I've fallen hard for Tavern Keeper, a sim where you manage an inn in a fantasy realm filled with halflings, orcs, and elves, serving drinks, cooking meals, and dealing with occasional devastating fire ...

The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character. A term that was born on social media, it’s not a true syndrome or mental disorder.

The new parent punch list can feel neverending, but if there is one thing that should be pretty straightforward, it’s selecting the best crib sheets for your brand-new bundle of joy. Typically, we ...

Designing characters that are both realistic and consistent across different poses, expressions, and contexts can feel like an uphill battle, even for seasoned AI creators. To help make this task ...

For all the claims of backward compatibility, there have been a lot of hiccups in the transition from Dungeons & Dragons 5e to the updated 2024 version. D&D Beyond, the official virtual compendium, ...

Back in the 90s, Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls was a deep, numbers-heavy RPG that borrowed heavily from the genre’s basis in Dungeons and Dragons. Today, The Elder Scrolls still has complex elements, ...

Donald Trump has a “character” problem. In an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention on July 31, Trump claimed, falsely, that his opponent, Kamala Harris, had identified ...

When Hasbro purchased the D&D Beyond toolset in April 2022, it set off a series of events that effectively turned that platform and its forums into the front page of 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons on ...