A Team Of Role-Players Is Transforming Destiny Into A D&D Game
A group of intrepid Dungeon Masters are building a Dungeons & Dragons campaign based on the world of Destiny, a sci-fi…
I DMed In D&D For The First Time And Now It's All I Can Think About
What’s it like playing a Dungeon Master for the first time ever? On this week’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, let’s…
Custom D&D Character Sheets Are A Critical Hit
Cartoonist and self-described Dungeons & Dragons nerd Luke Howard hand-crafted a convincing argument in favor of…
What It Was Like To Play D&D For The First Time
I recently played Dungeons & Dragons for the first time ever, and it sure was fun. We talk about that and much more on…
D&D's Upcoming Adventure Will Showcase Its Grossest Monster
Sometimes, people create horrible and unconscionable things all in the name of fantasy.
I Played D&D With Two DMs And It Was Awesome
When members of our Dungeons and Dragons group have a birthday, we play a one-off game in their system of choice,…
How To Choose Your D&D Character Class
“What Dungeons and Dragons class should I play?” is the kind of question you could answer with a cursory quiz, but that…
Goblin Fights In D&D Are The Worst
For four decades, players have dutifully sacrificed a large portion of their Dungeons & Dragons games to take turns…
D&D Player Mods Hundreds Of Monsters Into Playable Characters
Your bread-and-butter Dungeons & Dragons party won’t include a manticore, a gargoyle, a hyena or a sentient fungi, but…
How To Cook In Dungeons & Dragons
A few months ago, I proposed a wild idea: Dungeons & Dragons—except you cook what you kill. After a little tinkering,…
The first major expansion to D&D’s 5th edition, Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, is out today. It’s full of new…
Dungeons & Dragons Stumbles With Its Revision Of The Game's Major Black Culture
For nearly a decade, there hasn’t been more than a vestige of a black society in the official world of Dungeons &…
The Most Popular D&D Races And Classes
Decades of D&D fans repeating the old adage “Friends don’t let friends play half-orcs” may have had some tangible…
Fantasy Version Of Betrayal At House On The Hill Is Still Fun Without The Haunted Mansion
Last week, Wizards of the Coast reimagined their classic horror game Betrayal at House on the Hill in a Dungeons &…
I Tried Remaking My D&D Adventure In Divinity: Original Sin 2, And It (Mostly) Worked
Divinity: Original Sin 2 has a mode that lets players design their own Dungeons & Dragons-esque adventure inside the…
Here Are D&D's New Official Dinosaur Racing Rules
Dungeons & Dragons’ selling point is that is lets players be and do things they’ve always dreamed of. Dinosaur racing…
Stay With Me Here: Dungeons & Dragons, Except You Cook What You Kill
So, uh, I’ve been pretty fixated on the idea of a dungeon-crawl-slash-cooking show—a Dungeons & Dragons game where you…
Dungeons & Dragons Promises To Make Its Adventures More Queer
As we sat together at Gen Con in Indianapolis this weekend talking Dungeons & Dragons, the game’s lead rules developer…
D&D Rules Developer's 9 Insider Hacks For Players and DMs
Dungeons & Dragons’ lead rules designer Jeremy Crawford has a tough job. To keep the game in top form, he’s got to make…
Inside The Hilarious Variety Show That Killed 175 Level 1 D&D Characters
A bloodthirsty janitor, Colonel Mustard, Death, a God-fearing cleric and a dabbing teen had one thing in common at Gen…