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Demeo x D&D: Battlemarked is the most chaotic digital tabletop I’ve ever played

If youve ever tried to organise an actual Dungeons & Dragons session as an adult, youll know its basically an exercise in ...

Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood’s best advice for building a D&D world

Ed Greenwood explains how Dungeon Masters should approach worldbuilding and why designing less can lead to better D&D ...
Polygon

D&D’s virtual tabletop is off to a slow start, but designers say that’s very much the point

Last summer, Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast revealed something truly ambitious — a virtual tabletop (VTT) custom-built for playing D&D online. This will be no simple top-down ...
Lifehacker

How To Take Your Tabletop Dungeons & Dragons Game Online

COVID struck at the height of the resurgence of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and while it’s not the worst aspect of a worldwide plague, nerds not being allowed to gather at the ...
PC Gamer

D&D's upcoming virtual tabletop radiates a big-budget misunderstanding of what matters in role-playing games

Wizards of the Coast's bizarre fascination with flashy 3D graphics is a swing and a critical miss. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...
GamesRadar+

First look at D&D virtual tabletop in action is seriously impressive

Wizards of the Coast has given players a better look at the D&D virtual tabletop in action, complete with animated spells and a better idea of what it'll actually feel like to use. Revealed via the ...

After 8 years of playing D&D nonstop, I've finally tried its biggest alternative

This is interesting because DCC came out in the waning days of D&D’s 4e, which was disliked even more by players, but a ...
The Next Web

How to start playing tabletop RPGs like D&D and Cyberpunk 2020

“Almost everybody plays games.” Jason Carl, Brand Marketing Manager for the World of Darkness. Tabletop games are all the rage right now (some things never change) but gamers are so spoiled for choice ...
PC Gamer

The official D&D Virtual Tabletop is looking pretty slick

At D&D Direct earlier this week, we got an update on the new virtual tabletop system that Wizards of the Coast is developing in Unreal Engine 5, and it's not looking bad at all. (If only they'd ...
Shacknews

CartographR is an app that aims to bring AR visualization to tabletop RPGs like D&D

Technology specialist, researcher, and developer Joanna Liu is a tabletop gaming enthusiast. She’s played her way around the likes of Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop experiences long enough to ...
Kotaku

This Tabletop Horror RPG Will Have You Putting Away D&D

Following 2018’s substantial and mostly excellent revision to the legendary tabletop roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade, and before the expected release of the upcoming 5th edition of Werewolf: ...

Baldur's Gate 3 director says Larian had "all the freedom we needed" to make the D&D RPG but adapting the tabletop format provided its own "limitations"

CEO of Larian Studios and director of Baldur's Gate 3 Swen Vincke claims that Wizards of the Coasts gave the team "all the ...