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Monopoly maker exec imagines a future where board games sport “AI-driven game mechanics”
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SAG-AFTRA strike won’t affect Critical Role, D20 but raises question over RPG shows' part in labour movements
The largest names in tabletop actual play voice support for workers’ rights even if their shows aren’t immediately affected.
News
Critical Role announces return to UK for Mighty Nein reunion show and MCM London
The actual play stars’ first international show reconvenes fan-favourite characters one more time.
Opinion
D&D 5E's worst subclass has finally got a fix in One D&D
This much-maligned Monk subclass might finally be worth playing.
News
D&D video game Baldur’s Gate 3 re-rolls initiative, moves PC release date forward a month
PlayStation and Xbox players will have to wait a while longer, though.
Best Games
10 best D&D character creators
Spark inspiration and get roleplaying quickly with these character creation tools.
News
War of the Ring: The Card Game maker expands its RPG footprint with indie book Fantasy World
Powered by the genre-specific Apocalypse.
News
Surgery scars, stretch marks added to Hero Forge’s digital miniature maker
“Scars are stories of survival,” the company says.
News
Root creator Cole Wehrle, indigenous RPG Coyote & Crow among finalists for 2023 Diana Jones Award
The pyramid-shaped award for “excellence in gaming” also includes a journalist for the first time.
Deals
D&D starter kit and Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion amongst buy two, get one free sale on board games, RPGs
Online sale at Target and Amazon include a wealth of great tabletop titles.
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Dungeons & Dragons lead designer says 2024 rulebooks will “prepare the game for its next decade”
D&D's publisher wants to see 5th Edition learn to drive and buy its first beer.
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Pathfinder maker’s Open RPG Creative Licence enters final draft and feedback period
This is your last chance to submit corrections and comments before the licence heads to the US Library of Congress.
Feature
Candela Obscura’s first mystery will be solving the horror RPG’s identity crisis
The first new tabletop RPG from Critical Role feels more like Diet Blades with a splash of Vaesen.
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Pathfinder ejects Drow from official lore, says too “deeply enmeshed” in D&D identity
Golarion’s Darklands will trade spider-worshipping elves for snake people.
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Dungeons & Dragons tosses out One D&D label but struggles to define next chapter.
Just don't call it 6th Edition.
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Don’t miss your chance to win $130 worth of premium RPG dice by watching us play D&D live at MCM Comic Con London!
We’ve got $800 worth of accessories to give away thanks to Misty Mountain Gaming.
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Five new D&D books in 2023 will go back to Phandelver and discuss the origins of a notorious deck of cards
All books will be published under the previously announced higher price tag.
News
Tales of the Valiant reimagines 5E roleplay with “cooler spellcasting” and less burden on GMs
Kobold Press’ Project Black Flag sets sail as a fully fledged RPG ruleset.
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Dungeons & Dragons increases price of printed books despite continuous financial success
Higher physical book prices begin later in 2023 while digital editions remain solid, for now.
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Watch us rank everything in Honor Among Thieves and play D&D live at MCM Comic Con London next week!
Catch our actual play series Storybreakers live for the first time.
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Dungeons & Dragons players torn on playtest Druid and Wild Shape because history is cyclical
Unclear if these are the same players who don’t want paladins smiting from across the room.
How To
How to play Dungeons & Dragons 5E for beginners
Everything you need to know to get started with the world's biggest tabletop RPG.
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D&D’s free, 24-hour streaming channel will feature improv, cooking shows and independent creators
Dungeons & Dragons Adventures gives classic cartoons and RPG creators a home on television
Opinion
Is Critical Role’s Campaign 3 the end of Exandria?
Signs point to Campaign 3 being the last, at least with the Critical Role cast we’re used to.
News
D&D created its own “rather desperate” need for more dungeon masters back in 2014
Heavy is the head behind the screen.
News
Mall full of D&D players teamed up to defeat Vecna and set a Guinness World Record
Adventurers retired to a lunch of soft pretzels in the food court.
Opinion
One D&D's new Dungeon Master’s Guide could fix 5E's biggest problem
The new Dungeon Master’s Guide is getting a big reset.
News
D&D’s revised Dungeon Master's Guide aims at new facilitators and Critical Role fans
Chris Perkins admits current book “throws you in the deep end of the pool”.
News
New D&D board game Trials of Tempus is an eight-player arena brawl that rewards more than just violence
Brawl that glitters is gold.
Opinion
The D&D movie skips over Cleric and Monk, but will they feature next time around?
Not every D&D class is in attendance, but that could change with Honor Among Thieves 2.
Feature
The next D&D movie could see the party level up – here’s what to expect
What a little XP could do for Honor Among Thieves’ adventurers
Best Games
6 D&D adventures that should inspire the Honor Among Thieves sequel
Classic modules worthy of the big-screen treatment.
Opinion
5 things Honor Among Thieves gets right about D&D - and 3 it gets wrong
The Dungeons & Dragons movie already looks like a hit, but how faithful is it to 5E?
News
Inspire your next D&D campaign with Vermis, a guidebook to a Dark Souls-like video game that doesn’t exist
Make a saving throw against the Mandela effect.
News
Critical Role’s new space-western podcast, Midst, started as a tabletop RPG setting
No one can hear you yeehaw in space.
News
Our D&D actual play series Storybreakers is now a podcast!
Catch up with the first season in audio form, or experience it for the first time.
News
Minecraft Dungeons & Dragons DLC won’t be usable in player worlds, and that’s a shame
The developer called the tabletop RPG crossover project “bespoke and purpose-built”.
Opinion
Honor Among Thieves owes a lot to this classic D&D adventure
The new D&D movie’s baddies and setting of Neverwinter pay a debt to an underrated Fourth Edition module.
Interview
Why every D&D fan should care about Drizzt Do’Urden, Forgotten Realms hero and one of the most important fantasy characters of all time
Author and D&D expert Michael Witwer on the elf ranger’s long history - and why he deserves a movie.
News
This limited-edition, RPG-inspired pencil is the fanciest way to fill in your D&D character sheet
The Blackwing 20 will cost you $30 for a dozen.
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Vecna “just the beginning” of iconic villains returning for Dungeons & Dragons’ next narrative phase
The popular RPG increasingly looks beyond the tabletop to inspire its official books.
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D&D movie stars played the RPG together before filming Honor Among Thieves
And had a complete blast, by all accounts.
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You’ll be able to playtest D&D’s official virtual tabletop later this year
As Wizards of the Coast shows off more features for its ambitious online platform.
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Minecraft mobs now have official D&D stat blocks - and you can download them for free today
Take on Creepers, Endermen and Ender Dragons.
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Minecraft Dungeons & Dragons DLC adds classes, dice rolls and Forgotten Realms locations in a 10-hour action-RPG campaign
See the Sword Coast and Candlekeep in block form.
News
This D&D monster manual wants to help save real-life animals from extinction
Book of Extinction lets you include animals wiped out by humanity in your RPG campaigns.
How To
D&D classes: Which character class to choose in Dungeons & Dragons 5E
From barbarian to wizard, how to decide what to play.
Opinion
After Honor Among Thieves, the next D&D movie should be all about Strahd - here’s why
The villainous vampire would provide plenty for fans - and film-makers - to sink their teeth into.
News
Classic D&D video games including Spelljammer and Dragonlance are returning to PC for the first time in 25 years
Silver Box and other '80s and '90s games succeed on their death saving throw.
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King Kong and Pacific Rim coming next for D&D 5E compatible adventure project
Mechanics for mayhem with monkeys and mechs.
Best Games
8 best D&D character sheets for every type of player
From new players to seasoned adventurers and everyone in-between, get your next character idea down on paper with these tools.
How To
D&D 5E languages explained: A guide to language in Fifth Edition
Every language you might encounter on your adventures.
Deals
D&D 5E's new heist-themed Keys from the Golden Vault adventure book is already discounted by 30%
Assemble your crew, there's a job to do.
News
Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer revealed as next Dimension 20 DM
Roleplaying royalty collides (again).
Opinion
D&D 5E's biggest problem is the Druid – here's how One D&D can fix it
Underplayed and overcomplicated, but is the Druid playtest going in the right direction?
News
Only half of D&D fans expect the movie to be any good, survey suggests
But they’ll still be going to see it.
News
Project Black Flag’s first crack at a D&D replacement is more retread than reinvention
Kobold Press’ post-OGL efforts feel trapped underneath the shadow of tabletop’s maligned monolith.
News
D&D maker worried more about recession than OGL controversy’s impact on business
Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks is confident the company can recapture angry and upset players.
Opinion
How Legend of Vox Machina turned 170 hours of epic D&D into two seasons of unmissable TV
The animated Critical Role series tells a tighter, character-centric tale in a fraction of the time.
Best Games
6 best Dungeons & Dragons video games you should play before Baldur's Gate 3
Buttons are not how one escapes dungeons!
News
Senior D&D producer says RPG’s execs “lost sight of the impact” OGL debacle would have on community
Wizards of the Coast’s tardy response “was a delay built out of many small, good decisions”, according to Kyle Brink.
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Broken Weave: Inside the D&D 5E tragic fantasy world shaped by Elden Ring, Annihilation and living through a pandemic
“It’s a tale of what comes after everything falls apart.”
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Ruins of Symbaroum releases two new 5th Edition compatible adventure collections
So many new ways to die in the woods.
News
Brennan Lee Mulligan and Aabria Iyengar’s new TRPG podcast finds success well before first episode
Worlds Beyond Number’s Patreon page cracked 16,000 paid followers within the first 48 hours.
News
D&D abandons quest to update OGL after massive negative survey response
Publisher Wizards of the Coast instead puts even more content into the Creative Commons.
Opinion
I wish the Dungeons & Dragons movie had more sincere fantasy than self-aware cringe
Banter is the Bane of modern blockbusters.
News
D&D: Honor Among Thieves’ latest trailer runs the risk of choking on all that tongue-in-cheek
Kitchen table hijinks on a Marvel film budget.
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Roll20, Deadlands and Numenera RPG makers join Pathfinder studio’s open game licence as D&D OGL rival gathers momentum
Over 1,500 publishers have backed the ORC so far, according to Paizo.
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D&D’s latest OGL playtest releases core rules to Creative Commons but deauthorizes past version
The first official pass at D&D’s legal future will still likely upset some fans
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D&D maker apologises for OGL, will publicly playtest future versions of legal document
“Let me start with an apology. We are sorry. We got it wrong.”
News
D&D’s golden age is over due to OGL revolt, says Dark Souls RPG writer
"Once that trust has gone, it's gone forever.”
Opinion
Critical Role's latest twist could set the stage for Campaign 4 and beyond
Some lunar revelations may hint at what comes next.
News
The One Ring studio is the latest RPG publisher to create its own open game licence in wake of D&D OGL turmoil
Free League “intensifies” development of Year Zero Engine and Dragonbane licences in response to Wizards of the Coast’s planned changes.
News
Dungeons & Dragons publisher responds to OGL criticism: “We rolled a 1”
Wizards of the Coast’s first public statement rescinds royalty tiers but leaves many questions unanswered.
News
Pathfinder maker announces its own Open RPG Creative License in response to controversial D&D OGL changes
System-agnostic ORC will ultimately be controlled by a non-profit in order to “irrevocably and unquestionably keep alive the spirit of the Open Game License”.
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Tabletop RPG actual play allstars join forces on Worlds Beyond Number podcast
Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Lou Wilson and Erika Ishi form the core of the first campaign
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D&D maker tightens its grip on third-party RPG books with reported OGL changes
Thousands of creators and fans angered by what’s proposed in the leaked document.
Best Games
4 D&D actual plays you should watch after Critical Role
Discover your next can’t-miss campaign.
News
OneD&D’s open gaming licence will introduce royalties for biggest creators, prevent third-party NFTs
If you make more than $750,000 a year selling D&D creations, Wizards of the Coast wants a piece of that pie.
Best Games
Best Zoom games: 7 great board games you can play remotely over video call
Play together - even when you’re apart.
News
Dungeons & Dragons executives think “the brand is really under monetised”
Wizards of the Coast want to create a “recurrent spending environment” around the popular tabletop RPG’s digital front.
News
Dungeons & Dragons’ digital advent calendar is chock full of Dragonlance monsters
Walrus people are so in right now.
News
Eberron creator returns to the arcanepunk Dungeons & Dragons setting in a new 5E book - and it’s out today
Chronicles of Eberron offers a deeper dive into the science-magic universe.
News
Dungeons & Dragons replaces ‘race’ with ‘species’ in latest playtest material
The move is part of the popular RPG’s “next evolution” away from prejudicial material.
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Reggie Watts, Kate Welch and Sauron’s actor among players in upcoming Lord of the Rings RPG charity event
Stupid, charitable Hobbitses!
Deals
The Dungeons and Dragons Core Rulebook Gift Set is only £82/$86 at Amazon this Black Friday
Such good value a Dragon would hoard it.
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SPONSORED: How well do you know Dungeons & Dragons? Roll for WIS with our quiz!
Test your knowledge of D&D lore, rules and history.
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Dungeons & Dragons implements new cultural review following Spelljammer’s racist inclusions
Cultural consultants will be offered more active and involved roles throughout development timelines.
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A half-elf falls from grace in the first episode of our brand new D&D show, Storybreakers
It's a bard knock life.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves delayed in film release date switch up
Honor's not dead; just slightly off schedule