The core of the new Dungeons & Dragons rules have been released into the Creative Commons so you can use them when you publish your own D&D material

The core of the new Dungeons & Dragons rules have been released into the Creative Commons so you can use them when you publish your own D&D material

Last year, Wizards of the Coast announced that when the three core books that formed Dungeons & Dragons’ updated 2024 ruleset were out, the essence of those rules—the System Reference Document, or SRD—would be made available under a Creative Commons licence. And now, it has. This is a big deal because, while D&D’s 5th edition…

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Security Researchers Warns of Vulnerability Affecting Several Netgear Routers

Vulnerability traces back to Netgear’s Genie application A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in several wireless routers made by Netgear that could give an attacker unauthenticated access, both locally and remotely. The vulnerability relates to a service that communicates with Netgear’s Genie software, an accompanying program that provides a desktop (or mobile) dashboard so…

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Todd Howard reveals that Fallout’s famous line ‘War never changes’ nearly didn’t make it into the TV show ‘because it can sound cliché’

The most iconic line in Fallout, the line that has kicked off every single Fallout game, usually spoken in the dulcet tones of the narrator Ron Perlman, almost didn’t make the cut for the Fallout TV show. This wasn’t for any insidious reason or because the showrunners didn’t like the sound of it—it was actually…

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