190 Fun Facts About Dungeons & Dragons

In which year was the original Dungeons & Dragons box set first published?

The three-booklet set had a production budget of only $2,000, with just $100 set aside for artwork.

Which two designers are credited with creating Dungeons & Dragons?

The pair later fell out; Arneson filed the first of five lawsuits against Gygax and TSR in 1979.

Which 1971 miniature wargame supplied the original combat rules for D&D?

Its 14-page fantasy supplement already included heroes, wizards, elves, orcs and dragons.

What is the referee who narrates a D&D game and plays all its non-player characters called?

Other systems use 'Game Master'; the 1983 cartoon even made the role a diminutive, mysterious character.

Which die decides whether an attack hits in D&D combat?

The other polyhedrals mostly roll damage; two ten-siders together make 'percentile dice'.

How many ability scores does a D&D character have?

They are Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma.

In which year did Wizards of the Coast buy the near-bankrupt TSR and take over D&D?

The buyer had made its fortune with Magic: The Gathering and was itself bought by Hasbro two years later.

For roughly how much did Hasbro buy Wizards of the Coast in September 1999?

The company had been founded by Peter Adkison in 1990 and named after a guild of wizards in his own D&D campaign.

Where is Wizards of the Coast headquartered?

Lake Geneva was TSR's home; at its 1983 peak the company employed more than 6% of the town's population.

The original 1974 game had only three character classes. Which of these was one of them?

The others were fighting-man and magic-user; races were human, dwarf, elf and hobbit before Tolkien's lawyers objected.

In 1977 D&D split into two branches: a basic game and which more rules-heavy line?

The split lasted until 2000, when the 3rd edition dropped the 'Advanced' prefix.

Which was the first hardcover D&D book, published in 1977?

The Player's Handbook followed in June 1978 and the Dungeon Masters Guide in August 1979.

What colour was the box of the 1983 Basic Set revised by Frank Mentzer, with Larry Elmore cover art?

Elmore's cover shows a warrior facing a red dragon; the 1977 Holmes set had come in a blue box.

Who led the small TSR team that designed AD&D 2nd Edition, released in 1989?

Cook later designed the Planescape setting in 1994.

In which year did the 3rd edition reunite the game's two branches and launch the d20 System?

A revised 3.5 followed in July 2003, and the rules were released under the Open Game License.

What working name did Wizards of the Coast use for D&D 5th edition during its 2012 playtest?

More than 75,000 playtesters sent feedback before the 2014 release, timed to the game's 40th anniversary.

On what date was the 5th edition Player's Handbook released?

It topped Publishers Weekly's hardcover nonfiction list, selling 22,090 copies in one week.

The 4th edition (2008) cut the alignment grid down to how many alignments?

They were lawful good, good, evil, chaotic evil and unaligned; 5th edition brought back the classic nine.

Gygax credited the law-versus-chaos alignment idea to which two fantasy authors?

Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions also gave the game its regenerating troll.

D&D's 'memorize a spell, cast it, forget it' magic came from which author's Dying Earth stories?

The lich-god Vecna's name is an anagram of the author's surname.

The vorpal sword, which lops off heads on a lucky roll, takes its name from which poem?

The 'Blade Barrier' spell, by contrast, was inspired by the flaming sword at the gates of Eden.

The owlbear and the rust monster were both inspired by what?

The bag of figures was mislabelled 'prehistoric animals' and actually contained kaiju from Ultraman and Godzilla films.

What does a rust monster want from adventurers?

Gygax liked the idea of a non-lethal creature that eats hard-won possessions rather than the characters.

Roughly how big is a gelatinous cube?

It has been in the game since the 1974 'white box', sliding down corridors digesting whatever it engulfs.

Which many-eyestalked floating monster does Wizards of the Coast keep as 'Product Identity'?

The original Japanese Final Fantasy used one as a boss but renamed it 'Evil Eye' for North America to dodge TSR's lawyers.

Which tentacle-mouthed, psionic monster is also known as an illithid?

They first appeared in TSR's newsletter The Strategic Review in spring 1975 and are the villains of Baldur's Gate 3.

The displacer beast was borrowed from a creature in whose 1939 story 'Black Destroyer'?

The coeurl later reappeared in his novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle.

D&D's near-unstoppable tarrasque is loosely based on a legend from which country?

The Provençal tarasque was a dragon-like beast said to have been tamed by Saint Martha.

Tiamat, queen of the evil chromatic dragons, is usually depicted with how many heads?

One per chromatic colour: red, blue, green, black and white; her name comes from a Babylonian goddess.

Which lich-turned-god is missing his left hand and left eye, both now legendary artifacts?

His holy symbol is an eye in the palm of a left hand; Stranger Things borrowed the name for its season-four villain.

Which demilich lurks at the heart of Gygax's notoriously deadly module Tomb of Horrors?

Gygax wrote it for tournament play at the 1975 Origins convention; it has been called 'the deadliest game ever written'.

Which 1975 Greyhawk magic item opens into an extradimensional space and reacts catastrophically with a portable hole?

Its interior connects to the Astral Plane; it was created by Rob Kuntz and Gary Gygax.

Which D&D wizard began as Gary Gygax's own player character in the Greyhawk campaign?

Gygax called him his favourite character to play; his name survives on spells and the Tome of Foes.

What is the name of the planet on which the World of Greyhawk is set?

Gygax pronounced it 'Oith', like a Brooklyn accent, and first drew its lands over a map of North America.

Ed Greenwood created which campaign setting as a child in the 1960s before selling it to TSR in 1986?

He had been publishing articles about it in Dragon magazine since 1979; the first boxed set came in 1987.

Which vast subterranean realm lies beneath the surface of Toril, the world of Ed Greenwood's setting?

It is home to the drow city of Menzoberranzan, birthplace of Drizzt Do'Urden.

Which author created the renegade dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden?

He invented the character on a whim when his publisher needed a replacement in an early draft of The Crystal Shard.

What kind of animal is Guenhwyvar, the magical companion Drizzt summons from a statuette?

Drizzt debuted as a supporting character in the Icewind Dale Trilogy before headlining dozens of novels.

Which husband-and-wife team conceived Dragonlance while driving to a job interview at TSR?

Tracy Hickman then teamed with Margaret Weis; the first novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, appeared in 1984.

What is the name of the Dragonlance world?

Its residents include kender such as Tasslehoff Burrfoot, and its evil goddess is Takhisis.

Which vampire, first met in a 1983 module, is both ruler and prisoner of the domain of Barovia?

The Hickmans created him after a disappointing session in which a vampire was just sitting in a random dungeon room.

Keith Baker's Eberron beat roughly how many other entries to win Wizards' Fantasy Setting Search in 2002?

The setting mixes pulp, noir and steampunk, with warforged robots and a continent-spanning lightning rail.

Sigil, the 'City of Doors' ruled by the Lady of Pain, is the hub of which 1994 setting?

Zeb Cook was told to make it explainable to Marketing in 25 words or less and free of the words 'demon' and 'devil'.

What does the old AD&D combat statistic THAC0 stand for?

Third edition scrapped descending armor class in favour of rolling high against a target number.

Who founded Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons (BADD) in 1982?

Her case against TSR was dismissed in 1984, and Michael Stackpole's Pulling Report later dismantled her statistics.

Which future star headlined the 1982 TV movie Mazes and Monsters?

The private investigator on the real case wrote a 1984 book refuting any link between the game and Egbert's troubles.

Which anchor's 1985 60 Minutes segment questioned whether D&D was dangerous for children?

The New York Times reported in 2016 that the moral panic over the game had subsided.

How do the six kids in the 1983 D&D animated series get transported into the realm?

The show ran three seasons on CBS; its unproduced finale 'Requiem' would have revealed Venger as Dungeon Master's son.

What is the name of Bobby's pet baby unicorn in the 1983 cartoon?

Frank Welker provided the vocal effects; the group's main foe was the wizard Venger.

Which Oscar winner played the villain Profion in the much-derided 2000 Dungeons & Dragons film?

Shot in Prague, it earned $33.8 million worldwide against a $45 million budget and scored 14 on Metacritic.

In Honor Among Thieves (2023), Chris Pine plays Edgin Darvis, a member of which character class?

Hugh Grant's Forge Fitzwilliam is the con-artist villain, and filming began in Iceland before moving to Belfast.

Honor Among Thieves cost about $150M to make. What was its worldwide gross?

It topped the US box office on opening weekend with $37.2 million but was still called a disappointment.

Which studio made Baldur's Gate 3, first to win Game of the Year at all five major shows?

Wizards had rejected the studio's first pitch after Divinity: Original Sin, then said yes after seeing its sequel.

Who ran the game for the first three campaigns of the web series Critical Role?

Its 2019 Kickstarter for an animated special raised $11.3 million and became The Legend of Vox Machina on Amazon.

What is the Upside Down creature in Stranger Things season one, named for a D&D demon prince?

The show also spawned an official 5th edition starter set in 2019.

In which small Midwestern town did Gary Gygax found TSR and the Gen Con convention?

The first Gen Con was held in the town's Horticultural Hall in 1968, rented for $50.

What was Gary Gygax's day job until he lost it in October 1970?

Losing the job at Fireman's Fund pushed him toward game design full time.

Which animated series featured Gary Gygax voicing himself alongside Al Gore and Stephen Hawking in 2000?

The episode was 'Anthology of Interest I', with Nichelle Nichols also in the group.

Dave Arneson's proto-D&D fantasy campaign, run in the Twin Cities in 1971, was set in what barony?

Its dungeons lay beneath a castle represented by a Kibri model kit of Branzoll Castle.

Who engineered Gygax's ouster from TSR in October 1985 after buying out the Blume brothers?

Her family trust held the Buck Rogers licence, and TSR duly published Buck Rogers games, novels and comics.

Which language received the first non-English edition of D&D, in 1982?

By 1992 the game was available in 14 languages and had sold over 2 million copies in 44 countries.

Roughly how many copies of the original D&D set sold in its first year?

Sales tripled to 3,000 in 1975 and kept climbing as college and high-school students discovered it.

Which three-word product lines were the core rulebooks of the 2024 D&D revision?

The 2024 revision released new Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide, with the Monster Manual following in February 2025.

A backwards-compatible revision of 5th edition was released in 2024 to mark which anniversary?

Fans and D&D Beyond now often call the revised rules 5.5e.

In which year did Wizards of the Coast release the Open Game License, just before 3rd edition?

The licence sparked a boom of third-party d20 supplements, and later Paizo's Pathfinder.

What did the first Gen Con in 1967 look like, before it took its name?

The event is now remembered as 'Gen Con 0'; the convention has since grown into one of North America's largest.

Which Christian tract publisher put out 'Dark Dungeons', portraying D&D as an occult recruitment tool?

The same publisher ran a 1989 article by William Schnoebelen, a self-described former Satanic priest.

Which US state's Waupun correctional facility bans D&D for 'promoting gang-related activity'?

Idaho State Correctional Institution bans it too, as part of a blanket ban on role-playing games.

In which year did D&D co-creator Gary Gygax die?

He was 69 and had suffered two strokes four years earlier.

Where did Arneson teach game design from the 1990s until shortly before his death?

He died in 2009, a year after Gygax.

With whom did Gary Gygax found TSR in October 1973?

Gygax could not find a publisher for D&D, so the pair set up the company to self-publish.

Who founded Wizards of the Coast in 1990?

The company began outside Seattle and is now headquartered in nearby Renton.

Which collectible card game did Wizards of the Coast debut in July 1993?

It premiered at the Origins Game Fair in Dallas.

Who edited the original 1977 D&D Basic Set?

It was based on Gygax and Arneson's original work.

Dragon magazine, launched in 1976, replaced which earlier TSR publication?

The Strategic Review ran for only seven issues.

In which year did TSR first publish Dungeon magazine?

It began as a bimonthly periodical devoted to adventures.

Which fictional pantheon was in the 1980 Deities & Demigods but cut from later printings?

Arkham House had already licensed the Cthulhu property to rival game company Chaosium.

Most of the first Fiend Folio's monsters came from which British magazine?

Readers had submitted the creatures to its 'Fiend Factory' column.

Which good-aligned dragon appeared alongside five evil dragons in the 1974 white box?

The copper, brass, bronze and silver dragons arrived in the 1975 Greyhawk supplement.

A mind flayer's head resembles which sea creature?

The look has been compared to H. P. Lovecraft's creations.

What object stores a lich's soul in D&D lore?

The real-world word can mean a box of Jewish prayer verses.

The drow are traditionally connected to which spider goddess?

Later publications have explored drow societies unconnected to her.

What hair colour do D&D's drow traditionally have?

They are a dark-skinned subrace of elves from the Underdark.

Which two features did 4th edition designers make most prominent on tieflings?

The redesign aimed to make the newly core race look more intimidating.

In which edition did dragonborn first become a core race in the Player's Handbook?

Designer Richard Baker said it let the mix of characters evolve.

D&D kobolds are small reptilian humanoids distantly related to which creatures?

They have long tails and a reptilian look in most editions.

Gnolls are hybrids of humans and which animal?

They are a staple humanoid monster of the game.

A mimic most commonly disguises itself as what object?

It was an original creation for the game's underground environments.

D&D's halflings are a renamed version of which Tolkien race?

Middle-earth Enterprises trademarked the original term.

The demon known as a balor was originally called what in early D&D?

The name was changed after copyright disputes over Tolkien's creations.

Elminster is known as the Sage of which Forgotten Realms locale?

He appears in several novels by Realms creator Ed Greenwood.

What is Elminster almost always seen smoking?

It spouts vile-smelling blue or green smoke.

Raistlin Majere's cursed pupils take which shape?

They let him see the effects of time on all things.

What is the name of Raistlin Majere's twin brother?

His half-sister is Kitiara uth Matar.

The Xanathar, a Waterdeep crime lord, is what type of monster?

He lends his name to Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

Dark Sun is set on which post-apocalyptic desert world?

The setting has no deities and psionics are extremely common.

In which year did the original Dark Sun boxed set appear?

It was one of TSR's most successful releases.

What is the pocket dimension of the Ravenloft setting called?

Its domains were brought together by the mysterious Dark Powers.

What is the ruler of each Ravenloft domain called?

Each is forever trapped within the magical mists surrounding their domain.

Which campaign setting puts D&D adventures aboard ships in outer space?

Ships powered by spelljamming helms tend to look like galleons or animals rather than sci-fi craft.

Eberron is set primarily on which continent?

The setting follows a vast destructive conflict called the Last War.

Who created Eberron's warforged in magical creation forges?

They were freed at the Treaty of Thronehold when the Last War ended.

Which setting was the default world for the 'Basic' D&D line through the 1980s and 1990s?

Its central continent is called the Known World.

Which 1995 setting casts players as divinely empowered rulers on the continent of Cerilia?

It revolves around bloodlines: divine power passed to descendants.

What deck of cards does the Dungeon Master use to randomise Curse of Strahd?

It decides the location of allies, magic items and Strahd himself.

In which year was the 5th edition adventure Curse of Strahd released?

It is based on the Ravenloft module of 1983.

Tomb of Annihilation is set in which jungle region of the Forgotten Realms?

The 256-page hardcover was released in September 2017.

Which studio developed the original 1998 Baldur's Gate video game?

It was the first game to use the Infinity Engine.

The offspring of which dead god drive the plot of the Baldur's Gate games?

The prophecy of the seer Alaundo says only one will remain to become the new Lord of Murder.

What was the name of the module-building toolset shipped with Neverwinter Nights?

The sequel's Electron Toolset was rewritten in C#.

Which duo directed Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves?

They also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Gilio.

Who plays the barbarian Holga Kilgore in Honor Among Thieves?

Her character breaks out of the frozen prison Revel's End alongside Edgin.

Who directed the 2000 Dungeons & Dragons film in his feature debut?

He had wanted to make a film based on the game since 1990.

Which Japanese studio animated the 1983 Dungeons & Dragons cartoon?

The show was a co-production of Marvel Productions and TSR.

How many episodes of the 1983-85 D&D animated series were made?

It ran for three seasons on CBS.

Who is the primary villain of the 1983 D&D animated series?

The kids receive magic items from the Dungeon Master to fight him.

Community's 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons' episode is played to cheer up which student?

The episode was pulled from Netflix and Hulu in 2020 over a scene with Chang in dark makeup.

James Dallas Egbert III, whose 1979 disappearance sparked D&D panic, attended which university?

A child prodigy, he had enrolled at 15 to study computer science.

Which company published the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game in 2009?

Paizo had produced Dragon and Dungeon magazines under contract from 2002 until 2007.

Which comic strip by artist Larry Elmore ran in Dragon magazine?

Elmore's concept art also sold Dragonlance to TSR management.

Which two Dragonlance products did TSR publish in 1984?

The novel began the Chronicles trilogy.

What was the first Forgotten Realms novel, published in 1987?

Douglas Niles reworked a Celtic-themed trilogy to fit the new setting.

The original 1974 D&D offered how many alignments?

Players chose lawful, chaotic or neutral; the good-evil axis came later.

How many alignments does D&D's classic two-axis grid produce?

Neutral sits in the middle of both the law-chaos and good-evil axes.

Which class did the 1975 Greyhawk supplement add as D&D's fourth main class?

The same booklet added the paladin as a fighting-man subclass.

Which 3.5 edition book introduced the warlock class in 2004?

Warlocks gain power through a fell pact rather than study.

Which 1976 supplement introduced the druid as a player-character class?

Druids can shift into animal forms and lose their powers in metal armour in 3.5.

Which book series did Gygax credit as inspiration for the monk class?

He wrote this in a foreword a decade after the class debuted.

In AD&D 1st edition, original bards had to progress through which class sequence?

Only after all that did they truly become bards, under druidical tutelage.

Who coined the term 'hit points'?

He borrowed the idea from the wargames Don't Give Up the Ship and Ironclads.

Which module, packed with the Basic Set from 1979 to 1982, features the Caves of Chaos?

Gary Gygax wrote it, and it was first printed in December 1979.

G1, the first Against the Giants module, targets which kind of giant?

The 1978 modules continued into the drow series.

Who wrote module Q1, Queen of the Demonweb Pits?

It sends characters into the Abyss to fight the drow's demon queen.

The Temple of Elemental Evil (1985) expands which earlier Gygax module?

Frank Mentzer co-wrote the expanded adventure.

Bahamut, King of the Good Dragons, is known by what title?

In his first appearance he was simply called the Dragon King, with no personal name.

D&D's devils originate from which plane?

They are lawful evil, ruled by archdevils known as the Lords of the Nine.

D&D's demons, such as Orcus and Juiblex, are native to which plane?

The Abyss and its population are said to be theoretically infinite.

Which science-fiction author created the githyanki?

They were officially adopted in the 1981 Fiend Folio and featured on its cover.

The yuan-ti are a species of evil what?

Some settings say they descend from human cultists who mixed their bloodlines with serpents.

Which studio developed the MMORPG Dungeons & Dragons Online?

It was originally marketed with the subtitle Stormreach.

In which month and year did Baldur's Gate 3 fully release on Windows?

Its first act had been in early access since August 2020.

After which game did Wizards of the Coast reject Larian's first Baldur's Gate 3 pitch?

Prerelease material for its sequel won them a second hearing.

Who has been the regular Dungeon Master of Dimension 20 since its 2018 debut?

The show is produced by and broadcast on Dropout.

How many episodes of The Legend of Vox Machina's first season were Kickstarter-funded?

The season ran to twelve episodes on Amazon Prime Video in 2022.

Acquisitions Incorporated began in 2008 as a podcast by the creators of which webcomic?

The players moved to livestreaming games at PAX from 2010.

Which 1982 Spielberg film opens with kids playing D&D?

Spielberg ran a D&D session with the young cast before shooting.

What was the title of the Freaks and Geeks finale in which the geeks play D&D?

James Franco's Daniel is forced to join the Audio/Visual Club.

In which year was Tasha's Cauldron of Everything published?

Its cover art is by Magali Villeneuve.

Why did Gygax reportedly produce Unearthed Arcana in 1985?

Much of its content was not reused in 2nd edition after his departure.

Al-Qadim, released in 1992, is set in which land themed on One Thousand and One Nights?

It is called the Land of Fate.

Kara-Tur, D&D's East Asian-inspired region, was first described in which 1985 book?

It was originally intended as a western part of Greyhawk's Oerik.

What is the immortal protagonist of Planescape: Torment called?

He forgets everything each time he is killed.

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn is set mainly in and around which city?

The sequel to the 1998 original was released in September 2000.

What nationality is Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood?

He began writing Realms articles for Dragon magazine in 1979.

Tracy Hickman said he sold TSR his modules Rahasia and Pharaoh so he could buy what?

He and wife Laura had originally published them privately.

What does the 'I' in the BECMI series of D&D boxed sets stand for?

Frank Mentzer's five boxes took characters from first level to godhood.

Which Tom Moldvay module was distributed inside the D&D Expert Set?

That made X1 one of the most widely played modules of its time.

Who was TSR's first employee, hired by Gygax in 1975?

He went on to edit Dragon magazine.

In which year did Gen Con move to Indianapolis?

It had been fixed in Milwaukee since 1985.

What keeps the Neverwinter river warm despite the city's northern location?

The city is also called the Jewel of the North.

Which character did R. A. Salvatore originally intend as the protagonist of The Crystal Shard?

Drizzt was created on a whim as his companion and became the breakout star.

What is the halfling member of Drizzt's Companions of the Hall called?

The group is named after the dwarven stronghold of Mithral Hall.

Arneson's Blackmoor grew out of which series of games by David Wesely?

Duane Jenkins's Old West variant Brownstone came in between.

The Hand and Eye of Vecna were inspired by items in which author's Corum novels?

Ioun stones, by contrast, come from Vance's Dying Earth series.

How many meteors does the spell Meteor Swarm hurl?

Each explodes like a fireball.

Besides the cube, how many faces do the other four Platonic-solid dice have?

The Pythagoreans very likely used the Platonic solids as dice.

The wizard Tenser's name is an anagram of what?

He was created by Gygax's son Ernie, one of the first two D&D players.

What was the first treasure ever found in a D&D game, by Gygax's children Ernie and Elise?

The chest was too heavy to carry, to the children's disappointment.

Slaadi are extraplanar creatures that resemble giant humanoid versions of what?

Their frog-like look made them the butt of player jokes for years.

Mordenkainen leads which cabal of powerful Greyhawk wizards?

Gygax formed the group from Mordenkainen and seven of his other characters.

In which year was AD&D 2nd edition published?

It ran through the 1990s until 3rd edition replaced it in 2000.

How many pages was the first AD&D Players Handbook of June 1978?

Mike Carr edited it and wrote the foreword.

In which month and year was the original AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide published?

The 232-page hardcover was written by Gary Gygax.

Whom did Gygax ask to become co-Dungeon Master of his Greyhawk campaign?

It let Gygax experience the game as a player for once.

Where is Menzoberranzan, the drow city of the Drizzt novels, located?

It lies about two miles below the Surbrin Vale.

Which Baldur's Gate II villain is a powerful, sinister mage?

The story continues that of Gorion's Ward.

By 1981, roughly how many people worldwide were playing Dungeons & Dragons?

By 1984 the rulebooks were selling about 750,000 copies a year, and by 1992 the game was in 14 languages across 44 countries.

In the 2019 player survey, what share of D&D players identified as female?

Gen Z made up 40% of players that year, the sixth straight year of growth, with starter-set sales up 300 percent.

By how much did virtual D&D play rise in 2020, according to Wizards' head of publishing?

Revenue climbed 35% in the pandemic year, aided by online platforms like Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds.

From which company did Hasbro acquire the D&D Beyond digital toolset in 2022?

Fandom had bought it from Twitch subsidiary Curse in 2018; by 2024 D&D Beyond delivered over half of the brand's earnings.

Which former Microsoft executive was appointed the first Senior Vice President for the D&D brand in 2022?

The move signalled Wizards' push into digital after buying D&D Beyond; executives soon called the brand 'under monetized'.

In September 2022, Wizards apologised for racist material in which 5th edition setting book?

Game design architect Chris Perkins then announced an inclusion review with outside cultural consultants.

Which two TV shows got official 5th edition starter box sets from Wizards of the Coast?

Wizards also tied 5th edition to Magic: The Gathering worlds with Ravnica and Theros sourcebooks.

Under which name did Wizards announce the next phase of major D&D changes in August 2022?

It fed into the 2024 50th-anniversary revision; by March 2026 D&D Beyond was calling that content '5.5e'.

Which two senior D&D designers left Wizards after the 2024 core rulebooks shipped?

Both had been on the design team for decades; Screen Rant called their exit the end of an era.

On what date did D&D Beyond launch after a beta that began that March?

Adam Bradford led the project for Curse in partnership with Wizards; a similar toolset, D&D Insider, had served 4th edition.

Which actress approached Critical Role's cast about streaming their home game for Geek & Sundry?

G&S first proposed resolving combat in a video game, which DM Matthew Mercer rejected in favour of the tabletop.

How many episodes did Critical Role's first campaign run before ending in October 2017?

Campaign two then ran 141 episodes from January 2018 to June 2021.

How much did the 2019 Kickstarter for The Legend of Vox Machina animated special raise?

A planned 22-minute special became a ten-episode series and one of the fastest-funded Kickstarters ever.

Who was chief executive officer of Critical Role Productions, per 2019 reporting?

Mercer was chief creative officer and Marisha Ray creative director as of 2019; the cast own the show's intellectual property.