Astral Projections – Halloween Adventure Seeds
Photo ©2021 Linda Whitson I’ve taken a good friend’s suggestion (challenge?) for Astral Projections: Come up with ideas for Halloween…
D&D 5E Guide: How To Multiclass a Cleric
Multiclassing in D&D is a great way to add depth to your character. Customize your cleric with this D&D 5E…
Munsters Reboot, MTG Goes Casual, D&D Spelljamming & the Batmobile
Check out the Munsters Reboot, MTG goes after casual gamers, D&D Spelljamming Guide, the Batmobile, and more. ‘The Munsters’– Rob…
Rolling for Initiative — Gifts for Roleplayers
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
D&D Accessories: Let’s Cosplay Our Characters At The Table
If you’re have been thinking about cosplay as your own character, now is the time and these shops are here…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To Spelljamming
The multiverse of D&D is broad and varied. And with folks thinking about travelers of the multiverse it’s time to…
Jenny Owen Youngs: Gorgeous wooden dice and D&D music
Musician Jenny Owen Youngs discovered D&D during the lockdown and now her latest EP, Echo Mountain, as a musical homage…
Introducing Younger Players to the Joys of Historical and Indy Wargaming
The next generation of wargamers are out there – how do we get them to the table? As you may…
D&D: Critical Role’s Campaign 3 Characters
Critical Role Campaign 3 kicked off this past week with a cast of colorful characters, both old and new. Here…
5 Tips for Running the Death House One-Shot From Curse of Strahd
Death House is a modern Dungeons & Dragons horror classic. The adventure was unveiled in the February 2016 issue of…
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…
Cos-tober: Eleven from ‘Stranger Things’ Cosplay Can Change Everything
One girl. One Cosplay. SO many EGGOS. It’s Cos-tober! That’s right, I made that up. But it’s finally October: time…
Meet Cenya the Elf Bard
Stonesinger Cenya is one of the pregenerated characters which will be available for free from this website. She is a…
Unseasonal Cheer
Awfully Apocalyptic News We’ve been talking about our exceedingly popular Level Up: Advanced 5E game and associated kickstarter recently but…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #123
Behind the scenes, it’s been an important week for the RPG industry. Paizo staff have a Union, thanks to freelancer…
New Star Wars RPGs In Development, ‘Edge Of The Empire’ Publishers Confirm
Building on Fantasy Flight Games’ legacy, Asmodee’s RPG publishing imprint Edge Studio has announced that it’s developing new Star Wars…
D&D: 5E Setting Campaign Launched by Lead Designers of ‘Neverwinter Nights’ And ‘Dragon Age Origins’
The tabletop studio Arcanum Worlds is chock full of ex-BioWare devs, and they’re back with a new 5th Edition Kickstarter:…
Dragon Age and Baldur’s Gate writer behind Norse-inspired D&D 5E RPG book
Explore the watery world of Grimnir in the Norse-inspired roleplaying game book for Dungeons & Dragons 5E, Raiders of the…
Free to Download: Amazing Encounters & Places, Vol 1 (5E) preview
Geek Native of the upcoming Amazing Encounter & Places, Vol 1 a 5e supplement with encounters, locations, plot and some…
Review of 'Orcs: The Legend' (TPB)
Orcs: The Legend TPPublisher: BOOM! StudiosRelease Date: November 2021Price: $14.99Creator: Christine LarsenFormat: 256 pages, Full Color, 6” x 9”, Trade…
D&D: Three Items To End Your Campaign
Are you tired of your campaign? Here are three items that are all but guaranteed to bring it to a…
D&D: Critical Role’s Campaign 3 Is Tonight– Catch Up On Your Exandria History
With Critical Role’s Campaign 3 premiering tonight, it’s the perfect time to catch up on an Intimate History of Exandria.…
D&D: New Dragon Previews– Ghost Dragon, Hoard Scarab, Liondrake, & More
There’s a dragon’s hoard of new previews just ahead of the release of Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons. Check out Ghost…
What next for Raiders of the Serpent Sea, the 5e setting inspired by Norse mythology?
Cruel giants and demons devastated the land, forcing people to use primal magic to create a safer haven and portals…
Amid Leaked Footage, You Can Apply For Elden Ring’s Closed Network Test
Elden Ring, the much-anticipated open-world RPG that will inspire a thousand knockoff D&D campaigns, is taking applicants for a closed…
Discover the Playful Moonstone Dragon From Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons
Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons brings with it new kinds of dragons, including the fey-touched moonstone dragon. Players of previous editions…
Class Preview: Ranger
The Kickstarter is halfway through! Last week we shared the adept with you. Today, it’s the most frequently requested class of…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Dragon’s Forge, Fractal, Chew the TTRPG, and More
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Glorious Taverns Tabletop roleplaying adventures take many forms, and…
Let’s Play D&D With The Dark Knight
These aren’t the D&D sheets Gotham deserves but… they’re probably not the sheets it needs, either. This week we’re playing…
D&D: Everything’s Mimics If You Try
In D&D, anything and everything to be a Mimic with the right attitude. Here are five ideas to get you…
The best Halloween 5e D&D one-shots for an utterly terrifying game night
A writer from The Everhearth Inn generously pulled together this wonderful Halloween 5e D&D One-Shot article. Put on your wizard hats, purchase…
The Secret of Strangelight Hall – D&D5e adventure Review
Thumbnail image from the reviewed product’s coverI’m a big fan of MT. Black’s work, so it was a no-brainer for…
Modiphius Joins Arcanum Worlds for 'Raiders of the Serpent Sea'
Modiphius Entertainment and Arcanum World are partnering to produce Raiders of the Serpent Sea, a fantasy tabletop role-playing game inspired…
D&D: With Spelljammer On The Horizon, What Other Setting Could We See
After last week’s Unearthed Arcana unveiled travelers of the multiverse, it seems like a plane-hopping setting is in the works.…
80s Action Movies, Cannon Films with Austin Trunick
Austin Trunick, the author of The Cannon Film Guide, joins me on the podcast today. Cannon Films produced some of…
King of Tokyo creator’s next game is a roll & write title called Dungeons, Dice & Danger
Richard Garfield, the creator of board games such as King of Tokyo, has designed a new game about dungeon-crawling called…
Character Origins: Backgrounds
Backgrounds in Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (Kickstarter live now!) form part of your Origin, which consists of heritage, culture,…
D&D: Behind The Scenes On ‘Critical Role’s New Set For ‘Campaign 3’
Come take a look behind the scenes of Campaign 3, with a video showing off the new set. See it…
Privateer Press expands 5e Iron Kingdoms as Borderland and Beyond breaches quarter of a million dollars on Kickstarter
A 5e RPG expansion for the Iron Kingdoms: Requiem setting has attracted over 3,000 backers and shot well beyond $250,000…
Vin Diesel And Ruby Rose Playing D&D Is The Wholesome Treat We Need
It seems that the D&D is strong in the Diesel household after a video shared by Vin Diesel sets the…
The Workshop – The Future of D&D Continued
The other week I posted a rundown of “The Future of Dungeons and Dragons” livestream from this year’s D&D Live…
D&D: ‘Fizban’s Treasury Of Dragons’ Delayed– But the Deep Dragon Was Unveiled
The new Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons book might be delayed, but one of the new dragons that lurk within has…
D&D Beyond App Update Introduces Campaign View With Real-Time Character Updates
The D&D Beyond App is an indispensable tool at the table, putting all your character information and game rules at…
D&D Monster Spotlight: These Monsters Are Swarms Of Fun
What’s worse than encountering a scary, disgusting, or threatening monster in D&D? Encountering an entire swarm of them! Swarms of…
Dingo Doodles and Hit Point Press take Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds to Kickstarter
Dingo was talented enough to make a YouTube animated series of their D&D campaign. Two dozen episodes, millions of views…
D&D: Five Spells To Make Things Spooky
It’s October and that means it’s officially the spooky season. But don’t let Ravenloft have all the fun, here are…
D&D: Play As Dragons In A New Free Adventure From D&D Beyond
With Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons just around the corner, D&D Beyond has released a free adventure where the players are…
Cowboy Bebop RPG lead designer on the anime adaptation’s ‘jazzy’ gameplay and satisfying cynical fans
Hot on the heels of Avatar Legends’ record-breaking Kickstarter, another beloved animated series is headed to the tabletop as a…
D&D 5E Guide: How To Multiclass – Rogue
Multiclassing in D&D is a great way to customize your character. Round out your rogue with this D&D 5E multiclass…
Rolling for Initiative — Looking Back at Free RPG Day
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Pathfinder and Starfinder RPG production is frozen according to senior developer
Staff at Paizo Publishing, the RPG company behind the sci-fi Starfinder and the fantasy that once outsold D&D, Pathfinder, formed…
D&D Accessories: Treats That Will Elevate Your Halloween Games
Make your next meeting of the D&D society a little spookier this Halloween season with these gaming goodies. Halloween is…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To Sardior, First Of The Gem Dragons
In Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, new lore tells us about the first dragons, but here’s where those names come from.…
MTG: Check Out The Stranger Things Secret Lair Superdrop
Stranger Things are happening in Magic: the Gathering’s latest Secret Lair. Come and see if you can stand up to…
Wizkids – D&D: Dungeon Scrawlers: Heroes of Undermountain
Race your friends through the dungeon mazes of Undermountain, in this lightning-fast and wildly entertaining scrawling adventure for the whole…
D&D: The Original Spelljammer
It’s a setting! It’s a manta ray! It’s a ship! It’s the Spelljammer! “It is the mightiest ship of space…
D&D: A Critical Role Video Game Is In The Works
From an animated series to an adventure book and now a video game (in the earliest stages of conception), there’s…
Wooden trackers for D&D character classes
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.These trackers from Brokenwood Gifts are gorgeous.…
WWE Wrestler Shayna Baszler Shows Dark Angels Pride in the Ring
Shayna Baszler is a certified badass – her MMA and WWE titles are numerous – and she’s a big Warhammer…
Free D&D Adventure: Fight as Dragons and Explore a Crystal Dragon's Lair!
In "The White Dragons Hunt," the players are young white dragons tasked with retrieving a clutch of stolen dragon eggs from a…
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…
Outside the Box – October 15th
Welcome back to another issue of Outside the Box – this week with news from Para Bellum Wargames, Raging Heroes,…
Halloween Season
Smashing Pumpkins The 31st of October is fast approaching. All Hallow’s Eve. A time of spooks, witches, ghouls, and devilish…
Finder’s Archives – Cascading Cataracts
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D: Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 6 Is LIVE– New Class, New Spells, And More
Patch 6 is live for Baldur’s Gate 3, and with it comes a new class, new spells, and a whole…
ATLAS: Hardcover battle map atlas woos 1,000 backers with handcrafted encounter ready locations
Moonlight Maps has a charismatic and funny Kickstarter pitch video and a product that speaks for itself. Now funded, Atlas…
Business 3×3: Bob Seabold at Tower Games
In Business 3x3, a business retailer or executive will share their experience with three things they’ve done right, three things…
World Of Darkness Bringing Back Two TTRPGs Into 5th Edition
World Of Darkness announced today that they will be bringing two franchises back to TTRPG form updated to 5th Edition.…
Workers at Pathfinder publisher Paizo have announced the formation of the United Paizo Workers union
Over 30 Paizo staff members from several departments have signed a letter announcing the formation of the United Paio Workers…
D&D: Five Magical Books That Will Expand Your Mind
Looking to accomplish a little light reading? Why not try one of these magical tomes that are sure to help…
Strahd Must Die Tonight! How to Play Ravenloft in a Single Night
Have you had your annual Halloween playthrough of Ravenloft yet? It's one of my favorite Halloween traditions. If you haven’t ever had…
Free RPG Day is this weekend; here are some of the freebies
Free RPG Day is October the 16th. There are all sorts of freebies available for people who can venture out…
D&D: New TV Series Debuting On G4
Not to be confused with the series in development by the creator of John Wick, there’s a new D&D TV…
WotC offers official DM guidance with the release of Ravenloft’s The Amber Dirge
The Adventurers League, the official D&D organised play program, has released the latest Ravenloft: Mist Hunters scenario The Amber Dirge.…
Keeping it Classy: Updated Core Classes in Level Up
“I tried as much as possible to make the wild shapes actually useful because being a giant wolf or a…
D&D: Five Great Magical Potions
Go beyond simple healing in your next adventure and quaff one of these potions instead. Don’t let …of healing be…
Let’s Play D&D In Hellraiser
If you have a character at your table who can’t not solve every puzzle they see, you have a perfect…
UA 2021: Travelers of the Multiverse Breakdown
Hey, ICYMI, the miniature giant space hamster special cover they teased in the Future of D&D panel? It’s Spelljimmy. Spelljamster…
WotC Confirms ‘Critical Role’ Is Not A ‘New’ Or ‘Classic’ D&D Setting
Ray Winninger, Head of D&D, spoke out about where the new Critical Role adventure Call of the Netherdeep fits with…
Brian Goldner, CEO of Monopoly, Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons maker Hasbro, has passed away
The CEO of Hasbro - the toy and games giant that publishes Monopoly and Jenga, as well as Magic: The…
D&D: With Races Changing, Will Backgrounds Follow?
Wizards of the Coast is changing the way that race works in D&D, leaving the door wide open for backgrounds…
How to run a Dungeons & Dragons 5E horror campaign for Halloween
Whilst there are plenty of explicitly horror-themed tabletop RPGs out there, there’s no denying the undying appeal of Dungeons &…
R.I.P. Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner
Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner has passed away just two days after beginning a medical leave of absence, the company announced…
Critical Role announces its first Dungeons & Dragons campaign book with Call of the Netherdeep
Critical Role, the most popular name in tabletop actual play, is expanding further into official Dungeons & Dragons publications with…
D&D BREAKING – WotC Announces Critical Role: Call Of The Netherdeep
A new book from Wizards of the Coast invites players further into the world of Critical Role in the newly…
Call of the Netherdeep: D&D’s sly hardcover is a Critical Role campaign
The listing that slyly appeared for an untitled D&D hardcover has been revealed as Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep.…
Dungeons & Dragons Unveils Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep
Just received this interesting press release in my inbox. Great to see Critical Role having a product release to coincide…
Dungeons & Dragons Announce Second Critical Role Book
Wizards of the Coast will be releasing a second Dungeons & Dragons book with Critical Role in 2022, this time…
Wizards Plans 'Critical Role' Campaign
Wizards of the Coast will release D&D Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep on March 15, allowing players to adventure…
RPG: By Night Studios Relaunches ‘Vampire LARP’ On Kickstarter
Vampire: the Masquerade was many gamers’ first black-eyeliner drenched brush with the world of LARP. Now it’s back with a…
The Workshop: MtG to D&D – Altar of the Brood
We’re back with another installment of MtG to D&D, a semi-regular series where we bring cards from Magic the Gathering…
‘Fizban’s Treasury Of Dragons’ Changes The History Of D&D
Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons will change the history of the many worlds of Dungeons & Dragons. Come and hear an…
5–11 October 2021: Critical Role’s $10 million
This week: a leak reveals that Critical Role is the highest-grossing channel on Twitch. Meanwhile, Wizards releases a new supplement…
Feats, Feats, & More Feats!
Let’s talk about feats in Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition!Feats work in the same way you’re used to — when…