new games
Looters reframes treasure and dungeon crawling as class conflict
Mordite Press’s newest game is more than just an anti–D&D.
features
D&D’s Gen Con keynote promises a great return from parts undefined
All gas, no rearview mirrors.
features
Twenty years and two editions later, Heroes of Horror still offers scary good advice
From campaign advice to corruption, D&D 3.5e’s ghoulish guide was anything but a throwaway supplement.
announcements
Stack Your Conditions, Not Your Confusion: New DnD Condition Rings by Wasted Wizard Games
A new set of stackable condition rings designed to make tracking effects in Dungeons & Dragons faster and clearer.
tabletop
Concerning Ravenloft - the original horror adventure module
Him, Strahd.
culture
Dungeons & Dragons has disappeared
Out on the town having the time of my life with D&D. It’s just out of frame, laughing, too.
announcements
Azara’s Fist Debuts as a Level 20 Actual Play Podcast, Putting Epic Power Front and Center
A new series from Amateurish Productions explores endgame D&D play from the start.
tabletop
Dungeons & Dragons 2024 is now officially D&D 5.5e, still isn’t a new edition
RIP D&D 5.52024OneE
tabletop
Wizards of the Coast set to rebuild D&D Beyond, add more features
The team is also promising more open communication with users.
culture
Double teamed by Goth Mommy and TOOL at The Game Awards: A personal tragedy
WARLOCK isn’t just Wizards of the Coast’s newest video game project, it’s also my lesbian kryptonite.
culture
The Other Satanic Panics
How RPGs become scapegoats for murders across the world.
tabletop
Sigil suffered a slow, ignoble death
After an unsteady development process, D&DBeyond’s immersive virtual tabletop will shut down in 2026.
culture
Palace of the Silver Princess: How TSR Recalled and Buried A D&D Adventure
An excerpt from Designers & Dragons: Origins
culture
Wizards of the Coast’s president remains a diehard video game executive
Hight guy for the job.
tabletop
I review every TSR D&D Starter Set from the ‘90s
There were seven of them! Seven!
tabletop
The Man Who Bought And Sold D&D
Peter Adkison on the ups and downs of running Wizards of the Coast in the ‘90s.