D&D Dungeons & Dragons: Acquisitions Incorporated (EN)

Welcome to Acquisitions Incorporated, the loudest, most chaotic retrieval franchise in the Forgotten Realms. Born from a D&D podcast launched in 2008 by the creators of the webcomic Penny Arcade, then popularized through live games on the PAX festival stage, the series invites you to pull up a chair alongside Omin Dran, CEO of the company, Jim Darkmagic, Môrgæn, and Viari, always ready to improvise a bit perched on a chandelier.

This sourcebook gives you everything you need to start your own Acquisitions Inc franchise, whether in the Forgotten Realms or anywhere else in the multiverse: a brand-new playable race, the Verdan, five new backgrounds, twenty-four unique magic items, and seven spells tied to the company's world. Eight corporate roles - cartographer, decisionist, documancer, hoardsperson, loremonger, obviator, occultant, and secretarian - let you climb the ranks from 1 to 4, through absurd paperwork and performance bonuses. The Dungeon Master also gets about forty ready-to-use new monsters, from deep crows to fearsome keg robots, plus the full history behind the founding of Acquisitions Inc.

It all builds toward Orrery of the Wanderer, a complete adventure that takes your group from level 1 to level 6, designed to slot directly into an ongoing campaign or to launch a brand-new, ambitious office crew.

You will likely enjoy Acquisitions Incorporated if you want to bring a more comedic, corporate tone to your D&D games, if the idea of juggling dungeon combat with office politics makes you grin, and if you want to hand your group a new playable race and a stack of unique magic items without waiting for a whole new campaign setting.

Fun fact: upon its release on June 18, 2019, this sourcebook became the first third-party intellectual property to become official canon within 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons. The franchise itself dates back to 2008, starting as a podcast for 4th edition, before moving to live games on the PAX festival stage starting in 2010, then switching to 5th edition and the Forgotten Realms in 2012.

Acquisitions Incorporated was born from the mind of Jerry Holkins, co-creator of the webcomic Penny Arcade and Dungeon Master of the original series; he wrote this sourcebook alongside Teos Abadia, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, and Shawn Merwin. The book is published by Wizards of the Coast.

The Player's Handbook and the Dungeon Master's Guide for Dungeons & Dragons 5e remain the core references for building characters and running the Orrery of the Wanderer adventure at your table.

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Character Levels: 1 to 6 (Orrery of the Wanderer adventure)
Game System: Dungeons & Dragons, 5th edition