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ARCADIA 6 Table of Contents
Hey All,It’s managing editor James here with just a quick update to show off the table of contents from ARCADIA 6, which is coming later this month. It may be a couple weeks before it gets here, but we can bask in the hype now!The Grim Accord by Michael E. Shea gives you four evil adventurer NPCs ...
ARCADIA 5 Community Creations
Hey MCDM Patrons,James Introcaso here to tell you all about the ARCADIA 5-inspired community creations floating out there on our subreddit. There are some really great makers out there in the MCDM community.ARCADIA 5 CreationsLet’s kick it off with KlayBersk’s Siege Spire, a new vehicle inspired...
ARCADIA 5 Q&A
Hello MCDM patrons,James Introcaso here with a quick update to let you know that our ARCADIA 5 creator Q&A is now up on YouTube. If you aren’t familiar with our creator Q&As, it’s a livestreamed interview show where Matt and I chat with the authors, editors, and artists that make the stuff in AR...
ARCADIA 5!
Hey, hey, amazing patrons!It’s James Introcaso, here to bring you the bold and beautiful ARCADIA 5. Check out that cover by Sean Andrew Murray. The level of detail blows my mind! All of Sean’s work is incredibly evocative, and you should peruse this artist’s portfolio to get a lot of inspirati...
ARCADIA 5 Table of Contents
Hey MCDM Patrons,James Introcaso here to show off the table of contents for ARCADIA 5! This issue will be out before the end of June and is currently being laid out. Here’s what’s inside:Leon Barillaro, who wrote ARCADIA 1’s “Workshop Watches,” is back with “Long-Term Curses.” These si...
ARCADIA 4!
Hello, incredible patrons!James Introcaso here to hand you a heaping helping of ARCADIA 4. Its beautiful fallen angel cover was created by MCDM’s own in-house artist, Grace Cheung. I’m beyond lucky to work with the art team here at MCDM, which includes Grace’s amazing talents. You may remember...
ARCADIA Patron Downloads
Hi everyone!Attached to this post you'll find the PDFs for all the released issues of ARCADIA. We'll continue to update this post as new issues are published so you can quickly and easily re-download them.You may also find this excellent ARCADIA Index created by community member Reuben Hung ...
Previous Issues of ARCADIA are now on Patreon!
Hi everyone, Anna here! I've got some cool news to share with you regarding accessing back-issues of ARCADIA :DSo! We've been digging through the results of the patron survey we sent out a few weeks ago and there's been a lot of follow-up discussions with the team about how we wanna chan...
Illrigger Community Creations and Reviews
Hey MCDM Patrons,James Introcaso here! Let’s go to Hell. The Illrigger has been out for a couple weeks now, and the internet is already exploding with cool stuff.Community CreationsFirst, I want to tell you all about the cool stuff the illrigger inspired our community to make and share on our subr...
ARCADIA 3 Community Creations
Hey MCDM Patrons,James Introcaso here again to tell you all about the cool stuff ARCADIA inspires our community to make and share on our subreddit. If you want to talk about these creations, head on over to the subreddit or go have a chat with the cool folks in the MDCM Discord!ARCADIA 3 is out, but...
THE ILLRIGGER
Double, double, toil and trouble...Two years have passed since we signed our own deal with the devil to undertake a most unholy task.We've scoured the depths of hell and sacrificed the last withering shred of our humanity to bring unto you a new Class of evil—the likes of which only MCDM could...
Arcadia Survey
Hey Awesome MCDM Patrons,It’s James Introcaso again! We want to know what you think about ARCADIA, so we put together a survey about the first three issues and beyond. Your responses will help us plan future issues and deliver dope, actionable content.If you only do the required questions, it shou...
ARCADIA 3!
Hey all! It’s James Introcaso, coming at you with ARCADIA 3! Look at that angel cover art by Justin Gerard! The four articles in this issue:The Dream Kin by Justice Arman with art from Ilse Gort. Introducing three new player ancestries that are literally the stuff of dreams: Lucidlings: Aberration...
Preview: Arcadia 3 Table of Contents
Hey MCDM Patrons,It’s James Introcaso, back with a preview of ARCADIA 3! Let’s take a look at the table of contents and get hyped for the next issue, which drops later this month. We’ve got four articles packed with ready-to-play content inside:Justice Arman brings you three new player ancestr...
Arcadia 2 Community Creations
Hey MCDM patrons!It’s James Introcaso, your ARCADIA Managing Editor and MCDM’s RPG Line Developer, back with another heaping helping of community content inspired by ARCADIA Issue #2. I really enjoy reading the discussions on Patreon, in the MDCM Discord, and on our subreddit. If you want more A...
ARCADIA 2!
Hey all! It’s James Introcaso, here to let you know that ARCADIA Issue #2 is here (with cover art by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe)! The three articles in this issue are:Subclasses of the Seasons by Joshua Mendenhall. Make every part of the year epic with four season-themed spellcasting subclasses: the...
Running The Game #95: Engaging Your Players
Hey everybody! One of the things we use this Patreon for is giving folks a preview of the upcoming Running the Game video. Each video starts with a script I read off a teleprompter set up and recorded by Jerry!If you are here for Arcadia, you may get use out of these scripts. This new one is about o...
Arcadia 2 Table of Contents!
Hey MCDM Patrons,It’s James Introcaso again, here to drop a sweet, sweet preview of ARCADIA 2. We wanted to share the table of contents from our upcoming issue, which should drop next week. Take a look at the goodness in store!This issue packs in character options, monsters, and adventure ready to...
ARCADIA #1 Community Creations
Hey awesome patrons! It’s James Introcaso, your ARCADIA Managing Editor and MCDM’s RPG Line Developer. Thank you so much for the amazing response to Issue #1. I’m enjoying the conversations folks are having about the content here on Patreon, in the MDCM Discord, and on our subreddit.You’re n...
Designing the Cover for ARCADIA 1
Hey all, Jason here! Our first opportunity to work with Gustavo Pelissari was during our Kingdoms & Warfare Kickstarter campaign. There, we featured two Organization pieces done by Gustavo. Those two images are full of vibrant color and stylized characters, drawn directly from Gustavo's imaginat...
How We Source Articles for ARCADIA
ARCADIA 1 is out and folks are digging it and we are over the moon right now, but it has produced a FLOOD of people asking about where they can send their ideas for articles/ pitches/submissions. So here’s how we do things.We don’t accept submissions. We solicit pitches from established writers ...
Designing the Arcadia Logo
Hey everyone, Lars and Nick here! We want to show you all some of the behind the curtain magic that went into the production of ARCADIA 1. To start, we have some wonderful logo iterations done by everyone's favorite Riojan bard, Töm Schmuck!Our goal was to have ARCADIA’s logo be evocative of ...
Welcome new Patrons!
Holy MOLEY this Patreon is suddenly enormously enormous! Welcome new patrons! We realize you new folks are here for ARCADIA and we are also here for it. :DI just wanted to say hi to everyone and let you know we are hugely excited by the influx of new patrons. You are our supporters and we want to ma...
THIS IS ARCADIA!
Some of you first heard about this project during one of our livestreams, but this is the official announcement... ARCADIA is live! The first issue is attached to this post and you can download it right now!Our goal was three issues for this first run, with three articles in each issue—but once we...
Running the Game #94: "No."
Hey folks! ARCADIA is coming, hopefully January barring some unforeseen disaster. In the meantime, here's the script for this week's Running the Game! Possibly a controversial video. We'll see! I hope you dig it!
Running the Game Script: The Origin of Executive Power
Hey folks! We just recorded this video, the last in the Politics series. It's largely a rehash of an old livestream. I thought there was a better video in there, so here you go!
Fear is the Mindkiller...
Hey folks! There's an adventure in Kingdoms & Warfare, the finale of which is part of the ongoing playtest. That testing is going pretty well right now, though it's still very early.For that finale, we needed a new monster and so Jason and I got together with freelancer James Introcaso and o...
The one-on-one D&D script.
Almost every time I’ve run D&D for a single player, just me and one player, that player later said “That was the most fun I’ve had in D&D.”In fact the very first D&D stream I ever did, which is around here somewhere on YouTube, was a 1:1 session, just me and my friend Gertz back when we were...
Running the Game #87: Multiple Fail States
Hey folks! Recording a new RtG today, so here's the script! Exclusive to patrons!https://docs.google.com/document/d/15uOEwYu-qTkb4W4lnUzqKj0EeYdW6h3gQBtQwaR8odc/edit?usp=sharing
Running the Game #87 Script: Skill Dogpiling
Hey folks! Worked on a lot of scripts over the break, not all related to D&D, but this one is! :DA simple problem lots of DMs face and what I hope are some straightforward solutions. Skill Dogpiling.https://docs.google.com/document/d/14rxenQRONUyIpuXrfwha75ZK6__zyOUFOfGuluR_1_U/edit?usp=sharing
