Fallout, the beloved video game franchise that mixes 50s retro-futurism with the apocalypse, has its roots in a role-playing game...and then attempted two different licensing deals with role-playing game companies before they were tripped up by legal ...

In the previous installment we discussed the influence of the disastrous end to a Dungeons & Dragons campaign and how it helped shape the beginning of the first-person shooter, Doom. But there was another character who influenced id Software' ...

Doom, widely-regarded as one of the first successful first-person shooter video game, has its roots in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign that went disastrously wrong when one of the player characters made a literal deal with the devil...and lost.

Sacred tomes and forbidden volumes are always fascinating. Here are all the fictional books we really want to read, even if that is a demonstrably bad idea.

Over the past year, you’ve seen us try a number of new approaches to the ranger, all aimed at addressing the class’s high levels of player dissatisfaction and its ranking as D&D’s weakest class by a significant margin. Those two factors combined ...

Picking up where 'Acquisitions Incorporated: The Series' left off, our heroes are recovering from a disastrous encounter with a dragon and their segment of the Rod of Seven Parts has been taken. They must board their airship, ascend into th ...

The real Demogorgon already exists for D&D 5e, having appeared in the Out of the Abyss adventure, so I created a version based on what we see from the creature in the show, and at a CR 6, so it’s playable in lower level D&D campaigns.

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To be honest, I’m shocked that I’ve never heard about CAST A DEADLY SPELL before 2016. After all, it’s got a shocking amount of talent associated with the film: future GOLDENEYE and CASINO ROYALE director Martin Campbell, ALIENS producer Gale Anne Hu ...

F’Chelrak’s Tomb offers the chaotic whimsy of a Deck of Many Things.

The adventure continues. Stranger Things 2 is coming to Netflix 2017.

Gaming used to be what D&D boss Mike Mearls called “a hobby of not playing the game you wanted to play.” Fate designer Fred Hicks calls time spent creating characters or reading game books “lonely fun.” Electronic games took away the appeal of lo ...

Vampires make outstanding villains. These creatures of the night walk among us and yet are not us. Their intellect, moralities, wisdom, and villainy are beyond mortal comprehension. Vampires make fantastic 5e villains, yet we're limited with the ...

It could be an obscure TV show, an obvious lifehack, a genre of music or your favorite hobby. Whatever it is, you think it's awesome, and can't understand why more people aren't into it.

Candle Cove centers on one man’s obsessive recollections of a mysterious children’s television program from the 1980s, and his ever-growing suspicions about the role it might have played in a series of nightmarish and deadly events from his childhood ...

Force Grey: Giant Hunters brings together an unlikely all-star cast of actors and comedians as they preview the new Storm King’s Thunder adventure, releasing fall 2016. The Force Grey cast will dive into a preview of the new D&D storyline and ent ...

Tips and ideas on how to panic and get ready for a game with only 30 minutes to prepare.

The same things that terrify us can also make us die laughing, and as long as there's been horror, there's been silly horror-comedy. Check out our history of the silliest horror movies of all time.

James Wan ('Saw', 'The Conjuring') is saving mainstream horror, making him the most important horror director of the last 20 years.

Police say criminals are using the app to lure players in the St. Louis region to an isolated location and then rob them.