Welcome Brand New Players With These DM Tips In Dungeons & Dragons

The work of a Dungeon Master never ends. From the world to characters and stories, you have a lot to do when running a game ofDungeons & Dragons.And you have even more responsibilities when you have a brand-new player on the table. The whole game is a mystery to them, and it now falls on you to make sure their very first experience will be a positive one, ensuring the new player enjoys the game and is fully converted into a D&D player or maybe even a future Dungeon Master, like you....

July 27, 2025 · 6 min · 1227 words · Jeffrey Vega

Where To Find Every Sentinel Barracks Secret In Doom: The Dark Ages

Quick Links The Sentinel Barracks mission is wedged between a mission where you pilot a massive mech, and another where you ride a dragon. So, it is fitting that it is a more standard, linearDoom: The Dark Agesmission.You will be navigating a series of hallways, courtyards, bridges, and forts. While there are most certainly still plenty of secrets hidden around, the level’s structure essentially puts you on rails. But don’t be fooled, that doesn’t mean you won’t get puzzled here and there while looking to claim certain bits of treasure - I myself spent more time than I would like to admit trying to figure out how I was supposed to get up to a particular treasure chest....

July 27, 2025 · 6 min · 1092 words · Rachel Kim

Where To Find Grindylow Claws In Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon

Quick Links As you comb through the variety of enemies inTainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon,it can be difficult to guess which enemies have materials worth your valuable inventory space. We’ve got you covered to eliminate the guesswork so you can skip the search and get right to the Grindylow material grind. While you’ll find plenty of Grindylows if you understand their spawn patterns, they can be very frustrating to randomly encounter, due to their very specific set of spawn conditions....

July 27, 2025 · 3 min · 459 words · Michael Erickson

Where To Find The Grotto Of The First Men In Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon

Quick Links There’s a lot to do and learn inTainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon. From helping farmers find their lost spouses to slaying evil monsters plaguing the regions at night. Sometimes, you’ll help researchers like Imram find new discoveries about the past. We’ll show you how to find and learn more about Imram, along with where to find the ancient grotto he seeks. Inside, you’ll learn some interesting lore about the Fore-Dwellers and the people who came to Avalon long before King Arthur and the other Kamelotians....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 367 words · Mark Smith

10 Announced Games That Are Straight-Up Never Coming Out, Ranked By How Long It's Been

Summary With the current generation of gaming finally receiving a constant stream of bangers,it can be easy to overlook some of the more crucial announcements from over the years that still have yet to come to fruition, with no release on the horizon, such as theSilksongsof the world. While some titles have gone dark for what seems like an eternity, it’s crucial to note that modern game development is a lengthy process, which can explain the constant delays and hiccups in development cycles....

July 26, 2025 · 8 min · 1616 words · Christian Norton

10 Video Games Inspired By Alice In Wonderland

From whimsical landscapes to nonsensical characters, Alice in Wonderland has captured the imagination of generations ever since Lewis Carroll first published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. Its themes of exploration, childhood, and identity have left a lasting impact on popular media… especially in video games. Over the years, Alice in Wonderland has inspired one of the widest arrays of interpretations in gaming, from lighthearted journeys through magical worlds to dark,gritty explorations of trauma and self-discovery....

July 26, 2025 · 7 min · 1408 words · Vanessa Nguyen

A Breakdown Of Every Single Vehicle Type In RoadCraft

Quick Links There’s a lot more to building a road than just slapping some pavement down, and Saber Interactive is fully aware of that. That’s whyRoadCrafthas such a wide variety of specialty construction vehicles to get the job done. Except their main demographic isn’t grizzled workers who smell of tar and hard labor; they don’t actually know much about heavy construction technology. What even is a Mobile Scraper? Well, fear not....

July 26, 2025 · 9 min · 1813 words · Michael Best

After The Mortal Kombat 2 Trailer, Karl Urban Isn’t Selling Me As Johnny Cage

Oi, Liu Kang, Shao Kahn done killed me wife and took me bloody daughter, womp womp. That’s all I can hear inthe Mortal Kombat 2 trailer, as the cracks of Karl Urban’s real accent slip through into his awful American one. There are attempts to make it feel like Johnny Cage, with Urban playing the naive, dumbstruck actor dragged into a larger-than-life bout for the fate of humanity, cracking one-liners and rolling up his middle finger....

July 26, 2025 · 3 min · 520 words · Lauren Brown

As If There Was Any Doubt, Gears Of War E-Day And State Of Decay 3 Are Reportedly Coming To PS5

By this point, it’s no secret that more and moreXbox"exclusives" are making their way toPlayStation 5, either on day-and-date likeDoom: The Dark Ages, ora few months after release, like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It’s all part ofMicrosoft’s larger strategy as the company shifts to a more third-party approach. Now, gamers can potentially add two more titles to that list of futurePlayStationreleases, as it is being reported that bothGears of War: E-DayandState of Decay 3could launch onSony’s flagship console....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 278 words · Marissa Parsons

Baldur's Gate 3 Turns Two Today, And It's Still One Of The Most Played Games On Steam

Two years ago today,Baldur’s Gate 3left early access, and the full game was available to play on PC. We got console ports in the following months, but limited availabilty didn’t hurt Baldur’s Gate 3’s success at all, as it launched to an eyewatering concurrent player count of 875,343 onSteamalone - and that’s with the game also being available onGOG. Now, two years on, with the game available on bothPS5andXbox Series X/S, Baldur’s Gate 3 is still going strong....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 388 words · Monica Murray

Baldur's Gate 3's Dungeons & Dragons Ruleset Is Still Confusing New Players

PlayingBaldur’s Gate 3for the first time can be intimidating, especially to those who aren’t well versed withDungeons & Dragons. The game hasso many systems, that you’ll probably spendthe first 10-15 hoursfiguring out how it works, and that doesn’t include all the time spent in thein-depth character creator. Baldur’s Gate 3 follows a modified version of the D&D 5E ruleset, so if you’re not much of a TTRPG player, many terms and features may seem alien to you....

July 26, 2025 · 2 min · 369 words · Kristen Goodwin

Battle Of The Decades: Were The '90s Or 2000s Better For JRPGs?

It’s hardly guaranteed that you’ll agree, but in the eyes of a fair number of fans, theJapanese role-playing gamescene never shone brighter than it did throughout the 1990s and at least the mid-2000s. There was a veritable avalanche’s worth of new games coming out every year, many of which quickly developed followings. Plenty of these games are still spoken of with high reverence today. To be sure, there have been a good number of great JRPGs in the 2010s and the 2020s....

July 26, 2025 · 7 min · 1486 words · Joann Harrington

Best Ancestry Combos In Daggerheart

Summary InDaggerheart, Critical Role’s tabletop roleplaying game, there are 18 different ancestries you can choose to play as, giving players a plethora of options. However, beyond those standard 18, you can also choose to mix ancestries together to form unique combinations. After all, why just play a drakona or an elf when you can play half-elf, half-drakona? When you do this, you must select one ancestry feature from each ancestry. If you want to have more than two ancestries, you may’t have more than two different features....

July 26, 2025 · 6 min · 1223 words · John Anderson