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You have to love it when two things you really enjoy mesh together perfectly. In this case, those two things are”D&D” and “getting stuff for free.”

Sometimes you want to do more than just stand around and let your armor take the hits in combat. Can the newest edition of D&D accommodate active defenses? 4E created an elegant mechanic that allowed active defenses to be used easily, and that’s something I don’t want to see lost.

There’s a lot of back and forth on the question of damage resistance and the role of magic weapons in D&D. Many players are opposed to the antiquated +1 or better to hit mechanic. How can the damage rules provide an underlying mechanical skeleton that describes the physics of the game world without bogging the [...]

Whether you’re playing in a forum or email campaign and want to track your Pathfinder character online, or just prefer a clear, easy to use character sheet to run on your laptop at the game table, DPS 2.0 will do the trick.

What would an RPG character from a modern background look like in a traditional fantasy RPG campaign? Super Genius Games takes a stab at answering that question with the investigator class and three archetypes.

Paizo has packaged the basic rules for the Pathfinder RPG into an easy to use box that comes with everything a D&D newbie needs to play. We took it for a serious test drive to find out how well it introduces game concepts, how fun it is to play and if the introductory adventure works [...]

Open Design’s Divine Favor series of Pathfinder supplements serves as a set of player’s option books and optimization guides for paladins, clerics, druids and oracles. They’re fairly straightforward splatbooks with some cool ideas and a few powerful feats and spells that DMs may have to keep an eye on for balance purposes (and if there [...]

With a compelling Pathfinder adventure called The Gift, Rite Publishing begins an ambitious three-part series called Curse of the Golden Spear. Filled with tales and creatures from Japanese folklore, this campaign carries players to land wracked by angry spirits, where death is never truly the end.

A city is a hard place, a lean place full of lean men and women all looking for the next big score, or maybe just the next meal. Open Design’s Streets of Zobeck by Ben McFarland provides a perfect passage to a gritty urban fantasy setting for the Pathfinder RPG system.

Not every useful magic item is going to be legal in every fantasy RPG city. So where do player characters buy outlawed artifacts? Probably from Krazy Kragnar’s Black Market Magic Items!

1st-level Pathfinder characters are already the masters of a considerable range of skills and knowledge. The Genius Guide to Apprentice-Level Characters shows you what those characters knew before they hit first level.

We have established two basic facts: Kobold Quarterly is awesome, and getting things for free is awesome. As everyone knows, awesome + awesome = double awesome!

In a fantasy RPG world you are often only as good as your magic items, and getting some magic defenses is often a PC’s first order of business. Rite Publishing’s #30 Rings of Defense broadens the options for characters of every level who are looking for their own One True Ring, or at least One [...]

The title Strategists & Tacticians seems to cover an awful lot of ground, so you’d think it would be fairly easy to fit the contents under that broad umbrella. While this Pathfinder sourcebook from 4 Winds offers a lot of interesting ideas, it isn’t quite as focused as it could have been.