'D&D' 'Witchlight's' Heroes and Villains Battle it Out
Gale Force Nine will release Collector's Series: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight - League of Malevolence and Collector's Series: The…
'D&D' Witches, Warlocks, and Rabbits, Oh My!
Gale Force Nine announced three new fey magic-themed D&D Collector's Series miniatures sets for release in Q4 2021. Collector’s Series:…
Warhammer 40K: The Game’s Ten Year Old Dice Rolling Secret
Over the last ten or so years it’s clear that GW has been pushing one aspect of their game that…
'D&D: The Wild Beyond Witchlight' Accessories Detailed
Gale Force 9 will release the D&D: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Dungeon Master’s Screen and Map Set late this…
D&D: Five Things To Do With All That Loot
What’s the point of going on quests and hoarding gold if you’re not going to spend it on something awesome–here…
August 2021 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Author, Manga, Superhero Graphic Novels
With a Star Wars adaptation on the Superhero chart and Devil’s Candy on the Author chart, VIZ Media has a…
Free RPG Day Promises Pathfinder, Root, Dune, And More
This year’s Free RPG day promises to bring out the big guns, with quickstart rules, campaigns, and more from some…
D&D: Matt Colville On 5th Edition’s Rulings, Not Rules
Are you a joyless pedant who can no longer feel joy but has settled for feeling “correct” instead? Well Matt…
Three Rules to Be a Great Dungeon Master with Joel “The Major” Burt
Long-time gamer, retired Air Force pilot, and game designer, Joel “The Major” Burt, visits the podcast today. Our conversation spans…
Avatar Legends RPG designers were prepared for success, but nearly $10m on Kickstarter changed things
Hardly anyone was surprised when Avatar Legends, the tabletop RPG adaptation of American animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and…
Prices for Arkham Horror, Cosmic Encounter and Mansions of Madness all set to increase due to rising costs
The retail prices for titles such as Arkham Horror: Third Edition, Cosmic Encounter and Mansions of Madness: Second Edition will…
The Curse of BloodStone Isle: The vile D&D 5e setting from the creator of Vampire: The Masquerade
Mark Rein•Hagen created the World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade; now, for the first time, he’s bringing his world-building…
What You’re Looking Forward To
The Full ListHere’s the rest of the list. Of course, there were folks excited about everything on this list, and…
Climb the 'Tower of the Lich Empress'
Steamforged Games unleashed Epic Encounters: Tower of the Lich Empress, a new miniatures boxed set, which is currently on preorder.…
Warlock 101: Fathomless Patron From Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
The ocean is a realm of both beauty and terror. Gentle giants like whales can inspire awe in a swimmer,…
D&D: Five Things You Can Do With A Dagger Besides Stabbing Someone
The single most popular item in 5th Edition D&D is the humble dagger. Everyone from rogues to wizards to fighters…
What Makes a Good Side Quest
When planning a campaign, a lot of energy and preparation time is spent on the main throughline or the main…
1–6 September 2021: Exalted on TV
This week there’s yet another RPG to TV announcement, with a show based on the Exalted RPG headed to the…
D&D: Wild Beyond The Witchlight Spoilers Spotted
Come and take a look at some more art spoilers from the upcoming adventure The Wild Beyond the Witchlight. Mr.…
The Workshop – MtG to D&D: The Null Brooch
Art by Tony DiTerlizzi Art by Tony DiTerlizzi This week we’re going to take another card from Magic the Gathering and figure…
Pathfinder, Warhammer: Soulbound, Root RPG and more feature in this year’s Free RPG Day
Get a collection of roleplaying game content for nothing with this year’s Free RPG Day, including the likes of Pathfinder,…
Rolling for Initiative — Supply Chain Shifts, a Conundrum for the Channel
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
D&D Monster Spotlight: Keep An Eye On The Shadows
If one of your adventuring party doesn’t cast a shadow, watch out, they may just be being stalked by their…
Preview: Legends of the MetaVerse 5e superhero RPG
Good Brother Studios will launch a Kickstarter campaign for a 5e superhero RPG called Legends of the MetaVerse on September…
D&D: The Delver’s Guide To Beast World Reimagines A Wagon-Filled 5th Edition
Beasts, wagons, merchant companies and more await you in a new campaign setting that looks to give 5th Edition a…
D&D: Ed Greenwood Kickstarting New Campaign Setting, Raises over A Million!
The creator of the Forgotten Realms joins Dragori Games to Kickstart the world of Tanares, a new Campaign Setting with…
Create cowpeople and fox-characters in The Delver’s Guide to Beast World, a supplement for D&D
Make anthropomorphic heroes with tails, ears and hooves in The Delver’s Guide to Beast World, a new supplementary sourcebook for…
Brittannia Games launch new Chivalry & Sorcery mini STL range
Publishers of Chivalry & Sorcery, Brittannia Games, have launched a new tabletop miniature range. The publisher of C&S 5e and…
Wheel of Time, Renaming ‘Slave I’, Multiclassing Paladins, and GW Talks Orks
Take a look at everything from the new Wheel of Time trailer, to how to multiclass Paladins in D&D, to…
Free to Download: VAST – No Port Called Home sci-fi RPG
The 159-page Adventurer’s Guide for VAST – No Port Called Home is a free download. Citing Rice Boy, Mass Effect,…
(Maternity Leave) RPG Accessories: Back To School With D&D
From notebooks to pens to pencil bags there are a ton of D&D accessories that are just as useful in…
D&D: Io, The Over-Dragon – An Adventurer’s Guide
Bahamut and Tiamat might be the gods of dragons, but there’s one to whom even they bow. Come and meet…
Crossing the Titan’s Garden
The Narrator quickly determines some details about the Region being traversed. We’ve already established that the Titan’s Garden is a…
Give your 5e RPG some options with The Delver’s Guide to Beast World
The Delver’s Guide to Beast World is a Kickstarter success in a week that’s seen no shortage of heavy-hitting campaigns.…
D&D: Check Out The Wrap-Up To Critical Role’s ‘Exandria Unlimited’
Critical Role wrapped up Exandria Unlimited this past week, and now you can watch the cast’s Q&A and go behind…
Who in the Nine Hells Is Fizban? Find Out Here!
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons will be chock-full of dragon goodness when it drops on October 19. The Dungeons & Dragons…
GW, Warhammer, 40K & Fantasy Minis Trivia Challenge
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116
September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission It’s a Friday and the start of the…
Leyline Press: Brexit RPG designer co-founds new RPG company
Panayiotis Lines, the designer of Shadow of Mogg, an appropriately brutal look at Brexit in the guise of a tabletop…
Finder’s Archives – Calciform Pools
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D 5e Guide: How to Multiclass Paladins
Multiclassing in Dungeons & Dragons opens up a door of possibilities for PCs. Today we’re taking a look at how…
Transformers are driving, flying and jumping into a new tabletop RPG
An upcoming roleplaying game based on the beloved Transformers television series and toy line is coming from the publisher behind…
D&D: Five Ways To Find A Secret Door
Secret doors are a longstanding tradition in Dungeons & Dragons, and just as longstanding a tradition: inventive ways to convince…
Exclusive preview: Fancy a “Player’s Handbook 2” for 5e? Visit Valda’s Spire of Secrets
Mage Hand Press has a vast, 380-page, 10 new base classes, and incredible 150+ subclass touting 5e book up on…
The GI Joe, Power Rangers, And Transformers RPGs Are Officially Announced
The Transformers, GI Joe and Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers RPGs are unveiled at last. Come take a look at the…
Talent-studded D&D 5E setting Tanares earns over $1m in first day of crowdfunding
Tanares is a new tabletop RPG setting compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 5E that raised seven figures on its first…
D&D Celebration 2021 – Registration Open For Wild Beyond The Witchlight
Come and take part in the virtual weekend of adventure, live games, and a preview of the Wild Beyond the…
10 board games to look for at Gen Con 2021 – preview
Gen Con is back for 2021, with a slew of exciting upcoming board games for players to experience at the…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Black Rose Wars, Picaresque Roman, Flatline City, and More
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Blurgh A party game of bad language, crazy drawings,…
The Avatar Legends RPG Surpasses $8 Million Heading – Last Chance To Back
Avatar Legends, the RPG of elemental bending and cabbages has broken many Kickstarter records, surpassing $8 million heading into the…
The G.I. Joe Roleplaying Game has been officially revealed
The G.I. Joe Roleplaying Game, based on the line of toy soldiers, has been officially unveiled by publisher Renegade Game…
Are RPGs TV’s Next Goldmine? – ‘Blades In The Dark’ And ‘Exalted’ In Development
Not one but two different RPG franchises have announced TV shows in development. Blades in the Dark and Exalted will…
D&D: WotC Lead Designer Talks Bard Class Origins
It’s the 90s all over again, because D&D’s lead rules designer takes us all Behind the Music with Bards, celebrating…
17–31 August 2021: Blades in the Dark on TV
This week, John Harper’s hit RPG, Blades in the Dark, will get a TV adaptation; Virtual Tabletop platform, Role, raises…
Wanderhome studio’s next RPG is a game about ghost families called Our Haunt
Our Haunt, an upcoming roleplaying game about being a household of ghosts, is the next RPG from the publishing company…
Nerds Gummy Clusters Reveals New Dungeons & Dragons Packaging
Today Nerds candy along with Dungeons & Dragons revealed the packaging for the new Nerds Gummy Clusters with a D&D…
Monsters and Dragons and Pirates, Oh My!
Monsters and Dragons and Pirates, Oh My! Tuesday, August 31, 2021 After over a year and a half of…
D&D: Five Worlds Your Characters Should Adventure In
D&D has countless worlds, as long as you can’t count very high. There are more than you’d think though! Everyone…
How to Easily Incorporate Side Quests
Side quests don’t have to be distracting fetch quests or the infamous escort quests so often present in MMORPG games.…
WizKids Launches 'D&D Prismatic Paint'
WizKids launched its D&D Prismatic Paint line of products, which are expected to hit stores in January 2022. This new…
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Multiclassing in Dungeons & Dragons can be a great way to add some flexibility, depth, and power to your character.…
The Workshop – Other Fantasy RPGs
The other week I posted an article about one of the current “conversations” around 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons, specifically…
Power Rangers RPG drops D&D 5E gameplay, will debut new Essence20 system
The Power Rangers Roleplaying Game will no longer be based on Dungeons & Dragons 5E, publisher Renegade Game Studios has…
Preview: 'D&D Frameworks' Character Packs
WizKids released preview images of their first wave D&D Frameworks character packs (see "WizKids Launches 'D&D Frameworks'"). These miniatures will…
D&D 101: Choosing a Race for Your Dungeons & Dragons Character
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D&D Monster Spotlight: Phase Spiders, Set Phasers To Nope
What happens when you mix the worst aspects of a Giant Spider with the teleportation of a Blinkdog? Nightmare fuel…
D&D: Five Spells To Beat The Heat
It’s the height of summer and your adventuring party is wearing leather and metal–here are five spells to help beat…
Feel the darkness: Red Dawn – Into the Dawnlands battles towards funding on Kickstarter
Since bookmarking the 5e campaign setting Red Dawn: Into the Dawnlands as a Kickstarter to write up, I see it’s…
Check Out Essence 20 – Hasbro’s New RPG Engine For Transformers, GI Joe, And More
Renegade Games recently unveiled a new RPG system that will bring Hasbro’s many worlds, like Transformers, GI Joe, and Power…
D&D: Kobold Press’ New Book Will Add 50 New Subclasses
A new 5th Edition sourcebook from longtime 3rd-party publisher Kobold Press, Tome of Heroes, will add more than 50 new…
Six New 'Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figures' Incoming
WizKids revealed six new Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figures that will hit retail stores in November. Pathfinder Battles Premium Painted…
D&D’s Unknown Rules, Arby’s Dice, DUNE’s House Harkonnen, League of Legends Cosplay, Critical Role Statues
Take a look at D&D’s unknown rules, Arby’s new D20s, House Harkonnen speaks, along with League of Legends Cosplay, and…
Rolling for Initiative — Whither the Entry Level Promo Deck?
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
RPG Accessories: D&D Swag For Autumn Druids
Crunchy leaves and crisp air means it’s time to find the RPG accessories perfect for an autumn druid or just…
Genre Police: Staying On Track
Railroading. What a term. It hovers like a spectre over the hobby. Players dread the railroading GM who is ready…
D&D: Mordenkainen, Master Of Neutrality
Dedicated to maintaining “the balance”, this Wizard is basically D&D’s sorcerer supreme. Come join us as we visit the Man,…
Historica Arcanum: The City of Crescent wants to shake up your 5e sensibilities
Historica Arcanum: The City of Crescent does three things, two of which might be seen as a shakeup. The third…
D&D: Icewind Dale – An Adventurer’s Guide
Grab your winter cloak, your ring of warmth, and make sure to stock up on rations, because we’re going to…
D&D: ‘Critical Role’s Vex And Vax Vox Machina Statues
A new series of collectible statues was unveiled earlier this week from the team at Critical Cole and Sideshow Collectibles.…
Karokans – a Crabfolk Race for D&D 5e
This week on the Campaign Trail, I thought I would share a new undersea racial option I am working on…
An interview with James Introcaso as MCDM’s Arcadia future is confirmed
When Matt Colville announced that MCDM would start a magazine, he was very clear about the commercial requirements. Arcadia would…
Road Trip! 3 Steps to Making Travel Fun in Dungeons & Dragons
Your party sets out to the Mire of Haunted Dreams. Eighteen days of thick Feywild jungle lie ahead of them. But as each…
GW, Warhammer, 40K & Fantasy Minis Trivia Challenge
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #115
August 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Sales from links may earn us money As Friday rolls around…
D&D: So About Those Arby’s Dice…
For one shining, glorious minute, Arby’s was selling an entire set of tabletop dice. They’re gone now, but you can…
Netrunner trademark filing sends players speculating on the cyberpunk card game’s future
Someone in the Android: Netrunner community discovered that Wizards of the Coast is filing legal paperwork for a trademark over…
Finder’s Archive – Cabal Stronghold
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D – Rules You Didn’t Know Were In The Game
Do you ever need to do something weird that you don’t think D&D has a rule for? Check the Dungeon…
An argument for more sophisticated Tier 1 adventures
Geek Native invited Marius Brunner, the author of the D&D adventure The Goblin Bathwater Incident, to write about Tier 1 adventures.…
Hasbro release Essence20 as an RPG system to rival D&D’s 5e
Wizards of the Coast have a new RPG system in the ecosystem to be mindful of, and it’s connected to…
Hasbro approve the release of the Essence 20 RPG system
Wizards of the Coast have a new RPG system in the ecosystem to be mindful of, and it’s connected to…
We’re removing the playtest documents!
We will soon be removing the playtest documents from this website. If you want to keep them for any reason,…
Level Up: Feature List
Below is a list of just some of the many innovations and new features to be found in Level Up:…
D&D: Five Spells Perfect For Sneaking
Stealth in Dungeons & Dragons isn’t always just the purview of rogues. With these five spells, even the clumsiest caster…
Free to Download: Cyberpunk RED Jumpstart Conversion Guide
Gamers introduced to RPGs by the success of D&D 5e and shows like Critical Role seem to lean more heavily…
The Herbalist’s Primer gives roleplaying groups a crash course in practical and magical botany
Flex both green thumbs during the next tabletop session with the Herbalist’s Primer, a system-agnostic supplement describing 100 different plants…
D&D: Take A Look At WizKids’ New Framework Minis
WizKids has unveiled a preview of their new Framework series of miniatures–new sprue-based D&D minis that will let you custom…
Why does everyone hate Monopoly? The secret history behind the world’s biggest board game
Tabletop games have come a long way since the 1930s when the Parker Brothers first unleashed the game of Monopoly…