Magic: Arena has been trucking for some time this year and only in this past month did it enter its open beta phase. Yep, no friend codes needed, you can just jump in and play and experience what is basically a 1:1 analog of paper Magic. Ou...

Ever since the start of Magic: Arena's beta period folks have been clamoring for a way to directly play with your friends. I mean it is Magic after all: a highly social game, and limiting Arena to matchmaking for any period of tim...

Magic: The Gathering's 25th anniversary came with a lot of changes for the game. The release structure for new expansion sets has changed dramatically. The game has crossed over the realm of cardboard to pen and paper with Dungeon & Dra...

Magic: The Gathering is getting ready for a massive shakeup in October. In less than a month standard (read: the most popular competitive mode) is cycling out a whopping five sets (Kaladesh, Aether Revolt, Amonkhet, Hour of Devastation, and...

Onboarding people into Magic: The Gathering is one of the easiest things I've ever done. I always try to tell them that there's caveats depending on the type of mode you play (some are super cheap, some are super...not), but as a gener...

After a long wait, Wizards of the Coast has mostly unveiled the cards that are arriving in its newest Magic: The Gathering set by way of a spoiler weekend.. A lot of classic cards return in Core 2019 in a sort of interim release before the ...

Magic: The Gathering means a lot of different things to different people. For some, it's a highly competitive game where the meta has to be followed and the sideboard is always ready. For others, it's a casual kitchen table game to play whe...

Another digital card game is entering the fray. Wizards of the Coast has unveiled Magic: The Gathering Arena, a free-to-play title in production at the company's in-house Digital Games Studio. Sign-ups are open for a closed beta, and while ...

The first addition to Dungeons & Dragons this year is Tales from the Yawning Portal, a new campaign book that takes ideas and dungeons from the past five decades and brings them to the fifth edition. It's framed as a collection of tales...

Picking up a new Dungeons & Dragons book is one of my favorite experiences. Opening it for the first time, the spine cracking a bit, the pages resistant to turning -- it all makes for a bizarrely tactile feeling that I look forward to e...

Wizards of the Coast has been busy with Dungeons & Dragons since fifth edition came out a couple years ago. With five full adventures out (including the recent Storm's King Thunder, which I haven't had the chance to play through ye...

Neverwinter’s newest event is uh… a tad strange. Portobello’s Campaign is a series of missions inspired by Acquisition Inc.’s live Dungeons & Dragons sessions at PAX Prime 2015. If you’ve never heard of A...

Shame on me. I made a mental note to write about Curse of Strahd the day it came out last week, but GDC's chaos complicated my plans. I read about half of the new adventure book for Dungeons & Dragons while on Steven's futon betwee...

Marisha Ray is surrounded by some of her closest friends, but there are tears welling in her eyes. A recent revelation has filled her with doubt and guilt in equal measure, leading her to believe that her previous actions may have brought d...

I'm not quite convinced that Dungeons & Dragons can easily be converted to fit Fallout's classless (game-wise, not social stature-wise) RPG style, but that didn't stop a person on the internet from dreaming up this 'lil baby: Whil...

This month's Unearthed Arcana brings Dungeons & Dragons four retro class specializations that I hope my players use: the Colleges of Swords and Satire for Bards, and Cavalier and Scout for Fighter. Bards from the College of Sw...

Wizards of the Coast has just implemented the new Dungeon Master's Guild website, where you can self-publish adventures, character classes, monsters, and whatever else you can dream up. When placing your content on the website, you can eith...

Sword Coast Legends didn't quite make it to the stars it was reaching for, but I'm still confident it'll get there eventually. Now that there's been a couple of content packs, adding in "playable drow elves, new skill trees, additional...

I've fallen a bit off of covering all things Dungeons & Dragons due to a dearth of time, but I'm jumping back in with this month's Unearthed Arcana. This one is all about bringing your character to the subterranean Underdark. There's tw...

The elevator pitch for Sword Coast Legends was concocted in a cauldron specifically to make the Zack Furnisses of the world greedily salivate. "That 5th edition D&D that you love Dungon Mastering for your players?" n-Space asks, ch...

Oh, Sword Coast Legends. Your Dungeon Master mode impressed me more than I thought it would, and the time I spent with you over the weekend was but a taste of your possible wonders. While I still have some concerns, I want the world to...

I'm telling you right now, if you clicked on this article for an expert opinion on all things Magic: The Gathering, you're in the wrong place. I know fuck-all about Magic! My only experience with Puzzle Quest is the five minutes I play...

This month's Unearthed Arcana (new, possibly volatile rules) brings some changes to the Ranger class in Dungeons & Dragons.  When the Fifth Edition hit shelves, many players agreed that the Ranger class and specifically the Be...

Aside from a bit of Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, I never had the chance to play most of the Dungeon & Dragons game that came out for the PC. GOG.com and Wizards of the Coast are giving people the option to revisi...

The Dungeons & Dragons sort-of tabletop simulator Sword Coast Legends is just over a month away now. With this upcoming release speeding ever-forward, developers n-Space and Digital Extremes have begun to exhibit some of...