The Escapist

You may recall a previous post in which I mentioned an article from the Orangeville Citizen titled Family still feels pain of children's murder 25 years ago: [article | archive] In it, the author drew a connection between Dungeons & Dragons and military combat training, and claimed that "the...

Artist Sean McNally has posted his résumé on DeviantArt, and from the looks of it, he got his style pointers from the Player's Handbook. (via Laughing Squid)

The latest interview at Tell Me About Your Character is with Ryan Shelton - a.k.a. The Olfactory Kid! Read the interview here. By the way, this is the 80th interview since the feature began back in 2005. Who will be the 100th? Could it be YOU?

Role-playing has been used in business, government, and the military to accomplish a wide variety of tasks - and now it's being used to raise awareness of poverty (and hopefully reduce poverty levels in the process)...

The Arizona Daily Star has a daily feature called the Tucson Time Capsule, which features a photo and caption from their archive. Today's Time Capsule is from 1979, and is titled "Dungeon Master at Work."

Last week, Laughing Squid posted about a free street D&D game that happened on Market Street in San Francisco...

I realize that I send out this same message almost every year, but it's that most awesome of holidays once again, and I know from experience that most (if not all) gamers celebrate Halloween...

The latest interview at Tell Me About Your Character is with Gaby Lopez - and it's the first interview of the series with someone from Cancun, Mexico! (Gamers really are everywhere!) Read the interview here. And if you haven't submitted yours yet, what are you waiting for?

Over a year ago, I posted two YouTube videos of the 1985 60 Minutes story on Dungeons & Dragons, which today stands as a reminder of the high level of paranoia and misunderstanding that the public had about the roleplaying hobby...

Add this to the list of things I haven't seen before - an opera about gamers! This is a rare opportunity to witness Tripod’s latest epic unfold before your very eyes. ...

The last week has been very busy for me, and I've had a lot of articles of interest piling up in my inbox. So before I get too far behind, here are some brief, bite-sized gaming advocacy news items: - You can usually rely on university newspapers to give the public a positive look at RPGs and LARP...

Here's something I'm pretty sure that I've never seen before - a young adult novel about a young woman going through changes, as so many teenagers do, and one of those changes is a sudden interest in Dungeons & Dragons: It’s Jessie’s sophomore year of high school. A ...

I'm currently revamping the Escapist Video Movie Review Report and including sections on films and television series and online films and shorts that pertain to RPGs and LARP - whether they're about the game settings, or the games and gamers who play them...

Meghan Gardner is the founder and CEO of Guard Up! Inc. and Wizards & Warriors™ Camps. Her job is one that many of us would consider the perfect one - creating plots, props, and costumes for LARP adventures for young people. ...