Mid-Summer Monster Madness: Opening Ceremony

Your favorite Monster Pageant/Competition/REALITY EXPERIENCE is back and fiercer than ever! This year our monsters will face challenges testing their mettle, their cleverness, and their grit as they battle over the prize of a millennia: Monster Mansion! These monsters will put it all on the line to win a true American Dream: a house!

Join us over the month of July as we winnow down our pool of monsters to find the most truly deserving, ruthless, and charming contestant. We will announce our final winner during our closing ceremony on August 4.

A Taste of RPGs: Brindlewood Bay

Watch AADL staff try out a series of tabletop role-playing games to get a taste of the wide variety of genres, play styles, and rulesets that exist today. This time they are playing Brindlewood Bay, a game about a group of elderly women—members of the local Murder Mavens mystery book club—who frequently find themselves investigating (and solving!) real-life murder mysteries.

Game Designer Expo | Role-Playing Safety: How To Run Tough TTRPG or LARP Sessions – And Succeed!

Getting into role-playing can be exciting and fun, but it also comes with many challenges. How do all of the players get onto the same page about what they're comfortable with? How do we deal with sensitive issues when they come up? And most importantly, how can we ensure everyone has a good time by the end of the session?

Play the Board Game Diplomacy Online

Diplomacy is a board game first published in 1959 that is more popular today than ever before. Players play major European powers in the years leading up to World War I and strive to be the first to control most of the continent with their armies and navies. But here's the twist: there are no dice, no cards, and nothing random in the game. It all comes down to making (and breaking!) alliances with the other players.

A Taste of RPGs: Coyote + Crow

Watch AADL staff try out a series of tabletop role-playing games to get a taste of the wide variety of genres, play styles, and rulesets that exist today.

This time they are playing Coyote & Crow, a Nebula Award nominated sci-fi and fantasy tabletop role playing game set in a First Nations alternate future where colonization never happened. This game was created and lead by an all Native team.