The popular cyberpunk, dystopian future Netflix TV series is getting the tabletop treatment thanks to Hunters Entertainment and fans of…

When it comes to streaming RPG shows, we all have our favorite game masters. Matt Mercer usually comes to mind…

John D.Kennedy, writer on the Star Trek Adventures: Gamma Quadrant RPG Sourcebook, discusses writing the book.More

Featured photo by Ray Kachatorian The internet’s most popular and successful streaming D&D show is now giving Critters a look…

One of the most popular Vampire: The Masquerade streaming shows in the past couple years have unveiled a list of…

Fans of the Arkane Studios’ Dishonored video game franchise can rejoice as the world of the Empire of the Isles has been adapted into a tabletop…

NBCUniversal is launching a streaming service in April called Peacock and there is talk of a potential animated series starring…

Paizo, the publishers of the Pathfinder RPG, announced their supplementary products for their January release, including a brand new Adventure…

Penny Arcade, the company that has produced a long running web comic and the Acquisitions, Inc. D&D franchise, launched a…

Whether you're a new player or a veteran of the game, finding a Dungeons & Dragons group can be challenging. If…

The Illusionist in Dungeons & Dragons was created by Peter Aronson, an early Boston-area fan. In 1975, Aronson submitted an initial…

Back when D&D turned 40 in 2014, I put up a post about the date I favored for celebrating its…

Dungeons & Dragons grew out of a tradition of miniature wargaming, and distributors of figurines were among the first companies…

It is no exaggeration to say that Greg Bell was effectively the first staff artist of Tactical Studies Rules. Not…

Before any daring cartographer mapped underground dungeons in pursuit of fantastic adventure, Chainmail described a system for subterranean tunnels on…

Old school Dungeons & Dragons fans know that Greg Bell's beloved lizardman from the inside cover of Greyhawk (1975) served as…

One of the great riddles that has vexed D&D players for generations is this: why did armor class in original…

Sometimes chunks of gaming history come down to us without much context. That is the case with today's specimen, a…

When it comes to unearthing the influences behind Chainmail (1971), Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren's medieval rules with a fantasy…

Sometimes you need to stop dissecting the roots of Chainmail for long enough to appreciate the humor that the authors…

Just months before Chainmail came out, when Gary Gygax put together the seventh issue of the Domesday Book, he included…

This weekend at the Wizards of the Coast "Stream of Many Eyes" event I got my hands on a copy…

"We're known down here as the strange people with the funny dice," begins Bob Waltman, describing the reputation of the…

In the early days of gaming, a title could pass through a lot of hands before making its way to…

Early in 1980, TSR Hobbies circulated a slender booklet containing graphics and copy for hobby stores to reuse when advertising…

Gary Gygax explicitly called the Guidon Dungeons & Dragons document the "first draft" of the game in a cover letter.…

If anything could draw the attention of the mainstream press of 1976 to an obscure pastime like Dungeons & Dragons, it…

Two years before Chainmail was released, and a year before there was a Castle & Crusade Society, Gary Gygax was…

Early in 1976, no one had any idea that Dungeons & Dragons would go on to transform the gaming hobby.…

Of the gamers who assembled and self-published variant fantasy role-playing rules in the 1970s, few showed the dedication of Michael…

Early press about D&D rarely has the luxury of wading deep into the play of ongoing campaigns. That is what…

It was early in November 1979: the publication of the Dungeon Masters Guide had recently completed the core Advanced Dungeons &…