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On August 18th, Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast released Unearthed Arcana: Character Origins, a free document that provided fans of the tabletop roleplaying game with their first look at a new, updated ruleset currently called “One D&D.” It is game design in flux: 21 pages of preview material highlighting changes to the way characters are made and the game is played.It is, essentially and effectively, a first draft, one the publisher released early in order to request feedback from fans,…

Dungeons & Dragons. Credit: Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast has issued an apology regarding a Dungeons & Dragons update that included “offensive material” connected to the game’s Hadozee race. The newest Dungeons & Dragons campaign, Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, introduced the Hadozee race via the Astral Adventurer’s Guide. A passage refers to them as “timid mammals, no bigger than house cats,” before likening them to monkeys with “wing-like flaps” that allow them to…

The Wonder Woman game in the works from developer Monolith Productions has a new senior writer, Jennifer Allaway.  This was announced in a post by Allaway on her Twitter, where she states “I’m the next Senior Writer working at Monolith Studios on their upcoming Wonder Woman game!!” The post concludes with her saying she “could not be more excited for this next stage in my career!” It's official! The paperwork is signed! I'm the next Senior Writer working at Monolith Studios on their upcoming WONDER WOMAN game!! WONDER.…

Dungeons and Dragons has been around since the 1970s but it’s possible it has never been quite as popular as it is today. The game has seen a significant boost in popularity with D&D games now being regularly streamed online, and being played by some major names. Now a new Dungeons and Dragons movie, Honor Among Thieves, is on the way to capitalize on the game’s recent success, and one person who we expect will be first in line to see it is one Mr. Vin Diesel.While Vin Diesel is one of Hollywood’s biggest action…

Screenshot: Wizards of the Coast/ParamountI never thought I would see a good Dungeons & Dragons movie in my lifetime. When Honor Among Thieves comes out next year, I still might not have. But the movie has earned my goodwill, and that’s because it has an Owlbear in it.That’s it. Just the Owlbear. That’s all I needed. For you laypeople who haven’t seen the recent Honor Among Thieves trailer, an Owlbear is—wait for it—a bear that has an owl’s head. It’s one of Dungeons & Dragons’ best-loved monsters, but unlike the…

x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5NShB7Genk Fresh off his turn in spy thriller The Gray Man, Regé-Jean Page is adding another wildly different genre to his resumé. After making his name in Regency romance Bridgerton, the British star is set to appear in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the fantasy action-adventure in which he’ll bring the role-playing board game to life with the help of Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Sophie Lillis, and Justice Smith. The first trailer for the movie just dropped at…

Welcome back to io9's Toy Aisle: our regular weekly round up of the toys and collectibles worthy of a spot on your shelves. San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing this week, and even with all of the convention’s exclusive toys and collectibles already revealed, we’ve still got Hasbro debuting its new Dungeons & Dragons figure line with what is definitely not a figure, a life-size Pokémon plush Spheal that promises to help keep you cool during this heat wave, and a T.rex from Mattel without a lawyer to snack on. Check it…

San Diego Comic-Con 2022 kicked off with a trailer for the movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and it... actually looks promising? The upcoming film has an all-star cast with Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page and Hugh Grant, and blends action, fantasy, comedy and some of D&D's most iconic monsters.  "A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people," the description…

The new action-packed trailer for the upcoming Dungeon & Dragons movie has arrived – check it out below. The new film, called Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, is set for release next year in March and stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Hugh Grant, Sophia Lillis, and Regé-Jean Page. The trailer for the film was unveiled today (July 21) at San Diego’s Comic-Con In the trailer, Pine’s character can be heard saying: “We didn’t mean to unleash the greatest evil the world has ever known, but…

The resurgence of D&D in pop culture continues with an upcoming live-action film set in the fantasy universe. A new trailer for the movie — which has the slightly unwieldy name of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — kicked off San Diego Comic-Con, showing off a film that seems to jump between serious fantasy epic and lighthearted action comedy. Here’s the setup: “A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they…