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Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Ravenous Hordes – STL Six Factions are part of…

Webbed Sphere, Inc. announced that they have acquired Flying Buffalo, Inc. in a deal that was finalized on July 31.…

Designer and artist Jeeyon Shim has won the Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program for 2021, the first year this specific…

Plate armor made of tableware. A mask carved from a hag's face. These are the kinds of homebrew magic items that inspire…

In Episode 01 | A Lively Welcome: Four scholars are sent to a small desert town to investigate a wild…

The world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra comes to your tabletop in an brand-new RPG…

WizKids will release Critical Role: NPCs of Exandria - Set 1,  a new miniatures set, into retail stores in November…

The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance is the very first tabletop adaptation of the beloved Dungeons & Dragons actual play…

Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…

Archeologist Scott Smallwood returns to the podcast to discuss treasure hunting and looting in real life and in role-playing games.…

People riding dragons has a long history in media and literature. Let’s take a look. In Games Workshop’s Age of…

Welcome to this week’s EN Publishing news update! This week we have new 5E content, a look at two upcoming…

WizKids revealed Characters of Tal'Dorei - Set 1 and NPCs of Tal'Dorei - Set 1, two Critical Role character sets,…

DESIGNER’S NOTES – Part 2. By Kevin Ross  Hi all, here is second part of my overview to the upcoming…

This past weekend I conned my wife into watching a Time Loop movie. Now, I normally have to qualify this…

Steamforged Games, a well-known tabletop game design company whose games include Godtear, Guild Ball, and many licensed options, has announced the upcoming…

Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game launched its crowdfunding campaign on August 3rd, supporting an official adaptation of the widely popular…

“Alright Tuku. Today you’re going to teach me about water spirits!” Ija turned toward her companion and gave a fierce…

One thing about being a writer with one foot in queer romance and the other in queer spec fic is…

Free League Publishing is offering The Bloodmarch and Book of Beasts, for Forbidden Lands RPG, through a Retailer Pledge reward…

As a DM it’s my goal to create a believable world for my players to explore, interact with, and change.…

Art by Anna Fehr, copyright Wizards of the CoastWe’re back this week with another magic item for Dungeons and Dragons 5e…

Starting a new campaign and want a break from the same old “kill a being powerful enough to be a…

This week, a quick update from a quiet week: GAMA announces an accelerator programme for tabletop industry organisations from underrepresented…

Travel along the path through the Mushroom Kingdom to defeat the dreaded Bowser in The Game of Life: Super Mario…

The next generation of heroes were born at the beginning of the Churning Age, a time when peace in Arden…

The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance, a board game based on the Dungeons & Dragons actual play series, is getting…

Paizo, Inc. unveiled Pathfinder Book of the Dead, a new rulebook for Pathfinder 2E, which will hit retail in spring…

Bladesinging is the subclass for wizards who want swordplay to supplement their spells. Alongside the Eldritch Knight — which fulfills the…

Let’s take a closer look at Paizo Subscriptions, what you can subscribe to right now, and what is coming next.…

The evolutionist is a new class for Starfinder that brings to bear the power of transformation over time. As an…

In a particularly Nice episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Wheels and Meehan reimagine some of our favourite board games…

With her toned physique and straight-backed gait, Namazzi appears to be a much younger woman than she is. Her wise,…

WizKids has announced ‘Frameworks’ a new line of customizable, sprue-based miniatures for Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying games. WizKids…

Etiquette & Protocol (E&P for short) is an occasional feature where I venture into the sometimes thorny OOC arena of…

With a new Drizzt novel out this week, and Dragonlance novels not far behind, WotC sets the record straight on…

Modiphius Entertainment revealed SPECTRE: The Board Game, a new James Bond tabletop game, which will release in spring of 2022.…

Check out news of an upcoming Hasbro price increase & our 5e Artificer Guide, 40K Grey Knight Stat Updates &…

Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…

The 2021 Game Devs Of Color Expo revealed their first set of speakers coming tot he online event, along with…

Just released today from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is a quartet of few fresh images from Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle…

Drawing on our precognitive powers over the last few weeks,, we’ve been taking a sneak peek at the Judge Child…

Welcome to Dungeons & Dragons, a roleplaying game where you'll create a hero to play as in adventures! One of the…

A new 100-card Historic Brawl queue is coming to Magic: the Gathering Arena, giving fans the closest thing yet to…

“Give it your allsix. Give it your allsix.” The chipper voice sang out in the spacious green and yellow interior…

This week we’re stepping into the shoes and the biplanes of the historical World War II era bomber regiment, The…

Critters rejoice! The Legend of Vox Machina animated series is coming soon to Amazon Prime. And to give us a…

Since the launch of Pathfinder Second Edition, we’ve released a number of adventures set in the Mwangi Expanse. The upcoming…

Presented here are more adventure hooks for your mid-to-high level characters. As before, these can be used as single encounters,…

Photo by Konevi from Pexels (Public Domain)When should you End your campaign? This is one of those little nuggets that…

Experience adventures in outer space with the Starfinder RPG, which is currently available at a discounted price in a Humble…

Yes, the satanic panic gripped the nation and got D&D books banned, but another RPG had a brush with authority.…

Command a team of G.I. Joes against the nefarious forces of Cobra in the upcoming G.I. Joe Deck-Building Game. Based…

Hello friends. Today we are looking at the releases for July, including our first printed content expansion, Histories of the…

Today, we’re launching the Starfinder Beginner Box Humble Bundle to support ComicBooks For Kids! The bundle’s tiers include PDFs of…

Descent: Legends of the Dark is a bold - and controversial - new direction for the beloved dungeon-crawler series. Like…

Dimension 20’s new D&D series, The Seven goes back to school–fantasy high school that is, with a look at “seven…

In the first two parts of this three-part series, I talked about how the pandemic induced rescheduling of a number…

From shorter adventures, to encounters with more of a roleplay focus built in, D&D’s lead designer confirms: actual play shows…

Find all the evidence you need to get yourself arrested for murder in Cluedon’t, a reverse version of the classic…

Clerics are best known for being the designated healers of Dungeons & Dragons 5E. Which is actually a little limiting,…

Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons fans will notice a slight increase in prices sometime between now and the…

The Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game is time-travelling its way into a new era for the tabletop RPG with the…

WizKids released a massive preview of the D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Booster Set,…

Steamforged Games revealed the Stormbird Expansion, for Horizon Zero Dawn boiard game, which will be coming to preorder soon. The…

Cubicle 7 Games revealed that they have released the Second Edition of Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game, available for pre-order.…

Every expression of D&D has its own canon. Our studio treats D&D in much the same way that Marvel Studios…

While we can only imagine at the wonders that The Wild Beyond the Witchlight will bring to light, the following is a…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! War of Ashes – STL & Resin Minis Bigger!…

In Episode 01 | A Lively Welcome: Four scholars are sent to a small desert town to investigate a wild…

Adventuring in the wilds can be fun, but sometimes your campaign remains within the borders of a town, village, or…

Create characters who can harness the power of the heavens in Stargazer’s Guide to Aroria, a supplementary sourcebook for Dungeons…

Archon Studio announced that they will be bringing their line of Dungeons & Lasers RPG terrain to retail at the…

Do you eat your vegetables? Do you love a good artichoke? In that case, how about a game that’s all…

In a quarterly earnings call, Hasbro revealed that WotC is leading the way for all things digital, including a new…

RPG designer and writer, Shawn Merwin, joins me on the podcast today. We discuss Shawn’s history with role-playing games and…

This week, ICv2’s top-selling games show the success of Cyberpunk and third-party 5e games. Hasbro reveals its Q2 results, showing…

Lucky Duck Games launched Divinus, a new app driven tabletop game, for preorder on Gamefound. In Divinus, the Nordic Gods…

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Marcus was miserable. Sign up for border forces, his father said. See the world. Lend your strength and inner fire…

We want to know what you think of D&D—and if you play Magic we want to hear what you have…

DruidArchdruidAt 20th level, your Wild Shape has no duration. In addition, when you cast a druid spell you do not…

From console skins to minis that remind your players to look for Materia and watch out for the cute monsters,…

A hit Japanese indie RPG that combines roleplaying with the hidden traitor of social deduction games like Werewolf is headed…

Over several articles in this series, I’ve talked about a few insights I’ve acquired playing a Threefold setting Modern AGE…

In our final article of this series, we’ll take a look at a group of monsters so varied and vast…

Chaosium Inc., publishers of Call of Cthulhu issued a statement supporting trans existence this Sunday after transphobic statements by the…

D&D players prove that they hate fun and fear change: WotC has announced they’re dropping new subclass concepts from the…

Blight Sickle. Art by John Avon. Copyright Wizards of the CoastI was scrolling through TikTok the other day (things I…

Fall in love and try not to fall in a fight with Dueling Fops of Vindamere, an upcoming roleplaying game…

Greetings all! With only 13 weeks to go until Level Up Advanced 5E, this week includes a murder mystery Kickstarter…

Sales in Hasbro’s newly created Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming segment more than doubled in Q2 2021, behind…

A new set coming exclusively to MTG Arena next month is going to add 31 new cards that are only…

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The Long War goes ever on… Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure. From the Grimdark,…

Education is far from easy at the oldest and most prestigious magic academy in the world. The newest students at…

A mysterious package begins an otherwise inauspicious journey through the world of Spire’s End: Hildegard that will send its heroine…

Howdy, everybody. Paizo Publisher Erik Mona here. I wanted to stop by the blog today to talk about some upcoming…

There has been some discussion online about the failure of monster challenge ratings to keep up with leveling characters and…

Okay, folks, I’m feeling good today, I think we’re finishing off who- or whatever Tasha has been cooking in that…