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At some point in a rapidly indeterminate past, people held events called parties. Several to dozens of these people would…

WizKids featured a physical prototype of D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: Gargantuan Tiamat (see "Tiamat Miniature!“), and its packaging…

Can you see Clint Barton in this position? These Cosplayers channel the Hawkeye Initiative in their work and take aim…

At last, an excuse to play Vampire the Masquerade the way you’ve always wanted to. A new World of Darkness…

At AndoCon 2018, I played Derek A. Kamal’s Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse. Playing as a mouse on a motorcycle turned…

One of the most iconic D&D adventures from the days of yore is here once more with the official release…

WizKids has announced eight new single-monster packs for the Dungeons & Dragons Nolzur’s Marvelous Miniatures line, releasing in December. Each…

By Jim Johnson, STA Project Manager The Star Trek Adventures Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide is nearly here! After introducing this…

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is Dungeons & Dragons' first adventure set in the Feywild. It will introduce two playable races…

When the Pathfinder Secrets of Magic Liveplay began, four esteemed graduates from the College of Mysteries in Absalom were sent…

Renegade Game Studios has revealed more details about two new sourcebooks coming to the Vampire: The Masquerade TTRPG. Earlier this…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Crimson Escalation   Every few years or so, incredible…

A substantial part of my work day is spent on Twitter, following conversations and tracking trending topics. While it’s one…

The Queen of Conniving is fierce and fabulous in this series of Castlevania Cosplays! It’s hard work rising up against…

Magic solves just about every problem in D&D. But if there’s one thing we know from every movie, friendship is…

WizKids unleashed new Magic: The Gathering unpainted miniatures packs, which will release into retail in December. These new single-count and…

Welcome to another installment of the Play with Class series where we will give you solid steps to run each…

It’s 1am in the morning in Kwanchai Moriya’s neck of the woods and, yet, the board game artist is wide…

In Business 3x3, a business retailer or executive will share their experience with three things they’ve done right, three things…

It should surprise nobody that Beadle & Grimm’s are offering a deluxe version of Wild Beyond the Witchlight, but did…

By Andrew Peregrine One of the most complex parts of any game is combat and conflict. So, it seems worthwhile…

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

Has the D&D movie made the jump from unintentionally hilarious to funny on purpose? One of its stars, Justice Smith,…

Banana Chan - co-creator of Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall - is co-designing another horror roleplaying game called Suburban…

CinnamonRoll Studios CEO Je’Don Carter joins me on the show today. We talk about his new virtual reality role-playing game…

Fly across the galaxy in the Enterprise in search of the best team for the most dangerous expeditions in Star…

Horror roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu is marking 40 years since its release with a limited-edition revision of the RPG’s…

Mischiefs and whimsies await you in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight! The latest Dungeons & Dragons adventure takes players into the Feywild…

The mythology of Latin America rarely features in RPG supplements. Pathfinder has gone beyond fantasy Aztecs and Mayans to find…

This week: a new RPG from the co-creator of Dragonlance; a new initiative looks to bring the magic of ZineQuest…

Cantrips are every spellcaster’s best friend. But did you know they can do more than just 1d10 damage? Cantrips are…

Andrzej was getting tired. He swept his greatsword in a figure 8, pausing to lean slightly to let a crossbow…

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands asks us all to look within our hearts, search our souls and answer the question: who’s ready…

Today, as part of our ongoing series on side quests, we’ll take a look at how side quests can help…

Every cat owner has been there - you’re playing a tabletop RPG with friends around the living room table when…

Art by @TempoMcFlurry on Twitter In order to celebrate the launch of the Pixel Remaster version on September 8th, I…

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure is coming next week and with it new magic items with a…

RPG designer Freddie Taylor-Bell’s Briar & Bramble openly acknowledges the influence of The Animals of Farthing Wood and Watership Down…

Orbs are just about the best shape you can be–but if you can’t be an orb, you can at least…

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Never miss a product release again with subscriptions that suit your playstyle. From rulebooks, world guides, adventures and accessories to…

I spent my first weeks as the town’s fledgling hedge witch curing a lumberjack cursed with hamster lycanthropy. After that,…

There is a good chance that your party may not even notice the Gray Ooze until it’s already eating through…

Matt, Lolies and Meehan talk about what they’ve been up to this week! Which, er, doesn’t include that many board…

What started out as a fan asking in a tweet when Kobold Press was going to bring products to Foundry…

Two new batches of minis from Wild Beyond the Witchlight have been revealed from Gale Force Nine. Check out the…

If you want to have a session where everything’s taken to the extreme, then look no forward than your narrator,…

After being conspicuously absent from the last two adventure books, it seems that alignment is returning to the monster stat…

Defeat a collection of over 100 deadly creatures and create equipment from their parts in Battlezoo Bestiary, a roleplaying game…

Move over Dungeons & Dragons and your new attempt at a movie adaptation! As good as we all want the…

This weekend we covered some awesome Xena cosplay, looked at D&D’s new races, a remake of Star Wars: Knights of…

I have a new book coming out next month called Game Wizards. Unlike my previous books, which are histories of game…

Convince your kids (or your friends kids or your nieces and nephews) that D&D is fun and forever be the…

The game might be called Dungeons & Dragons, but it’s full of elves. And today we’re talking about their creator…

Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios have announced that Neverwinter: Jewel Of The North will be getting its first battle…

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Wild Beyond the Witchlight is inviting players to the realms of the Feywild, so today we’re taking a look at…

Need an idea for an adventure? Then give the Night of the Wraith a try. When a spectre of a…

Respawn Entertainment has revealed new details for their upcoming Evolution Collection event set to hit Apex Legends next week. This…

Wild Beyond the Witchlight brings some of the classic cartoon characters and action figure’s of D&D’s past to the present.…

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight marks the return of campestris to Dungeons & Dragons. These loveable mushroom-like creatures find joy…

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

Sometimes you get caught, red-handed, and you’ve got to figure out how you’re going to escape actually facing a consequence…

Welcome back to another issue of Outside the Box. This week we have news from Corvus Belli, Otherworld Miniatures, Anvil…

Maps are a classic of the fantasy genre, painting an entire world in broad strokes that your imagination might fill…

In the upcoming Wavelengths DLC for Life Is Strange: True Colors, one of the main characters is a Critter, proving…

Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. Today we’re taking a break from Magic and asking ourselves an…

Tracy and Laura Hickman, best known for Dragonlance and Ravenloft in the old TSR days, have announced a new 5th Edition setting. A new…

Andrews McMeel Publishing (AMP) will release  Flames of Freedom: Grim & Perilous RPG, a new American Gothic horror tabletop roleplaying…

The Knights of the Old Republic Remake rumors are confirmed. A new trailer reveals a remade Revan ready to roll–check…

With the September 21 release of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, the jabberwock makes its return to Dungeons & Dragons.…

Is your soul made of the stuff of shadows? Do you prefer the rain, and hanging around cemeteries wearing black…

Prolific authors and game designers Tracy and Laura Hickman have announced they are working on Skyraiders of Abarax, a new…

Some of the heroes and villains (but not the main kids–at least not yet) from the D&D Animated Series are…

Wizards of the Coast revealed the contents of Commander Collection: Black, set of black-themed cards for Magic: The Gathering's Commander…

Come and take a look at two of the new races coming in The Wild Beyond The Witchlight: A Feywild…

One of the exciting things about writing an aquatic setting is that there are whole creature types that don’t have…

Tony Vasinda of Plus One Exp has a new RPG crowdfunding, this one on GameFound. Entitled Down We Go, this…

Play as a stuffed teddy bear or a mouse warrior in Valda’s Spire of Secrets, a new supplement designed for…

Prevent an ecological oceanic disaster in a “reverse tower defense” board game with an environmental message called The Spill. In…

Gale Force Nine will release Collector's Series: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight - League of Malevolence and Collector's Series: The…

Gale Force Nine announced three new fey magic-themed D&D Collector's Series miniatures sets for release in Q4 2021. Collector’s Series:…

Over the last ten or so years it’s clear that GW has been pushing one aspect of their game that…

Gale Force 9 will release the D&D: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Dungeon Master’s Screen and Map Set late this…

One of the rare 40K Metal Thunderhawks has sold for a sky-high price on eBay! Take a look. The classic…

The earth shook. To Iphra, the rumbling sounded like a passing heavy transport. She realized she wouldn’t maintain her footing.…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Delta Greet 25th Anniversary Edition Welcome to America at the end…

What’s the point of going on quests and hoarding gold if you’re not going to spend it on something awesome–here…

Ding, they’ve all leveled up to 7! And they have new loot! Join a halfling summoner, dwarf wizard, half-elf magus,…

With a Star Wars adaptation on the Superhero chart and Devil’s Candy on the Author chart, VIZ Media has a…

Magpie Games' Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game core book wrapped up its Kickstarter run on September 1, raising at total…

This year’s Free RPG day promises to bring out the big guns, with quickstart rules, campaigns, and more from some…

A designer collective has announced plans to host SideQuest 2021, an event similar to February’s Zinequest, in November of this…

Marvel’s Champions has grown over the years since its initial release. Each aspect now has a large pool of upgrades…

Are you a joyless pedant who can no longer feel joy but has settled for feeling “correct” instead? Well Matt…

Long-time gamer, retired Air Force pilot, and game designer, Joel “The Major” Burt, visits the podcast today. Our conversation spans…

Hardly anyone was surprised when Avatar Legends, the tabletop RPG adaptation of American animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and…

The retail prices for titles such as Arkham Horror: Third Edition, Cosmic Encounter and Mansions of Madness: Second Edition will…

The Full ListHere’s the rest of the list. Of course, there were folks excited about everything on this list, and…

Steamforged Games unleashed Epic Encounters: Tower of the Lich Empress, a new miniatures boxed set, which is currently on preorder.…