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The idea of being a Dungeon Master in a tabletop RPG is, understandably, pretty daunting. A table full of people…
Nov 18
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“What Dungeons and Dragons class should I play?” is the kind of question you could answer with a cursory quiz, but…
Aug 8 2019
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The great escapist fantasy of Dungeons & Dragons is that you are not a salaryperson shoveling handfuls of gummy…
Jun 20 2019
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Gardens of Fog is a new D&D module whose adventure has been “designed to turn some stereotypes [about mental illness] on their head”, and where players will “encounter and interact with living representations of anxiety and depression”. Some of the proceeds of its sale go towards the charity Take This.
Jun 13 2019
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Old habits die hard. That still doesn’t mean you should play a half-elf every single time you play Dungeons & Dragons…
May 8 2019
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Yesterday Bethesda released a free promotional tabletop role-playing game module set in Elsweyr, the setting for the…
Jul 30 2018
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A group of intrepid Dungeon Masters are building a Dungeons & Dragons campaign based on the world of Destiny, a…
Jul 22 2018
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What’s it like playing a Dungeon Master for the first time ever? On this week’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, let’s…
Jun 29 2018
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Cartoonist and self-described Dungeons & Dragons nerd Luke Howard hand-crafted a convincing argument in favor of…
May 20 2018
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I recently played Dungeons & Dragons for the first time ever, and it sure was fun. We talk about that and much more…
May 10 2018
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Sometimes, people create horrible and unconscionable things all in the name of fantasy.
Apr 10 2018
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When members of our Dungeons and Dragons group have a birthday, we play a one-off game in their system of choice,…
Jan 22 2018
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For four decades, players have dutifully sacrificed a large portion of their Dungeons & Dragons games to take turns…
Jan 4 2018
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Your bread-and-butter Dungeons & Dragons party won’t include a manticore, a gargoyle, a hyena or a sentient fungi,…
Dec 4 2017
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A few months ago, I proposed a wild idea: Dungeons & Dragons—except you cook what you kill. After a little…
Nov 21 2017
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The first major expansion to D&D’s 5th edition, Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, is out today. It’s full of new subclasses, spells, backstory ideas and tools for Dungeon Masters.
Oct 18 2017
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For nearly a decade, there hasn’t been more than a vestige of a black society in the official world of Dungeons &…
Oct 13 2017
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Decades of D&D fans repeating the old adage “Friends don’t let friends play half-orcs” may have had some tangible…
Oct 9 2017
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Last week, Wizards of the Coast reimagined their classic horror game Betrayal at House on the Hill in a Dungeons &…
Sep 25 2017
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 has a mode that lets players design their own Dungeons & Dragons-esque adventure inside the…