Remember how some religious folk back in the '80s thought that the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was satanic and destroyed kids' souls? Pat Robertson does (kind of), pointing out in this recent clip from The 700 Club that D&D has "literally destroyed people's lives."

"Imagine a world designed by Kafka, Stalin, Orwell, Huxley, Sartre and the Marx Brothers..."

Recently, an article over at Salon tackled the portrayal of race in Game of Thrones and the racial legacy of J.R.R.Tolkien. Now, Tor.com's Mordicai Knode notes that another high-fantasy favorite, Dungeons & Dragons, has its own racial issue, namely Eurocentric homogeny. And it's time for that to change.

A massive new storyline will creepy-crawl across every aspect of the Dungeons & Dragons landscape this year, as the Demon Queen of Spiders and her drow minions rise from their underground domains to take on the surface world. Rise of the Underdark will impact D&D RPG books, organized play, novels, a new miniatures game…

In the spirit of their 16-bit remixes of Battlestar Galactica and Breaking Bad comes College Humor's low-tech remake of the Eleventh Doctor's adventures for the BBCSNES. Witness the Weeping Angels in thrilling real-time strategy!

There hasn't been a Marvel roleplaying game in print for almost seven years, but the release of Margaret Weis Productions' Marvel Heroic Roleplaying might prove that MWP is the best at what they do, and what they do best is pretty awesome.

Much in the same way Game of Thrones and Battlestar Galactica have received the RPG remix from College Humor, AMC's "chemistry teacher turned meth cook" drama Breaking Bad has also been given the clever 16-bit treatment.

Yesterday, roleplaying game publisher Wizards of the Coast announced the development of a new edition of D&D. This revision comes less than four years after the release of the last edition of the stalwart RPG. For years, D&D players have drawn battle lines over which edition of the game they prefer, and Wizards is now…

Most people are probably familiar with the Forgotten Realms setting of Neverwinter, from the hugely successful Neverwinter Nights game from 2002 — but it's actually a well-established city inside that universe, and Ground Zero of Wizard of the Coast's big push at Gen Con 2011.

In the faraway year of 1993, a study in The British Journal of Psychology provided a (somewhat obvious) personality profile of RPG enthusiasts. And guess what? They like to read.