Here's a guide on how to build an orc using the 2024 Player's Handbook, including all the changes to the species.

There are many ways in which Dungeons & Dragons unintentionally encourages racism through racial coding. Orcs are the easiest example.

Orcs in D&D fulfil the same function as Stormtroopers in Star Wars, goes the argument. They are cannon fodder for the players, who gain experience points and level up by overcoming adversaries.

"Once you’ve been to Orc City, you'll never stop wanting to beat the Elvish King to death with your bare hands." ...

Dungeons & Dragons now reigns as a cultural powerhouse, the OG of tabletop role-playing. In its 50th anniversary year, the storied fantasy role-playing game is now making a long-overdue, and ...

A change to Dungeons and Dragons' half-race system has sparked another debate over the game's allegedly racist past.

When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row For men awaiting execution in Texas, illicit games of Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline. Some of Billy Wardlow’s Dungeons & Dragons maps, character sheets ...

Previous Orcs Must Die games had designated campaigns that take you through different dungeons paired with endless horde modes, Deathtrap, on the other hand, is presented as a roguelike.

What do all the posts about Orc City mean, and what are they making fun of? Here’s the origin of the Orc meme, and why it ...

As Dungeons & Dragons turns 50, critic Glen Weldon looks back on playing the game in its early years — and stumbling upon the fierce, shoulder-padded illusionist that would become his first ...