Though it’s 10 years old, Lost Mine of Phandelver is still a great way to start a D&D 5E campaign

Most of the introductory adventures written to ease new players into Dungeons & Dragons over the years have been pretty rough. They’re often just dungeon crawls, which might teach you the rules for combat and disarming traps, but don’t bother demonstrating what’s actually exciting about roleplaying games. Which is the roleplaying. Even when beginner modules…

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Steam has died its final death on Windows 7 and 8: Nearly a year after Valve ended support, new Steam updates will no longer function on the ancient OSes

If you were still gaming on Windows 7 or 8 in 2024, almost two years after Microsoft itself abandoned its own children, it’s definitely time for an upgrade: Steam’s most recent client update is the first to not work on the old OSes, more than 11 months after Valve announced it would stop supporting them….

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