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White onLinda by Photo .Cottage Grim While I went to work (we need money for RPG books, you know), my…

Wizards of the Coast updated The List, a curated list of cards that can be found in Set Boosters, starting…

Check out the upcoming 40K Black Templars’ minis, Critical Role Wildemount player rules, Star Wars’ stylish N-1,  The Boys Season…

  When Dave Arneson’s lawsuit against TSR was nearing a trial date at the end of 1980, his legal team…

Everyone loves a Gelatinous Cube, so we’re going to add more of them do your next D&D session with these…

High above dense jungle rise five rocky spires that make up the city of Jrusar, where Critical Role, Campaign 3…

With new settings on the horizon, and a multiverse opening up, come and explore the center of it all: Sigil,…

The Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount features prominently in Critical Role’s campaign 3, and it helps to solve some of its…

Check your Kickstarter inboxIn your Kickstarter PM inbox you will see links to download the PDFs from your primary reward tier. That's…

So you’ve got the perfect magic item dreamed up, a +3 hammer of aggressive door opening. Or maybe you've jotted down…

Look, the plan couldn’t be simpler. Just rappel onto the roof of a speeding train filled with armed gangsters, somehow…

It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…

Hello again, this week we have news from Knight Models, Wargames Atlantic, Scibor Miniatures, Warlord Games, Anvil Industry, 3D Alien…

Extra Life 2021, supporting the Children’s Hospital Network, runs on November 5th, and Paizo is supporting their fundraising efforts! This…

We know which codexes are coming to close out the year. So what’s in store for the codexes in 2022?…

Through the Song Undying, Salamondre can fully restore the dead or dying, though they come back as undead. Within the…

TCGplayer unveiled their October data for sealed TCG product sales and price changes, and the data pointed to some new…

Come take a peek inside the hallowed halls of Strixhaven’s College of Magic next week as part of Roll20 Con.…

Welcome to the Finder’s Archive and a review is what we have in store for you this week. 😊 We…

Build and pilot mechs in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with accessible tabletop roleplaying game Salvage Union, based on the RPG system…

In the early days of TSR, before the Satanic Panic, one module proved to be infamous enough that it was…

WizKids will release two Magic: The Gathering Miniatures: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Starter Sets into retail in February 2022.…

Adam here talking all about the exciting new stuff coming for Custodes, GSC, T’au and how it could affect the…

Greetings, Starfinders! Earlier this year we announced that Fame would be going away, and this naturally prompted a number of…

OPC Musings By the time you read this, I will have returned from my first physical convention as a Paizo…

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Sticks and stones might break your bones, but these five words will hurt you– when used as part of the…

The announcement came earlier this week from the editing and publishing staffers at the new Image Comics union, Comic Book…

The new Shanty Hunters RPG on Kickstarter will finally give you an excuse to make your friends sing sea shanties…

We’ve seen the Force in movies, but there’s so much more to it. Check out our favorite Star Wars Force…

The upcoming board game adaptation of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will take place before the events of the original…

The new Pokémon: TCG Celebrations set, which commemorates 25 years since the release of the trading card game, was released…

Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition ruleset will change the way you play D&D. Its Kickstarter is in the homestretch– time…

When I found out that Mike Lafferty of Fainting Goat Games had a new project coming to Kickstarter, Goatlands Adventures…

Rat-tailed Jimmy is a second-hand hood. Deals out in Hollywood. Got a '65 Chevy, primered flames. Traded for some powdered…

By Michael Dismuke, STA Contributing Writer Are you afraid to become a gamemaster? Do you have plenty of stories, plots,…

WizKids will release Magic: The Gathering Miniatures: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms - Lolth, the Spider Queen, a premium figure,…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Amazing Encounters and Places – 5e Amazing Encounters &…

Dane Whitman was in The Eternals, but when will we get the Black Knight? Until his next MCU moment, let’s…

Adventuring is great work– when you can get it. But when you’re between quests? Here are five honest ways to…

Nhalmika Ironsight ran through the fresh snow. It wasn’t that much snow—it wouldn’t reach higher than mid-shin on a human—but…

Parties of Interest brings you brand-new organizations to add depth and flare to your campaign and expand your roleplaying opportunities.…

New patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 restores the ability to romance the brooding, beautiful Githyanki warrior. Oh, and other things…

WizKids announced the first wave of the Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition Monster Mini Series by Kidrobot, releasing in August…

If you’re planning on running a horror-themed Dungeons & Dragons 5E one-shot or campaign for your adventuring party and you’re…

You see “aquatic” in one of my article titles, you know I’m working on stuff for Under the Seas of…

With a dragon’s treasure in hand, we look towards the future. Looks like student loans and Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos.…

Brendan Lasalle, Goodman Games staff writer, joins me on the podcast today. Brendan lets us know how he began playing…

AMG announced back in September that they were instituting some fundamental changes to X-Wing, specifically eliminating the bid to determine…

In a one-liner that didn’t land quite as well I’d hoped in the Zoom seminar, I described my two main…

This is no longer the Darkest Timeline. We finally got to see the damn sailboat. It’s magical. *** I didn’t…

Today, we’re taking the time machine back to 2003 to check out the roots of the original Deathwatch from 3rd Edition.…

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil suit to block the Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon &…

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The Sword Art Online Progressive movie Aria of a Starless Night tops Japanese box offices in its opening week– and…

“The Expanse RPG is designed to tell stories in the universe of The Expanse novels, not to be a tactical…

Dungeons & Dragons is full of bruisers, brawlers, and fighters. But which classes are the best melee classes of D&D?…

Keep your desk safe from Illithids with the new D&D Githyanki statue. It’s straight off of the cover of the…

Teens can be picky readers, but most of them have passions of one sort or another, whether cosplay, cooking, or…

This week, we finally get some news about the fate of Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars RPG: unsurprisingly on its way…

A new D&D player survey from WotC seems focused on getting at what makes your settings tick, and signals a…

House Rules poster, film copyright 2009 Let’s talk about a question that I see brought up pretty regularly in various…

In Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, we've tweaked combat to give it a little more variety. We have flexible types…

VoxStory is the cinematic way to experience tabletop roleplaying – now on Kickstarter! Traditional games can be intimidating for new…

Much like recent years, miniatures have been a solid seller in 2021 and should be a pretty hot gift item…

For many days, during a stormy autumn week… …I locked myself in my studio. This is the progress of a…

In a realm between worlds lies the Temple of Beyond, an arena where adventurers from across the multiverse compete against one another for their…

Known for their cruelty, evil, and especially odoriferous home, the D&D Black Dragon is one of the worst for an…

All Hallow’s Eve has come and gone, but you can still wake the dead in D&D with these five spells.…

Last month, Dungeons & Dragons released their latest adventure book as players got to play the whimsically spooky The Wild…

What are the things that make you play D&D? Maybe it’s the open world, the opportunities to optimize or customize…

A group of nine Image Comics employees announced this morning that they have formed a union, Comic Book Workers United,…

Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a yowler without modifying its challenge rating. Decayed Dander…

This episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast is sponsored by eBay. To learn more visit ebay.com/scantolist. On this week's Dicebreaker Podcast,…

Just how meta do you want your game to be? Find out as the creators of Dungeons & Dragons become…

© Disney/Lake Buena Vista 1954 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was the first science fiction novel I read, when…

Multiclassing in D&D is a great way to add depth to your character. Diversify your druid with this 5E Druid…

From the lost Old World to the Grimdark of today, the Chaos Gods are not alone. Look upon those who…

We have 40K’s next 2 codexes and boxed set, D&Ds guide to Gruumsh and Greatwyrms, Lara Croft is getting a…

Giancarlo Esposito is one of the most versatile actors in film and television. Despite playing mostly antagonistic characters he admits,…

In the GEARS OF REVOLUTION adventure path for the ZEITGEIST campaign setting, your characters serve in the Homeland Constabulary of…

Roll20 took time this week to reveal their plans for Roll20Con 2021, including official dates and some of their special…

Where do elves come from? Well–if the stories are to be believed, it all happens when two gods hate each…

It’s time to get your Halloween candy ready, but put these D&D inspired candies away to have as a campaign…

Modiphius Entertainment has something awesome for fans of Dune – Adventures In The Imperium as they have three collector's editions.…

Games Workshop has a new Kill Team: Chalnath boxed set up along with Aeronautica and Titanicus Minis! via Games Workshop…

World Of Darkness has announced that they have launched the first official Vampire Jam for video game developers and Vampire:…

The Tomb of Horrors is an infamous dungeon–but what exactly makes it so deadly? Let’s find out. The Tomb of…

As part of Tomb Raider’s 25th Anniversary celebration, Square Enix revealed a Tomb Raider tabletop RPG is in development. Just…

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They all agreed that it was Ak’s fault. Poog, Reta Bigbad, Mogmurch, Chuffy Lickwound, even Mogmurch’s toad Amfibier agreed—in a…

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It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…

Calling all Pathfinders, Starfinders, and everyone else—go to Team Paizo’s Super Team page for Extra Life! Let’s play games so…

Welcome back to another issue of Outside the Box, this week with news from Creature Caster, Wargame Exclusive, Perry Miniatures…

As you may know by now, a Level Up character’s origin is comprised of heritage, culture, background, and destiny. We’ve…

The Midgard Worldbook already details a score of saints dedicated to the war god Mavros, but the other deities have…

To rule Arrakis, you’ll need desert power. If you want to play the Dune RPG, you’ll need the new book…

An official Tomb Raider tabletop RPG was announced as part of the series’ 25th anniversary celebration. Publisher Square Enix provided…

Halloween is this weekend. It’s time for my big list of Halloween adventures, monsters, music, and more. It’s not too…