Dungeons & Dragons

Why streamlining is just good rules design

Seeing Clash of the Titans with my grandparents at age eight sparked my love for Greek mythology. This week, I look back at how the 1981 film's stop-motion monsters and meddlesome gods influenced my early days running TTRPGs.

Underground adventure for all!

Steve Jackson Games and Lynnvander Studios team-up to bring the Munchkin Card Game to Roleplaying Game Nights with a new Munchkin 5.5e RPG.

Overnight success takes time.

Dungeons & Dragons: Long Rest Tavern, a cozy inn keeping PC game coming in 2027.

Let the Styx take you along an epic river cruise through the worlds of the Labyrinth.

HBO's Baldurs Gate TV drama in the works, but Netflix Forgotten Realms series cancelled.

Forget standard knights and princesses; my first lesson in epic tabletop quests came from Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. It remains a great, non-Eurocentric template for high adventure.

One of the games that help popularise Dungeons & Dragons as a cooperative dungeon-crawling board game is returning to tabletops.

Celtic history and myth collide in this world guide from the ENNIE-award nominated Avallen series.

There are Dungeon Master Screens, and then there is the Dungeons & Dragons Replicas of the Realms: Castle Ravenloft DM Screen...

Sometimes the best tabletop inspiration comes from unexpected places, like how a 1986 movie about a medieval monk-detective became my ultimate comfort film and the spark for a truly memorable AD&D adventure.

Fans got their first chance to learn more, and see a gameplay demo, of Invoke Studios forthcoming Dungeons & Dragons computer game.

Cats of Ulthar presents the Dreamlands of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos as a sandbox-style campaign for D&D 5E.

Turning Japanese.

Lets revisit the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and explore how its quirky, neo-pulp style can inspire your TTRPG game.

Fanzines were the blogs of the 1980s.

The official release of the Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft Gameplay Expansion and support material is only around the corner in November. But what is actually being released?

A Solo Adventure in the Defiant North for Dungeons & Dragons or Shadowdark