Tabletop role-playing games have reached an all-time high in popularity. Turns out, there’s a certain appeal about rounding ...

Many things have contributed to the success of Dungeons and Dragons over the past decade. The rise of actual play, such as shows like Critical Role, have opened up these games to a much wider audience ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Board games and card games make great gifts because they can provide lots of fun for years to come, and ...

Joe LeConte is the lead trainer of the national learning network. He’s a Substance Use and Recovery Counselor/Peer Support Coordinator at TCU and is regarded as a leading expert in the use of TTRPGs ...

The role-playing game genre is one of video game history’s oldest and most prolific, going back to the early 1970s, long before people had computers in their homes. RPGs were a natural evolution of ...

I am an HR advisor with a borderline addiction to gaming who loves everything from first-person shooters to tactical roguelikes. I have always been drawn to games that really test me, so soulslikes ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

How you feel about the finale of Critical Role’s third main campaign hinges a lot on what you think Critical Role — and actual play, and maybe even TTRPGs — is about. Is it an extended worldbuilding ...

Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, you've just been accepted to a selective university made up of five islands—each with a unique way of teaching, learning and approaching the world. Oceanic Island, ...