RPGs can be played in various formats including tabletop games, video games, or live-action role-playing. Modern video games have introduced many hybrid variants, broadening the genre. Regardless of format, immersive storytelling, interactive world, combat system, and character development are key el...
Dungeons & Dragons is the world’s most popular tabletop roleplaying game. It is a cooperative, storytelling game where you and other players take on the roles of different characters within a story. As you play, your character will make friends and enemies, fight monsters, discover loot, and...
Dungeons & Dragons is the world’s most popular tabletop roleplaying game. It is a cooperative, storytelling game where you and other players take on the roles of different characters within a story. As you play, your character will make friends and enemies, fight monsters, discover loot, ...
Introduction to Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons and Dragons is a popular tabletop role-playing game that has captured the hearts and imaginations of players for decades. Created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in the early 1970s, this iconic game has evolved over the years to become a cultural ...
NPC stands for “non-playable character” in gaming. It’s a term used in video games and tabletop gaming to distinguish between characters in a game that are controlled by the player and characters controlled entirely by the game (or by “the computer”). NPCs can range from characters tha...
s hard to argue with a classic. dungeons & dragons has been the face of tabletop rpgs for decades, and for good reason. the 5th edition of the system comes with its ups and downs, of course, but there’s nothing quite like the original . plus, it helps that the system is still ...
History of RPGs American game designers Ernest Gygax and David Arneson created D&D in 1974. The fantasy tabletop RPG is believed to be the precursor to modern-day online RPGs. In D&D, set in a medieval fantasy world, each player creates a particular character and actively describes their act...
Before MMOs, there were MUDs, or multi-user dungeons. During the 1970s, these primitive, multiplayer, text-based games ran on early internet servers. Most MUDs were role-playing games (RPGs) with mechanics similar to the tabletop gameDungeons & Dragons, so it's no surprise that the first...
Well, I guess I'm in a groove at the moment, or 2-handing a Halberd as a Temple Knight is a good way to go... because I defeated Vanguard without taking a hit. That gave me some nice bonus items (including 3 hardstone shards to upgrade my Halberd before the game even...
What Is a VTT? As stated earlier, VTT stands for virtual tabletop, and it could simply be defined as a digital platform that simulates a tabletop for (typically dice-based)RPGs. This means that VTTs need some fundamental elements to be successfully described as VTTs: ...