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A few days ago, I had the pleasure of chatting with Ed Jowett, the lead creator and writer of “Era:…

In a previous post, I brought up focusing your traps with purpose and mentioned nonlethal traps. These types of traps…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Halloween! And once again, we here in the Mutants & Masterminds office…

Qa’pla friends, make sure your bat’leth is sharp, and that you’re ready to make your family proud, the Klingon sourcebook…

From the Old World to the Grimdark, the Chaos Gods are not alone – come see those who are committed…

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

From live-action Netflix remakes to multi-million-dollar video games, anime has never been bigger. Anime board games are no exception -…

The new mobile app for tabletop roleplaying platform Roll20 looks to be launching in a closed beta, after the original…

Two 40K codexes are imminent. Necromunda & Warcry arrive, then we see WotC’s new way to play D&D, who is…

A fast-growing UK chain of comic and game stores plans rapid expansion, opening 100 new stores over the next two…

It’s Halloween this week! My campaign is taking a week off from our main campaign and we’re planning to play…

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

Yesterday, we covered a piece of tabletop gaming news revolving around Free League Publishing's newest expansion book for Vaesen, their Nordic…

Warcry: Catacombs is up for pre-order and we got a look inside the new boxed set – plus a ton…

Looking for an escape from, y’know, everything? Baldman Games and WotC are working to let you to play more D&D…

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Today’s Pathfinder Adventure Card Game blog is brought to you by Keith Richmond (text in blue) and Chad Brown (text…

Empowered by dragons, two subclasses land in today’s Unearthed Arcana: the Way of the Ascendant Dragon for monks and the…

Grab your leather jacket, this week we’re traveling back in time to save the world from the great old ones…

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Free League Publishing, a publisher of role-playing games best known for ALIEN: the Roleplaying Game, has released a supplemental book…

Astonishing Adventures: Bite Club, is available now! High school – so many of us couldn’t wait to escape it, and…

The Return of Cal Get ready, citizens of Mega-City One. It’s time to prepare for the return of everyone’s least…

The Emerald Order is one of the few organizations in Demon Cults & Secret Societies that is not actively malicious.…

Want to take a peek at the upcoming rules in Cyberpunk Red, due to release in November? Well you’re in…

This week’s Dicebreaker Podcast sees Matt, Lolies and Meehan hop back in the booth for another hour-and-a-bit of nattering about…

Hello again, this week we have news from Fantasy Flight Games, Osprey Publishing, Artel W Miniatures, Victrix, Archon Studio, Mierce…

'Tis the season for wandering hordes of undead descending on unsuspecting small towns. It didn't take long for the modern…

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

Steve Jackson Games will release The Zodiac Dice, a set of 12-sided dice with the zodiac symbols on them, in…

Giochi Uniti has announced it will release Pathfinder Arena, a new board game set in the Pathfinder roleplaying game’s fantasy…

We’ve got another full month of PFS adventures, so let’s take a closer look at what the Society is getting…

October 23rd through 25th Roll20 will be hosting 3 days of games and panels for charity with their 100% virtual…

“Lights! Camera! Extreme Adventure!!!” The flashing header of the incoming message stole whatever attention Venture-Captain Naiaj had for her other…

Giochi Uniti, alongside Paizo, Inc., has announced that they will publish Pathfinder Arena, a new board game set in Pathfinder:…

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In honor of the release of Curse of Strahd Revamped, use the code strahd15 to get 15% off when you…

Search for magic items and battle fearsome monsters by drawing a path through each room in the upcoming English-language version…

I’ve mentioned Dustin DePenning’s work on the Synthicide RPG and Heroic Dark in passing (here and here). His RPG creations…

Baldur’s Gate 3 contains some hidden and not-so-hidden romance. Want to know who’s into you? Check out our guide to…

‘King of Carpathia’ – J Edward Neill – 2020 Find more insane art at:

By Nathan Dowdell, 2d20 System Developer At the heart of the gameplay of Star Trek Adventures are two resources which…

Steamforged Games announced Pac-Man: The Card Game, a family game featuring the classic arcade game, which will launch on November…

An ICv2 Release.   The sessions for the hobby games track of the ICv2 Insider Talks Livestream, planned for 2 p.m.…

We launch our kickstarter on the 27th, and we wanted to reach out and give you an update on our…

Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Terrors & Tommyguns RPG Terrors and Tommyguns is a Cosmic Horror…

With so much D&D news, it would be impossible to list it all here. Listen to our opening news segment…

Chronicler’s NoteSince before the Gap, dwarven miners used a custom numbering system known as “shifts” to determine the passing of…

A GM’s work is never done, so to make things easier on you, we’re providing a series of tables to…

Nightfall Games, publishers of SLA Industries, is apparently working on a Terminator RPG, according to a newly spotted Facebook page.…

Thumbnail art by Nuno Nobre This next Thursday it’s going to be 2 years since I started working for Tribality.…

Last month we took a look at Marvel’s Champions game and we’re going to follow up on it with a…

Tabletop RPG podcaster Jon Cohen joins me today to discuss his podcast the Tale of the Manticore. The conversation ranges…

Roleplaying games might have begun in the 70s, but they almost died there, too. Join us as we look back…

Five new character packs are planned for WizKid’s Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts line of unpainted miniatures, including two Halflings, an…

Popular dungeon-crawling board game Gloomhaven is being adapted into a series of novels. Based on the world of Gloomhaven, a…

The authors of long-running Dungeons & Dragons book series Dragonlance are suing the tabletop RPG’s publisher Wizards of the Coast…

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…