Dungeons & Dragons

Sure the holiday season can be a little stressful, but the best way to break up that weird family energy is to play a fun tabletop game! Don’t make the same mistake I did when introducing my parents to Dungeons & Dragons, which was giving them opportunities to flirt with each other during the game. It was deeply uncomfortable and I absolutely do not recommend it. Happy holidays!The Lord of the Rings — Lost Odyssey: The Red Scribe Game master Kate Welch is heading up a new, one-shot, actual play charity campaign set in…

Probably the game that I ammost hyped to receive in physical form, DIE RPG by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans is a meta-textual love letter to gaming, storytelling, and their own comic creation. It’s a game that is built to destroy you, and in the two sessions I’ve played with my friends it has broken my heart not less than five times. It combines a very clever premise with the ability to do pretty much anything you want, but the consequences, the final decision, always looms large in the minds of you and your…

Image: Penguin Random HouseDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is coming in hotter than a red dragon’s flame breath in April next year, but before you meet its band of misfit heroes on the big screen, they will make their introductions in a series of tie-in novels early next year—including Chris Pine’s charismatic bard.io9 already brought you the news of E.K. Johnston’s The Druid’s Call a few months ago, following Sophia Lillis’ Tiefling Druid Doric, but now we can give you a first look at the cover for The Road…

Illustration: Wizards of the CoastThe fantasy tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons is nearly 50 years old, but it’s experiencing the biggest boom in its history, with millions of old players returning to the table, and new ones picking up polyhedral dice for the very first time. That means lots of new products—both from the game’s publisher, Hasbro-owned Wizards of the Coast, and from more licensees than you can shake a wand of wonder at.So many new D&D goodies is treasure worthy of an ancient red dragon,…

Image: Lucasfilm/Del ReyA party gathers to venture forth in the new Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves poster. Get a look at Syfy’s mysteriousnew space series The Ark. The Flash teases the beginning of the end. Plus, new footage from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Spoilers get!Wicked Variety reports Michelle Yeoh has joined the cast of Wicked as Madame Morrible, “the headmistress of Crage Hall at Shiz University.”Saw 10Deadline reports Shawnee Smith is in talks to reprise her role as Amanda Young in Saw 10. The…

Photo: Linda Codega/GizmodoEarlier this week, while preparing for a tabletop role playing game, I was perusing my dice, trying to pick out a set of polyhedral dice (which consist of seven dice: a D4, D6, D8, two D10s, D12, and a D20) that would best fit my Dragonborn Monk, Teimuraz. I found a set still in its packaging—my red-and-silver Crimson Nebula dice from Dispel Dice—and immediately knew that these were exactly the vibe for Teimuraz. Choosing dice for a character is important! You have to get a good vibe. But there…

Good morning, dungeoneers and dragon riders. Paramount has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette for the most absurd film that I’m foolishly excited for in 2023, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The swords and sorcery heist stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant as various archetypal adventurers and while they certainly went for a pretty tame version of the typical medieval adventure party, the sheer “first-time player” energy of all these…

Image: Wizards of the CoastToday, Dungeons & Dragons released the next set of playtest materials for its new edition of D&D, called One D&D, alongside an announcement that it would be removing the word “race” from its association alongside playable peoples. Although the game has been attempting to become more conscious of the ways that language is used in D&D, this is a massive step forward for a lot of players and fans who have long wanted Wizards of the Coast to adjust itsapproach to mechanizing…

Image: Disney AnimationDisney’s Strange World released over Thanksgiving weekend, and despite mainly solid reviews, it’s on track to be one of the studio’s biggest box office disappointments. Its opening weekend was a bust, and it stopped just shy of earning $12 million in its first three days. As it stands, Disney will ultimately be fine thanks to the one-two combo of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Avatar: The Way of Water, but hearing that the studio may lose $100 million on Strange World is being used as a point of…

Image: LegoIs that a treasure chest? What kind of awesome loot might we find inside?Wait... It’s a Mimic!!One of the most iconic monsters in D&D, the Mimic can change its shape at will. This set is meant to be transformative, where you can display an awesome treasure chest - or turn it into a Mimic!There are 3 hinged sections, 2 in the lower chest and 1 in the lid.The bottom panel is hinged to allow room for the lower teeth to flip.The top of the chest has the same functionality allowing the Mimic’s fearsome upper…