Ravenloft: The Horrors Within is a gorgeous D&D horror toolbox packed with Domains of Dread, creepy monsters, player options, maps, and more.

Gen Con 2026 was great. With a tornado warning, flooding, and more attendees than ever before. Join me and 74,000 of your best friends for the highlights.

These alien-centric movies are must-watches with everything from little green men to horrors from beyond the cosmos.

What are the best time travel movies ever made? Here are the top 25 from Erik Slader, our resident expert.

Flip 7: With a Vengeance is a really solid game that fills exactly the role it is made for. It's a cheap, fast, easy game that makes people laugh a lot.

Going from one system to another and back again and learning about myself in the process.

They’re not perfect but if you want to live in Faerûn instead of just using it as a name on a cover this is the strongest the setting has been in years

In the deluge of excellent games released in 2025, we managed to grab hold of a few real gems. However, only one can claim the title of Game of the Year!

This is not a brand-new Eberron book. It's not a whole new thing, as it really builds on and updates the foundation laid by the previous 5e Eberron content.

Key Takeaways 1. Screams "millenial who watched girl-power cartoons then and reads murder mysteries now". 2. Makes for a swift read in either bite-sized chapters or as a chilling rainy-day read. 3. Come for the mystery, stay for the power couple. Or maybe just come for the power couple. I have to love any story that comes with a self-descriptive title.

While not quite as polished as games from masters, like Cave or Touhou Project, Shockwave Triggers is still a strong entry in the bullet hell shmup subgenre.

Tormented Souls 2 maintains and expands upon the best aspects of its predecessor, with plenty of scares both visceral and psychological.

GigaSword is a Metroidvania with great puzzle platforming and pretty rough... everything else.

PAX West 2025 had plenty of cute and cozy games, from corgis with Super Butts to investigative squirrels!

Checking out arcade pads, headphones, gloves, and lightguns at PAX West 2025.

Roguelite is a genre that mixes well with everything, from first person shooters to auto-battlers to skiing with a sword.

The Games from Poland booth at PAX West brings together indie devs to travel and promote their games together.

At PAX West 2025, I got to go hands on with Pokemon Legends Z-A and Kirby Air Riders and was surprised by both, for good and bad!

Yooka-Laylee was good, but feels like a tech demo for Yooka-Replaylee which is better in almost all ways and rivals some of the best 3d platformers out there.

There is so much noise in the crowdfunding space. So here are some curated projects I think you will love.

Pathfinder: Battlecry! brings martial-focused gameplay with new tactical classes, rich tools, and skirmish rules for epic battlefield campaigns.

Tell Roll20 about what you love about TTRPGs and win a pro subscription for life!

Take a look at the translation and localization process behind Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdrick with this interview with editor Jennifer Sherman.

If you're a Starfinder fan, grab Era of the Eclipse and learn a little more about the Gap and a lot about the iconics, Hellknights, and the Starfinder Society.

"Heroes of the Borderlands" starter set is probably the best introduction Wizards of the Coast has ever provided for D&D fifth edition, and that's saying a lot.

I spend over 90% of my time behind the screen, so I was waiting for the GM Core with bated breath. Was it worth the wait, even without tactical space combat?

Science-fantasy has never been better than with the Starfinder Second Edition Player Core. Even without starship combat, space has never been so cool.

I got to interview Jenny Jarzabski and Thurston Hillman and nerd out about the Starfinder Second Edition launch and what's coming for it later this year.

At Gen Con 2025, I interviewed D&D 5e game devs, as well as got to play in an adventure DM'd by the D&D designer Makenzie de Armas.

Kaiju Big Battel: Fighto Fantasy is the Blue Mage of monster-wrestling turn-based RPGs, using the best of its inspirations to build its own rockin' identity.

I feel like it's a minor miracle that I recently got exposed to Ryu Knight, and that's an major shame.

If you love RPG worlds but hate waiting around for turns or timers, the ARPG genre is for you! Our guide will teach you the nuances of this popular genre.

Nothing says “Happy Pride” like getting talked off by a strange, submissive man in your Air Conditioning vents whose only pleasure in life is pleasuring you.

These are the best places I've found to download or buy duck miniatures for TTRPGs like Dragonbane or RuneQuest, including custom STLs and pre-printed minis.

ALT: a black and white photo of a man pointing at the camera and saying your soul is mine .

D&D has lots of dragons that aren't chromatic or metallic. Not only do I love dragons, but I love weird and outrageous dragons. Like ones that breathe spiders.

I don't generally like pirate or nautical content. Songs of the Spellbound Sea for DnD 5e has made me reconsider that statement. It has everything I could want.

D&D isn't the only RPG out there. These are some of the best indie TTRPGs that you need to play as soon as possible, from small presses to individual creators.

With the Book of Magic and Arkand, Dragonbane RPG players will have not only a core set, adventure path, and bestiary, but also a full worldbook and magic core.

A D&D battle map is a visual tool used in TTRPGs like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder to display different environments and encounters.

The NPC Core is surprisingly versatile as a bestiary as well as a quick-and-easy way to populate your world.

Star Overdrive promises an exciting adventure on a jet-powered hoverboard. It's a simple pitch, but after playing a few hours of the game, it feels a bit rough.

CRPGs separate themselves from other video game RPGs because of party-building mechanics, dense narratives, dungeon crawling, and a focus on character stats.