D&D’s Revised Player’s Handbook ‘will be the biggest Player’s Handbook that D&D has ever had’, and like all the Revised core books will be compatible with the current edition

At this year’s PAX Unplugged—a special edition of PAX dedicated to tabletop games—Wizards of the Coast’s designers presented a panel celebrating the upcoming 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. At the end of that panel they looked ahead to 2024 and the upcoming Revised editions of the core rulebooks, previously codenamed OneD&D. The focus was…

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There’s a change buried in Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest patch that makes it easier than ever to recruit both of its mutually exclusive companions⁠—without breaking the game

Deep in Baldur’s Gate 3’s mammoth patch notes for its fifth main update is a whammy of a line: “Minthara will still appear in Moonrise Towers if she was knocked out in Act 1.” That’s right⁠, it’s now easier than ever to recruit Baldur’s Gate 3’s “evil” companion without committing to an evil playthrough. Spoilers…

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The Finals is getting blasted on Steam for slowing the game down, except the developer says it didn’t change speeds at all

The Finals, the highly-destructible FPS from ex-Battlefield devs, surprise launched at The Game Awards last night. The shooter had just recently ended a very successful open beta that attracted hundreds of thousands of players, but many (myself included) wondered if Embark Studios still planned to get the game out before the end of 2023. Now…

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