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Arcadia Issue 27 Breakdown (SHARKADIA)

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 10 May 2023 13:00:54 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Oh man, look at that cover! It’s as if the shark from Jaws had been experimented with and transformed into some sort of eldritch creature from the depths, full of glowing eyes, and covered with kelp. Ok, let’s stop fangirling over that fantastic cover. It’s not even Shark Week and we are getting this amazing special issue. What is it that we may discover if we dive in? Hannah opens the letter from the Editor […]

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Arcadia Issue 26 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:00:35 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Let’s begin with that cover. Weird, right? I really like the faerie aspect of the dragon with deer horns, but butterfly wings. That’s what Arcadia is mostly about, right? Adding weird new things into our games. I dunno, now I want to create a stat block for that thing and make it a guardian of the Archfey palaces. In the Letter from the Editor, Hannah talks about the different ways magic works in each world, […]

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Arcadia Issue 25 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:00:13 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM @vorpaldicepress Inspiration has always been a mechanic I forget to implement in my games. I just end up randomly remembering they exist and that’s when I give them away. This article looks to make these points much more important by giving them away through in-game mechanics, as well as giving them other uses. The article talks about ways inspiration can be given away when critical successes or failures occur. I believe these ways of handling […]

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Arcadia Issue 24 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:00:12 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Dungeons… and DRAGONS… When we hear that name the first thing that comes to everyones’ minds if they don’t know much about the game is that we are going to be fighting those giant scaly lizards, but that’s mostly not the case. However, issue 24 offers us this champion impaling a dragon as its cover art, fear coming out of the winged creature’s eyes. This issue is in fact all about dragons! In the letter […]

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Arcadia Issue 23 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:00:16 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM @cconowitch My friend Mario is back here again bringing a whole new set of things to do with gemstones. As they are right now, gemstones don’t have much use other than being a replacement for gold. This article looks to change that concept touching a bit on high magic fantasy. It starts giving some ideas on what the different colors of the gemstones could mean, such as black gemstones for darkness, defensive magic, pink gems […]

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Unearthed Arcana 2022: Cleric and Revised Species Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:31:34 +0000

Welcome to the third packet of OneD&D public playtesting! In this article – as usual – I’ll be digging into the content of the packet: what it means now and what it might mean in the development of OneD&D. This packet brings us the Cleric class, the Ardling, Dragonborn, and Goliath Species, and new Rules Glossary sprockets. This one is mercifully shorter, at a mere 26 pages! Character Origins | Expert Classes | Cleric & 3 Revised Species The first two pages […]

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Dragonlance – Shadow of the Dragon Queen – Review

Michael Long — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 21:10:36 +0000

Dragonlance comes to D&D 5th edition with the new release of Dragonlance Shadow of the Dragon Queen. The book gives some background into Dragonlance with a little bit of history, some character options, a level 1 to 11 adventure, and appendices full of monsters of more. The book comes in three different covers that you can purchase. If you purchase the book online through Wizards of the Coast, then you can also get the digital version of the book on […]

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Arcadia Issue 22 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:00:10 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Will Doyle comes back from tabletop designing retirement to impress us with his ways of soloing a D&D adventure. In this article, he offers three new classes, made for games with one GM and one player. Attempting to use these classes with other PCs in your party will result in this heroic champion being way too overpowered. Consider that these classes are made to be as powerful as 4 PCs. These are the heroic warrior, […]

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Arcadia Issue 21 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:00:26 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Wow! That’s a gorgeous, spooky-looking cover! Did that distract you from the fact that I took almost a month to write this article? Sorry, I’ve been invited to my first con in the US and met a whole bunch of amazing people there (Including Hannah Rose, the editor from Arcadia. Hey Hannah! It was so great to meet, chat, and play games with you in person!). I’m intending to write an article about that for […]

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Arcadia Issue 20 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:46:33 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM So we have reached issue 20… Wow… I’m surprised I’ve been doing breakdowns for so long. Still, There’s a lot to like about each of these issues. For instance, let’s take a look at the wonderful cover! This sort of guardian of nature looks rad! It definitely should be your inspiration for your next Paladin Oath of the Ancients! Let’s see what the issue has in store for us, shall we? @wildrosemage Since I’ve begun […]

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