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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Join sisters Katie and Abbie for some fun trivia! Today's theme: Friends.

Join sisters Katie and Abbie for some fun trivia about your favorite pop culture books, games, and movies/TV.

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 Wanderhome by Jay Dragon -- a cozy, pastoral game that sees the players going on a journey across the land of Haeth.

Join the Monster Best Friend Club as we say farewell to this year's excellent slate of monsters. We celebrate the ending of Our Legal Yearly Monster-based Perfectly Intense Competition and the closing of another chapter in annals of monster history.

Join sisters Katie and Abbie for some fun trivia! Today's theme: Marvel Cinematic Universe.