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We're chatting with Lauren of @feminist.reading.list, one of the founding hosts of our monthly virtual Goblin Book Club! Hey Lauren! Tell us about yourself! Hi! I’m Lauren (she/her), I’m really loving getting to collab with the Goblin crew on book club and some other projects. I a big bookworm and read mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and [...]

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Your kid is asking you about getting started with Dungeons & Dragons. Maybe they’ve heard some folks talking about it, their friends are starting to play D&D or they saw some folks playing in a gaming store. Whatever the reason, they’re interested in giving it a try. Great! Except for the fact that you don’t […]

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The Premise: Making monsters can seem like a daunting task, especially if you’re not sure where to begin. In this six-part series, I’m going to describe some of my techniques and hopefully give you a framework that you can then use to design your own monsters in your own worlds! We’re going to assume you’ve […]

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Forty pages of dungeons! One-page-dungeon compendium! Imagine the infomercial: “Do you want to play Dungeons & Dragons but never have time to prepare?” There’s probably a black-and-white video of a disheveled man sitting at a kitchen table frantically scribbling in a few notebooks. He picks up some dice, but fumbles with them and they all [...]

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Possibly the simplest way to get your child interested in Dungeons and Dragons Compared to some earlier editions, Fifth Edition lowered the Dungeons & Dragons barrier to entry tremendously and made the game far more accessible to newer players. But Wizards of the Coast and writers, Jim Zub, Stacy King, and Andrew Wheeler asked: Can […]

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Editor’s note: This is part of a series exploring cool, weird, or just plain interesting Dungeons and Dragons monsters from both Wizards of the Coast and third-party publishers such as Kobold Press. Name: Giant Shark Bowl Ooze Source: Creature Codex, Published 2018 by Kobold Press, MSRP $49.99 What it does: This thing rolls around in […]

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Editor’s note: This is part of a series exploring cool, weird, or just plain interesting Dungeons and Dragons monsters from both Wizards of the Coast and third-party publishers such as Kobold Press. Name: Jinmenju Source: Creature Codex, Published 2018 by Kobold Press, MSRP $49.99 What it does: The Jinmenju is indeed a deadly dendritic. A […]

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Editor’s note: This is part of a series exploring cool, weird, or just plain interesting Dungeons and Dragons monsters from both Wizards of the Coast and third-party publishers such as Kobold Press. Name: Foxin Source: Creature Codex, Published 2018 by Kobold Press, MSRP $49.99 What it does: The Foxin’s fey-induced aura radiates a feeling of […]

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Editor’s note: This is part of a series exploring cool, weird, or just plain interesting Dungeons and Dragons monsters from both Wizards of the Coast and third-party publishers such as Kobold Press. Name: Keg Golem Source: Creature Codex, Published 2018 by Kobold Press, MSRP $49.99 What it does: The Keg Golem follows the proud tradition […]

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Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series exploring cool, weird, or just plain interesting Dungeons and Dragons monsters from both Wizards of the Coast and third-party publishers such as Kobold Press. This week we’re diving back into Kobold’s “Creature Codex.” Name: Bathhouse Drake Source: Creature Codex, Published 2018 by Kobold Press, MSRP $49.99 […]

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