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New 'Dungeons & Dragons' movie rolls the dice for Hollywood franchise redemption

LOS ANGELES — "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" begins with actor Chris Pine begging for a second chance. His character, a lute-playing bard condemned to a tundra prison for "grand larceny and skullduggery," stands before a clemency council, promising his jailers he's reformed.

Los Angeles Times

In Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez team up for a fantastical medieval adventure

The original 70s tabletop fantasy game attracted a cult-like following and, thanks to the success of Stranger Things, it has re-entered the zeitgeist. But does it work as a movie?

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Joe Manganiello’s New D&D Series Could Be the Next 'Game of Thrones'

Actor and D&D super fan Joe Manganiello is adapting the epic Dragonlance book series to TV. The adventure is just beginning.

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"When you get communities with a common enemy, you’re in this together": why heavy metal loves Dungeons & Dragons

From a love of fantasy to being targeted in the Satanic Panic, all the way to Stranger Things, heavy metal and Dungeons & Dragons have a shared history that goes back decades

Metal Hammer

From moral panic to big-screen blockbuster: the rise (and rise) of Dungeons & Dragons

The role playing game has come a long way since its birth in the Seventies - and is thriving in London

Evening Standard

Embark on your next epic Dungeons & Dragons campaign inside Minecraft

A new DLC coming soon to the Minecraft Marketplace will allow players to explore the world of D&D from within Minecraft.

Windows Central

Why You Don't Need To Be A Dungeons And Dragons Fan To Enjoy Honor Among Thieves

Dungeons and Dragons fans will find a lot to love in Honor Among Thieves, but so will anybody else.

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'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' Review: Formulaic Fun — For Better or Worse

Clever and rousing but unambitious, 'Dungeons & Dragons' is an obvious franchise-starter that needs another session to really evolve.

Inverse

Facing the demons: can Dungeons & Dragons therapy heal real-life trauma?

Psychologists are using the game to help patients notice patterns of behavior. Alaina Demopoulos gives it a try

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Content creators and corporations clash in Dungeons & Dragons licensing fiasco

The tabletop role-playing game community took a keen interest in intellectual property law in January when changes to the Dungeons Dragons Open Game License (OGL) were leaked.

The Conversation

Dungeons & Dragons licence changes threaten the fan community the game relies upon – legal expert explains

Dungeons & Dragons has a longstanding appeal as a role-playing game – or as some players prefer to call it, a storytelling medium. But retaining users in the face of competition is far from easy, despite a recent resurgence thanks to Netflix hit Stranger Things, the uptake in remote activities…

The Conversation

D&D OGL 1.2 update: Wizards rolls back controversial changes — but is it too late?

The D&D community has been in turmoil over updates to how third-party content is licensed. But publisher Wizards of the Coast

Inverse

Critical Role's 'Legend of Vox Machina' will continue — even if D&D doesn't

Critical Role's array of cast members unpack the road ahead for both 'The Legend of Vox Machina' and the RPG hobby that started it all.

Inverse

Dungeons & Dragons is killing off the word ‘race’ and replacing it with ‘species’

Owner Wizards of the Coast says the word ‘race’ has negative connotations.

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From satanic panic to billion-dollar business: how Dungeons & Dragons conquered the world

A role-playing game born half a century ago in a Wisconsin basement has spawned an empire spanning film, TV and YouTube. How did it leave its mark on Stranger Things, ET and everyone from Stephen King to Elon Musk?

Newcastle Herald

She Kills Monsters: Hunter Drama explores fantasy, 90s nostalgia and teen belonging

The play deals with themes common to adolescents including sexuality, gender and family dynamics.

Inverse

'D&D: Honor Among Thieves' won't "alienate" newcomers, filmmakers promise

At Comic-Con, co-directors Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, and producer Jeremy Latcham reveal how they found a story in a game about a million of them.

Inverse

'Dungeons and Dragons' Comic-Con panel reveals crucial new details the trailer doesn’t show

At the first Comic-Con panel in Hall H since 2019, Paramount brought the goods with the trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves from Paramount Pictures — and a whole lot more.

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Inverse

'Stranger Things' Season 4 nails a sinister, real-life 1980s controversy

The false link in the show between Dungeons and Dragons and an occult conspiracy is based on real history.

The New Daily

‘Satanic worship, sodomy, murder’: How Stranger Things revived the Satanic Panic of the ’80s

Stranger Things revives many parts of the 1980s relevant to our times. The American Satanic Panic is a less welcome but important callback.

Bangkok Post

Once more into the upside down

Six years ago, Matt and Ross Duffer whipped up a perfect streaming video dessert, low on nutrition but high in sweet pop culture calories. Season 1 of their Netflix series Stranger Things was an expertly assembled and precisely calibrated souffle of Generation X nostalgia, Spielbergian family melodrama and more intense-than-expected…

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Listen up! Here are the finalists of the 2022 Student Podcast Challenge

The 2,400 podcast submissions for NPR's contest offer a rare glimpse into the minds of young people.

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Vecna? 'Stranger Things' Season 4’s new villain blows its multiverse wide open

'Stranger Things' Season 4's main villain is named after one powerful 'Dungeons & Dragons' antagonist. Here's everything fans of the Netflix series need to know about Vecna.

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