Rob Wieland
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Milwaukee, WI, United States
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Use This XP Checklist to Make Your PATHFINDER Character Cooler
Game Master Jason Bulmahn leads a group of five strangers (Gina DeVivo, Jeremy Steven Walker, Aki, Erika Fermina, and Rachel Seeley) who board a caravan heading → Read More
A Beginner’s Guide to PATHFINDER’s 2e Action Economy
Game Master Jason Bulmahn leads a group of five strangers (Gina DeVivo, Jeremy Steven Walker, Aki, Erika Fermina, and Rachel Seeley) who board a caravan heading → Read More
Fill the GAME OF THRONES Void with LEGEND OF THE FIVE RINGS
Game of Thrones was a cultural phenomenon like few other fantasy tales. Regardless of how one might feel about the ending, the show dug its way into pop culture → Read More
Flick Your Way Through Dangerous Dungeons in CATACOMBS
One of the most enduring setups for tabletop gaming is the dungeon crawl. There's something about a small group of wizards, warriors, and rogues kicking up the → Read More
Scan These Great Cyberpunk RPGs
This year's E3 started off with a hell of a bang; more gameplay and story from Cyberpunk 2077, a release date of April 2020 and a cameo from Keanu Reeves that → Read More
5 Things We Love About GHOSTS OF SALTMARSH for D&D
Over the past few weeks, Wizards of the Coast has dropped a bunch of announcements for their upcoming D&D products, including the first book for 2019, Ghosts of Saltmarsh. This nautical themed collection of adventures has been highly anticipated since its announcement in February. We sat down with our copy of the book and bring you our favorite bits of treasure from its pages. Welcome to… → Read More
Program CHANNEL A With This Great Pitch Game
Would you watch an anime called Detective Penguin Panic about three penguins waddling their way through the wreckage of the post-apocalypse? Would you lend your → Read More
Build Your Cleric’s D&D Backstory By Answering These 5 Questions
Players have a lot of decisions to make when they put together a Dungeons & Dragons character. Spell choices, weapon choices and where to put ability scores → Read More
Four Ways To Add Depth To Your D&D Dice Rolls
The game part of "role-playing game" primarily comes when dice hit the table. The story the players and the Dungeon Master are telling has come to the point → Read More
What We Love About The Artificer Class From D&D’s Unearthed Arcana
For those fans of Dungeons & Dragons who want a peek inside the minds of the folks in charge, there's no better place to look than the monthly Unearthed → Read More
Build Your Rogue’s D&D Backstory By Answering These 5 Questions
Players have a lot of decisions to make when they put together a Dungeons & Dragons character. Spell choices, weapon choices and where to put ability scores → Read More
Five Great Changes In The New Edition of SAVAGE WORLDS RPG
We love talking about all the different ways we can pretend to be elves here at Geek & Sundry. Dungeons & Dragons is going through quite the → Read More
The Next D&D 5E Supplement Revealed: GHOSTS OF SALTMARSH
The Dungeons & Dragons team has been coyly hinting at what the next book will be, and have gone so far as to suggest it would have a nautical theme on → Read More
Are You Ready To Sing the SPEAKEASY BLUES?
Prohibition is my favorite era in modern American history. It's a study in the contradictions that hold our country together. Criminals glamorized while cutting → Read More
Build Your Warlock’s D&D Backstory By Answering These 5 Questions
Players have a lot of decisions to make when they put together a Dungeons & Dragons character. Spell choices, weapon choices and where to put ability scores → Read More
Build Your Bard’s D&D Backstory By Answering These 5 Questions
Players have a lot of decisions to make when they put together a Dungeons & Dragons character. Spell choices, weapon choices and where to put ability scores → Read More
Wager on Intrigue and Hidden Information In CURSED COURT
Imagine a decadent gathering of the rich and powerful. It might be the court of Louis XIV who held lavish balls even as the peasants starved, Maybe it's an → Read More
Give (to Charity) A Little And Get A Lot of NUMENERA’s Ninth World On Humble Bundle
A common question from new Game Masters is "Where do I start?" We've answered this question in the past, and a few tabletop gaming companies have banded → Read More
GEN7 Should Be Your Next Big Sci-Fi Binge (In Board Game Form)
Choice is an important part of player engagement in boardgames. Players want to think they are in control even when a game is built to be pure luck. That → Read More
DMs: Use These Treacherous Traps to Protect Your Precious Treasures
Traps are an important part of the Dungeons & Dragons experience. Nearly every group has story about a memorable brush with a trap. It might be about the → Read More