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Wizards of the Coast updated the status of its in-store organized play in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and…

I totally forgot about the anniversary of this site and this blog last week. As I was sitting here, thinking…

With the Lost Omens Pathfinder Society Guide now out, I wanted to delve a little further behind the scenes to…

From the creators of the original Tome of Beasts! Kobold Press has wrangled a new horde of wildly original, often…

Halloween may be all but canceled this year, but that’s no reason not to dress up as your character for…

Things are Strange at Ilvermorny is stand-alone adventure for the Genesys Roleplaying Game using the Harry Potter and the Theme…

D&D Virtual Play Weekends The success of virtual play offerings at events such as D&D Live and D&D Celebration has…

Paizo aims to misbehave with their next adventure path,  Fly Free or Die, setting players on a Firefly inspired adventure.…

Welcome to a new series in which I explore and expound upon my favorite spells. In this series, we will…

Para Bellum Wargames is launching Conquest:  First Blood, a free new skirmish-scale version of its tabletop miniatures wargame Conquest:  The…

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Landscape interior, full GM screens are pretty nifty. They provide a GM a summary of the most important rules and…

D&D is bigger than ever, according to the latest data gathered from Roll20’s, D&D accounts for more than 60% of…

Make contact with aliens and discover a way to communicate in Xenolanguage, an upcoming storytelling game inspired by science-fiction film…

WizKids will release three new packs of wild animals as part of its WizKids Deep Cuts unpainted miniatures line in…

Legendary fantasy authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, collectively with Margaret Weis, LLC., have filed suit against Wizards of the…

Back on Thursday, Dragon Turtle Games launched a Kickstarter to reprint Carbon 2185 and publish a new sourcebook called Terminal…

Jim Killen has joined Rebellion Publishing as Editor-at-Large, based in New York, the company announced.  He’ll be a member of…

Who really rules the Wasteland? Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make A…

Posted on Oct 19, 2020 | The nights grow longer, and the chill in the air, more biting. Settlements increase…

We’ve completed our second full rotation of the twelve classes in the Player’s Handbook, not to mention taken a deep…

Dragonlance creators Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are suing WotC over an alleged breach of contract surrounding a canceled three…

Check out what we have in store this week on Twitch! Also if you’re interested in running your own Pathfinder…

Escape the Dark Castle sparks an odd kind of pleasure in me. I have no personal experiences of tabletop gaming…

While The Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide makes use of the core Fifth Edition spells and spellcasting classes, it does make…

Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a ghost dragon without modifying its challenge rating. Possess…

WizKids is bringing more big monsters to its Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts unpainted miniatures line in March with the release…

The World of Critical Role is a look back over the last five years of Critical Role. From its unlikely…

Last week we released the playtest candidate for our advanced Druid class. This is the accompanying survey. As always, it’s…

Ian Livingstone is a living legend of gaming. From co-founding Games Workshop to his involvement with the creation of hugely…

Enter here for a chance to win one of 100 copies of The Fall of Castle Carrick! Alex O’Riley has…

Astral Projections presents A Literary Halloween! For October, I am providing stats inspired by tales from some of my favorite…

D&D’s lead rules designer weighs in on what racial ability scores were all about–and it turns out, it was never…

Wizards of the Coast has revealed Secret Lair: Extra Life 2020, a card set for Magic: The Gathering that will…

King Arthur Pendragon RPG is getting a new sixth edition described as the “ultimate edition” of the epic fantasy roleplaying…

Are you looking for more out of your Druids? Then come check out the latest from Level Up, the “Advanced”…

Join these intrepid adventurers as they attempt to survive and thwart Auril’s endless winter! Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden…

We created the Geek Grind Coffee Company utilizing our family's decades of passion, skill, and expertise in the cultivation and…

With the upcoming release of Baldurs Gate 3 on the horizon, lets take a look at some of the best…

What if the monster living under your bed was real? What if they were your protector and turned into a…

As previously mentioned on the Mutants & Masterminds Monday Livestream. This week we are proud to release the Amusement Park…

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What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…

Mega-City One is placed under a tight curfew by Chief Judge Cal during his reign but there is still plenty…

Selim’s dagger came free, the high priest’s corpse slumping over the altar. “That’s it then,” he said. “Let’s see what…

An all new alien archive is arriving soon for Starfinder. Come take a look at an allotment of aliens and…

On this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Johnny and Lolies run through what we’ve been playing and discuss the latest headlines…

Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.Today we continue the Halloween Mini-series. Like last time, we’ll be looking…

Blizzard recently delayed the release of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands to give the MMORPG’s latest expansion some more polish -…

Many settings, from Vodari to Breath of the Wild, include Ancients whose technology are indistinguishable from magic. In some, it’s…

WOIN's SolSpace setting expands with Jacob Rodgers' Code of Honor trilogy!More

Bleak tabletop RPG Mörk Borg is getting a new adventure releasing as a vinyl album, complete with a built-in GM…

By Jon Webb There’s something big coming to Fallout Fridays, as part of our efforts to ignite the Fallout Wasteland…

The GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association) board of directors updated members on its work on a revised set of bylaws at…

‘Isle of Shadows’ – J Edward Neill – 2020 Find more dark, gothic art at: Share this: Like this: Like…

The newest Pathfinder release, Lost Omens Pathfinder Society Guide, is hot off the presses, and the character options from this…

Zarta looks at her desk, where a small note sits atop a larger sheaf of papers. She picks up the…

Proof that there’s no pre-order exclusive too strange for GameStop, check out the Game Stop Drizz’t and other D&D collectibles.…

Wizards of the Coast has extended its suspension of Magic: The Gathering in-store play in U.S. and Latin American stores…

Looking for 1920s action noir and cosmic horror, but not Lovecraft’s take? Then Terrors and Tommyguns might be the RPG…

Fall in love and face off against various foes in Thirsty Sword Lesbians, an upcoming tabletop roleplaying game about exploring…

R.Talsorian Games announced a price increase on Cyberpunk RED, a roleplaying game set in the Cyberpunk 2077 world. It also…

Ubersreik Adventures II (This time it’s personal) is a new sourcebook that will contain five new adventures set in world…

25 Lamashan I’ve visited observational posts on asteroids less lonely than the Citadel on Aucturn. As I crossed the courtyard…

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Greg and Shelly open the show as always with all the latest D&D news! Afterwards, Jeremy Crawford calls in to…

Loxodon are a hidden gem of D&D–their trunks and powerful build give them a unique advantage. Here’s what you can…

Our release dates are accelerating in anticipation of the holidays! Just two weeks ago we posted about the New Releases…

Before the world turned upside down, I ran a 5th Edition game about once a month. I was hopping between…

WizKids will release D&D Icons of the Realms: Goblin Warband, a miniatures set for use with Dungeons & Dragons 5E…

Thumbnail Image from Steins;Gate anime With the whole Do-Over part already out of the way, today is time to dive…

WizKids announced Pathfinder Battles: Darklands Rising: Mengkare, Great Wyrm premium figure for release in April 2021. Pathfinder Battles: Darklands Rising:…

Halloween is just around the corner. Here’s an update of previous Halloween round-up articles, now with even more Halloween related…

Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at the ships you can fly in Fantasy…

Post-Apocalyptic movie geek out! Check your fuel gauge, load your shotgun, put on your leather pants. Game designer and movie…

Miniature wargaming is far and away one of the most intimidating aspects of the tabletop gaming hobby, especially for newcomers.…

WizKids revealed Pathfinder Battles: Darklands Rising, a miniatures set for use with Pathfinder RPG, which will release into stores in…

I’ve written about Richard A. Knaak a couple of years ago when his Rex Draconis novels had a RPG Kickstarter…

Whether you’re playing D&D, Call of Cthulhu, or a generic RPG system there’s always a little room for the great…

The virtual version of New York Comic Con, the New York Comic Con Metaverse, took place last weekend, and the…

Building a character backstory doesn’t have to be a lengthy or labor-intensive affair. And you don’t have to write beautiful…

STARFINDER, THE POPULAR INTERACTIVE AUDIO ADVENTURE GAME FOR ALEXA, RETURNS WITH EPISODES FOUR TO SIX, AVAILABLE NOW Nathan Fillion and…

Starfinder’s core book receives a big batch of new errata, clarifying both the 1sts and 2nd printings of the book–come…

Winter is nearly here, and this campaign – live on Kickstarter now – is prepared for the cold and the…

Lovecraftian horror seems a little old hat to the tabletop world now. There are countless Cthulhu-themed versions of existing games…

I’m continuing my “Online Gaming Tools” series with a segment on virtual tabletops (VTTs) you can use for running RPG…

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Amazon Prime Day 2020 kicks off today following its delay from the summer due to coronavirus, and there are a…

WizKids unveiled Starfinder Battles: Planets of Peril miniatures set for release in March 2021. The base product for Planets of…

Goatboy here. Marvel sent us a review copy of the Marneus Calgar, Issue #1 comic book. Let’s dive in. This…

Where there’s an RPG book,  there’s a collector’s edition waiting to followup and look better on your shelves. Take a…

Dreadnought Kill-team getting things done… Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make A…

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 | The nights grow longer, and the chill in the air, more biting. Settlements increase…

Wayne’s new look for the iconic magus, and the brand-new iconic summoner and her dragon eidolon The Pathfinder Secrets of…

Last week we took a look at Ancestries in Aldea, so this week we thought we’d focus on Aldean Classes.…

Check out what we have in store this week on Twitch! Also if you’re interested in running your own Pathfinder…

A few installments back, I mentioned that I could write an entire article on pacing’s importance. So here I am,…

A new standalone adventure from Pathfinder wants you to step beyond the beginning town. Come check out the Troubles in…

There’s a book I want you to read. It’s quick. It’s deadly. It’s dark. It’s perfect for October. Read it…

Not all games start at level one. When this happens, the characters are leveled, and maybe, if the GM/ DM…