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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Everybody wants to be special, a desire that’s only exacerbated when people start sitting around a table, rolling dice, and coming up with brand new, potentially interesting folks to be. (Usually with some kind of magical powers or pointy ears attached.) But is your Dungeons & Dragons character actually as unique or…
There are plenty of ways to get into the spirit of things ahead of Halloween, including a Z Nation or Walking Dead marathon. But if you prefer a demogorgon to zombies, you can watch Stranger Things, or hell, just play some actual Dungeons & Dragons. There’s even a new, seasonally-appropriate adventure module for such…
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…
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…
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
The strangest thing about being in a room playing Dungeons & Dragons with Joe Manganiello, star of the Magic Mike movies and True Blood, is that no one here finds it odd. The actor-producer is still required to test his mettle in battles that grow increasingly dramatic and perilous, especially once game designer Chris…
Every Friday, several A.V. Club staffers will kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
A new Dungeons & Dragons movie looked ready to take wing last year, when Ansel Elgort signed on to the Rob Letterman-helmed adaptation from Warner Bros. And while Joe Manganiello could have looked into joining that production to satisfy his D&D proclivities, he’s instead rolling for initiative with his own project.…
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…
Are you currently burdened with a nerdy friend in need of a really good Christmas gift, and an extraneous $6,000? Then you’re in luck, because BoingBoing is reporting that an original copy of Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson’s Dungeons & Dragons is currently on the eBay auction block.
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
Let’s say you‘ve already picked up the new Dungeons & Dragons adventure, carved out the necessary time with your friends, and arranged for adequate sustenance in the form of 100 tacos. You might feel ready to launch your new campaign, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a little insider info? Well, The A.V. Club’s…
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…
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…
