D&D Miniature Championships
May, June, July, 2005
Various Locations

Balticon
May 27 to 30, 2005
Wyndham Inner Harbor Hotel
Baltimore, MD

Encontro Internacional 2005
June 3 to 5, 2005
Mart Center
So Paulo, SP
Brazil 

    Out this Month
Heroes of Battle provides
everything one needs to know to
play a battle-oriented D&D campaign. You can build military characters with new feats, spells,
uses for traditional spells, and prestige classes. Information is
given on tools specific to the battlefield, including siege
engines, weapons, magic items, steeds, and other exotic mounts.

    Out next Month

The Dungeon Masters Guide II builds upon existing materials in
the Dungeon Masters Guide.

Chapters include discussion on running a game, designing adventures, building and using prestige classes, and creating campaign settings. Ready-made game elements include instant
traps, pre-generated locations, treasures, and a fully realized and rendered town.

The RPGA runs organized play programs for Dungeons & Dragons and a number of d20 System games. Somewhere there is a program suited to your style of play.

With a number of choices comes the possibility of utter confusion. To help minimize the latter, lets go over the different campaigns to give you an idea of what you might like to order for your first event. A good play experience can get your local group hooked on RPGA play, while a bad experience or bad expectations can sour them quickly and they may move on to other things. So when you survey the options, keep your local game audience in mind.

Dungeons & Dragons Campaigns
The newest member to the RPGA family is the D&D Campaigns. Like the Living Campaigns (see below), D&D Campaigns are campaign-style games. This means that you create your own character for the game, and continue to play that character in all of the corresponding adventures. You can play those adventures at home or at larger shows and with anyone else who wants to play in the game. Over the course of your adventures, you are bound to have many table DMs, each with their own twist on the game.   MORE

Digger's Union Revealed
by Stephen Radney-MacFarland

As RPGA players and DMs begin exploring the Eberron setting via the Mark of Heroes campaign, many of you have written and asked about the history and structure of the Diggers Union, the organization that all Mark of Heroes characters belong to. This is the first in a series of articles detailing the structure and history of the organization.