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It’s no secret that Dungeons & Dragons is having a moment. 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. In fact, the game has become so mainstream in recent years that Hot Topic even sells a line of Dungeons & Dragons clothing.
This cultural turnaround is due in large part to D&D featuring prominently in the Nextflix series Stranger Things. 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.
But 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.
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. 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. 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.
The sourcebook that has received the most attention, however, is probably The Explorer’s…
