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The eternal war between the pygmies and the cranes told by Sir John Mandeville Tabletop RPG writer and blogger Tristan…

MAGIC! You know all those new spells from Deep Magic? They’re all available for use on Fantasy Grounds now: available…

FASA went from publishing Traveller games to dominating the Mech market--but what happened to them? Here's a look at their…

WizKids will release two D&D Icons of the Realms: Curse of Strahd Premium Box Sets, Covens & Covenants and Legends…

You are halfway through a carefully planned session. The players will travel down the Kingsroad and come across a town…

Lem cleared his throat, and Merisiel guiltily ceased fiddling with her dagger, giving her full attention to the halfling standing…

If you're a fan of board games and trading card games like Magic the Gathering, Christmas in July has just…

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Grid maps and battle mats are a staple of tabletop gaming. Let’s figure out which kind would be best for…

"Roleplaying Failure" from The Id DMI generally don’t like to lose. In fact, I can be pretty competitive when it…

Rime of the Frostmaiden will hold some answers to the hidden storyline that ties all the D&D modules together. Here’s…

Free RPG Day has come and gone — a strange one in the middle of lockdown, but we still came away…

The invitations from Castle Ravenloft have arrived and the Count awaits his guests once more in Curse of Strahd Revamped,…

Grab classic board games and modern tabletop hits for up to half price in Amazon’s board game and trading card…

Features Scaled Buy-In With a 'Recruit Edition,' an 'Elite Edition,' and a 'Command Edition'

Don’t worry, she has plenty of Miracle Dice. Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think…

The Starfinder Tech Revolution Playtest begins now! Art by Sergio Cosmai This playtest presents two new options: the nanocyte class…

With the release of the Starfinder Tech Revolution Playtest, the Starfinder Society Organized Play Program is also opening its doors…

Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part six of this ongoing mini-series. The characters now travel on…

Strahd’s back–a new collector’s edition is set to revamp the Curse of Strahd with a coffin-shaped box, a creature companion,…

Wizards of the Coast will release Curse of Strahd Revamped, a boxed collector’s edition of the famed Dungeons & Dragons…

Victoria Rogers got in trouble when she started playing Dungeons and Dragons online. It was the mid-1990s, and Rogers, unable…

Our recently announced Sword Chronicle roleplaying game varies from classic fantasy RPGs in several respects. In many games, you play…

Bury Yourself in Gothic Horror Unearth the terror of Ravenloft in this boxed adventure for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.…

A recent trademark filing has hinted at a possible return for highly influential dungeon-crawling board game HeroQuest. The HeroQuest Legacies…

Sales in Hasbro’s total gaming category were down 19% in Q2, the company said in its second quarter earnings report,…

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The folks at Paizo have clearly unlocked some kind of advanced miniaturization technology, as the Core Rulebook of Starfinder is…

After a discussion with Adam Koebel, all parties involved have decided that it is best he resign his ongoing projects…

Warlocks have overthrown Wizards as the top caster. With that in mind, here’s a look at some of the top…

© Fria Ligan Swedish RPG publisher Fria Ligan’s Symbaroum is one of today’s most popular dark fantasy RPGs, and they…

(Author’s note: I’m picking up where I left off numerically) One of the classic D&D tropes is a party entering…

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Have You Gone on an Adventure Today? Because we’ve got a treat for you. Step this way—watch your head—for our…

Pegasus Spiele unveiled the Talisman Adventure Fantasy Roleplaying Game, a tabletop roleplaying game book based on the Talisman: The Magical…

Warhammer 40,000’s long-awaited app has arrived on mobile, bringing the miniatures game’s latest core rules to phones and tablets for…

Hit Point Sales will release 6 Castles, a tile placement board game, into U.S. trade in Q4. In the 6…

Upper Deck will release Legendary: James Bond Expansion, for the Legendary 007,  on July 29. This first expansion to Legendary…

Wizards of the Coast revealed product line details for Zendikar Rising which will hit stores on September 25, 2020. Zendikar…

Hobby game sales in the U.S. and Canada totaled $1.675 billion in 2019, up 12% from $1.495 billion in 2018,…

Roleplaying in the grim darkness of the distant future just got a lot less murkier with the release of official…

We have Virtually Expo this year rather than the twice COVID-19 struck UK Games Expo but that does not mean…

Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…

At [email protected] it was announced that Netflix’s The Dragon Prince was getting an art book, a graphic novel that follows…

We got the first teaser for Different Tales’ Heart of the Forest last month. The new trailer reveals plenty more.…

The Hollow Cabal adventure path comes to a thrilling conclusion as the players cut loose the strings behind the mind…

A new item revealed in Rime of the Frostmaiden seems like the perfect solution to just about any problem the…

A strange poison known as “The False Gold” gets into the veins of creatures in the peaceful world of Al-Amura…

Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part five of this ongoing mini-series. The characters land in the…

Welcome back to the world of STORM EDGE: THE ADVENTURES IN EIGHT ISLES! Last week we have introduced KIJIN, the descendants…

Players who read though Lost Omens Legends might find that they want to learn more about just what kind of…

Tribality Publishing’s latest release, The Dungeoneer Background, is now available on DMsGuild. A background for Dungeon of the Mad Mage,…

The Starfinder Starship Operations Manual is coming on July 30, but you don’t have to wait until then to start…

We’ve talked previously about the fact that there will be plenty of advice and options for running campaigns set across…

New Player’s Guide is going on hiatus, giving us some space to return to beloved series like Class 101, Spell…

We would like to invite you to the best virtual 4 days in gaming, Gen Con Online! Join us from…

Tomorrow is July 25th and that means it’s Free RPG Day. I know, that’s not the usual date for Free…

Back in May, Geek Native reported on a UK site called In Demand Toys sharing D&D themed My Little Ponies…

Build lasting bonds with whimsical winged lizards in Autumn Harvest: A Tea Dragon Society Card Game, the next tabletop release…

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On this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Johnny and Meehan crack open a fizzing can of refreshing tabletop discussion with our…

Copyright Wizards of the Coast Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.In this column, we take some of…

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Become a vet to incredible creatures inspired by Studio Ghibli in upcoming tabletop RPG Monster Care Squad. The RPG casts…

Bards are the Marmite peanut butter of Dungeons & Dragons 5E character classes: love them or hate them, you can’t…

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Lords of the Middle Sea, a post-apocalyptic board game released in the late 1970s by Call of Cthulhu publisher Chaosium,…

Gaming companies, especially Kobold Press, often hold design contests, asking contestants to submit a creature, encounter, or spell. These can…

Bring life back to a desolate land in Renature, an upcoming board game from Tikal creators Wolfgang Kramer and Michael…

Upper Deck will release Into the Cosmos for Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game later this summer.Into the Cosmos brings…

Asmodee-based game accessories studio Gamegenic and game publisher CMON Limited have entered into a strategic partnership, the companies announced.  The…

The new D&D adventure is a fantasy horror story set in the frigid land of Icewind Dale. This Encounter of…

Free RPG Day Sanctioning This year’s delightful Free RPG adventures, Pathfinder Adventure: Big Trouble in Little Absalom and Starfinder Adventure:…

Ehu Hadif Ko’ra Amares of Clan Tolar steps into the office. His office now, he realizes, and smiles slightly. The…

Dark Horse Comics and Studio71 Games revealed new details about their The Umbrella Academy Card Game which was announced last…

Supplementary Magic: The Gathering products - as in, the ones that aren’t designed entirely for people who already play the…

The newest installment of the Astonishing Adventures NetherWar series, Broken Strings, releases this week, taking your heroes across Freedom City…

Autumn Harvest:  A Tea Dragon Society Game will be a fully-compatible standalone sequel to the award-winning Tea Dragon Society Card Game. …

Hit PC strategy game Northgard has become the latest video game to be turned into a board game. Northgard: Uncharted…

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A new co-op Dungeons & Dragons board game, Adventure Begins, has been revealed ahead of its release this autumn. Adventure…

Become a band of roaming vagabonds in Root: The Roleplaying Game with a new quickstart book and adventure available as…

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My first article for EN World, a subsidiary of EN Publishing, went live on May 31, 2017, and I’ve been…

Match tiles to create piles of sugary perfection in Dollars to Donuts, the next board game from Flatout Games, the…

Talk, panel and workshop submissions for this year’s EGX Digital and PAX Online mega celebration of games are open! EGX…

Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part two of this mini-series of adventures in Icewind Dale and…

Free RPG Day 2020 Is Almost Here! Wednesday, June 22, 2020 The new and improved Free RPG Day is Saturday…

Starfinder Battles Launch Today! Wednesday, June 22, 2020 Now available, Starfinder Battles: Galactic Villains and Starfinder Battles: Galactic Heroes prepainted…

My Little Pony x Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Collection Fandoms collide with the My Little Pony Crossover Collection—the first expanded…

Your Fast, Fun Entry into the World of D&D Step into the exciting world of D&D with the Dungeons &…

Thumbnail Art from concept art of the Neverland Theme Park Last week I’ve got the pleasure of being gifted Neverland…

Cole Wehrle feels like the tabletop designer of the moment. Still riding high on the acclaim that followed the release…

Fashion a tower of finicky fluffballs in The Fuzzies, a dexterity game from the creators of party hits Wavelength and…

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Thanks to the connections of d20 Radio’s very own Egg Embry, I played in 9th Level’s Game very first hosted…