I think it’s a bit too politically correct to worry that Drow – dark elves – are a racist race. The concern here is that they’re evil and black, that they’re evil because they’re black or black because they’re evil. I suspect the original D&D Drow were black just to look cool, scary and to […]
D&D TTRPG news and articles
Dungeons & Dragons is more than a game; it's a cultural titan and the gateway to fantasy adventure for millions worldwide. At its heart, D&D is a collaborative storytelling experience. Players create unique heroes, from mighty barbarians to wise wizards, and embark on perilous quests in a world brought to life by the Dungeon Master. The rules provide structure, but the real magic comes from the shared imagination of the group. Every roll of the dice and every player decision shapes a unique narrative, making each campaign a truly personal epic forged in creativity and chance.
The game’s enduring appeal lies in its powerful social core. In an age of digital screens, D&D brings people together to cooperate, solve problems, and build legends face to face. This spirit has fuelled its explosive resurgence in pop culture, introducing the magic of tabletop roleplaying games to a new generation. Yet for all its grand legacy, D&D remains wonderfully accessible. All it takes is a set of dice, a few friends, and a spark of imagination to unlock infinite worlds of adventure. It is the ultimate engine for heroic storytelling.
This Fantasy World – D&D love song
This Fantasy World is a cute little tune by a musical duo known as The Doubleclicks – no relation to Google’s giant tracking and ad devliery system – with a custom animation from Brad Jonas. This song comes out of the song-a-week project the Doubleclicks are holding so I can’t imagine weeks and weeks of […]
RPG Character Illustrations walkthrough
RPG Character Illustrations is a useful resource for gamers like myself – gamers without an atom of artistic talent. The site gives you a way to order custom crafted and hand illustrated character portraits at a resonable price. This post is a walkthrough of my experience becoming a customer of RPG Character Illustrations. A chance […]
Are Wizards of the Coast about to announce D&D 5e?
Update: A year after this post was written, Wizards of the Coast announced D&D 5e. It will be, in part, crowd sourced. There’s some speculation out there in interwebyland that Wizards of the Coast are working on the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. Speculation kicked off with Bill Slavicsek‘s Ampersand article called Icy […]
TSR’s DragonStrike video – 30 mins of D&D cheese
This video dates back to 1993 when TSR had created the board game DragonStrike. You’ll be familiar with the strategy here; TSR wanted to lower the bar for Dungeons and Dragons, making it easier to play to attract a wider audience. For this video they took 90s style special effects and 80s style writing to […]
Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale coming to Xbox, PC and PlayStation
Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale will be a multiplayer action-RPG for PSN, PC and Xbox Live. Atari have the honours. There are three pages up at Atari for the game (here’s the Xbox one) and they’re all pretty similar in terms of spec. We’ll get solo and co-op page, questing and multiple game modes. The game […]
Is D&D Insider’s move to Silverlight for Character Builder too little, too late?
Yesterday Wizards announced that their software for building 4e Dungeons and Dragons (cleverly known as ‘Character Builder’) would no longer be supported in its current format and would be moving to Silverlight. The current format is an executable program. You download software from Wizards of the Coast as if you were downloading a game, music […]
How to Trap a Zombie, Track a Vampire, and Other Hands-On Activities for Monster Hunters: A Young Wizards Handbook
Wizards of the Coast issued a press release today to highlight their Dungeins & Dragons book for young readers called How to Trap a Zombie, Track a Vampire, and Other Hands-On Activities for Monster Hunters: A Young Wizards Handbook. The press release is timed for Halloween but the book itself has been out since September. […]
Wizards gamble with new D&D Gamma World
The new Gamma World is due out in the UK very soon. Wizards of the Coast are taking a gamble with it but it is an understandable gamble. Firstly, they’re strongly connecting the D&D brand to it this time. There’s not that familiar d20 logo to act as the outstretched hand to new players this […]
D&D Team T-Shirts
These are ace. Created by the excellently named Coby Frisbee is this set of American football team inspired D&D style t-shirts. You’ll see what I mean. You can also buy these babies from the Comy Cushion store at MySoti. It’s very tempting to do just that.
