Author: Jody Macgregor
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D&D actual play series Dimension 20 returns to its original setting for Fantasy High Junior Year
Way back in 2018 when CollegeHumor was still a thing it launched subscription service Dropout with a bunch of shows, the highlight being Dimension 20. A live-play tabletop RPG series, Dimension 20 presented an extremely watchable version of Dungeons & Dragons with gorgeous miniature scenery, a cast of comedians who had varying degrees of roleplay…
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Creative Assembly apologizes for ‘missteps’ and says Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC will become better value and players will receive partial refunds for Total War: Pharaoh
The Total War: Warhammer series has a tradition of excellent DLC, whether it adds new armies like Curse of the Vampire Coast, expands existing ones like The Warden & The Paunch, or offers an entirely new campaign mode like the free Mortal Empires and Immortal Empires add-ons. The recent Shadows of Change DLC for Total…
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There’s a Starfield bug that makes it crash more often if you don’t start New Game+
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The longer you play this Bethesda RPG, the more unstable it becomes. Am I talking about Oblivion’s reference bug, or Skyrim’s PS3 lag bug? (That’s our brand director Tim Clark there holding Bethesda’s feet to the fire on the latter.) Nope, I’m talking about Starfield, where players…
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Five years later, Doom megawad Eviternity just got a surprise sequel
In honor of Doom’s 30th birthday, a team of Doom modders led by Joshua “Dragonfly” O’Sullivan just released a sequel to six-episode Doom megawad Eviternity. Eviternity two likewise has six chapters, each made up of five maps with one secret map per chapter. That’s a grand total of 36 maps you can download right now.…
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D&D’s Revised Player’s Handbook ‘will be the biggest Player’s Handbook that D&D has ever had’, and like all the Revised core books will be compatible with the current edition
At this year’s PAX Unplugged—a special edition of PAX dedicated to tabletop games—Wizards of the Coast’s designers presented a panel celebrating the upcoming 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. At the end of that panel they looked ahead to 2024 and the upcoming Revised editions of the core rulebooks, previously codenamed OneD&D. The focus was…
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464 parties have already finished the new permadeath Honour Mode in Baldur’s Gate 3, but it’s also killed 34,000 player-characters so far
Larian recently revealed some more of the stats it’s been sneakily gathering while we’re playing Baldur’s Gate 3. Among them, the revelation that 33% of Halsin romancers requested he boink them in bear form. Honestly, you people. Just as shocking in its own way is finding out that 464 parties have earned themselves a golden…
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Stealth classic Thief: The Dark Project just got a 10-mission fan campaign called The Black Parade from a team led by an Arkane Lyon level designer
Thief: The Dark Project is 25 years old, but it’s still one of the best stealth games around, with an active community making fan missions for both it and The Dark Mod, a standalone recreation made with the Doom 3 engine of all things. The Black Parade is for Thief Gold rather than the Dark…
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Strike from the shadows as Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s third clan, the Banu Haqim
As part of the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, we saw a brief reveal of the third playable clan coming to Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. While the first two reveals were clans that appeared in the original Bloodlines, the rebellious Brujah and the sorcerous Tremere, this is the first clan we didn’t have…
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Pony-inspired fighting game Them’s Fightin’ Herds abandons its unfinished story mode
In 2013, Hasbro sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creators of a My Little Pony fangame called Fighting is Magic (it began as a fanart project called “Marevel vs. Clopcom”). While the creators, Mane6, accepted the cease and desist, they kept the basic idea and mechanics and used them to create an original game called…
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Starfield mod lets you disable the dialogue camera
Starfield’s dialogue camera, like its persuasion system, gives some real strong Oblivion flashbacks. Maybe you’re into that, but if staring directly into the glistening wet eyeballs of every NPC while you talk to them isn’t your thing, there is at long last a mod for that. Disable Dialogue Camera lets you have conversations in either…