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Posted on October 22, 2024 by Flames
Arise, Tiamat!” the first single from DUNGEONS & DRAGONS – Bardic Inspiration: A Musical Journey through the Forgotten Realms has just dropped ahead of the album’s November release.
Composed by Michael Gatt to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons, the album presents 12 original tracks inspired by iconic locations within D&D’s most famous setting, the Forgotten Realms. Each track serves as an aural homage to the rich lore and enchanting adventures that have defined D&D for half a century.
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Posted on October 19, 2024 by Flames
Violet Core is a sapphic focused ttrpg about sad mecha piloting lesbians dueling each other and making out while stranded in space. Drawing inspiration from the absolutely wonderful visual novel Heaven Will Be Mine as well as GunBuster, Zone of the Enders and Knights of Sidonia. It focuses the dramatic tension between friends, rivals and comrades. It’s a game whose beating heart is deeply lesbian in a way that is a touch tricky to put into words…its indelibly infused. It’s a game preoccupied with a looming horizon of destruction and what we do in the face of calamity.
Currently funding on Kickstarter with less than a week to go as of this post! Today the Flames Rising crew is thrilled to offer a guest blog spot to Kiki Kwassa.
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Posted on October 10, 2024 by Flames
Halloween is just around the corner! During this time, a tradition in the U.S. is to get your tarot cards read or to enhance your gaming experiences by either adding a divinatory element or finding a tarot-themed game. If you need resources and inspiration to read, learn, or play with tarot, we’ve got you covered! […]
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Posted on October 2, 2024 by Flames
Atlas Games, the stewards of the award-winning tabletop roleplaying game Ars Magica, announced earlier this year the upcoming launch of Ars Magica Definitive Edition. This deluxe version of the 5th Edition marks an epic return for the game, not only with an expanded rulebook weighing in at over 600 full-color pages, but also by embracing an open license for third-party creators.
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Posted on September 26, 2024 by Flames
Posted on September 17, 2024 by Flames
The world’s greatest roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons, has issued a brand new, 377-page Player’s Handbook 2024 with streamlined rules.
The hardcover, full-color book is beautifully designed with gorgeous end pages and museum-quality art. In the introduction, both DMs and players are provided with an overview how to use the book and what’s changed since the 2014 version. Many of the changes–easier character creation, enhanced classes, upgraded weapons, new and enhanced spells, are clearly elements that have been refreshed for playability and ease-of-use.
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Posted on September 11, 2024 by Flames
Today, Ossian Studios and Paizo sent out the call to get ready to back the Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand CRPG on Kickstarter. Over a year in the making, the single-player, turn-based game features deep character customization, a faithful adaptation of the remastered Pathfinder Second Edition rules, and an enhanced tabletop minis-style play. The Paizo-licensed game […]
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Posted on August 6, 2024 by Flames
The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977 is a 576-page, glossy-paged tome with silk bookmarks, color-coded sections, and a short commentary by gaming historian Jon Peterson. A museum-quality book that weighs a little over two pounds, the lightly annotated contents are reproductions of notes, drafts, and publications filled with handwriting, illustrations, and antique typefaces. Combined, they chronologically tell the story of how Dungeons & Dragons was designed and how its early concepts evolved from miniature war gaming to tabletop roleplaying.
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Posted on July 24, 2024 by Flames
In honor of the cinematic release of ALIEN: ROMULUS in theatres, get 50% off select titles in the ALIEN RPG catalog on DriveThruRPG, Roll20, and Demiplane for the month of August. Space is vast, dark, and not your friend. Try to scream, and no one can hear you—hold your breath, and you rupture your lungs. […]
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Posted on July 16, 2024 by Flames
To mark the 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons, Wizards of the Coast delves into the past, to dig up six, classic D&D adventures and present them with light updates, new art, and 5th edition rules. These beloved classics include “The Lost City” (1982), “When a Star Falls” (1984), “Beyond the Crystal Cave” (1983), “Pharaoh” […]
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Posted on June 19, 2024 by Flames
How are you celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons? If you’re a fan or history buff, take advantage of a brand-new, 500-page, gilded crimson tome titled The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977. Included in this massive volume are never-before-seen handwritten notes, drafts, and ephemera published in a collectible, coffee table-style edition. […]
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Posted on June 18, 2024 by Flames
Roll20 is proud to fully support D&D 2024 with a brand new suite of best-in-class tools to play online. Starting today, the new Roll20 D&D character sheet is available to preview during a public Alpha period. The virtual character sheet offers a modern design, enhanced spell and inventory management, greater customization and automation, and compatibility […]
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Posted on May 30, 2024 by Flames
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association is pleased to announce that the 2024 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award will be presented posthumously to Jennell Jaquays at the 59th Annual SFWA Nebula Awards® ceremony on June 8, 2024. The Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award is given by SFWA for significant contributions to the science fiction, fantasy, and […]
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Posted on May 29, 2024 by Flames
Are you heading to GenCon: Indy? This year, Gen Con will be held from Thursday, August 1st, 2024 through Sunday, August 4th in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Writer’s Symposium, featuring over seventy award-winning authors, poets, experts, and game designers, will be held on the second floor of the Indianapolis Downtown Marriott at 350 W Maryland St, […]
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Posted on May 28, 2024 by Flames
At the Gates is a high fantasy tabletop roleplaying game about burgeoning heroes struggling to survive, fighting for what’s right, exploring dangerous places, and saving the world. Onyx Path Publishing is currently running a crowd-funding campaign over at BackerKit.com. We had a chance to catch up with Danielle Lauzon, creator and lead developer of At the Gates, to talk about the game a bit.
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Posted on May 7, 2024 by Flames
Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a campaign book for characters of levels 10 through 20. Compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, the campaign tasks the players with a seemingly-impossible job: to save the multiverse from annihilation. The campaign book is offered in two editions: standard and an alternate cover. The standard edition cover, illustrated […]
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Posted on April 30, 2024 by Flames
Goliath Coins and Paizo Inc. have announced a partnership to create a series of large, collector’s coins featuring Pathfinder creatures and characters. The coins, which are currently available for preorder, will ship in June.
This initial series of coins has been in the works between Goliath Coins and Paizo for quite some time, and the Pathfinder Remaster Project’s new dragon designs gave Goliath Coins the perfect opportunity to craft collector’s coins that are steeped in Pathfinder imagery. The designs on the four coins in this set are: the Diabolic Dragon, Dragon Turtle, Feiya and Daji, her familiar, and Lini and Droogami, her animal companion.
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Posted on April 15, 2024 by Flames
Hellion City Heists design essay written by Richard Lackinger So, I finally did it. I made a game! After thinking about it for many years, scribbling notes, compiling composition books, and virtually scrapbooking inspirational images, I decided to cast all of that aside and make something new and completely different. You might ask, “Why would […]
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Posted on March 6, 2024 by Flames
In partnership with Paizo, BKOM Studios is proud to announce that Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors will be launching on April 4th on Steam. Experience the renowned world of Pathfinder through a whole new lens as the exhilarating roguelite bullet hell survivor exits Early Access. Delve into Gallowspire playing solo or with a friend and confront the […]
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Posted on February 28, 2024 by Flames
Catalyst Game Labs—publisher of the massively popular BattleTech and Shadowrun games—is profoundly excited to announce Runefire, a cooperative deckbuilding game based on the popular Pathfinder roleplaying game. A crowdfunding campaign will launch later this year, with behind-the-scenes details shared through 2024. Runefire combines the vast lore of the Pathfinder universe with the fast play of […]
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