Top 10 Hobby Channel Board Games – Spring 2021
This chart of the Top 10 Board Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2021 (January - April). The charts…
Top Collectible Games – Spring 2021
These charts of the Top 10 Hobby Channel Collectible Games, Top 3 Mass Market Channel Collectible Games and Top 5…
Hobby Game Sales Sprout in Spring 2021
Hobby game sales were up strongly overall in the Spring (January through April) season of 2021, although there were substantial…
I’m offering background commissions! (But it might not be what you’re thinking…)
Hey everyone. How’s it going? So… At last, I’ve decided to offer something resembling commissioned artwork. But it might not…
The Commoner’s Guide to Surviving Dragon Attacks
Greetings, commoner! Have you found yourself buried in rubble as a red dragon burns your village to the ground? Have…
New Starfinder Playtest
Some say the only constant is change—and Starfinder’s newest playtest is all about it! Indeed, it’s time to shake up…
Tabletop Gallery: All Hail the Omnissiah!
The Skitarii Legions march upon the galaxy without fear (thanks to that codex). Everybody loves a good picture of a…
Tales of Lost Omens: On The Move
Nkayah yawned from her post in the tall tree. The job of scouting and protecting wanderers was always more exciting…
Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics on Returning to Normal and Changing
Comic Distribution Changes, on 'Modern Horizons 2' Prerelease, Free Comic Book Day, More Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics in Ankeny,…
How well do you know your D&D monsters? Test for knowledge on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast!
This episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast is sponsored by Wild Bill's. Use promo code CHEERS15 for 15% off your first…
Tome Unbound: Graveyard Dragon
Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a graveyard dragon without modifying its challenge rating. Elemental…
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms’ best gameplay mechanic isn’t new to Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering’s latest set Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is a love letter to Dungeons & Dragons and everything…
Explore the ‘D&D’ Witchlight Carnival’s Games of Chance with New Boxed Set
Wizards of the Coast will release D&DThe Witchlight Carnival Dice & Miscellany, dice and map boxed set, on September 21.…
Call of Cthulhu expansions and Carbon Grey RPG coming from newly formed publisher
Magnetic Press Play, a brand new tabletop studio, is set to release expansions for the Call of Cthulhu series and…
D&D Live Told Us More About The Next Three Very Different 5E Books
This weekend D&D Live boasted charitable contributions, star-studded panels, and games, and gave us a look at the next three…
Astral Projections – Baby Rancor for SWSE
Last month, the xenobiologist was busy studying the Brezak. (FFGSW and SWSE) This month they turn their scholarly attentions to…
Critical Role and Dungeons & Dragons contributors collaborate on Animal Adventures: The Faraway Sea RPG
Contributors for Critical Role and Dungeons & Dragons will collaborate together on the upcoming RPG setting Animal Adventures: The Faraway…
The Elder Scrolls Call to Arms Summer Update
Hello friends Over the last weeks we’ve been reading the discussion in the community. We’re just over 18 months into…
Wizards of the Coast Unveils ‘D&D Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons’
Wizards of the Coast unveiled D&D Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, a new guide to dragonkind for D&D 5E, for release…
The Carnival Comes to ‘D&D Icons of the Realms’
WizKids revealed D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight-Witchlight Carnival Premium Set for release into retail…
Magnetic Press Announces a New TTRPG Imprint
Magnetic Press Play To Bring Back West End Games' D6 System for 'Carbon Grey RPG' Magnetic Press announced that it…
Rolling for Initiative — The Crossover I Never Expected to See
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Anjali Bhimani Talks Appearing On Critical Role’s Exandria Unlimited
This week on Critical Role, the amazing Anjali Bhimani made an appearance on Exandria Unlimited as the fire genasi Fy'ra…
Gem Dragons return to Dungeons & Dragons 5E courtesy of new sourcebook
Dungeons & Dragons 5E’s next published book doubles down on the second part of its name and stretches across multiple…
Gazing into the Void
Beyond the Solar System Having been rather busy with kickstarters and an adventure compendium for Rogue Trooper recently, news from…
RPG Spotlight: Glitter Hearts
We’re using the powers of love and friendship to take on the forces of evil this week with magical team…
Gods of the Expanse
The Mwangi Expanse is a vast and diverse place. The region’s people hold a variety of beliefs that include gods…
Outside the Box – July 16th
Here we go again, this week with news from Atomic Mass Games, Para Bellum Wargames, Mierce Miniatures, Creature Caster and…
Mothership and Old School Essentials among indie RPGs discounted in Exalted Funeral sale
Exalted Funeral has discounted a number of RPGs as part of the roleplaying retailer’s Free RPG Weekend sale, with discounts…
Saints of Midgard: St. Castillius of the Iron Rod
The Midgard Worldbook already details a score of saints dedicated to the war god Mavros, but the other deities have…
What We Know About Gem Dragons Before Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons Releases
Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons arrives October 19 and will be chock-full of our favorite scaled monsters and their minions. The book…
Ocean exploration RPG What Waits Beneath, inspired by 20,000 Leagues and Life Aquatic, is getting a ‘redux’ edition
An indie journalling RPG about exploring the ocean depths is seeing a visual overhaul and re-release in an upcoming 'redux'…
Finder’s Archive – Using SyrinScape in Your Games
Copyright SyrinscapeHello everyone, Today we’re going to take a slight detour into something else for games other than the locations.…
D&D: Fizban’s Treasury And Wild Beyond The Witchlight Product Descriptions Leaked
Curious about what awaits you in Wild Beyond the Witchlight or the newly unveiled Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons? Well, come…
Anjali Bhimani, Exandria Unlimited’s Fy’ra Rai, talks D&D, roleplaying versus acting roles, and joining the Critical Role series
Critical Role’s latest series Exandria Unlimited has introduced a brand new character, the enigmatic fire genasi monk Fy’ra Rai. While…
Nibcraft, Elizabeth Hargrave, Session Zero among finalists for the 2021 Diana Jones Award
The Diana Jones Award committee have named their finalists for 2021’s annual award for “excellence in gaming” across the tabletop…
The Birth Of Magic: The Gathering – PRIME
Magic: the Gathering saved roleplaying games, and that’s not even hyperbole. If not for Richard Garfield’s game, we wouldn’t have…
Fallout Friday July 2021
By Jon Webb The time has come once again to roll back the Vault Door and peer into the radioactive…
Hobby Game Sales Over $2 Billion in 2020
Despite the many challenges of doing business during a global pandemic, hobby game sales in the U.S. and Canada grew…
The Growing Pathfinder Society
During Year 3: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries, the Pathfinder Society finds itself under attack as dangerous threats loom over lodges…
RPG: Sit Astride The Jeweled Throne Of Aquilonia In Conan The King
Whether you have gigantic mirths or melancholies, whether you consider yourself , a thief, a reaver, or a slayer, it’s…
D&D: New Book Leaked! – The October Book Is ‘Fizban’s Treasury Of Dragons’
An intrepid YouTuber has datamined D&D Beyond and uncovered the October Book which was to be announced at D&D Live–Fizban’s…
Cloudsea: A Primer to Living Atop the Clouds: Another Interview With Miguel Colon (Beyond the Horizon)
At EN World, I interviewed Miguel Colon about his new project on Kickstarter, Cloudsea: A Primer to Living Atop the…
Magic: The Gathering’s D&D set Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is the best of both fantasy worlds
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms feels like the first time Samwise Gamgee takes his first step out of the Shire.…
Cubicle 7 Announces ‘Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game 2E’
Cubicle 7 announced DoctorWho: The Roleplaying Game 2E, which will be coming soon to preorder. The announcement of Doctor Who…
5 YA-Novel Inspired Side Plots for Your D&D Campaign Set in Strixhaven
Your typical Dungeons & Dragons adventurer is hardened by the dangers of the world and toils endlessly to snuff out…
Paizo Announces New Adventure Path Modules For Starfinder RPG
It seems that between new releases for their fantasy role-playing game Pathfinder and their science fiction game Starfinder, RPG design company Paizo has…
Horizons of the Vast: A Weydana Welcome
That morning, several survey teams landed on the planet—which scientists back in the Pact Worlds had named Weydana-4—and began taking…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Potions, Crooks, Battle Fish, & Extreme Nachos
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! BattleFish After thousands of years of submitting to a…
Paizo Announces New Pathfinder Hardcover Book & Adventure
Role-playing game designer Paizo has announced two new releases for their RPG Pathfinder! One is an Adventure document for 3rd-level characters…
Mass Effect Cosplay: Garrus and Tali are the Best Team – Fight Me
We’re knee deep in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and Garrus/Tali is the dream team. Here are some stellar Mass Effect…
Let’s Play D&D With ‘Blade’
This week we’re staying up all night to crawl through dungeons and fight vampites as we figure out how to…
Secrets of Magic Liveplay Premieres Tonight
Join a halfling summoner, a dwarven wizard, a half-elf magus, and a kitsune witch to get a first look at…
Play with Class: Play a Perfect Paladin
Welcome to another installment of the Play with Class series where we will give you solid steps to run each…
Want To Try Out Avatar The Last Airbender’s Upcoming RPG? Quickstart Rules Available Now
Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked, and now you can find out how by playing the official Avatar: the…
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Nine
It’s the beginning of the end now for the Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything breakdown series, though in total page count…
D&D: Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch Delayed, Dark Alliance Releases New Patch
Dungeons & Dragons digital developments abound as Baldur’s Gate 3 runs into unexpected difficulties with their new patch, and Dark…
Rogue Review- Fugitives and Collaborators
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at the ships you can fly in Fantasy…
Writing Sword and Sorcery Fiction with Howard Andrew Jones
Tales from the Magician’s Skull magazine editor and author Howard Andrew Jones returns to the podcast. In the discussion, we…
Wizards of the Coast Bans a ‘D&D: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms’ ‘Magic’ Card
Wizards of the Coast announced that they have banned The Book of Exalted Deeds, a card from the upcoming D&D:…
Neon Genesis Evangelion-inspired tabletop RPG The Tears of a Machine SC makes ‘mecha-drama’ accessible
An indie tabletop RPG inspired by the robot fights and teen drama of anime series such as Neon Genesis Evangelion…
Free Short Story by John McGuire – The Secrets of Storytelling Part 2
A few years back I had the opportunity to write a short story for an anthology collection Beyond the Gate…
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…