The Magus class for D&D 2024 (5.5e) lands on D&D Beyond on 29 September 2026. It is a sword-and-spell class from Sterling Vermin: 22 pages, one class, six subclasses and 31 spells, already sold as a $15 PDF on the publisher's own store. On D&D Beyond it is partnered content, so it plugs straight into the character builder. Rohan read…
A cloaked figure stands alone on still water under a full moon. Nobody is fighting yet. Everything is about to happen. Every table knows the scene that follows. The dragon lands, the party stands its ground, and one player picks up the d20 while everyone else stops breathing. We showed that picture, a green dragon over a party of four,…
In the 2014 rules, exhaustion was a ladder of six different punishments. Level 1 gave you Disadvantage on ability checks. Level 4 halved your Hit Point maximum. Level 5 set your Speed to 0. Nobody remembered which rung did what, so most tables looked it up every time, or quietly never used it. The 2024 rules replace the ladder with…
Obojima: Tales from Yatamon arrives on D&D Beyond on 27 October 2026. It is the second Obojima book from 1985 Games: a 160-page supplement for the 2024 rules (5.5e) set in Yatamon, the island's biggest city, with three new subclasses including the Neko Duelist Fighter. The hardcover is on pre-order and ships in December 2026. James has wanted to play…
Look at the picture at the top of this page. It is a dragon, or a hand's width of one. Every scale is the size of a shield, every crack as long as your arm, and you can't see where it ends. That is how a Gargantuan dragon looks from the ground. You don't see the monster. You see its…
In the 2014 rules a greatsword and a maul were the same weapon with different paint: 2d6 damage, Heavy, Two-Handed. In the 2024 rules they play differently. The greatsword Grazes: it hurts even when it misses. The maul Topples: it knocks the target flat. That difference is weapon mastery, the biggest change the 2024 Player's Handbook made to martial characters,…
D&D: World of Warcraft releases on 17 November 2026, with Master Tier early access on D&D Beyond from 3 November. It is a gameplay expansion: rules for all 13 World of Warcraft classes, 16 playable species, seven dungeons rebuilt for the table, and 20-plus factions with renown rewards. Pre-orders are open now. That is the announced part. Everything below comes…
A green dragon bursts out of the waterfall with its mouth open. Nobody at the table needs the stat block read out. You know what it is, you know what it wants, and you know how you feel about it. That is the gift of dragons: they are obvious. The game is named for them. They are the one monster…
A coin has two sides and one job: be fair. It is not quite fair. A person flipping a coin by thumb lands it on the side it started on about 51% of the time [1][2]. That one percent is where this post lives. Chance is the maths of what the dice do. Luck is the story we tell about…
A friend who has never played asked whether a D&D turn is like blackjack: learnable rules, so you never freeze when the table looks at you. It is. Both games compress to one law each. Blackjack: "the dealer has no choices, so play off what their up-card threatens." D&D: "actions are the currency, so spend yours to take away theirs."…
