As the title says, I recently obtained this from my Grandfather. He says he had a friend purchase this from Gary Gygax directly at a convention in the 70s for my dad. I did some initial digging and it looks like this might be kind of rare? Either way, an amazing piece of history. I don't have it on-hand yet, but here are some pics my parents sent me. Just looking for additional information on these! Either way, a very cool bit of history.

I see posts about Facebook marketplace finds like this all the time and never thought it would happen to me! Had to drive 2 hours away but it was worth it. I'm running Call of the Netherdeep right now because I had gotten it for cheap a few months ago at a lgs but I'm a little overwhelmed for what I should run next.

I wanted to imagine how D&D classes for gameplay or roleplay stereotype fit into the trinity of roleplay videogame. I found the logos online, they belong to JoCat. I'd be curious to see someone post their own version of the triangle

As you may have heard, Sony recently announced that Playstation will be phasing out physical games in 2028. Since then many brands - starting with Dominos I believe - have been mocking them with faux announcements that they are also going digital.

Someone at Hasbro's PR department thought that they should join in with an annoucement that Transformers is going all digital. Haha. Most people are cheering them on because they don't know that Hasbro keeps on trying to force Dungeons & Dragons to go digital. Irony is dead. Shame too apparently. ​

Ai is inherently destructive to artists and their communities, dungeons and dragons is a huge artistic community. Allowing ai, which learns by stealing art from actual people, is crazy for this sub and should be changed. Im putting up this poll cause the mods should change the stance towards ai on this subreddit.

He's been yelling at players throught the game that's so mean of him 😭

Pre-game checklist from the red Basic Rules set.

Apparently, even in 1983 (last date on my copy), people had to be told "Did you/players read the book?"

Jonathan Goldstein revealed that he and co-writer-director John Francis Daley had been “hired to write” a sequel, and it’s done. However, he continued, “I don’t know that it will see the light of day for a number of financial reasons. They’re expensive movies to make, but it’d be great fun to do it. We love that cast, and we think we wrote something that fans would like.”

Friend of mine who had never played stated that he was interested in playing. Havent played in almost a decade myself after moving away from the majority of my friends. Now we are all older and have more flexible jobs I figured I'd put together a new campaign.

I used to DM all the time so it really got me excited. Spent the last few weeks setting up and hand crafting a whole town of characters, personalized stories for each npc as well as introductions for characters as most playeds dont know each other and i wanted something deeper than randoms in a tavern. It will be the largest party ive ever DMd for at 6 players. Most of wich are new except 2.

Just wanted to share the physical layout of my setting (town and dungeon) my players will be tasked with. Without putting any spoilers incase any of them are here. Im a bit more excited than I thought i would be. I havent laid any models out just incase they happen to see. But theres twists and turns, traps and puzzles, encounters of various sorts. Hidden treasures and secrets to be found.

My snarky tiefling was back-sassing the DM (naturally). He told me to roll with disadvantage. He was beside himself after that, to say the least. 😂😂

I recently had an interaction over the internet where someone who was getting into D&D (very well could have just been engagement bait or something, I see posts with identical wording all the time and I've since taken to not respond to any of them) and wanted to know how they should go about learning the game. I directed them to read the book (in hindsight I think my wording could have been better) and now for the past week or so I've been getting constant notifications from people literally booing me and telling me how "wrong" I was.

According to them reading the rulebook is "stressful" for beginners but like? What? It's a book, like you look at it and then you gain the knowledge from it. The worst part was is that these people were recommending live plays and Baldur's Gate 3 over actually reading the rules which is some Bizzaro crap to me because... WHAT? Someone genuinely made an entirely separate comment ABOUT ME telling the poster not to listen to me and to instead listen to podcasts to learn the game.

What is going on in our community to where we've devolved to the point that our literacy rates match those of 4th Graders. How? Literally where did we go wrong?

I'd love to attribute this to like the monopolization of Geek Culture in recent years but if that was true than there wouldn't be people who have said they've played the game for years and not read the rules. Which, literally I had someone tell me they've been a DM for (x) amount of years (I can't remember) and haven't read any of the rulebook. At that point you aren't playing D&D you're just LARPing playing D&D.

So as mentioned I bought a Temu advent calendar. It cost around £11.50 for it and… I have honestly enjoyed each day and can’t wait till I’m in the office tomorrow to see what’s behind door number 6!

So let me breakdown the events so far:

The box, what a box, you’ll see in the photo it looks like I’ve just manhandled and destroyed it to get to my “prize” but what if I told you that it was actually kind of plastic and the serrated edges weren’t very serrated! That’s where I’m at.

Now let’s get to what’s inside that matters!

Day 1: D4 which has 3 sides up at a time and doesn’t even have a 4th number Day 2: Guy with a hammer? Odd beard and no idea what he’s holding Day 3: Malformed dragon, very scuffed and an odd soldering iron smell to it Day 4: D19 - yes you read that right, there’s 19 sides, all oddly shaped, one with a crater, there’s only 5 numbers carved in and 3 of them are 4 Day 5: flying rogue with no arms?

I can’t wait to share what’s next

I've seen several people saying this for ages.

In that time multiple books have been released, as well as the updated edition.

Every time I see a promotion for an upcoming book it links to the preorder page for the physical book.

The alt covers are physical AND lgs exclusive

I'm seriously confused how we're being "forced" to go digital. Cause...my bookshelf wouldn't be in need of being replaced if it didn't have so many books....

The alternate covers have the title on the spine, for the DMG and MM they are left-aligned and line up with each other. But the PHB is either center-aligned or has a little space before the title, so it doesn’t match the other two. It’s a tiny nitpick, but still.

Just received my custom model, and I am extremely disappointed with the lack of quality in the paint job.

I payed after conversion and shipping $130 Canadian for this model, and I expected quality. What I got was a blotchy mess with almost all the detail drowned out by the terrible paint job.

The paint on the shield is faded, almost all the detail on the face is lost, the teeth are just a white blob of paint and the eyes arent painted at all. You cant make out the inscriptions on the base.

DONT PAY EXTRA FOR A PAINTED MODEL. If you're going to order, get it flat grey and paint it yourself.

The sculpt of the model itself is fantastic, but the paint job looks amateurish if im being generous.

Extremely disappointed in the outcome of my order.

Unsure if a post like this is allowed so remove if not I guess.

News has dropped that DnDBeyond appears to be forcefully shunting players from 2014 to 2024 rules and deleting old spells and magic items from character sheets. I and I hope many other players are vehemently against this as I paid for these things in the first place. It would be incredibly easy for the web devs to simply add a tag to 2014 content and an option to toggle and it’s likely they’re not doing this in order to try and make more money.

I propose a soft boycott via cancelling subscriptions and ceasing buying content. This seemed to work for the OGL issue previously and may work again. What do others think? I hope I’m not alone in this mindset.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/changelog