
When revealed, the philosophy behind Dungeon & Dragon‘s new starter set, Heroes of the Borderlands, was unsurprisingly divisive as detractors manufactured dire hypotheticals based on what had been announced. A board game? $50? Will…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 153: Volo’s Guide to Monsters
Following the release of Fifth Edition’s core books, Wizards of the Coast was in a weird place. The development staff had been gutted during the last few years—layoffs have been a perennial problem at…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 152: Core Fifth Edition
It seems like only just yesterday (i.e. more than a goddamn year ago) we were covering the core Fourth Edition books in order to talk about its complete reconceptualization of D&D‘s cosmology. Sigil somehow…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 7.75: Black Spine
Just when you probably thought we were finally, finally headed into Fifth Edition D&D, i.e. the material people are actually familiar with and want to read about, it’s time to take yet another journey…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 151: The Endings of Dungeon & Dragon Magazines
Dungeons & Dragons‘ Fourth Edition ended not with a bang, but with a whimper, and a similar fate befell the twin magazines that shared its name. Not that Wizards of the Coast ever seemed…
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A Walk Through the Planes: Court of Stars
Thought this column had been written into the dead book? Well you aren’t so lucky as all that—we’re back, and though A Walk Through the Planes won’t ever be quite as regular as it…
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A Walk Through the Planes: Lords of Chaos
Remember way back in March when I covered Mual-Tar, a lightning primordial with a striking resemblance to tapeworms? Probably not, as Fourth Edition’s content, particularly concerning the primordials, is almost fascinatingly forgettable. Nevertheless, I…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 150: 2012 Magazine Wrap-up
During that awkward two year-period between the announcement of D&D‘s Fifth Edition and said edition’s actual release, both Dragon and Dungeon magazines continued puttering along. Christopher Perkins was in charge (of both? Of just…
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