Dungeons & Dragons, long played for fun, is being explored for therapeutic potential

Dungeons & Dragons is known as a niche role-playing game. But now game masters are exploring whether it can also be therapeutic, for conditions ranging from anxiety to PTSD.
Joplin Globe

Local store sees sales of role-playing games, dice skyrocket during pandemic

Role-playing games — and the unusual-looking dice that bring these games to life — have exploded in popularity over the last few years, fueled in part by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and popular ...
Portland Monthly

The Rise of Public Tabletop Role-Playing Games

Developed in the early 1970s, D&D is widely considered the original tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), and it remains the most popular system out of countless others. Once niche and even scorned, the ...
Gizmodo

How to Uncurse Your Dice Before Game Night

Dungeons & Dragons dice are notoriously fickle friends. Here's how I un-cursed my oracle rocks before going into fictional battle. Reading time 7 minutes Earlier this week, while preparing for a ...
WIBC

Dice, Costumes, Role-Playing: It’s GenCon in Indy

INDIANAPOLIS — Cards are flying, dice are clacking on tables, and downtown Indy is packed with gamers for GenCon. “This is the biggest it gets,” a man told WIBC, who flew in from Las Vegas. “I went ...