announcements
Demons & Daughters: The Queer, Regency-Era DND Show Mixing Buffy With Bridgerton
Meet the DND actual play group bringing historical female rage to the table.
announcements
Celebrate DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Golden Anniversary at Gen Con 2024
How to Be the First Fans to Crack Open the New Player’s Handbook, Grab USPS Stamps
announcements
Murders at Lorelahc Manor: 5e Mysteries at the Masquerade
Your blackmailer is missing at the masquerade and her husband is found violently murdered. With only 24 hours until your secrets are released, it's a race against time to find her and the killer before more dead guests ruin the party.
announcements
Gothic 5e Location Guide, Mausoleum, Launches on Kickstarter!
Kickstarter campaign for Crow and Crown’s Mausoleum, a Gothic 5e Location Guide Fully Funded on First Day
tabletop
At 50 years old, Dungeons & Dragons is an artifact
Wizards of the Coast is intent on self-mythologizing D&D on its 50th anniversary. Historians aren’t going to let them go unchallenged.
tabletop
Unfortunately, I was right about D&D’s digital future
Wizards of the Coast adopts a miserly version of preorder bonuses for its landmark book release.
announcements
Arcane Quill Publishing's New 5E Adventure Bundle!
In need of new material for your campaign? Need a one-shot for a convention? Arcane Quill Publishing has you covered with this bundle of three self-contained adventures for 5th edition at 20% off each!
tabletop
Dungeons & Dragons’ new art direction isn’t AI generated but almost worse—boring
Characters, without character.
actual play
Buzzfeed’s first actual play blends D&D with Saturday Morning Cartoons
Magic & Stuff is an all-queer, all-femme animated twist on a classic AP format
announcements
Amateur Australian Antics front-and-center in the Down Under Dungeon Podcast
We believe the true staying-power of any story is staying authentic and genuine. Adopting the logic of Field of Dreams – if you build a space for people, they will come!
tabletop
The Glup Shitto-fication of Dungeons & Dragons
The new covers for D&D’s 2024 sourcebooks promise a future yoked to brand promotion.
announcements
Run D&D for 100+ Players at a Time with this Free Kit
This free, all-in-one resource provides everything needed for presenters to run an engaging introductory 5th edition D&D encounter for audiences of virtually any size.
excerpt
Combat in Dungeons & Dragons
A short history of design trajectories.
excerpt
Hack the orcs, loot the tomb, and take the land
Reflections on settler colonialism, Indigeneity, and otherwise possibilities in "Dungeons & Dragons."
culture
The OGL is dead. Long live the OGL.
This ain’t a victory lap, it’s a cautionary tale.
culture
Letters from The Twenty-Sided Tavern
Linda and Rowan LARP as theater critics for a tame night of misadventure and not nearly enough mayhem to make it worth traveling into Times Square.