RollPlay ends its seven year run in wake of controversy
One of the most popular actual play tabletop RPG shows on Twitch is closing its doors after seven years. RollPlay,…
Mythological Figures Has Over 30 Magical Items!
In addition to the 100 or so mythological figures and maleficent monsters in this gorgeous book, there are over 30 magical…
AL Guidance: The Triton Race
Community Manager at D&D Adventurers League Amy is an obsessive baker and avid gamer who thrives when herding cats and…
AL Guidance: Shield of the Hidden Lord
Community Manager at D&D Adventurers League Amy is an obsessive baker and avid gamer who thrives when herding cats and…
Survey: Subclasses Revisted
Take our latest Unearthed Arcana survey. Last time, Unearthed Arcana presented revised versions of the Revived, Noble Genie, and Arcivist…
Why Gamemasters Should Improvise with Darren Pearce (Dr. Who, Judge Dredd)
Darren W. Pearce was kind enough to join me on the Dicegeeks podcast today. He is a writer and game…
Who’s In Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters?
Having just sent the final three entries to layout - Nessie, Lucifer, and Peter Pan - this book is pretty…
Aquelarre Spanish RPG gets English translation by Chaosium
After 25 years, one of Spain’s most prestigious and critically acclaimed tabletop RPGs is finally available for English-speaking players. Aquelarre…
Chaosium distributes acclaimed Spanish RPG Aquelarre in English
All art featured in this article is owned by Nosolorol After 25 years, one of Spain’s most prestigious and critically…
Elder Scrolls Development Blog 4: Delving Deep
By Mark Latham When we first began designing the Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms, we set out a list…
The Rules of The Troubleshooters
By Krister Sundelin Rules in roleplaying games are a curious phenomenon. Unlike any other game, rules are more like guidelines because…
Interview with Matt Wilson from Privateer Press
My guest today is Matt Wilson the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Privateer Press, a miniatures game company. We…
18–24 May 2020: Abuse in the Industry; D&D Live; Gen Con Cancelled
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D&D Live 2020: Roll w/ Advantage
June 18-20, 2020 Help a Good Cause at the Most Star-Studded D&D Event Ever! People all over the world continue…
Welcome to the world of The Troubleshooters
See the full Troubleshooters Kickstarter here for a host of unlocks, stretch goals and more: By Krister Sundelin March 19th,…
D&D Live 2020
June 18-20, 2020 Help a Good Cause at the Most Star-Studded D&D Event Ever! People all over the world continue…
Writing for D&D and Dungeon Master Bad Habits with James Introcaso
James Introcaso is a tabletop role-playing game designer for D&D and the host of the Table Top Babble podcast. He…
The Style of The Troubleshooters
Troubleshooters is an upcoming action-adventure tabletop roleplaying game set in an exciting and adventurous 1960s in the style of Franco-Belgian comics.…
Subclasses Revisited
Three subclasses reappear today in Unearthed Arcana, each with a new form. After studying your feedback on the Revived, Noble…
27 April–10 May 2020: Orcs, Kickstarter Lay-Offs, Comic Relief
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Dungeons & Dragons at a Distance: Early Play-by-Mail D&D
Sometimes, for whatever reason, you can't get together with your Dungeons & Dragons group in person. Long before D&D came out…
Level up your 5th Ed D&D Game
Time to level up your 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons games? We have a range of adventures, selection of new classes, races,…
Mythological Figures Trailer
Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters grows closer. Here's a look at the trailer for the 5th Edition sourcebook!More
#PlayItForward Event: May 4 – May 17
Community Manager at D&D Adventurers League Amy is an obsessive baker and avid gamer who thrives when herding cats and…
RPG veteran Ray Winninger named head of D&D team at Wizards of the Coast
Dungeons & Dragons had its best financial year in 2019 and now they have officially announced that there is a…
RPG veteran Ray Winninger named head of D&D team at Wizards of the Coast
Dungeons & Dragons had its best financial year in 2019 and now they have officially announced that there is a…
Dave Arneson’s Origins 1977 Tournament
The Dungeons & Dragons tournaments run at the 1970s Origins conventions are the stuff of legends: there was the Tomb…
Psionic Options Revisited
Shine with the power of the mind in this installment of Unearthed Arcana! Today we revisit several psi-themed options that…
AL Guidance: Saltmarsh Encounters
Posted on Apr 10, 2020 | To coincide with the release of Saltmarsh Encounters — written by the Dungeon Masters…
AL Guidance: Encounters in Avernus
Posted on Apr 8, 2020 | To coincide with the release of Encounters in Avernus — written by the Dungeon…
Stay at Home. Play at Home.
Over the past few weeks, we have been monitoring the spread of COVID-19 and closely following the situation and adjusting…
Far Verona Season 2 canceled due to sexual assault scene
Far Verona is a streamed tabletop RPG produced by JP “itmejp” McDaniel’s RollPlay brand. It scrapped the rest of its…
RollPlay cancels Far Verona Season 2 due to sexual assault scene
CONTENT WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT Far Verona, a streamed tabletop RPG produced by J.P. “itmejp” McDaniel’s RollPlay brand has scrapped the…
Oracle of War Gets Epic
Posted on Apr 2, 2020 | Something different is happening in the Oracle of War campaign for the D&D Adventurers…
The Wildest Corners of the Galaxy
I’d like to address my fellow Star Trek Adventures gamemasters for a moment and try to convince you that your next campaign…
Dev Blog 3 – Arcane Tomes
By Gavin Dady A very short Dev blog this time to talk about the rules PDFs that we have released…
COVID-19 and Shipping
While our store is still operating, the current pandemic may cause severe delays to your orders, especially to non-UK shipments.More
Writing the Worlds of the Delta Quadrant
When the Star Trek Adventures project manager, Jim Johnson, invited me to contribute to the Delta Quadrant Sourcebook, needless to say, I was…
The Last Quadrant
Creating and fleshing out starships for the newly-released Delta Quadrant Sourcebook for the Star Trek Adventures RPG was an interesting job. Most of Voyager’s trek through…
Spells and Magic Tattoos
Conjure forth new magic in your D&D games with the spells and tattoos introduced in today’s Unearthed Arcana. Many of…
Maude Garrett & How To DM with Noah Grand
We're continuing to record remotely as we shelter in place here in the Seattle area. Greg & Shelly hash out…
Elder Scrolls Development Blog #2.5: The Great Plan Part 2
Welcome to the second and a half developer blog for Elder Scroll: A Call to Arms! Second and a half?…
Our Response to COVID-19
COVID-19 is changing the daily lives of many of us in the Wizards of the Coast community and the world…
Dishonored the RPG is here – 2d20 in the Empire of the Isles!
Being able to work with the team at Arkane to bring the world of Dishonored to life as a tabletop…
The Star Trek Adventures Roleplaying Game completes its galactic tour with the Delta Quadrant Sourcebook
Since the release of the Star Trek Adventures RPG in July 2016, Modiphius Entertainment has steadily released supplemental books covering each of…
Looking into the Well
When the call went out for ideas for Strange New Worlds, Mission Compendium Vol. 2, I was excited. Right here was…
Getting Gamma
The Gamma Quadrant evokes a lot of imagery for fans of Star Trek, in particular the events of the devastating Dominion…
Adventurers League Online | Resources
Posted on Mar 13, 2020 | Online tabletop gaming sessions have become increasingly more popular, thanks to online chat and…
Adventurers League Online | Overview
Posted on Mar 13, 2020 | As our community members reconsider meeting in person for their weekly games and larger…
Podcasts of Wildemount
Listen to the D&D liveplay podcast community telling stories inspired by Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount. The liveplay podcast community brings…
Modiphius fully releases Fall of London for Vampire: The Masquerade
In the most recent canonical lore, the World of Darkness events that occurred in London paved the way for the…
Mechanical Mayhem – Make Your Own Robot – Part 1
The wargames team enjoyed creating robots using the new Automatron deck. In part one, Charlie and Ethan talk about their…
Identifying the Dice of the 1970s
[embedded content]How can you recognize a polyhedral gaming die made in the 1970s? The video above gives my tips for…
Caught in the Crossfire
Wargames developer at Modiphius Ethan Heywood previews a new Narrative Campaign Expansion ‘Caught in the Crossfire' for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare.More
Black Void Games releases the quickstart pdf as a free download for its popular and critically acclaimed dark fantasy RPG.
Black Void RPG designer Christoffer Sevaldsen discusses the new free quick start for the game which is the perfect way…
Achtung! Cthulhu 2020
Achtung! Cthulhu is Modiphius' oldest original RPGs It's Lovecraftian World War II with tentacles and has provided thousands of hour's…
Elder Scrolls Development Blog #2: The Great Plan…
In this second Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms developer blog Gavin Dady discusses what additional miniatures and factions you can…
Writing the Dominion War – Shadows and Changelings everywhere!
James Barry discusses writing about the Dominion War in the new Star Trek Adventures Gamma Quadrant RPG supplement for the…
Descent in Midnight to launch Kickstarter, stretch goals feature the Streampunks of QueueTimes
Featured image by Cristian Palmer A TTRPG set deep in the ocean featuring psionic characters who “fight mental, physical, and…
How to: Automatron
The Fallout: Wasteland Warfare wargames team discuss the new Automatron Card Deck which provides new options for playing robots in…
‘But can it beat a Super Mutant Suicider?’: Part 1
Modiphius Jason and Modiphius Charlie put Suiciders through their paces against some of the denizens of the Wasteland… Hey Wastelanders!…
Altered Carbon Tabletop RPG creator Hunters Entertainment announces Kickstarter
The popular cyberpunk, dystopian future Netflix TV series is getting the tabletop treatment thanks to Hunters Entertainment and fans of…
Editorial: Don’t sleep on the Campbellverse
When it comes to streaming RPG shows, we all have our favorite game masters. Matt Mercer usually comes to mind…
Writing for Gamma Quadrant
John D.Kennedy, writer on the Star Trek Adventures: Gamma Quadrant RPG Sourcebook, discusses writing the book.More
Critical Role announces new nonfiction book, The World of Critical Role
Featured photo by Ray Kachatorian The internet’s most popular and successful streaming D&D show is now giving Critters a look…
World of Darkness announces guest stars for Season 4 of L.A. by Night
One of the most popular Vampire: The Masquerade streaming shows in the past couple years have unveiled a list of…
Modiphius announces Dishonored tabletop role-playing game
Fans of the Arkane Studios’ Dishonored video game franchise can rejoice as the world of the Empire of the Isles has been adapted into a tabletop…
The Adventure Zone gets chance to be an animated series on upcoming NBC streaming service Peacock
NBCUniversal is launching a streaming service in April called Peacock and there is talk of a potential animated series starring…
Paizo announces January product releases
Paizo, the publishers of the Pathfinder RPG, announced their supplementary products for their January release, including a brand new Adventure…
Penny Arcade premieres new Call of Cthulu miniseries
Penny Arcade, the company that has produced a long running web comic and the Acquisitions, Inc. D&D franchise, launched a…
The Complete OD&D Illusionist
The Illusionist in Dungeons & Dragons was created by Peter Aronson, an early Boston-area fan. In 1975, Aronson submitted an initial…
D&D’s 45th Birthday
Back when D&D turned 40 in 2014, I put up a post about the date I favored for celebrating its…
Artistic Arcana: Scruby Fantasy Miniatures and TSR
Dungeons & Dragons grew out of a tradition of miniature wargaming, and distributors of figurines were among the first companies…
Artistic Arcana: Greg Bell Before TSR
It is no exaggeration to say that Greg Bell was effectively the first staff artist of Tactical Studies Rules. Not…
Subterranean Chainmail: Mines and Countermines
Before any daring cartographer mapped underground dungeons in pursuit of fantastic adventure, Chainmail described a system for subterranean tunnels on…
Artistic Arcana: The Impostor Lizardman
Old school Dungeons & Dragons fans know that Greg Bell's beloved lizardman from the inside cover of Greyhawk (1975) served as…
Why Did Armor Class Descend from 9 to 2?
One of the great riddles that has vexed D&D players for generations is this: why did armor class in original…
A Forgotten Variant: The Observers Book of Monsters
Sometimes chunks of gaming history come down to us without much context. That is the case with today's specimen, a…
Missile Fire in Chainmail, courtesy of Charles Sweet
When it comes to unearthing the influences behind Chainmail (1971), Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren's medieval rules with a fantasy…
Dave Arneson’s “Adventuring Is…” Cartoons
Sometimes you need to stop dissecting the roots of Chainmail for long enough to appreciate the humor that the authors…
To-Hit Rolls in Individual Medieval Combat, from Phil Barker to Chainmail
Just months before Chainmail came out, when Gary Gygax put together the seventh issue of the Domesday Book, he included…
Mordenkainen, in 1974 and today.
This weekend at the Wizards of the Coast "Stream of Many Eyes" event I got my hands on a copy…
D&D in the News (1978): Funny Dice in Iowa, with Zeb Cook
"We're known down here as the strange people with the funny dice," begins Bob Waltman, describing the reputation of the…
From Arbela to Alexander: Gygax’s Ancient Board Wargame
In the early days of gaming, a title could pass through a lot of hands before making its way to…
Vintage Ad: 1980 Do-It-Yourself Edition
Early in 1980, TSR Hobbies circulated a slender booklet containing graphics and copy for hobby stores to reuse when advertising…
A Forgotten Variant: The X-Fragments
Gary Gygax explicitly called the Guidon Dungeons & Dragons document the "first draft" of the game in a cover letter.…
D&D in the News (1976): You’re either a Fighter, Magic-user, Cleric, or Thief
If anything could draw the attention of the mainstream press of 1976 to an obscure pastime like Dungeons & Dragons, it…
War of the Empires (1969), Gygax’s Space Conquest Campaign
Two years before Chainmail was released, and a year before there was a Castle & Crusade Society, Gary Gygax was…
Vintage Ad: Does Your Shop Sell Military Miniatures?
Early in 1976, no one had any idea that Dungeons & Dragons would go on to transform the gaming hobby.…
A Forgotten Variant: Sir Pellinore’s Game
Of the gamers who assembled and self-published variant fantasy role-playing rules in the 1970s, few showed the dedication of Michael…
D&D in the News (1976): The Duke and the Evil Balrog
Early press about D&D rarely has the luxury of wading deep into the play of ongoing campaigns. That is what…
Gary Gygax on “Tomorrow” with Tom Snyder (1979)
It was early in November 1979: the publication of the Dungeon Masters Guide had recently completed the core Advanced Dungeons &…