New Character Backdrops and Sanguine Dice for All D&D Beyond Subscribers!
June and July's powers combined ... make for some bloody good subscription perks! July's free subscription perk includes five character backdrops…
Tales of Lost Omens: The Calm Before the Storm
“…and from the village of Mua’bri, I bear an earthenware cauldron, banded in lightning and dusted with gold, that the…
RPG Accessories: D&D Collectibles
From toys to art and sometimes a mixture of both, there are loads of Dungeons and Dragons collectibles to decorate…
Conan Journeys East in ‘The Wanderer’
Modiphius Entertainment will release Conan the Wanderer, a new sourcebook for Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, in the…
Meet The Mwangi Expanse Authors!
While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple…
ZEITGEIST Returns with Ryan Nock’s ‘Death of the Author’ for D&D 5E
Welcome to the first official ZEITGEIST adventure in over five years! This gorgeous 65-page adventure from the pen of critically-acclaimed…
Finding a Big Bad: Plants!
Get out your trowels and gardening gloves, today we’re going to dive into the jungles of the Plant monster type.…
RPG: Call Of Cthulhu’s 40th Anniversary System In Action – ‘The Auction’ Shows Off New Kickstarter
Call of Cthulhu turns 40 this year, and is celebrating with a brand new Kickstarter for ‘Call of Cthulhu Classic’…
The Workshop – Kickstarter Korner: Stargazer’s Guide to Aroria by Ink & Lyre
Kickstarter logo is copyright of Kickstarter. All rights reserved.Ink & Lyre is an RPG company started by husband and wife…
D&D Goes To Middle School With WotC’s New Publishing Plan
WotC will take D&D to middle school later this year with a new series of novels from bestselling authors like…
“The impact of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game can’t be overstated”: LCG co-designers discuss its decade-long legacy
It’s been a decade since The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game was created by Nate French, with the…
‘Magic: The Gathering’ Commander Rules Committee Updates Banned List
The Commander Rule Committee (RC) updated their banned list for Magic: The Gathering's Commander/EDH format. Magic's Commander format see rarely…
Tabletop Gallery: Typhus’ Sickly Assault
The Death Guard are noted for their spartan attitude. Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure.…
It’s A Great Big World Out There
The first volume of the Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path, “Planetfall,” is out now, but whenever your group plans…
So You Want to Play a Dimension Hopping Trickster God for Some Reason, Part 2: We Got Your Timelines Right Here
Last time on SYWtPaDHTGfSR, I chose an article series title that did not lend itself to a catchy acronym. I…
Rogue’s Gallery: Zarkut Baros
Zarkut Baros stands straight and proud despite his short and portly figure. His well-fitted armor is polished and embossed in…
You can now play the Avatar: The Last Airbender tabletop RPG with free quickstart rules
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, an upcoming tabletop RPG based on the world of animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender…
Runescape Mobile – The BoLS Review
RuneScape is a blast from the days of MMORPGs past. Now on Mobile, RuneScape delivers a world with more than…
D&D Live Lineup Reveal: Tiffany Haddish, Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, And More Join The Ranks
D&D Live is going to be packed with famous faces ready to play some Dungeons & Dragons, including Patton Oswalt,…
Astral Projections – Baby Rancor for FFG Star Wars
© 2021 Disney/LucasFilm Ltd.Last month, the xenobiologist was busy studying the Brezak. (FFGSW and SWSE) This month they turn their…
The best Dungeons & Dragons references in Magic: The Gathering’s Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is the latest Magic: The Gathering set and, alongside being one of the more cumbersome…
Rolling for Initiative — More on Distributor Mags, and Has ‘Pokemon’ Crested?
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Look to the Stars
Owen Krysler Returns! Before we launch into this week’s blog, if you haven’t caught the news over on our social…
D&D’s Pelinore – An Adventurer’s Guide To The Flattest World
This week we’re shaking the dust off of a classic flat world from the other side of the pond… But…
Artificer 201: A Guide to Multiclassing
Dungeons & Dragon's artificer is a master tinkerer, creating and using magical items to enhance their combat prowess or their…
Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic Liveplay with Jason Bulmahn Premieres Wednesday, July 14
Four esteemed graduates from the College of Mysteries in Absalom are sent to a tiny desert village in eastern Thuvia…
Build Out Your Sci-Fi Force with Death Fields Minis from Wargames Atlantic
Wargames Atlantic offers six awesome sets of miniatures that you could easily use for any sci-fi miniatures game or RPG campaign.…
No-Prep Character: Gristleburst
The goblin alchemist Gristleburst is the fourth and final member of the protagonist adventuring part in the Pathfinder novella, The…
RPG Spotlight: Goblin Quest
If you’re looking for an RPG that’s hilarious, rules light, and simple enough to start playing in less than five…
D&D Live 2021
Dungeons & Dragons and G4 have assembled a studious and accomplished crew of adventurers to bring D&D Live 2021 to…
Outside the Box- July 9th
Welcome back to Outside the Box, this time with news from Corvus Belli, Privateer Press, Footsore Miniatures, Warlord Games, TT…
Wizardman: Queer and Chaos is a free tabletop RPG processing trauma through magic
The act of creation is often described as an exercise of catharsis, giving the artist an avenue for exploring -…
Kobold Dispatch: July Edition
Straight from the Editorial Director’s snout, the Dispatch provides a sneak peek at upcoming publications and projects headed from the…
The D&D Cartoon Streams On Twitch Today – Don’t Miss
The classic Marvel Studios D&D Saturday morning cartoon (and if that isn’t a marketer’s dream) is streaming all day on…
Level Up & Electronic Tools
Virtual Tabletops (VTTS)A LOT of people play online these days, and we want to support those people.Out of the gate…
D&D: Baldur’s Gate 3 Has A New Patch With Background Goals, Non-Lethal Attacks And More
The next major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3’s early access release is due out July 13th, and with it comes…
Finder’s Archive – Brushlands
Copyright Wizards of the Coast.Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of…
Talislanta, The RPG WotC Published Before D&D – PRIME
Before D&D and Magic: the Gathering, Wizards of the Coast was a small RPG publishing company in Seattle, Washington that…
‘Magic: The Gathering’ Strikes Back
TCGplayer unveiled their June data for sealed product price changes and sales, revealing trends that have developed in the TCG…
MTG: The Gods Of Adventures In The Forgotten Realms
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms gives the gods and goddesses of Dungeons & Dragons a taste of Planeswalking power in…
HarperCollins to Launch Middle Grade ‘D&D’ Publishing Program, Including Graphic Novels
Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have granted HarperCollins exclusive rights to publish middle grade fiction and graphic novels tied…
High Risk, High Reward: New Releases from Paizo
From Mwangi to Smuggler’s Moon to an uninhabited planet in the Vast, from an international fighting tourney to a haunted…
The Queen’s Dilemma will expand the narrative legacy framework of its board game predecessor
A followup to The King’s Dilemma, 2019’s board game of monarchical decisions, has been announced. The Queen’s Dilemma reunites the…
RPG: The New TSR Saga Ends – No More TSR’s
After a whirlwind few weeks the TSR saga has come to an end as the final TSR rebrands in a…
Defiant RPG: An Art Interview With Marcin Kuczyński (Game Machinery)
Kate (Katarzyna Kuczyńska) and Martin (Marcin Kuczyński) of Game Machinery have a new project on Kickstarter, Defiant. This RPG, in…
“I’m hoping to offer something different in the co-op space”: Earthborne Rangers creator talks RPG influences and sustainability
Andrew Navaro has left his position as studio manager at Chip Theory Games - the publisher behind the upcoming Elder…
You can watch Tiffany Haddish, Seth Green and Patton Oswalt play Dungeons & Dragons next week
Comedians and TV stars Tiffany Haddish, Seth Green and Patton Oswalt will be playing Dungeons & Dragons next week as…
WizKids Returns to Barovia with Two New ‘D&D Icons of the Realms’ Sets
WizKids unveiled two more D&D Icons of the Realms: Curse of Strahd Premium Box Sets, Denizens of Barovia and Denizens…
Tales From The Drift: The Monolith
From low atmospheric orbit, the crashed starship could have easily been mistaken for some great beast, slain in the heat…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Napoleonic Wars, Paranormal Investigations, and Archmagic
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Skeptics SKEPTICS is a cooperative, dice rolling game, where…
Welcome to the Expanse!
You’ve been waiting, and here it is! Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse is out today, coming out hot just before…
Tiffany Haddish, Patton Oswalt, Debrorah Ann Woll, and Others Announced for D&D LIVE 2021
Here is another press release for D&D Live 2021.TIFFANY HADDISH, CAST OF A.P. BIO, DRLUPO AND MORE ROUND OUT THE…
Ratatosk: Three Adventure Seeds
“How active are ratatosk on Midgard? Well, that’s quite hard to say. What is one more squirrel among the hundreds…
RPG: TSR Games, The One Not On Fire, Rebrands As Solarian
The tale of two TSR’s has come to an end as the company that makes ‘Top Secret’ rebrands itself as…
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to get a Pandemic-style board game adaptation
World of Warcraft and Pandemic might not sound like the most natural fit, but the venerated MMORPG will be the…
D&D: How To Make Fighting A Darklord (Or Other Boss) Spectacular
Now that Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft is here, and Darklords are back, you might be wondering, how do you…
Solo Role-Playing Games with Luke Miller
Game designer Luke Miller joins me on the podcast today. We talk gamemaster advice, writing, and running solo tabletop role-playing…
Rogue Squadron- Weapons Package
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
Power Rangers: Deck-Building Game’s first standalone set features more playable heroes and villains
Fight using the strength of the Zeo Crystal or command The Machine Empire in the first expansion for the Power…
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22 June–6 July 2021: The TSR Controversy
The past two weeks have been dominated by one subject: the new TSR and all the controversies surrounding it. In…
Free Short Story by John McGuire – The Secrets of Storytelling Part 1
A few years back I had the opportunity to write a short story for an anthology collection Beyond the Gate…
Warhammer 40K: Space Wolf Comes To Xbox
Looking to get your hands on some turn-based tactical action? Warhammer 40K Space Wolf has come crashing onto the Xbox…
8 D&D World Building Tips From Lou Anders and Travis Vengroff
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8 Worldbuilding Tips From Lou Anders and Travis Vengroff
Worldbuilding can be one of the most rewarding parts about playing Dungeons & Dragons. You get to take your friends into…
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms RED BAND TRAILER
Exciting news for fans of video game violence and animation. This weekend WB Home Entertainment released both a Red Band…
D&D Accessories: Summer Dice
Summer is time for cookouts, beach trips, and playing D&D inside with air conditioning. If it’s too hot outside, bring…
Out of this World: Horizons of the Vast Player’s Guide
“Welcome to Project: Horizon! As part of this onboarding seminar, we’ll be exploring some of the challenges you should expect…
‘Conan the King’ Arrives to Claim the Throne
Modiphius Entertainment will release Conan the King, a new sourcebook for Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, on July…
So You Want to Play a Dimension Hopping Trickster God for Some Reason, Part 1: Making a God in Modern AGE and Threefold
Let’s imagine that somehow, the cultural zeitgeist has moved to the unlikely place of trickster deities jumping through alternate universes.…
Record Times for Comics and Graphic Novels this Spring
The comics and graphic novel market had an excellent spring, with record sales for many, according to our interviews and…
Finding a Big Bad: Monstrosities
This week we take a look at one of the broadest categories of monsters in Dungeons and Dragons 5e: Monstrosities.…
‘Waves Stained Crimson’ Brings Pirates And Seafaring Adventure To The Conan RPG
Avast me hearties, the life of a pirate awaits in Hyborea with a new book for the Conan RPG, Waves…
The Workshop – Savage Worlds Pathfinder Review
Pathfinder copyright Paizo Inc, Savage Worlds copyright Pinnacle Entertainment GroupOne of the bigger stories at the end of last year…
How visionary comic book artist Moebius inspired a new wave of weird tabletop RPGs
The influence of comics artist Jean Giraud, better known by his pseudonym “Moebius”, stretches as far as the desert horizon.…
Goodman Games’ ‘DCC: Dying Earth’ Fully-Funded on KS
Goodman Games announced that its Dungeon Crawl Classics: Dying Earth Boxed Set, for DCC RPG, is fully-funded on Kickstarter. As…
Wizards of the Coast Anticipates Shortfalls in ‘Magic: The Gathering’ ‘Adventures in Forgotten Realms’ Products
Wizards of the Coast revealed that they are anticipating some shortfalls in the availability of Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in…
Rolling for Initiative – An Argument for the Distributor Magazine, and Congrats Mike Webb
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
EN Publishing News: Vampires, Coins and a Fine Shrubbery
Greetings everyone! It’s been a busy week at EN Publishing, with some upcoming Awfully Cheerful Engine! adventures that take on…
Tabletop Gallery: Separatist Captain Nemo Strikes
Prepare to repel boarders! Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure. From the Grimdark, to the…
Scrying on Subscriptions: Pathfinder Rulebooks
Let’s take a closer look at Paizo Subscriptions, what you can subscribe to right now, and what is coming next…
From the Deck of a Sandship: Of Ne’er-Do-Wells and the Roadrunner
Across the deserts of the Southlands, caravans full of riches travel between glittering spires and wealthy trading houses. Behind distant…
Move over MTG + D&D! We invent the RPG-card game crossovers that don’t exist (yet) on the Dicebreaker Podcast
This episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast is sponsored by Wild Bill's. Use promo code CHEERS15 for 15% off your first…
The 80’s D&D Cartoon Returns To Twitch This Friday
Grab your magic hat, your best friend unicorn, and your sense of adventure as the classic D&D Saturday morning cartoon…
Weird Stories wants to capture the strange mystery of David Lynch, Haruki Murakami and The Twilight Zone in a tabletop RPG
Upcoming RPG Weird Stories aims to bring the mysterious, surreal storytelling of David Lynch movies, Haruki Murakami novels and TV…
Astral Projections – Fever Dreamer, Braindancer (Cyberpunk Red)
Dreema Roman was a star ballerina in a corps sponsored by a Corporation – the kind of thing corps do…
D&D: ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Reveals New Patch, Panel From Hell III
Larian Studios is gearing up for another Panel from Hell as a major update for Baldur’s Gate III releases later…
2021’s Best Cosplay, Plastic Horus Heresy, Age of Sigmar Launches, Star Wars Slave 1 Controversy
We’ve got everything from plastic 30K rumors, to AoS 3 launch news, the year’s top Cosplays, and Star Wars’ fandom…
Advanced Concepts
Levelling Up Your Game We’ve been talking an Awfully lot about recent kickstarters (see what we did there?) and upcoming…
D&D: Catch The First Episode Of Exandria Unlimited
Exandria Unlimited is the newest series from Critical Role, bringing in a new DM, Aabria Iyengar, while Matt Mercer joins…
How to Make a Gorgeous Resin Axe & Dagger
Create this unique ice ax in a weekend using easy-to-find materials. Fabricating this glass-like axe is more time-intensive than difficult,…
4 Fey Creatures That Will Drive Your Party Wild
The Feywild represents the intrinsic power of nature: its wildness and beauty, its chaos and unscrupulous dangers. Denizens of the…
Mwangi Expanse: No Place Like Home
Our latest book, Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse is already trickling into the hands of our subscribers ahead of…
RPG Spotlight: Dishonored
Combining a videogame known for its success and a rules system we’re already familiar with, the Dishonored RPG was designed…
Pathfinder Encounter: Red Waves Aflame
Red Waves Aflame — Moderate 15 The city of Bloodcove, on the western coast of the Mwangi Expanse, is one…
Chapter 2 Update 3 – War is coming…
by Gavin Dady Three important updates this week Firstly, the good news is that by the time you read this…
Free Dungeons & Dragons adventure In Scarlet Flames replaces Magic: The Gathering’s usual short fiction
Those Magic: The Gathering players looking for traditional fiction set in the Dungeons & Dragons-tinted world depicted in Adventures in…
RPG: ‘Conan Exiles’ Brings Basebuilding To Cimmeria – Now In Print
A new sourcebook for Modiphius’ Conan RPG pulls in the exploration and survival of Conan: Exiles, the videogame. Pants not…
D&D Live: Professional Wrestlers Ember Moon, Xavier Woods, And More Join The Carnival Of Chaos
WWE’s “Most adventurous superstars” are joining the upcoming D&D Live Event for a Carnival of Chaos led by Critical Role…