Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0000 Zack Parsons, Steve "Malak" Sumner, and friends tackle bizarre role playing game products that make them wonder, "What the fuck!?" From the early days of Gygax to contemporary role playing games, none will be spared. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/index.php en-us radium@somethingawful.com webmaster@somethingawful.com http://i.somethingawful.com/core/sa_logo_144.png http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/index.php 144 42 zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/aliens-unlimited-galaxy.php Steve and Zack encounter unknown creatures in Palladium's guide to Aliens Unlimited. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:30:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/aliens-unlimited-galaxy.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/unknown-search-urdm.php The shocking conclusion of Steve and Zack's run of D&D Module B1: In Search of the Unknown. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/unknown-search-urdm.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/search-unknown-wizards.php Steve and Zack take on module B2: In Search of the Unknown with Steve playing a level 3 gypsy. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/search-unknown-wizards.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/marvel-super-teams.php Steve and Zack combine their powers and look at the strangest Marvel super teams of 1989. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/marvel-super-teams.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/siembieda-villain-heroes.php The dynamic duo of Steve and Zack power up and take on the baddies of Villains Unlimited. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/siembieda-villain-heroes.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/halloween-monster-scary.php Steve and Zack return to the 1st Edition AD&D monster books to pick the scariest monsters. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/halloween-monster-scary.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/cyborg-gygax-1987.php Steve and Zack travel back to 1987 and face down Gary Gygax's worst role playing game. Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/cyborg-gygax-1987.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/changeling-white-wolf.php Steve and Zack live the dream with White Wolf's "Changeling: The Dreaming." Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/changeling-white-wolf.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/steve-top-module.php Steve and Zack announce the winners and discuss some of the best entries from this year's WTF, D&D!? art contest. Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/steve-top-module.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/mummy-white-wolf.php Steve and Zack tackle White Wolf's 2001 attempt to create a Mummy franchise. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/mummy-white-wolf.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/monster-manual-four.php Steve and Zack take a look at 3rd Edition D&D's worst example of a Monster Manual. Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:30:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/monster-manual-four.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/lamentations-flame-princess.php Steve and Zack don their parkas and grab their barf bags for a Finnish D&D clone with a gruesome twist. Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/lamentations-flame-princess.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Steve "Malak" Sumner and Zack Parsons) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/battletech-art-1980s.php Steve and Zack hop in the time machine back to the latter half of the 1980s, when hair was huge, vests were puffy, and FASA was fleshing out its Battletech line. Thu, 19 May 2011 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/battletech-art-1980s.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/magic-antiquities-arabian.php Steve and Zack travel back to the mid-1990s for the first Magic: The Gathering expansion packs. Thu, 05 May 2011 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/magic-antiquities-arabian.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/rifts-juicer-uprising.php It's a Rifts 'roid rage! Steve and Zack take a look at the 1996 Rifts supplement, "The Juicer Uprising." Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/rifts-juicer-uprising.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/magic-alpha-original.php Ante up and draw! Steve and Zack play their hand with Magic: The Gathering's Alpha Edition. Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:30:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/magic-alpha-original.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/kevin-siembieda-aspergers.php Steve and Zack peel a few layers off the onion of 80s super hero RPG Heroes Unlimited. Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/kevin-siembieda-aspergers.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/space-steampunk-mars.php Steve and Zack get their asses to mars via cogveyor tram. Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/space-steampunk-mars.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/rifts-canada-siembieda.php Steve and Zack bundle up and head north for a review of Rifts Worldbook 20: Canada. Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/rifts-canada-siembieda.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/werewolf-bad-art.php Steve and Zack take on some of the worst art of Werewolf: The Apocalypse from the 1990s. When will they rage? Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/werewolf-bad-art.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/christmas-elf-dnd.php From the primordial elf scrawl Fighting-Man of the original D&D to the artillery elf of 4th Edition, Steve and Zack celebrate the holiday by exploring the long history of elves in Dungeons & Dragons. Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/christmas-elf-dnd.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/vampire-artwork-montreal.php Steve and Zack return for a second pass at the artwork of White Wolf's 1990s Vampire: The Masquerade RPG. Be warned: this article contains THE IMAGE. Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/vampire-artwork-montreal.php stevesumner@somethingawful.com (Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/thanksgiving-thankful-vampirella.php Steve flies solo and brings us a short list of RPG-related reasons to be thankful this year. Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/thanksgiving-thankful-vampirella.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/spelljammer-lairs-adventure.php Steve and Zack finally tackle Spelljammer with a firecracker string of mini-adventures set in the phlogiston darkness of space. Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/spelljammer-lairs-adventure.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/fiend-folio-3e.php Steve and Zack finally break into 3E D&D with a look at some monstrous misfires from 2003's Fiend Folio. Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/fiend-folio-3e.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/silver-princess-charmander.php Steve and Zack delve back into the Palace of the Silver Princess to conclude their heavy metal adventure. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/silver-princess-charmander.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/illusion-of-decapus.php A new adventure begins! Zack DMs and Steve plays a heavy metal bard in this classic D&D module. Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/illusion-of-decapus.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/fantasy-art-2010.php Steve and Zack present a showcase of incredible erotic fantasy artwork and announce the winners of the 2010 WTF, D&D!? Fantasy Art Contest. Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/fantasy-art-2010.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/magnet-wolverine-rogueboobs.php Steve and Zack subject themselves to a session of Marvel Super Heroes to unravel the twisted caper of the The Breeder Bombs. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/magnet-wolverine-rogueboobs.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/al-qadim-monsters.php Steve and Zack take on the Middle Eastern monsters of Al Qadim. And cranapple juice. And Criss Angel. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/al-qadim-monsters.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/planescape-inner-planes.php Bad news, berk: all that glitters isn't gold and all that is Planescape isn't amazing. Explore the exasperating inner planes with Steve and Zack. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/planescape-inner-planes.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/basic-dnd-adventure.php Zack takes Steve on an epic journey in this not-so-classic wilderness adventure module. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/basic-dnd-adventure.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/white-plume-kelpie.php Haunted by memories of Kelpie boobs, Steve insists on DMing his way through D&D module S2: White Plume Mountain. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/white-plume-kelpie.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/marvel-champion-heroes.php Biff! Pow! Steve and Zack return for part 2 of their brawl over the first volume of the Gamers' Handbook of the Marvel Universe for Marvel Super Heroes. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/marvel-champion-heroes.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/marvel-gamers-handbook.php Steve and Zack have been bitten by a radioactive spider! That's the only way to explain this first-of-many reviews of back bench characters from the Marvel Super Heroes system. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/marvel-gamers-handbook.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/frazetta-vampirella-conan.php Steve and Zack mourn the death of legendary fantasy artist Frank Frazetta by reviewing some of his finest works. Thu, 13 May 2010 05:30:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/frazetta-vampirella-conan.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/fatal-worst-rpg.php Steve and Zack are tired of receiving requests to review FATAL and have decided to explain why they never will. Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/fatal-worst-rpg.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/monstrous-noid-compendium.php Geriatric sex, evil babies, and diabetes. It must mean Steve and Zack are finishing out the D&D Monstrous Compendium. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/monstrous-noid-compendium.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/monstrous-manual-adnd.php Steve and Zack are delving into the depths of AD&D's 2nd Edition monster explosion. At the end of the 1980s TSR decided to revamp their monster manuals, with disastrous results. Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/monstrous-manual-adnd.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/synnibarr-raven-mccracken.php In 1993 genius writer man Raven c.s. McCracken published the 477-page RPG book Synnibarr. 17 years later, two brave souls have finally read some of it. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/synnibarr-raven-mccracken.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/steve-vampire-twink.php Steve and Zack explore some of the questionable art produced during the 1990s for White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/steve-vampire-twink.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/steve-old-gygax.php Steve and Zack take a trip back to 1974 and the release of the original D&D books No amount of nostalgia can ever make them seem like quality products. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:30:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/steve-old-gygax.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/battletech-technical-3025.php Holiday tidings from WTF, D&D!? as Steve and Zack tackle the worst mechs of Battletech's 3025 technical readout. Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/battletech-technical-3025.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/traveller-artwork-steve.php Steve and Zack take a gander at 30 years of bad Traveller artwork. Surprise appearances by Kevin Siembieda and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/traveller-artwork-steve.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/rogue-trader-returns.php Steve and Zack subject themselves to the second half of Warhammer 40,000's Rogue Trader. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/rogue-trader-returns.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-rogue-trader.php Steve and Zack discuss the Warhammer 40,000 book that got it all started. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-rogue-trader.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/barrier-peaks-wtf.php Steve and Zack discover that UFOs have crash landed in a D&D module with no ending. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/barrier-peaks-wtf.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/street-fighter-contenders.php The worst supplement to the worst game comes to life. Witness the horror of the Street Fighter RPG's version of a Monster Manual. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/street-fighter-contenders.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-street-fighter.php Steve and Zack tackle one of the worst RPGs ever made: 1994's Street Fighter. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-street-fighter.php zackparsons@somethingawful.com (Zack Parsons and Steve "Malak" Sumner) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-dnd-contest.php Fabulous prizes, amazing artwork, and torrid romance. Two out of three ain't bad! Zack and Steve announce the winners of the 2009 WTF, D&D!? Role Playing Fine Art Contest. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-dnd-contest.php