These common D&D monsters may seem like easy targets, but at higher levels they can become total nightmares for even the most ...

Demaris is a reader, writer, and gamer from Juneau, Alaska. She has been writing about games, movies, and other pop culture phenomena since 2015. Demaris has a particular fondness for fantasy and ...

The classic role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons borrowed countless creatures, myths and monsters to fill its fiend folio, but not all of them. Gary Gygax and the other D&D creators added a few ideas ...

Dungeons & Dragons is bigger right now than than it’s ever been before, and its designers have spent nearly eight years building on its latest incarnation. A new introductory collection wants to tie ...

Research scientist Janelle Shane trains a neural network to create D&D monsters. Behold Hatfright, Giant Fraithwarp, Wendless Woll and Marraganralleraith. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, ...

Both the Demogorgon and the Mind Flayer are among D&D‘s most iconic monsters, but there’s still plenty left for Stranger Things to take inspiration from. So what classic monsters could get referenced ...

Dungeons & Dragons is a weird creative space. In theory, it provides a white canvas where the imagination of Dungeon Masters and players can paint any kind of picture. However, D&D also has a ...

We’ve seen neural networks create some amazing–and amazingly weird–things, from bizarre candy heart messages to designing dinosaurs out of flowers. You might remember research scientist Janelle Shane ...

The world of Dungeons & Dragons is a vast and detailed fantasy universe, brimming with creatures of every kind: monsters, beasts, humanoids, fae, undead, and more. Some of the beings that populate ...