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The same guys behind those cute little Dungeons & Dragons dogs are now running a Kickstarter for

The same guys behindthose cute little Dungeons & Dragons dogs are now running a Kickstarter for modular tabletop scenery, which lets you snap together fantasy and sci-fi environments for your adventures. I’ve messed around with a prototype set and its ridiculously easy/cool to use.

Skip the dice: Enter here to win the newest Dungeons & Dragons adventure

The summer’s shining and spritzing its last (in Chicago, anyway), which means you’re probably already stocking up on indoor, polar-vortex-abiding entertainment. So, in addition to filling up your streaming queues, you can look forward to whiling away the time with some tabletop gaming. The A.V. Club has you covered in either case—aside from our upcoming fall TV preview, we’re offering a...

Enter to win some of Dungeons & Dragons’ greatest hits

Dungeons & Dragons has been around since 1974, during which time the tabletop RPG’s makers have released multiple editions of the game, as well as dozens of modules. That’s impressive and all, but it does make picking a starting point rather difficult, whether it’s your first time playing or it’s been a decade since you last rolled for initiative. Wizards Of The Coast has taken a little of...

Joe Manganiello welcomes you to the jungle in this Force Grey exclusive

Previously on Force Grey, Chris Hardwick and Brian Posehn joined the search for giants as orchestrated (and dramatized) by Matt Mercer, the man of a thousand voices. Season two of the D&D streaming series heads for the jungles of Chult—which are full of the kind of monsters that give other monsters nightmares—in a preview of the upcoming Tomb Of Annihilation adventure. The search for the Soul...

Gardens of Fog is a new D&D module whose adventure has been “designed to turn some stereotypes [

Gardens of Fog is a new D&D module whose adventure has been “designed to turn some stereotypes [about mental illness] on their head”, and where players will “encounter and interact with living representations of anxiety and depression”. Some of the proceeds of its sale go towards the charity Take This.

VR Dungeons & Dragons removes last lingering threat of human interaction

Dungeons & Dragons, long the game of choice for nerdy social introverts, has always been hampered by one incontrovertible weakness: This game designed to foster social interactions among people has required you to actually be in the physical presence of other people. Sure, you can play online, but there’s just no substitute for the feeling of sitting around a table, staring intently at small...

“Dungeons & Donalds” makes Trump slightly more palatable as a boastful DM

It seems harder and harder for people to wrap their collective heads around the fact that Donald Trump is going to be a presidential nominee for the GOP. Yes, the award-winning co-star of Ghosts Can’t Do It is on the path to the White House. It’s a strange time for citizens of every country when this is a legitimate possibility, so why not make it even stranger by throwing in a dash of...

Go to the Upside Down with this Stranger Things mixtape

Stranger Things has become a pop culture phenomenon this summer, with many viewers wrapped up in the tale of the weird goings on at Hawkins, Indiana in 1983. People have taken to consuming all the various references made in the show; from the fonts of the main titles, to the various films it touches on, even extending to the music that the Duffer brothers used in their Netflix show. And as...

Dice, Camera, Action’s Waffle Crew of Dungeons & Dragons adventurers are coming to video games

Dice, Camera, Action’s Waffle Crew of Dungeons & Dragons adventurers are coming to video games. They’ll appear in DLC portrait and voice packs for Beamdog’s Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights enhanced editions. The packs will release later this year.

On The Late Show, Joe Manganiello and Stephen Colbert go off-quest, talk D&D for nine minutes

Giant, happy tree-man Joe Manganiello might technically have been on last night’s Late Show to talk about his upcoming quest to save the floundering Justice League franchise (sorry about that pun, Aquaman) as kickass, one-eyed assassin Deathstroke, but that all went out the studio window once Stephen Colbert whipped out the dice-bag. Actually, their interview never actually got on the track...

Enter the Gungeon’s big Dungeons & Dragons-themed update hits July 17 on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and

Enter the Gungeon’s big Dungeons & Dragons-themed update hits July 17 on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch. The free expansion brings a ton of new rooms, weapons, items, enemies, and ammo types to the roguelike, as well as more generous drop rates.

D&D's most fucked-up new monster was designed by a Make-A-Wish recipient

Earlier this week, Wizards Of The Coast published its latest Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook, the monster-filled Mordenkainen’s Tome Of Foes. As is standard with a new D&D manual of monsters, it’s full of all sorts of new creatures, ranging from hideously dangerous to relatively benign. One of its most unsettling new additions to the tabletop institution’s vile lore, though, has an especially...

A titanic, bittersweet symphony: 35 pop-culture windows into 1997

Two years after warring electronics companies competing to develop high-capacity CDs declared a truce, their compromise format, the DVD, first went on sale in the U.S. in March of 1997. (Twister, The Mask, GoodFellas, and The Road Warrior were among the first batch of titles.) DVDs didn’t hit major retail chains like Best Buy and Tower Records until August...

Demand great presents this year with The A.V Club’s 2016 gift guide

It became a common refrain as heroes died, villains ascended, and truth and beauty were succeeded by a million Facebook shares on a fake-news story about the pope endorsing Donald Trump: 2016 was a motherfucker. If you made it all the way through, congratulations. You’ve outlasted Prince, the concept of liberal democracy in the United States, and the first species of mammal to go extinct due...

Dungeons & Dragons movie might roll the dice with Lego Batman Movie director

Having already secured a 2019 release date, Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons movie has now embarked on a quest for a director. According to Variety, the Dungeon Master currently being eyed is Chris McKay, who directed last year’s Lego Batman Movie.

The movie, which will be one of the first under Paramount’s new AllSpark Pictures banner, is being written by Michael Gilio and produced by Brian...

What’s the silliest time your parents banned a piece of pop culture from you?

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d like us and the readers to answer? Email us at avcqa@theonion.com.

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Paramount rolls for initiative, sets a Dungeons & Dragons movie for 2021

Marvel Studios and Warner Bros.’ DC movies division have a habit of charting out their release schedules a decade in advance, giving consumers the comfort of knowing exactly that they’ll be doing every May and November for the rest of their lives. Today, Paramount has decided to join in on that fun, handing out distant release dates for four “tentpole” projects. This comes from The Hollywood...

The Dungeons & Dragons movie that’s been in pre-production basically forever just got a release

The Dungeons & Dragons movie that’s been in pre-productionbasically forever just got a release date on July 23rd, 2021, io9 reports . Paramount Studios also set dates for the new G.I. Joe movie (March 27th, 2020) and Micronauts (October 16th, 2020).

The first major expansion to D&D’s 5th edition, Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, is out today

The first major expansion to D&D’s 5th edition, Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, is out today. It’s full of new subclasses, spells, backstory ideas and tools for Dungeon Masters.

What’s your favorite fictional religion?

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d like us and the readers to answer? Email us at avcqa@theonion.com.

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