Shadowrun

A spoonful of fantasy helps the genre go down. This often applies to role playing games set in historical eras…

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

News on the new 145% import taxes on games manufactured in China is rolling in, and we round it up…

Catalyst Game Labs will release Margin Calls, a new plot sourcebook for Shadowrun RPG, into retail on May 14, 2025.…

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Catalyst Game Labs will release Deadly Arts, a new Shadowrun RPG sourcebook, into retail on April 2, 2025. This book…

The Ten-Second Pitch You are a member of the Dominion Expedition Forces, prepared to handle any tasks presented by the…

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Catalyst Game Labs will release Shadowrun First Edition 35th Anniversary, a reprinted rulebook, into retail on December 11, 2024. FASA…

Catalyst Game Labs will release Smooth Operations, a new core face rulebook for Shadowrun, Sixth World, into retail on September…

I went to Gen Con for the first time in my life, and apparently, I’ve lived to tell about it.…

Catalyst Game Labs will release Shadowrun: Final Bets, a new RPG campaign book, into retail on July 24, 2024. Final…

Greetings, players! In today’s blog we’d like to recognize the talented freelance authors who contributed to our most recent slate…

Catalyst Game Labs will release The Needle's Eye, a new Shadowrun plot sourcebook, into retail on May 29, 2024. This…

Hail and well met, Pathfinders and Starfinders! March is Women’s History Month here in the United States, and all of…

Advertisement By now, you’ve probably finished Baldur’s Gate 3. And while you could start yet another run, here are five other games…

Today I’m excited to tell you about a new third-party setting for 5e, which will be crowdfunded by an upcoming…

Want to explore Pathfinder’s fantasy world of Golarion without bothering with character sheets and all that other RPG guff? Fancy…

Catalyst Game Labs will launch Runefire, a narrative deckbuilding game based on Paizo’s Pathfinder RPG and built on the engine…

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Catalyst Game Labs revealed Shadowrun: Falling Point, a new Runner Resource book for Shadow, for release into retail on March…

Catalyst Game Labs will release Shadowrun: Wild Life, a new creature sourcebook, into retail on January 24, 2024. Wild Life features…

Steve Jackson Games recently unveiled their 2024 lineup of releases. The 2024 release schedule for SJG features some new games,…

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Catalyst Game Labs revealed Scotophobia, a new Shadowrun RPG plot book, for release into retail on November 22, 2023. The…

Catalyst Game Labs will release Shadowrun, Sixth World Core Rulebook: City Edition - Berlin into retail on November 22, 2023.…

The last few months have brought exciting changes to Kobold Press including the growth of our staff. We wanted to…

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

Catalyst Game Labs will release two Shadowrun: Edge Zone decks into retail on August 23, 2023. The Magic Deck and…

In a small, seaside town, a cult lurks in the shadows and prepares to fulfill the dark prophecies it’s harbored…

Stunts are one of the pillars of the Adventure Game Engine, the system we use in Fantasy AGE, Modern AGE,…

That’s right, we have. Well, kind of. We mentioned it briefly in 2019, at Gen Con, but the reference was…

Catalyst Game Labs will release Shoot Straight, a new sourcebook for Shadowrun RPG, into retail on July 12, 2023. Shoot…

One of the challenges of the pandemic was a “logjam” of content we couldn’t publish yet for a number of…

Catalyst Game Labs revealed Shadownrun RPG: Body Shop, a new augmentation sourcebook, for release into retail on June 26, 2023.…

Hey folks, Malcolm here. I’m not the developer of the new edition of Fantasy AGE but I am one of…

Shadowrun character sheets! Here’s my collection of Shadowrun character sheets. Of course, Shadowrun is an OG of the tabletop role-playing…

Catalyst Game Labs, the publisher behind the Battletech miniature skirmisher and Shadowrun tabletop RPG, has announced the creation of a…

Get the PDF for just $5 with a print copy preorder, and start reading today!Stunts are a hallmark of the…

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As the gamemaster for a Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game, it’s important to recognize the different styles the players gravitate…

Fantasy AGE’s magic system is getting a bit of a polish for the new edition. The fundamental rules are the…

This time around we’ll talk about some of the rules that are new to the 2nd edition of Fantasy AGE.…

What’s combat like in the new edition of Fantasy AGE? First of all, if you’ve played Fantasy AGE before, or…

Fantasy AGE’s new edition does its best to strike a balance between keeping the game familiar—so familiar that many elements…

Catalyst Game Labs will release Astral Ways, a new Shadowrun Sixth World RPG setting book, into retail on March 8,…

Last time around we chatted about ancestries in the new edition of Fantasy AGE, which is just going through final…

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Science fiction RPGs have been on the rise in recent years, as more and more roleplayers look to explore the…

Coming Soon! Pre-order begins in February.Fantasy AGE’s new edition is coming soon—and we’ve been remiss when it comes to telling…

Nothing quite starts off a new year like a cryptic blog post title, so here we go! Seriously though, I’d…

The original artwork for the logo to Shadowrun 1e and 2e is for sale. As of this writing, Noble Knight…

Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast which bought Dungeons & Dragons decades ago. The D&D brand has moved from an…

At EN World, I talked about the upcoming lines of action figures based on tabletop roleplaying games such as the…

Science fiction short story writer and neuroscientist, Benjamin C. Kinney, joins me on the podcast. We kick off the conversation…

Earlier this week we shared the interview with Richard Lee Byers who wrote part one of the Arcane Secrets Duology,…

Cthulhu awakens literally, of course.In what seems like years ago due to pandemic and post-pandemic time dilation effects, but was…

Catalyst Game Labs will release Shadowrun: Hack & Slash, a new sourcebook, into retail on November 2, 2022. Hack &…

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In the first two parts of this three-part series, I discussed the reasons to consider a line of fiction, including…

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I’m headed into my 2022 convention season (Gen Con, Dragon Con, Multiverse). My itinerary includes connections with a number of…

In my last two articles I talked about where the Modern AGE line currently stands with its core, setting-agnostic books,…

In my last article, I talked about the state of the Modern AGE line as we move into its fifth…

In the “Roleplaying Products You Didn’t Know You Were Missing” series, I talk about products that don’t appear in the…

Modern AGE is four years old! It was released back in June 2018, ahead of its formal debut at Gencon…

Tabletop roleplaying games, as a sales category, may be evolving faster than many fans and publishers realize. For the most…

The Merchant's Anvil is a monthly column by Paul Alexander Butler, owner of Games and Stuff in Glen Burnie, Maryland…

As I discussed recently, I had to pause tabletop gaming as my day job began consuming time like that was…

COMING VERY SOON!Cyberpunk is one of the most popular genres in roleplaying games. Sitting as it does between the modern…

Art by John Anthony DiGiovanniAs we noted in our update about powers and eldritch workings, anyone can “cast a spell”…

Art by Maurice RisulmiCthulhu Awakens provides three options for characters seeking extraordinary powers. First, the Inhuman Legacy talent represents individuals…

Art by Tentacles and TeethIn expanding the source material to cover the Weird Century, Cthulhu Awakens presents a world with…

Art by Andrew VasilchenkoThe key setting concept of Cthulhu Awakens is the Weird Century, a rough period from the 1920s…

Art by Tentacles and TeethIf you’re familiar with Blue Rose or Modern AGE, you’ve come across Relationships: a system that…

Contrary to popular belief, encountering Mythos entities, reading texts that convincingly upend the supposed laws of reality, confronting the dark…

Available now as an Add-on during our Kickstarter campaign!This morning we are pleased to announce that we will be making…

Cthulhu Awakens is a game of fear and weirdness, and that includes the people you meet, from mortal conspirators to…

Art by Natalie BernardAs part of the AGE System family of games, Cthulhu Awakens is substantially compatible with Modern AGE, our multi-genre modern…

Art by John Anthony Di GiovanniAs mentioned in our last update on the subject, Weirdness Overflowing is a PDF supplement that grows with…

Check out the Cthulhu Awakens Kickstarter for more details!When insects and worms feast on the remains of certain psychics, sorcerers,…

Tabletop roleplaying games are pretty incredible. The best RPGs are capable of transporting you and your fellow players to entirely…

As we recently announced, we’re making a new standalone AGE System game, Cthulhu Awakens, which will start crowdfunding over at…

Mark from the D4 on the Floor podcast joins m on the dicegeeks show today. We discuss his years of…

Native American-built tabletop RPG Coyote & Crow is a well-designed and fascinating look into an alternate history where colonialism never…

A routine flight turns into a challenge to survive and humanity’s first contact with extraterrestrial life, as the plane somehow…

The 'Ghostbusters' RPG casts a long shadow. Its influence can be seen everywhere from 'Star Wars' to 'World of Darkness'.…

Hello everyone! Wow, as of the time I’m writing this the last couple weeks have been eventful, to say the…

I’m so pleased to announce that the Modern AGE Mastery Guide has gone to press, which means you can preorder…

RPG news from Geek Native as Routinely Itemised looks back at stories from this blog and others. Reviews? Gotcha. Interviews?…

So, backstage, we developers have been talking about the different properties of AGE as a system, and how they might…

An official tabletop roleplaying game based on sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner was announced last week, simultaneously igniting both excitement and…

It’s the week after Gen Con, and so, as predicted, there’s no shortage of RPG news and new tabletop releases…

Gen Con 2021 News: Catalyst Games unveiled Shadowrun: The Kechibi Code, a new plot sourcebook for Shadowrun: Sixth World RPG,…

With Gen Con approaching, I thought it would be good to talk RPG shop with some of the talent behind…