But when it comes to dungeon delving, my favorite 5E D&D sourcebook is one that hasn’t received much press. Now those are all great titles, and each offers an excellent way to change up the D&D experience a little bit. Two sourcebooks to help expand your 5E D&D game. Set in the world of the popular actual play podcast/YouTube series Critical Role, the book is written by Matt Mercer, Critical Role’s celebrity and fan-favorite Dungeon Master. The sourcebook that has received the most attention, however, is probably The Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, released back in March. More recently, Mike Mignola’s beloved Hellboy series received its own role-playing game powered by the D&D 5E rules thanks to a successful Kickstarter from Mantic Games. Back in June, the DC Comics Black Label series The Last God received the Dungeons & Dragons treatment with the release of The Last God: Tales from the Book of Ages, a sourcebook for bringing the world of Cain Anuun into a 5th Edition (5E) D&D game. Not only does all this notoriety mean more people are playing D&D, but more people are writing really cool sourcebooks to expand the game. That cultural collision has proven so popular that Wizards of the Coast (owner of the Dungeons & Dragons brand) released the Stranger Things D&D Starter Set last year.īut the game also owes its rise in popularity to a number of celebrities, such as Joe Manganiello, Vin Diesel, Stephen Colbert, and many others who endorse the game and cite it as a positive creative force in their lives. This cultural turnaround is due in large part to D&D featuring prominently in the Nextflix series Stranger Things. In fact, the game has become so mainstream in recent years that Hot Topic even sells a line of Dungeons & Dragons clothing. Once a game derided as the fringe hobby of obsessive nerds and social misfits (raise your hands proudly, folks!), D&D is now the darling of tabletop gaming.

It’s no secret that Dungeons & Dragons is having a moment.

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