Board game releases 2021: 10 upcoming board games you should play
Getting excited about an upcoming game is a wonderful thing, so this list is here to stoke those particular fires…
Modiphius Entertainment Reveals Two New 'Star Trek Adventures Klingon Empire' Accessories
Modiphius Entertainment revealed Star Trek Adventures Klingon Empire Gamemaster Toolkit and Dice Set, for use with the Star Trek Adventures…
Alien: The RPG, Tales from the Loop and Mutant: Year Zero are half price for Black Friday
A number of RPGs from Free League Publishing are half price as part of the publisher’s Black Friday sale, including…
Pathfinder Adventure Paths are coming to the Savage Worlds RPG
Beginning with Rise of the Runelords.
WizKids Figure and Terrain Release Calendar for Q2 of 2021
Retailer Tool Tracks Releases of 'D&D', 'Pathfinder', and Other WizKids' Fantasy Figures WizKids has been producing a ton of figures…
The Big Get Bigger: PRH Acquires S&S
Penguin Random House and ViacomCBS have entered into a definitive agreement for PRH to acquire Simon & Schuster for $2.175…
RPG: Black Friday Roleplaying Deals
Hurry up and finish your turkey so you can take advantage of these Black Friday and Cyber Monday D&D and…
Giving Thanks to Our Community
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, and several other countries celebrated their day of giving thanks over the past…
Long-Range Sensors Picking Up New Adventures!
We’ve been publishing adventures for Starfinder (in the form of Adventure Path volumes) since the game’s launch three years ago,…
Weird West RPG Deadlands wrangles three adventures into a new hardcover book
Deadlands creator Shane Lacy Hensly has Kickstarted a new bovine-focused campaign for the Weird West RPG called Blood Drive. The…
D&D 5E lead designer says improvements to racial depictions will take “several years” to fully implement
A lead designer for Dungeons & Dragons 5E has reassured that the RPG’s changing approach to racial depictions will not…
A Thanksgiving Horror: The Turkolich
As the holiday season roars down upon us, your thoughts may turn to family, friends, merriment, and feasts. In other…
‘80s Judge Dredd board game Block Mania returns to let everyone wreck more Mega-Cities
Block Mania, a classic board game based in the world of Judge Dredd, will be republished by 2000AD and Rebellion…
SHIVER: An Interview With Barney Menzies (Parable Games)
Barney Menzies of Parable Games reached to me at the Tessera Guild about their Kickstarter for SHIVER: “A Tabletop RPG bringing your…
Dark fantasy RPG Blackbirds brings a world of chaos and godlessness powered by Zweihänder
We’ve been waiting for this moment to arise
Social RPG app Role is opening up early access and adding custom game support this week
Ahead of full launch next spring.
Pathfinder Encounter: We Be Zombies!
This week on our series of Otari-themed blogs, we’re changing things up with a quick encounter that GMs can add…
D&D: Five Weapons Due For A Comeback
Tired of the same old short sword, long sword, great sword options? Here are five weapons out of D&D’s past…
How to Create Fun and Fascinating D&D Puzzles
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything tapped veteran RPG puzzle designer Elisa Teague to help you create puzzles for your D&D game.…
Black Friday Sale – Save 25% on Paizo Digital Products!
Black Friday Sale - Save 25% on Paizo Digital Products! Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Looking to fill out your…
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Two
This week, we’re starting with bards and going through… oh, who knows. Whatever 3-4,000 words gets us. Since you don’t…
Quest RPG designers are teasing a new card game called Queens
A standalone card game set in the Quest universe.
You can own a replica of Dungeons & Dragon’s Yawning Portal Inn next year for $350
The most famous tavern with a deathtrap in the middle can soon be the main attraction of your tabletop game…
Pathfinder: Troubles In Otari Means Adventure At Your Tabletop
A new standalone adventure from Pathfinder wants you to step beyond the beginning town. Come check out the Troubles in…
The 4th Pillar: Finding the 4th Pillar
There are supposedly three pillars that hold up tabletop RPGs: Roleplaying, Exploration, and Combat. These pillars cover almost everything you…
Dune: Adventures in the Imperium RPG reveals cover art and plans for a spring 2021 release
Those looking forward to Dune: Adventures in the Imperium can now preview the cover for the upcoming RPG adaptation of…
Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: November 25, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Zoolocaust Minis The animals [infected by a virus] started to become…
How to make “leveling up” a narrative tool
Thumbnail image from the Dark Souls videogame You killed a dragon, gathered a certain amount of experience for doing so,…
7 best Magic: The Gathering gifts for Christmas
It’s the time of year where you’ll be thinking about what you should buy your loved ones. That’s fine if…
'Magic: The Gathering' 'Secret Lair: Secretversary' Superdrop Features a Set with Bob Ross Art Lands
Wizards of the Coast announced that one the set in the Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair: Secretversary Superdrop will contain…
Rogue Review- Galaxy Trucker
I initially played this game at the first ever d20 Radio Gamer Nation Con oh so many years ago. I…
D&D: Add Some Holiday Cheer With The D&D Holiday Specials
Add some holiday and gaming cheer to your life with a new batch of holiday-themed D&D games featuring some familiar…
Megaliths, Icelandic Beasts, and David Alroy with Tristan Zimmerman
Stonehenge (Wikipedia) Megaliths, Icelandic beasts, and David Alroy with Tristan Zimmerman. Tristan from Molten Sulfur Blog joins me on the…
WizKids Figure and Terrain Release Calendar for Q1 of 2021
Retailer Tool Tracks Releases of 'D&D', 'Pathfinder', and Other WizKids' Fantasy Figures
Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 Factional Strife
By John Houlihan Great storytelling is often built on conflict and when it came to the narrative design of the…
Loke Battle Mats Announces 'Battle Mat Board Dungeon and Grassland'
Loke Battle Mats announced Battle Mat Board Dungeon and Grassland, two foldable laminated mats for TTRPGs, for release in December.…
A Love for Every Day – 5
Four years ago, I created a homemade book for my wife with all these quotes about Love from our favorite…
WFRP: Black Friday Begins Early
Cubicle 7 has announced their massive black Friday sale starts early–meaning you can save a ton on RPGs like Warhammer…
Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina Offers a Little Animation 101
Hey, critters! If you're a fan of Critical Role — that self-described "bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors who sit around…
RPG Accessories: Thanksgiving Feast Homebrew
Don’t play with your food! Unless you’re fighting it, then good luck! This week we’re having a thanksgiving food fight…
MEDIA ALERT: MODIPHIUS ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES DECEMBER 2020 PRE-ORDER DATE FOR DUNE: ADVENTURES IN THE IMPERIUM ROLEPLAYING GAME
MODIPHIUS ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES DECEMBER 2020 PRE-ORDER DATE FOR DUNE: ADVENTURES IN THE IMPERIUM ROLEPLAYING GAME Cover reveal heralds December pre-order and advance…
Kids on Bikes confront The Snallygaster Situation in new board game spin-off
Kids on Bikes, the popular tabletop RPG about ghastly horror in a sleepy town, will soon be playable as a…
Media Release: Alone Against the Tide – Chaosium releases new solo adventure for Call of Cthulhu
Here’s something new to play if you’re staying in over Thanksgiving – our latest Solo Call of Cthulhu release, Alone Against…
Dungeons & Dragons’ first attempt to address RPG’s race problems disappoints its community
Dungeons & Dragons 5E sourcebook Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything released on November 17th, and the community has been digesting the…
Corvus Belli and Die Hard Dice Ink a Deal
Corvus Belli S.L. and Die Hard Dice have inked a deal to produce metal dice for use with Infinity N4.…
DUNE #1 – What Is Dune?
by Jason DurallThe novel Dune, published in 1965, is an international success whose fame and popularity have won readers across…
Explore Scarred Lands in massive Dungeons & Dragons adventure Dead Man’s Rust
Dead Man’s Rust invites Dungeons & Dragons 5E players to use the Scarred Lands setting from World of Darkness publisher…
The Game Mechanic: C is for Class
Surely, the concept of “Class” needs no prolonged introduction – the concept goes back to the very beginning of the…
The Spice Will Flow in a New 'Dune' RPG
Modiphius Entertainment unveiled Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, a new roleplaying game based in the Dune universe, for release in…
Wizards of the Coast Announces a 'Magic: The Gathering' 'Secretversary' Superdrop
One Year Anniversary 'Secret Lair' Direct Sale Set Features an Artist-Focused Series of Cards Wizards of the Coast announced the…
Warhammer Fantasy: Explore Middenheim, City Of The White Wolf In WFRP
The City of the White Wolf has opened up–Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay has released a new massive city supplement for Power…
This Week on Twitch, Nov 23 – Nov 29
This Week on Twitch, Nov 23 - Nov 29 Monday, November 23, 2020 Check out what we have in store…
Artificer 101: Armorer (from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything is here, and it’s time to get familiar with the dozens of new subclasses found within—starting…
Awesomsticks Podcast Ep. 02
This week's episode tackles the diversity woes of Wizards of the Coast, the Vampire battle royal game, and a little…
A Blue Rose Chronicle, Designing Envoys to the Mount
Here at Green Ronin Publishing, we love us some epic campaigns. Long-term games that involve lots of play time, the…
WizKids Unveils 'Quick-Pick' Units for Retailers
WizKids unveiled its new Quick-Pick units for their Wave 14 releases expected in March 2021. To ease initial launch pressures…
Beyond the Audience: Paint Me a Picture
We’re almost at the end of our little series here, so before we close this book, I wanted to chat…
Pathfinder: Final Week For Beadle And Grimm’s Golarion Expedition
It’s the final days of Beadle and Grimm’s first ever Kickstarter–and one of the best ways to track your Pathfinder…
Snag over 20 roleplaying games on Itch.io while raising funds for Trans Day of Remembrance
A group of roleplaying designers have added their games to an Itch.io bundle raising money for several support organisations as…
The Dark Art Sale of 2020
For the next two weeks… 20% off more than 150 original paintings. It’s a dark holiday season. So pair it…
Level Up: Origins List
As we near our final manuscript for the first three chapters of Level Up, here's a quick look at our…
D&D: Speedrunner Beats Baldur’s Gate 3 In Six Minutes
Baldur’s Gate III’s expansive early access content can be finished in 30ish hours… or six minutes. Watch as the Devs…
Force Wizard – Much To Learn (Consular Career)
“Force Wizard” is my series on the Force & Destiny Careers’ Signature Abilities.Welcome back to Force Wizard. As I mentioned…
Renegade Game Studios Teases a 'Kids on Bikes' Board Game
Renegade Game Studios teased The Snallygaster Situation, a Kids on Bikes board game, coming to retail in 2021. Renegade is…
RPG: The Army Painter’s New GAMEMASTER Terrain Will Level Up Your Tabletop
Make your next dungeon fit exactly what you need–the Army Painter’s new Gamemaster terrain kit will help you custom build…
Rolling for Initiative — Of Cauldrons and Lawsuits
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Pimpcron: Faith in Humanity Restored
Pimpcron gets all gushy about fellow gamers. Us nerds and gamers get a bad reputation for being smelly, socially awkward,…
Beadle and Grimm’s Character Chronicles Go Digital!
Friends, We're very excited to announce that all unlocked Character Chronicles are now available for purchase as PDFs! The PDFs…
RPG Spotlight: Invisible Sun
It’s time to awaken from your boring fake life and join the world of magic and the weird as we…
Find the Path Presents Hell’s Rebels
Find the Path Presents Hell’s Rebels Friday, November 20, 2020 Find the Path, a Paizo official partner, is excited to…
Galactic Misadventures
On the Trail of the Judge Child We took a short interlude with last week’s blog to take a look…
D&D: Duel of the Red Dragons
Looking to add some Dragons to your next Dungeons & Dragons game? Specifically Red Dragons? Two Dragons enter the arena…
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part One
This is the beginning of what will surely (barring catastrophe in the next couple of months) be an extended series…
We create the Love Letter expanded universe and pick our real-life RPG classes on the latest Dicebreaker Podcast
On this week's Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt plays mahjong with cat people, Wheels sinks his fangs into Fury of Dracula and…
One-on-One Roleplaying: Supporting Co-Creation in Your One-on-One Game
We’ve written previously in this series about the importance of approaching a one-on-one 5E game as a co-creative storytelling process.…
Outside the Box – November 20th
Hello again, this week we have news about Frostgrave, Infinity, Conquest, Star Wars Armada, Bolt Action, Dropfleet Commander and more!A…
D&D BREAKING: Gale Force 9 Sue WotC Over Breach of Contract
Legal troubles for WotC this week, as miniature & game manufacturer Gale Force Nine has filed suit against Wizards of…
Finder’s Archive – Blooming Marsh
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic: The…
D&D miniatures maker Gale Force Nine sues RPG publisher Wizards of the Coast
Disputes over licensing and distribution have led to back and forth litigation.
Sail the treetops in Wildsea, a futuristic RPG inspired by Bastion and Blades in the Dark
Become part of a crew of sailors in a world where ships travel on top of trees in Wildsea, a…
#FalloutFriday Feedback
By Jon Webb Our first #FalloutFriday has come and gone and it was great to see players, painters and hobbyists…
November Roundup
This week has been beyond busy. Multiple long days for the day job and a reminder that working from home…
Gale Force Nine Sues Wizards of the Coast
Gale Force Nine filed suit against Wizards of the Coast in Washington on Tuesday, as a dispute over GF9’s licenses…
WoTC Raised $4,400 For Children’s Hospitals With D&D Cover Art Auction
Wizards of the Coast earned over $4,400 for Extra Life 4 Kids and the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals with five…
Pathfinder Beginner Box Sanctioning
Art by Ksenia Kozhevnikova As promised in our monthly update blog, we’ve been working hard on sanctioning playable content for…
Cool People Play Dungeons & Dragons Now
Between celebrity dungeon masters, high profile games for charity, and million dollar campaigns, Dungeons and Dragons has become a game…
Social Media Platform Changes
On December 1st the D&D Adventurers League Facebook group and DM Discussion group will be archived. Starting today, no new…
Fight Item Run melds retro video games and a modern approach to tabletop roleplaying
Don’t hoard those phoenix downs!
Perilous RPG swaps a GM for story cards written by Kids on Brooms co-creator
Venture into the depth of a dungeon in search of adventure in Perilous, an upcoming RPG that features story-prompting cards…
Sally Phillips and James Acaster are among the comedians playing more Dungeons & Dragons for Comic Relief
Comic Relief is bringing another set of popular UK comedians to the gaming table in order to fundraise aid for…
Before the Stroke of Midnight (Edgar Allan Poe and 5e): An Interview With Tove Lund Jorgensen & Erik Jorgensen
When I saw Midnight Tower’s latest Kickstarter, A Mystery Adventure Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe for 5e, I knew I…
Cyberpunk Red’s starter set and Cyberpunk 2020 are just £6 in the latest RPG Humble Bundle
Pick up the starter set for Cyberpunk Red - the latest edition of the tabletop RPG that inspired this year’s…
Wizards of the Coast Raises $1.4 Million for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
Extra Life 2020 Campaign Results in Sizeable Donations From WotC Gaming Communities Wizards of the Coast announced that it has…
D&D Holiday Specials
4 December: Comic Relief Plays D&D Episode 2 After our first stream with Comic Relief earlier this year raised an…
Downtime Activities at the Dawnflower Library
Adventurers don’t spend every waking moment in moldering crypts or dangerous fens. When heroes need a break, they can take…
Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: November 18, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Perilous RPG Perilous is a dungeon crawling RPG about braving the…
EYES ON THE WASTELAND
Surveys are always tricky - the way you ask a question can lead people to answer a certain way, the…
So You (Still) Want to Play in Midgard? Part One
Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote an article entitled “So You Want to Play in Midgard? (But You…