Tech Revolution Playtest: Organized Play
With the release of the Starfinder Tech Revolution Playtest, the Starfinder Society Organized Play Program is also opening its doors…
Encounter of the Week: Trek to Ten-Towns
Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part six of this ongoing mini-series. The characters now travel on…
Amid a pandemic and a racial reckoning, ‘D&D’ finds itself at an inflection point
Victoria Rogers got in trouble when she started playing Dungeons and Dragons online. It was the mid-1990s, and Rogers, unable…
A rocky start for the free Warhammer 40,000 App
There have been nearly 2,500 reviews and most of them 1/5. At the time of writing, the app has an…
UK Games Expo announces the UKGE Awards shortlist
We have Virtually Expo this year rather than the twice COVID-19 struck UK Games Expo but that does not mean…
Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest trailer reveals TTRPG adaptation
We got the first teaser for Different Tales’ Heart of the Forest last month. The new trailer reveals plenty more.…
Starfinder: Like A Puppet Without Strings, The Hollow Cabal Comes To An End
The Hollow Cabal adventure path comes to a thrilling conclusion as the players cut loose the strings behind the mind…
D&D: Ever Wonder What A Tactical Nuke Looks Like In D&D?
A new item revealed in Rime of the Frostmaiden seems like the perfect solution to just about any problem the…
Encounter of the Week: Shelter from the Storm
Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part five of this ongoing mini-series. The characters land in the…
A Night in Katheer
Players who read though Lost Omens Legends might find that they want to learn more about just what kind of…
STARFINDER ENCOUNTER: A SINGULAR NOTION
The Starfinder Starship Operations Manual is coming on July 30, but you don’t have to wait until then to start…
Into the Void
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: Send in Your Questions!
New Player’s Guide is going on hiatus, giving us some space to return to beloved series like Class 101, Spell…
Paizo’s Twitch Schedule for Gen Con Online!
We would like to invite you to the best virtual 4 days in gaming, Gen Con Online! Join us from…
The Tea Dragon Society reunites for Autumn Harvest, the next board game based on the graphic novel series
Build lasting bonds with whimsical winged lizards in Autumn Harvest: A Tea Dragon Society Card Game, the next tabletop release…
Re-Roll: This Week’s Tabletop Game News for the Week Ending July 24, 2020
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The Dicebreaker Podcast kicks back with soft drinks, pizza forts and the best board games of the year (apparently)
On this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Johnny and Meehan crack open a fizzing can of refreshing tabletop discussion with our…
Finder’s Archive – Blighted Cataract
Copyright Wizards of the Coast Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.In this column, we take some of…
Ghibli-inspired RPG Monster Care Squad makes you a vet for god-like creatures
Become a vet to incredible creatures inspired by Studio Ghibli in upcoming tabletop RPG Monster Care Squad. The RPG casts…
Dungeons & Dragons 5E bard class explained
Bards are the Marmite peanut butter of Dungeons & Dragons 5E character classes: love them or hate them, you can’t…
Call of Cthulhu studio’s ‘70s board game Lords of the Middle Sea is being revived with an RPG
Lords of the Middle Sea, a post-apocalyptic board game released in the late 1970s by Call of Cthulhu publisher Chaosium,…
Renature is a board game about reversing climate change from the makers of Tikal
Bring life back to a desolate land in Renature, an upcoming board game from Tikal creators Wolfgang Kramer and Michael…
Encounter of the Week: Icewind Mail
The new D&D adventure is a fantasy horror story set in the frigid land of Icewind Dale. This Encounter of…
July 2020 Starfinder Society Releases
Ehu Hadif Ko’ra Amares of Clan Tolar steps into the office. His office now, he realizes, and smiles slightly. The…
Dungeons & Dragons co-op board game Adventure Begins announced, out in October
A new co-op Dungeons & Dragons board game, Adventure Begins, has been revealed ahead of its release this autumn. Adventure…
Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters for D&D 5E: An Interview With Morrus (EN Publishing)
My first article for EN World, a subsidiary of EN Publishing, went live on May 31, 2017, and I’ve been…
Encounter of the Week: Frost and Fear in Fireshear
Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part two of this mini-series of adventures in Icewind Dale and…
Sorcerer 101: Wild Magic
It’s time to go beyond the Basic Rules. In this week’s Class 101, we examine the Wild Magic sorcerer, a…
Spell Spotlight: Healing Word and Spiritual Weapon
Spell Spotlight puts D&D’s most turbulent spells under a microscope. This time, two mighty low-level spells that form the core…
Host Panel for the 2020 ENNIE Awards Announcement
Posted by Stacy Muth on 20 Jul 2020 in RPG | 0 comments THE ENNIE Awards are pleased to announce…
New Player’s Guide: Character Relationships
The best characters in fiction form meaningful relationships with each other, allowing these relationships to help them grow. That’s what…
Encounter of the Week: Ambush at Aurilssbarg
Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part three of this mini-series of adventures in Icewind Dale and…
Has Anyone Seen Bucky?
It’s Not All Hell After the Hell of the Dix-I front, it’s time to take a break from the long…
New Player’s Guide: Customizing Spells
Welcome to the latest installment of New Player’s Guide. This week, we’re talking about customizing and reflavoring spells, a skill…
Silver and Steel Episode 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
With natural disaster looming and the threat of war imminent, can a lucky halfling, a former trickster god, an alchemist…
Returning to Icewind Dale in ‘Rime of the Frostmaiden’
Pre-Order Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden on D&D Beyond to unlock pre-order rewards, including digital dice: https://dndbeyond.link/RIme Chris Perkins…
Worldbuilding with Magic
Few D&D adventures end without something magical happening. Whether helpful or harmful, magic appears frequently in the life of an…
Encounter of the Week: Evil on the Icy Sea
Are you prepared to journey to Icewind Dale, the frozen north of Faerûn? Times are strange, and countless rumors swirl…
New Player’s Guide: How to Homebrew on D&D Beyond
For in-depth looks on how to use the D&D Beyond homebrew system, check out the Design Workshop series by master…
Return to Hell
Death on Dix-I Day The previous installment of our blog explored the campaigns chapter of the Rogue Trooper supplement, which…
Strontium Dog Pre-orders Shipping Soon!
Strontium Dog pre-orders are shipping soon. Your copy should be with you by August 2020.More
Rare Pokémon card, one of seven in the world, sells for $90,000 at auction
Japanese No. 1 Trainer card given to winners of 1999 regional tournaments.
What are Ten Towns & the Frostmaiden?
Pre-Order Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden on D&D Beyond to unlock pre-order rewards, including digital dice: https://dndbeyond.link/RIme Chris Perkins…
Leaked Twilight Imperium 4E expansion adds new factions, mechs and even more players
A galaxy-sized add-on.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: A New Dawn is getting its first big expansion, Terra Incognita
Includes support for fifth player and gameplay elements based on Civilization VI.
Tabletop games had a record-breaking start to 2020 on Kickstarter, including their biggest-ever month
Gloomhaven sequel Frosthaven raised more money in May than every April campaign combined.
New TRPG series Adventure launches next month with a game by Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor
Adventure Presents: Tartarus Gate is on Kickstarter now
Massive Darkness 2 will include new narrative campaign mode in day one expansion
Rules rebuilt from the ground up.
Scrabble community bans offensive words, including racial slurs, from competitive play
North American Scrabble Players Association removes 200 words from permitted tournament spellings.
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar’s 2020 General’s Handbook brings multiplayer team battles to the minis game this week
Alongside aerial combat rules and expanded narrative play.
Darkest Dungeon, the video game about the horrors of adventuring, is getting a board game
From Solomon Kane and Time of Legends: Joan of Arc maker Mythic.
Quest, Alien and Mörk Borg among nominees for best RPGs of the year at 2020 ENnie Awards
Mech RPG Lancer withdrawn from shortlist in opposition to 2017 controversy.
WWE Legends Royal Rumble Card Game sees a cavalcade of classic wrestlers enter the ring
Including ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage and Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts.
Shadowed Paths, Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth’s first expansion, is coming this month
Featuring Gandalf and Arwen as playable characters.
Pandemic Legacy: Season 3 revealed as prequel Season 0 in announcement trailer – exclusive
“Every end has a beginning.”
In for the Long Haul
Campaigning Across Nu Earth If you haven’t already gathered, Nu Earth is a deadly place that has been poisoned to…
Voting for 2020 ENNIES Is Live!
Posted by Stacy Muth on 3 Jul 2020 in RPG | 0 comments Please vote for your favorite publishers, judges,…
First Undaunted expansion adds a solo mode to the two-player board game series
Here comes the cavalry.
An anniversary edition of The Lord of the Rings co-op board game is on its way
The Reiner Knizia classic is revived after 20 years.
Scythe publisher’s next game, Pendulum, sees players literally investing their time
Have you clocked it yet?
Worldbuilding with your Players
I created a homebrew setting for my current campaign. My favorite campaigns are, without fail, the ones where I make…
Best app-assisted board games
You'll appsolutely love these 11 board games for how they seamlessly integrate technology into gameplay to make for an experience…
Kult: Divinity Lost RPG gets scenario book featuring Swedish horror writer Anders Fager
Alongside a supplementary sourcebook and a map-making guide.
Sorcerer expansion Endbringer smashes Kickstarter target, introduces co-op play
New sorcerer packs also on offer.
Features of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden – D&D Beyond
Pre-Order Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden on D&D Beyond to unlock pre-order rewards, including digital dice: https://dndbeyond.link/RIme Chris Perkins…
ENNIES Update
Posted by Stacy Muth on 30 Jun 2020 in RPG | 0 comments The ENNIES is pleased to announce that…
EGX 2020 has been cancelled due to COVID-19 and replaced by online event
EGX Digital to run from 12-20 September
BoardGameGeek Con 2020 cancelled in response to COVID-19 concerns
Another Virtual Gaming Con coming.
Munchkins & Mazes edition doubles-down on the Dungeons & Dragons references
Is this a parody within a parody?
The ENNIE Awards is proud to announce the 2020 Nominations!
Posted by Stacy Muth on 29 Jun 2020 in RPG | 0 comments The ENNIE Awards is proud to announce…
Artificial Intelligence company DeepMind is teaching AI how to play classic board game Diplomacy
How do you backstab a robot, though?
National Parks: Get Wild helps players to have fun supporting local US wildlife
With a portion of the profits going to the National Park Foundation.
Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps gets its third release date and two newly announced expansions
Aliens: Ultimate Badasses and Get Away From Her, You B***h!
Encounter of the Week: Wrath of the Returned
The Underworld of Theros beckons. You can use this encounter as a standalone one-shot, or as a follow-up to the…
Dungeonbreaker returns and we regret to inform you everybody is in hell
But at least they’ve made a friend
The Next D&D Storyline is Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Just announced live on-stream at D&D Live 2020, Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden is this year’s new D&D adventure. Join us…
Beyond Nu Earth
Black Holes and Orbiting Junkyards Much of the action in Rogue Trooper takes place on the twisted landscapes and poisoned…
Nominate Your Favorite Publisher and Still Time to Submit Your Name for ENNIES Judge!
Posted by Stacy Muth on 26 Jun 2020 in RPG | Comments Off on Nominate Your Favorite Publisher and Still…
Kilmonger and Taskmaster deliver the pain in Marvel Villainous: Infinite Power
They join Thanos, Hela and Ultron.
Canopy is a two-player board game about tropical climes from the creator of The Grimm Forest
Tree what you can grow.
Welcome to Theros!
Theros is a brand-new D&D setting crossover with Magic: The Gathering, inspired by Greek mythology. Mythic Odysseys of Theros is…
Playtest the Awfully Cheerful Engine!
Later this year, we will be launching a new game called the Awfully Cheerful Engine. It's a light, fast RPG…