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Episode Introduction We’re joined by guest Noah Downs (he’s a lawyer, but he’s a cool lawyer) to talk about OGLs and SRDs, the alphabet soups of publishing tabletop role-playing game content. Noah tells us about how Wizards of the Coast’s Open Gaming License works and how you can use the Fifth Edition System Reference Document [...]

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Super MAGFest 2022 JANUARY 6-9, 2022 – NATIONAL HARBOR, MD https://super.magfest.org/ Join Goblins and Growlers and Quid Pro Roll as we *finally* descend once again on National Harbor, MD for our third year as MAGFest panelists! It's been a while, but we're glad to be back. 🥰🥰🥰 Help! My Tabletop RPG is on Fire! Thursday, [...]

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Hey, Goblins. We have some hot spy action this week! Josh and Brandon enter a world of espionage, intrigue, and dice-rolling, with Victory Games’ 1980s TTRPG “Role Playing in Her Majesty’s Secret Service." Contents A brief news item about Wizards of the Coast rebooting and retconning in their latest Errata to eliminate more insensitive portrayals [...]

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In This Episode What kind of settings do you enjoy more? Heavy magic, low magic, or a more realistic milieu with near-zero casting? This episode we discuss merits and preferences on the level of magic in a gaming setting. Just a freewheeling discussion about magic levels. We also quickly touch base on a new release [...]

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Hey all you Goblins out there, People have been asking us a lot about when we are returning to the massive, local business supporting, community building in person TTRPG gaming experiences that made Goblins and Growlers synonymous with D&D in RVA. We've been asking ourselves when to return to in person games a lot too. [...]

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Editor's Note: This is something fun we've been doing in the Discord's Quid Pro Roll channel (bit.ly/goblindiscord). We thought it'd be fun to publish them as a series on Patreon and the blog for the next few weeks. Enjoy, and thanks, Whitney, for letting us use these! Okay, first of all while I was shuffling, [...]

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SEPTEMBER 2-6, 2021 in Atlanta, GA It's the second year in a row that Alain, Josh, and Gabe will be panelists at Dragon Con, and this year, they'll also be joined by Alex of Alpha Comics and Games! Check out the schedule below to find where you can catch them as panelists, either at the [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is something fun we’ve been doing in the Discord’s Quid Pro Roll channel (bit.ly/goblindiscord). We thought it’d be fun to publish them as a series on Patreon and the blog for the next few weeks. Enjoy, and thanks, Whitney, for letting us use these!   Now, don't worry about cards being inverted. [...]

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Editor's Note: This is something fun we've been doing in the Discord's Quid Pro Roll channel (bit.ly/goblindiscord). We thought it'd be fun to publish them as a series on Patreon and the blog for the next few weeks. Enjoy, and thanks, Whitney, for letting us use these! 1) Nine of Cups (Inverted) Okay, so Cups [...]

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We celebrated capping our long running 2020 Mörk Borg campaign with an interview with the Artist and Designer behind the Award Winning Indie TTRPG, Johan Nohr. The campaign, which raised thousands of dollars for food banks, covid relief charities and civil right's bail funds, was run by professional cosplayer, Artist & Photographer, @TheVikingMedia and cast [...]

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