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Mike Pondsmith and R. Talsorian Games’ full Cyberpunk Red is now out. The tabletop RPG is the sequel to Cyberpunk…

Venture into the depth of a dungeon in search of adventure in Perilous, an upcoming RPG that features story-prompting cards…

Comic Relief is bringing another set of popular UK comedians to the gaming table in order to fundraise aid for…

Last May, British comedians such as Nish Kumar and Sue Perkins played D&D for Comic Relief. The session of tabletop…

A thread on EN World, a D&D and RPG news site mentioned in Wizards of the Coast’s latest survey, has…

When I saw Midnight Tower’s latest Kickstarter, A Mystery Adventure Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe for 5e, I knew I…

Pick up the starter set for Cyberpunk Red - the latest edition of the tabletop RPG that inspired this year’s…

Extra Life 2020 Campaign Results in Sizeable Donations From WotC Gaming Communities Wizards of the Coast announced that it has…

4 December: Comic Relief Plays D&D Episode 2 After our first stream with Comic Relief earlier this year raised an…

Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Perilous RPG Perilous is a dungeon crawling RPG about braving the…

Surveys are always tricky - the way you ask a question can lead people to answer a certain way, the…

Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote an article entitled “So You Want to Play in Midgard? (But You…

Travel back in time to the 1980s to investigate urban legends in Dark Places & Demogorgons, a new supplement for…

The world of Asunder, a new dark fantasy RPG designed by Adam Lawson (Escape the Night), is dying. More accurately,…

Thumbnail from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything’s cover With the arrival of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, tons of new things have…

Startling news out of the X-wing world Monday with the announcement that Atomic Mass Games, another subsidiary of Asmodee, will…

The Dungeon Coach drops in on the podcast today to dish out dungeon master advice. The Dungeon Coach is a…

Dave Arneson helped make D&D what it is today. From DMs to campaign worlds, Arneson's legacy is clear, despite a…

By Fred Love  Gamemastering demands a lot of creativity, and sometimes even the most imaginative gamemaster struggles to come up…

Games Workshop teased Warhammer 40,000 Battleforce boxes, new miniatures sets, coming to retail in Q4 2020. The six Battleforce sets…

Are you confident in your ability to drive through snow or a dust storm to get to a gaming convention…

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Between magical swords, ancient plot soaked swords, and run-of-the-mill hunks of metal for level one adventures to swing around, swords…

Fans of Absolute Tabletop’s streamlined take on mecha adventures rejoice, as the publisher is planning a supplement full of one-page…

Here in the final glimpse into my spellbook, we will look at Mending. This versatile and often overlooked cantrip has…

Wizards of the Coast is once again asking for your opinions about Dungeons & Dragons. A new milestone survey is…

Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything has rules that touch on everything from creating characters to running the game. But is it…

Disclaimer: Drew is a friend, and I received this RPG for free with no strings attached.You Son of a Bitch,…

Sometimes it’s a struggle to find a nice present that isn’t just another tabletop addition to place on top of…

This week: Paradox takes back the reins on the World of Darkness; controversy around Matthew Mercer's character on Haunted West;…

Massive RPG-in-a-box Gloomhaven - one of the most widely acclaimed board game releases of recent years - is currently the…

Leder Games will release Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile, a fantasy political history game, for release in Q1 2021.…

With in-store gaming and other in-person community-building shut down by COVID, retailers were forced to adapt quickly.  Comics and games…

The premiere episode! Critical Role and Dark Horse comics news, Paradox Interactive brings Vampire in-house, and more! The post Awesomesticks…

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“Sir Yes Sir!” Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make A Great BoLS…

Green Ronin have made a 50+ page quickstart for their romantic fantasy game Blue Rose available as a free download.…

Asmodee has today announced a “strategic reorganisation” which results in Star Wars: X-Wing, Star Wars: Armada, and Star Wars: Legion…

There’s a lot to love about this book – for D&D fans and cooks alike. I cooked up the Elven…

Chasing Adventure is new Powered by the Apocalypse game from Smore Productions. The project began as a refinement of Dungeon…

Matthew Sprange, the managing director of Mongoose Publishing, has shared the company’s State of Mongoose 2020. As you can imagine,…

We're launching our own podcast! The Awesomsticks Podcast will compliment the blog and offer information on much more than TTRPG…

This week sees the release of a Quickstart for our Blue Rose AGE roleplaying game. Green Ronin’s Quickstarts have always…

Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a light drake without modifying its challenge rating. Light…

Vampire: the Masquerade and the rest of the World of Darkness have found a new home with Renegade Games, along…

Asmodee USA has announced that oversight of its Star Wars miniatures titles will be moving from Fantasy Flight Games to…

CMON announced that it will team up with Warner Bros. to release three new tabletop games as part of the…

© 2019 Disney/LucasFilm Ltd. In honor of The Mandalorian‘s Clan (of Two) Mudhorn, I have been making stats for some…

Indie RPG marketplace Itch.io will be offering a way to hunt bargains and help creators in the same breath by…

Evil Hat Productions will release Thirsty Sword Lesbians, a tabletop RPG, into trade in mid-2021 after a Kickstarter backer release.…

When I talk about RPGs in this column, I usually try to make sure I’m not tying my advice to…

Grant Howitt is a well-known game developer with a real knack for making one-page RPGs. Kaiji Girls is one such…

The third book of the Meatlandia old school RPG series from Knight Owl Publishing is on Kickstarter and raking in…

During the pandemic, many tabletop gamers have tested virtual tabletops as an alternative to face-to-face gaming. We’ve also seen a…

Astral Tabletop the web browser-based virtual tabletop has a lightweight and free to use Cyberpunk Red module. Astral doesn’t have…

You can now buy Cyberpunk Red from DriveThruRPG and next week, in the United States, a physical book will be…

News broke this week that Paradox Interactive would take all World of Darkness in-house and work with Renegade Game Studios…

Epic Encounters: Hall of the Orc King is the turnkey adventure in a box for your next 5th Edition D&D…

On this week’s podcast, Matt, Johnny, Wheels and Meehan crack open a jar of tabletop news and fish out the…

Warhammer Chaosbane is ready to make the Old World next-gen with new characters and content in the definitive Slayer Edition.…

Is it worth buying Cyberpunk Red if you already have the quickstart? Absolutely, yes. At times I find myself struggling…

  Dungeons & Dragons required the use of five polyhedral dice when it first came out, and back then in…

Grab your tiara and chose your magical beast companion, this week we’re all becoming cartoon princess of the RPG Kingdom…

Bardsung, the classic dungeon delve-turned-board game, has announced another guest writer as part of its Kickstarter stretch goals. Luke Gygax,…

The Island of the Dead Sand is a pay-what-you-want adventure for Lex Arcana which is being promoted as a free…

'Pathfinder Spell Cards: Advanced Player's Guide,' 'Pathfinder Magic Armaments Deck,' and 'Pathfinder Potions and Talismans Deck' Paizo, Inc. unveiled Pathfinder…

The Emerald Order is a group steeped in magic. With the Emerald Tablets holding the secrets of the universe, the…

Pathfinder 2nd Edition’s new beginner box has everything you need to dive right into the crunchy world of Golarion. Come…

We are back with another issue of Outside the Box, this time with news from Corvus Belli, Fantasy Flight Games,…

DISCLAIMER: I wrote a story for Bloat Games’ superhero anthology, Tales from Vigilante City (which I and the other authors discuss here).When…

Do you remember being young and skipping school with your friends to travel to a dimension made of purple sand?…

Mice and Mystics, Mouse Guard, Redwall: there’s something about seeing some of the world’s smallest creatures go up against some…

By Jon Webb Fallout Friday Our first #FalloutFriday has arrived and we are looking forward to seeing the results of…

We’re on the verge of Black Friday, with millions around the globe getting ready for all the best bargains and…

Editorial Coverage of Esports in the U.S. Suffers a Major Blow ESPN, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, has…

River Horse announced Labyrinth: Ready, Steady, Worm!, a fantasy racing game, for release in 2021. This new fantasy racing game,…

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About Larian Studios Larian Studios is an independent RPG developer founded in 1996 in Ghent, Belgium. Over 200 people work…

Wizards of the Coast and Extra Life for Kids have joined forces to bring you one of a kind D&D…

Also World of Darkness IP Development Will Be Led In-House by White Wolf Veteran Justin Achilli Renegade Game Studios has…

Two years ago, after White Wolf struggled with Vampire: the Masquerade 5th edition, Modiphius become the developer. About a year…

Begin an adventure in an age undreamed of by getting the Player’s Guide and character sheets for the Conan RPG…

Here’s a guest post by Wyatt Billingsley looking at how to use XP for Gold in your game. In the…

Renegade, the studio behind games including Kids on Bikes, Overlight and Clank!, has been named as the new publisher for…

Vampire: The Masquerade is expanding with the release of a new companion supplement in December that brings new playable clans,…

We’re on the verge of Black Friday, with millions around the globe getting ready for all the best bargains and…

It is a time for new beginnings all around the country, so let’s talk about how you can make your…

Jordan (For the Dungeon!, Arcana Academy) Palmer has a new project on Kickstarter, Perilous Roleplaying Game. This GM-optional dungeon crawler…

Wizards of the Coast unveiled its 2020 Magic: The Gathering holiday promo card which will exclusively be given to their…

Prepare to save the world or conquer Earth in the Power Rangers: Deck-Building Game, with new gameplay details revealing the…

Paizo, Inc. will release Pathfinder Adventure: Troubles in Otari, an adventure anthology designed for use with Pathfinder Beginner Box rules,…

Paizo has revealed a brand new product for the holidays as players can snag a new Pathfinder Beginner Box to…

Cubicle 7 has released a new PDF ahead of the new Shadows in the Mist campaign… come find out what’s…

What are the things that make you play D&D? Maybe it's the open world, the opportunities to optimize or customize…

Forgoing the tabletop’s industry’s usual crowdfunding platform of Kickstarter, Steve Jackson Games have a short campaign for weather dice on…

Modiphius have made $254 worth of the 2d20 Conan RPG available across three different tiers at Humble Bundle. As usual,…

The virtual tabletop program Fantasy Grounds has released a new skin for the software which transforms it into a sci-fi…

Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Kabuto Sumo Take on the role of a tough beetle with…