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Massive Dungeons & Dragons Lego Set Is Unbelievably Cool
20.3.2024
After weeks of teasing, Lego has finally revealed its huge collaboration with Dungeons & Dragons to celebrate the legendary roleplaying game’s 50th anniversary—and it’s huge in many ways, from piece count to price.Read more
My D&D Game Fell Apart, But Baldur’s Gate 3 Saved The Day
18.8.2023
As is the case with many Dungeons & Dragons groups, my band of outcasts fell apart. I’ve lamented the loss over the last few months, but now, I finally have a piece of that joy back thanks to Baldur’s Gate 3.Read more
Don’t Feel Guilty Over Save Scumming In Baldur’s Gate 3
17.8.2023
Save scumming: It’s the art of saving before a potentially undesirable outcome in a video game should you not like the results, and reloading if you don’t. And as with everything in video gaming, folks have opinions on it. Some will tell you it’s totally fine, others might categorize it as a mortal...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Makes It Impossible To Know If I’m Making The Right Choices, And I Love It
16.8.2023
The more I play of Baldur’s Gate 3, the more I realize how unsure I am of what I’ve done. This extraordinary, enormous game has me in deep, meticulously exploring its every tiny detail, getting involved in every aspect I can find, and the further I get, the less certain I am about every choice I’ve...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Players Now Speedrunning Sex
16.8.2023
It doesn’t matter how large a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 is, there will always be folks who dare to ask: How quickly can I get through this? But now fans are turning to ask another bold question: How quickly can I get laid in Larian’s new epic RPG? Well, it turns out no one’s lonely in Faerûn...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Trying To Compete With My Actual D&D Hobby—And It’s Losing
15.8.2023
That Baldur’s Gate 3 so closely adapts a tabletop role-playing gaming (TTRPG) rule system I know reasonably well is both a relief in that I don’t need to learn something new and quite fun, given that I enjoy D&D role-playing mechanics. But as a game master (GM) of a regular Pathfinder second...
Baldur’s Gate 3's Narrator Outtakes Are A Critical Hit
10.8.2023
As a seasoned lover and player of many tabletop roleplaying games myself, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a joy to play. In my dozen or so hours thus far, one of my favorite elements of this digital adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons is just how lushfully present and entertaining the game’s narrator...
Baldur's Gate 3 May Not Get DLC Due To D&D's OP Leveling
8.8.2023
The recently released Baldur’s Gate 3 is a massive RPG with high replay value due to all the choices you can make, so it might seem weird to be talking about the game getting an expansion. But the question has been asked, and the response from the people behind the hit RPG is basically, probably...
Baldur’s Gate 3, As Told By Steam Reviews
7.8.2023
After finally launching in its full form on August 3, the wait for Baldur’s Gate 3 is now over (for PC gamers, anyway). So, does the long-awaited return of a classic CRPG series, developed by the studio behind modern CRPG hit Divinity 2, live up to the hype? Read more
Baldur's Gate 3 Devs Hired Intimacy Coordinators To Help With Its Sex Scenes
26.7.2023
In a recent interview with the BBC, an actor in the upcoming fantasy role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 revealed that developer Larian Studios used intimacy coordinators to help actors feel safe and comfortable when depicting the game’s more intimate moments. Read more
RPG Delays Launch To Avoid Competing With Baldur's Gate 3
14.7.2023
Summerfall Studios, developers of the upcoming, self-described “roleplaying musical” Stray Gods, has recently taken to Twitter to deliver some unfortunate news for those eager to sing their way out of a fantasy predicament. Stray Gods, which puts you in the role of a woman who must prove...
Hyped RPG Baldur's Gate III Took Six Years To Make Because It's Scary-Big
29.6.2023
Baldur’s Gate III director Swen Vincke doesn’t think the sprawling fantasy role-playing game would exist if the team behind it, Larian Studios, had been gobbled up by another game company. “It would have been canned, guaranteed,” he told me during a recent interview. “There’s no way that a...
Aww, Overwatch 2’s DnD-Inspired Season Shouts Out Critical Role
14.6.2023
Overwatch 2 has a tabletop-RPG-themed event going on right now, in some ways making explicit a connection that’s long been present between the two worlds. If you didn’t know, Cassidy, the gunslinging cowboy that’s been part of the roster since the first game launched in 2016, is voiced by Matt...
ChatGPT Skyrim Mod Is A Robotic Horror Movie
1.5.2023
Proponents of modern AI tech—and this is our weekly reminder that it’s not actually artificial intelligence at all—have big plans for video games. Ubisoft is dabbling, Square Enix is dabbling, but those are just testbeds: for a more comprehensive look at what AI supporters want to see in their...
D&D CEO Thinks Hobby Is 'Under Monetized' Compared To Video Games
12.12.2022
Dungeons & Dragons is so synonymous with its hobby that I, like many people who play TTRPGs other than D&D, often just refer to such games as “D&D” for short. But apparently that kind of name recognition and dominance in the field isn’t enough for publisher Wizards of the Coast. Based...
What To Know Before Getting D&D's New Starter Set
16.11.2022
Getting into tabletop roleplaying isn’t always easy. With thick rulebooks that mirror math textbooks and the need to find at least one other player (but ideally three others), simply getting to the table, ready to roleplay is enough of a challenge. Enter the concept of the Starter Set:...
Amid Criticism, Wizards Of The Coast Quietly Removes Racist Lore From Dungeons & Dragons
2.9.2022
Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast has quietly removed language from its newly released Spelljammer setting that came under fire for racist overtones. While its D&D Beyond online tools no longer contain references to a primate-like race becoming “sapient” through enslavement...
Path of the Planebreaker Is A Worthy Addition To Your D&D Campaign
26.8.2022
Originally announced and funded via Kickstarter last October, Path of the Planebreaker is the latest foray into the fifth edition set of rules for Dungeons & Dragons from Monte Cook Games. This time, veteran D&D designers Bruce R. Cordell, Sean K. Reynolds, and Mr. Cook himself treat...
The Next Big D&D Experience Looks Like A Video Game, And That's A Problem
22.8.2022
Last week, Wizards of the Coast announced its plans for what the world’s most popular roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons, will look like in the next few years. Alongside a refresh of the rules (which Wizards promises will be fully compatible with every fifth edition book that’s been published...
Five Steps For Learning Even The Most Daunting Tabletop Roleplaying Game
2.8.2022
Tabletop roleplaying games can be intimidating. With hefty tomes of rules that can mirror and outpace the size of a college textbook, even veterans of the hobby can sometimes be overwhelmed when they just want to dive in quickly and get to the point of a new game. And look, I won’t name names here...