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Dungeons & Dragons’ New Core Rulebooks Want to Show, Not Tell
Every year for the past few years, Dungeons & Dragons has gotten bigger than ever. Now, in 2024 with the twinned anniversaries of its latest, fifth edition turning 10, and the RPG series at large turning 50, the game is ready to shape the next decade of adventuring—and its new versions of the core rulebooks…
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It’s a Great Time to Be an Alien Fan
While Alien Day was on April 26, it doesn’t mean that we still can’t celebrate all things Alien. For those wondering why April 26 is Alien Day it is because the planet in the sequel Aliens is LV-426—so, April 26 (the American way of dating a day). But while in the past Alien Day has…
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Fallout’s TV Show is Made By Fans, but Not for Only Fans
Adapting any well-known property is always going to be a big feat, especially when it comes to video games. It’s one thing to adapt a comic or TV show, it’s another thing to adapt a series of games, which come with a greater degree of self-expression. You can please some fans, but you can’t please…
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NASA Really Made Its Own Tabletop RPG for You to Play
NASA still has plenty of cool projects afoot in the real world—did you hear about that asteroid-redirecting test? Or those space-friendly cameras?—but it’s also trying to stir imaginations in fantastically creative ways, too. Enter The Lost Universe, the agency’s first-ever tabletop roleplaying game. Its first what now? Yes, a TTRPG crafted at NASA’s Goddard Space…