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Over the past few weeks, we have been monitoring the spread of COVID-19 and closely following the situation and adjusting…

CONTENT WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT Far Verona, a streamed tabletop RPG produced by J.P. “itmejp” McDaniel’s RollPlay brand has scrapped the…

Far Verona is a streamed tabletop RPG produced by JP “itmejp” McDaniel’s RollPlay brand. It scrapped the rest of its…

Posted on Apr 2, 2020 | Something different is happening in the Oracle of War campaign for the D&D Adventurers…

I’d like to address my fellow Star Trek Adventures gamemasters for a moment and try to convince you that your next campaign…

By Gavin Dady A very short Dev blog this time to talk about the rules PDFs that we have released…

While our store is still operating, the current pandemic may cause severe delays to your orders, especially to non-UK shipments.More

When the Star Trek Adventures project manager, Jim Johnson, invited me to contribute to the Delta Quadrant Sourcebook, needless to say, I was…

Creating and fleshing out starships for the newly-released Delta Quadrant Sourcebook for the Star Trek Adventures RPG was an interesting job. Most of Voyager’s trek through…

Conjure forth new magic in your D&D games with the spells and tattoos introduced in today’s Unearthed Arcana. Many of…

We're continuing to record remotely as we shelter in place here in the Seattle area. Greg & Shelly hash out…

Welcome to the second and a half developer blog for Elder Scroll: A Call to Arms! Second and a half?…

COVID-19 is changing the daily lives of many of us in the Wizards of the Coast community and the world…

Being able to work with the team at Arkane to bring the world of Dishonored to life as a tabletop…

Since the release of the Star Trek Adventures RPG in July 2016, Modiphius Entertainment has steadily released supplemental books covering each of…

When the call went out for ideas for Strange New Worlds, Mission Compendium Vol. 2, I was excited. Right here was…

The Gamma Quadrant evokes a lot of imagery for fans of Star Trek, in particular the events of the devastating Dominion…

Posted on Mar 13, 2020 | Online tabletop gaming sessions have become increasingly more popular, thanks to online chat and…

Posted on Mar 13, 2020 | As our community members reconsider meeting in person for their weekly games and larger…

Listen to the D&D liveplay podcast community telling stories inspired by Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount. The liveplay podcast community brings…

In the most recent canonical lore, the World of Darkness events that occurred in London paved the way for the…

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The wargames team enjoyed creating robots using the new Automatron deck. In part one, Charlie and Ethan talk about their…

[embedded content]How can you recognize a polyhedral gaming die made in the 1970s? The video above gives my tips for…

Wargames developer at Modiphius Ethan Heywood previews a new Narrative Campaign Expansion ‘Caught in the Crossfire' for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare.More

Black Void RPG designer Christoffer Sevaldsen discusses the new free quick start for the game which is the perfect way…

Achtung! Cthulhu is Modiphius' oldest original RPGs It's Lovecraftian World War II with tentacles and has provided thousands of hour's…

In this second Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms developer blog Gavin Dady discusses what additional miniatures and factions you can…

James Barry discusses writing about the Dominion War in the new Star Trek Adventures Gamma Quadrant RPG supplement for the…

Featured image by Cristian Palmer A TTRPG set deep in the ocean featuring psionic characters who “fight mental, physical, and…

The Fallout: Wasteland Warfare wargames team discuss the new Automatron Card Deck which provides new options for playing robots in…

Modiphius Jason and Modiphius Charlie put Suiciders through their paces against some of the denizens of the Wasteland… Hey Wastelanders!…

The popular cyberpunk, dystopian future Netflix TV series is getting the tabletop treatment thanks to Hunters Entertainment and fans of…

When it comes to streaming RPG shows, we all have our favorite game masters. Matt Mercer usually comes to mind…

John D.Kennedy, writer on the Star Trek Adventures: Gamma Quadrant RPG Sourcebook, discusses writing the book.More

Featured photo by Ray Kachatorian The internet’s most popular and successful streaming D&D show is now giving Critters a look…

One of the most popular Vampire: The Masquerade streaming shows in the past couple years have unveiled a list of…

Fans of the Arkane Studios’ Dishonored video game franchise can rejoice as the world of the Empire of the Isles has been adapted into a tabletop…

NBCUniversal is launching a streaming service in April called Peacock and there is talk of a potential animated series starring…

Paizo, the publishers of the Pathfinder RPG, announced their supplementary products for their January release, including a brand new Adventure…

Penny Arcade, the company that has produced a long running web comic and the Acquisitions, Inc. D&D franchise, launched a…

Whether you're a new player or a veteran of the game, finding a Dungeons & Dragons group can be challenging. If…

The Illusionist in Dungeons & Dragons was created by Peter Aronson, an early Boston-area fan. In 1975, Aronson submitted an initial…

Back when D&D turned 40 in 2014, I put up a post about the date I favored for celebrating its…

Dungeons & Dragons grew out of a tradition of miniature wargaming, and distributors of figurines were among the first companies…

It is no exaggeration to say that Greg Bell was effectively the first staff artist of Tactical Studies Rules. Not…

Before any daring cartographer mapped underground dungeons in pursuit of fantastic adventure, Chainmail described a system for subterranean tunnels on…

Old school Dungeons & Dragons fans know that Greg Bell's beloved lizardman from the inside cover of Greyhawk (1975) served as…

One of the great riddles that has vexed D&D players for generations is this: why did armor class in original…

Sometimes chunks of gaming history come down to us without much context. That is the case with today's specimen, a…

When it comes to unearthing the influences behind Chainmail (1971), Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren's medieval rules with a fantasy…

Sometimes you need to stop dissecting the roots of Chainmail for long enough to appreciate the humor that the authors…

Just months before Chainmail came out, when Gary Gygax put together the seventh issue of the Domesday Book, he included…

This weekend at the Wizards of the Coast "Stream of Many Eyes" event I got my hands on a copy…

"We're known down here as the strange people with the funny dice," begins Bob Waltman, describing the reputation of the…

In the early days of gaming, a title could pass through a lot of hands before making its way to…

Early in 1980, TSR Hobbies circulated a slender booklet containing graphics and copy for hobby stores to reuse when advertising…

Gary Gygax explicitly called the Guidon Dungeons & Dragons document the "first draft" of the game in a cover letter.…

If anything could draw the attention of the mainstream press of 1976 to an obscure pastime like Dungeons & Dragons, it…

Two years before Chainmail was released, and a year before there was a Castle & Crusade Society, Gary Gygax was…

Early in 1976, no one had any idea that Dungeons & Dragons would go on to transform the gaming hobby.…

Of the gamers who assembled and self-published variant fantasy role-playing rules in the 1970s, few showed the dedication of Michael…

Early press about D&D rarely has the luxury of wading deep into the play of ongoing campaigns. That is what…

It was early in November 1979: the publication of the Dungeon Masters Guide had recently completed the core Advanced Dungeons &…