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D&D History
Why Dungeon & Dragons Dropped Assassins and Renamed Thieves
How D&D Shed the Troubling Implications of Half -Orcs
The Threat that Nearly Killed Dungeons & Dragons—Twice
Meet the Woman Who by 1976 Was the Most Important Gamer in Roleplaying After Gary
The True Story of the Cthulhu and Elric Sections Removed from Deities & Demigods
Behind D&D’s Design
Spell Blow Back—How Part of D&D that Everyone Avoided Shaped the 5th-Edition Power Curve
The Tangled Origins of D&D’s Armor Class, Hit Points, and Twenty-Sided Die Rolls To-Hit
For 10 Years D&D Suffered From an Unplayable Initiative System. Blame the Game’s Wargaming Roots
The Dungeons & Dragons Books that Secretly Previewed Each New Edition
The Dungeons & Dragons Spells Gary Gygax Never Meant for Players
Character Building
7 Dungeons & Dragons Character Builds Absurdly Good at One Thing
7 Best Classes to Add to Multiclass a Dungeons & Dragons Character
How to Build a Sharpshooter Who Wins D&D (If the Rest of Your Group Doesn’t Mind)
The Two D&D Feats Everyone Loves (For Someone Else’s Character)
How to Build a D&D Monk So Good That DMs Want to Cheat
Dungeon Master Advice
In D&D, Letting Everyone Roll Certain Checks Guarantees Success, So Why Bother Rolling?
How to Run Better D&D Games By Doing Less
The Best Ways to Track Initiative in Dungeons & Dragons
You Roll for Random Encounters Wrong (and So Do I)
5 Tricks for Creating Brilliant Dungeon Maps From Will Doyle
How to Use Scenes and Summaries to Focus on the Best Parts of a Role-Playing Adventure
Reference and Play Aids
A Complete List and Gallery of Dungeon Tiles Sets
New Photo Guide to Dungeon Master’s Tools
Print My Custom D&D DM Screen to Defeat the Basilisk
What Is the Typical Amount of Treasure Awarded in a Fifth-Edition Dungeons & Dragons Campaign?
Gallery of poster battle maps published for Dungeons & Dragons
How to Print Map Graphics As Battle Maps Using Free Software
Great Adventures
Why Did So Many Classic Adventures Come From 7 Years of D&D’s 45-Year History?
The 10 Greatest Dungeons & Dragons Adventures Since 1985
How N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God Changed D&D Adventures for Good
How Running Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan Reversed My Opinion of It
Queen of the Demonweb Pits Opened Dungeons & Dragons to the Planes
Opinion
Sharpshooters Are the Worst Thing in D&D, but That Speaks Well of Fifth Edition
How New Changes Created the 4 Most Annoying Spells in Dungeons & Dragons
Why Dungeons & Dragons Players Don’t Love Sandboxes As Much as They Think
Are the Authors of the Dungeon & Dragons Hardcover Adventures Blind to the Plight of DMs?
If D&D Play Styles Could Talk, the One I Hate Would Say, “I Won D&D for You. You’re Welcome.”
Dungeon Masters: Why Your Players Might Not Love Theater of the Mind As Much as You Do
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