Mix vampires and espionage with tabletop RPG Night's Black Agents

As night falls on Belgrade, you and your team of special agents go on high alert. You've got the gadgetry of Bond and the competence of Bourne, but this is a shadowy international conspiracy you're up against: drug lords, corporate masterminds, bought politicians, crooked Interpol agents, and vampires. The bad kind.…

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Midgard D&D campaign world brings mythology to life

Midgard is a fantasy world filled with wizard colleges, dragon lords, humanoid ravens, and masked gods. Yet it's bound to a map similar to Earth, and is filled with a mashup of mythological figures and folk legends. It can be used with a variety of RPG systems, but even if you're not a gamer, it's an amazing window to…

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Discover Chainmail, Gary Gygax's Dungeons & Dragons Prototype

In the early 1970s, starting a role playing campaign required considerably more effort than it does today. Manuals had to be ordered by snail mail, gamers made their own miniatures instead of buying them off the shelf, and players often tinkered with rules to create ingenious variations.

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What's Coming Next for Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms

Wizards of the Coast held an elaborate keynote address at games convention Gen Con this year to promote the big changes they have planned for Dungeons & Dragons and the Forgotten Realms. An all-star line up of authors will be shaping the Realms, and everything old will be digital again while the public playtest marches …

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Monday Comics Preview: G.I. Joe, Danger Girl, and Dungeons and Dragons

Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here are some exclusive sneak peeks at this week's issues of Danger Girl/G.I. Joe and Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms. Both issues hit stands this Wednesday, August 22. Here are the previews and synopses:

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A homemade Game of Thrones Risk board! (Incest not included)

In my experience, Risk is a board game that erodes friendships (only slightly more quickly than Settlers of Catan) and has the power to bring an wintry silence over the room (Settlers is the harbinger of yelling).

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Rush Limbaugh's newsletter rips off the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual

First there was that Bane imbroglio, and now this — radio host Rush Limbaugh is certainly intersecting with geek touchstones in downright baffling ways. On the cover of his most recent newsletter, artist Christopher Hiers is credited with the left illustration, which — Rush's severed head and hypno-Obama eyes…

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