7–13 September 2021: Skyraiders and SideQuest
This week: a new RPG from the co-creator of Dragonlance; a new initiative looks to bring the magic of ZineQuest…
This week: a new RPG from the co-creator of Dragonlance; a new initiative looks to bring the magic of ZineQuest…
Cantrips are every spellcaster’s best friend. But did you know they can do more than just 1d10 damage? Cantrips are…
The Oxford-based Midnight Tower team live within walking distance of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s former homes and near C.S. Lewis’…
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands asks us all to look within our hearts, search our souls and answer the question: who’s ready…
Every cat owner has been there - you’re playing a tabletop RPG with friends around the living room table when…
Art by @TempoMcFlurry on Twitter In order to celebrate the launch of the Pixel Remaster version on September 8th, I…
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure is coming next week and with it new magic items with a…
Orbs are just about the best shape you can be–but if you can’t be an orb, you can at least…
I’m reminded of Heavy Metal. That’s to say, the French fantasy series which helped inspire a generation of fantasy authors…
There is a good chance that your party may not even notice the Gray Ooze until it’s already eating through…
Two new batches of minis from Wild Beyond the Witchlight have been revealed from Gale Force Nine. Check out the…
After being conspicuously absent from the last two adventure books, it seems that alignment is returning to the monster stat…
Defeat a collection of over 100 deadly creatures and create equipment from their parts in Battlezoo Bestiary, a roleplaying game…
Move over Dungeons & Dragons and your new attempt at a movie adaptation! As good as we all want the…
This weekend we covered some awesome Xena cosplay, looked at D&D’s new races, a remake of Star Wars: Knights of…
Jon Peterson usually writes histories of game design. His latest book, Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons…
Convince your kids (or your friends kids or your nieces and nephews) that D&D is fun and forever be the…
The collection of magical items and companions Peculiar Discoveries is doing well on Kickstarter, hitting its funding goal several times…
The game might be called Dungeons & Dragons, but it’s full of elves. And today we’re talking about their creator…
Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios have announced that Neverwinter: Jewel Of The North will be getting its first battle…
Wild Beyond the Witchlight is inviting players to the realms of the Feywild, so today we’re taking a look at…
Need an idea for an adventure? Then give the Night of the Wraith a try. When a spectre of a…
Wild Beyond the Witchlight brings some of the classic cartoon characters and action figure’s of D&D’s past to the present.…
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight marks the return of campestris to Dungeons & Dragons. These loveable mushroom-like creatures find joy…
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
Sometimes you get caught, red-handed, and you’ve got to figure out how you’re going to escape actually facing a consequence…
Welcome back to another issue of Outside the Box. This week we have news from Corvus Belli, Otherworld Miniatures, Anvil…
Tracy and Laura Hickman, best known for Dragonlance and Ravenloft in the old TSR days, have announced a new 5th Edition setting. A new…
With the September 21 release of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, the jabberwock makes its return to Dungeons & Dragons.…
Skyraiders of Abarax is the first new adventure world from Tracy and Laura Hickman since Dragonlance. The 5e setting as…
Is your soul made of the stuff of shadows? Do you prefer the rain, and hanging around cemeteries wearing black…
Prolific authors and game designers Tracy and Laura Hickman have announced they are working on Skyraiders of Abarax, a new…
Some of the heroes and villains (but not the main kids–at least not yet) from the D&D Animated Series are…
Come and take a look at two of the new races coming in The Wild Beyond The Witchlight: A Feywild…
One of the exciting things about writing an aquatic setting is that there are whole creature types that don’t have…
Tony Vasinda of Plus One Exp has a new RPG crowdfunding, this one on GameFound. Entitled Down We Go, this…
Play as a stuffed teddy bear or a mouse warrior in Valda’s Spire of Secrets, a new supplement designed for…
Gale Force Nine will release Collector's Series: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight - League of Malevolence and Collector's Series: The…
Gale Force Nine announced three new fey magic-themed D&D Collector's Series miniatures sets for release in Q4 2021. Collector’s Series:…
Over the last ten or so years it’s clear that GW has been pushing one aspect of their game that…
Gale Force 9 will release the D&D: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Dungeon Master’s Screen and Map Set late this…
What’s the point of going on quests and hoarding gold if you’re not going to spend it on something awesome–here…
With a Star Wars adaptation on the Superhero chart and Devil’s Candy on the Author chart, VIZ Media has a…
This year’s Free RPG day promises to bring out the big guns, with quickstart rules, campaigns, and more from some…
Are you a joyless pedant who can no longer feel joy but has settled for feeling “correct” instead? Well Matt…
Long-time gamer, retired Air Force pilot, and game designer, Joel “The Major” Burt, visits the podcast today. Our conversation spans…
Hardly anyone was surprised when Avatar Legends, the tabletop RPG adaptation of American animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and…
The retail prices for titles such as Arkham Horror: Third Edition, Cosmic Encounter and Mansions of Madness: Second Edition will…
Mark Rein•Hagen created the World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade; now, for the first time, he’s bringing his world-building…
The Full ListHere’s the rest of the list. Of course, there were folks excited about everything on this list, and…
Steamforged Games unleashed Epic Encounters: Tower of the Lich Empress, a new miniatures boxed set, which is currently on preorder.…
The ocean is a realm of both beauty and terror. Gentle giants like whales can inspire awe in a swimmer,…
The single most popular item in 5th Edition D&D is the humble dagger. Everyone from rogues to wizards to fighters…
When planning a campaign, a lot of energy and preparation time is spent on the main throughline or the main…
This week there’s yet another RPG to TV announcement, with a show based on the Exalted RPG headed to the…
Come and take a look at some more art spoilers from the upcoming adventure The Wild Beyond the Witchlight. Mr.…
Art by Tony DiTerlizzi Art by Tony DiTerlizzi This week we’re going to take another card from Magic the Gathering and figure…
Get a collection of roleplaying game content for nothing with this year’s Free RPG Day, including the likes of Pathfinder,…
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
If one of your adventuring party doesn’t cast a shadow, watch out, they may just be being stalked by their…
Good Brother Studios will launch a Kickstarter campaign for a 5e superhero RPG called Legends of the MetaVerse on September…
Beasts, wagons, merchant companies and more await you in a new campaign setting that looks to give 5th Edition a…
The creator of the Forgotten Realms joins Dragori Games to Kickstart the world of Tanares, a new Campaign Setting with…
Make anthropomorphic heroes with tails, ears and hooves in The Delver’s Guide to Beast World, a new supplementary sourcebook for…
Publishers of Chivalry & Sorcery, Brittannia Games, have launched a new tabletop miniature range. The publisher of C&S 5e and…
Take a look at everything from the new Wheel of Time trailer, to how to multiclass Paladins in D&D, to…
The 159-page Adventurer’s Guide for VAST – No Port Called Home is a free download. Citing Rice Boy, Mass Effect,…
From notebooks to pens to pencil bags there are a ton of D&D accessories that are just as useful in…
Bahamut and Tiamat might be the gods of dragons, but there’s one to whom even they bow. Come and meet…
The Narrator quickly determines some details about the Region being traversed. We’ve already established that the Titan’s Garden is a…
The Delver’s Guide to Beast World is a Kickstarter success in a week that’s seen no shortage of heavy-hitting campaigns.…
Critical Role wrapped up Exandria Unlimited this past week, and now you can watch the cast’s Q&A and go behind…
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons will be chock-full of dragon goodness when it drops on October 19. The Dungeons & Dragons…
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission It’s a Friday and the start of the…
Panayiotis Lines, the designer of Shadow of Mogg, an appropriately brutal look at Brexit in the guise of a tabletop…
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
Multiclassing in Dungeons & Dragons opens up a door of possibilities for PCs. Today we’re taking a look at how…
An upcoming roleplaying game based on the beloved Transformers television series and toy line is coming from the publisher behind…
Secret doors are a longstanding tradition in Dungeons & Dragons, and just as longstanding a tradition: inventive ways to convince…
Mage Hand Press has a vast, 380-page, 10 new base classes, and incredible 150+ subclass touting 5e book up on…
The Transformers, GI Joe and Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers RPGs are unveiled at last. Come take a look at the…
Tanares is a new tabletop RPG setting compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 5E that raised seven figures on its first…
Come and take part in the virtual weekend of adventure, live games, and a preview of the Wild Beyond the…
Gen Con is back for 2021, with a slew of exciting upcoming board games for players to experience at the…
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Blurgh A party game of bad language, crazy drawings,…
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, based on the line of toy soldiers, has been officially unveiled by publisher Renegade Game…
Not one but two different RPG franchises have announced TV shows in development. Blades in the Dark and Exalted will…
It’s the 90s all over again, because D&D’s lead rules designer takes us all Behind the Music with Bards, celebrating…
This week, John Harper’s hit RPG, Blades in the Dark, will get a TV adaptation; Virtual Tabletop platform, Role, raises…
Our Haunt, an upcoming roleplaying game about being a household of ghosts, is the next RPG from the publishing company…
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! Tuesday, August 31, 2021 After over a year and a half of…
D&D has countless worlds, as long as you can’t count very high. There are more than you’d think though! Everyone…
Side quests don’t have to be distracting fetch quests or the infamous escort quests so often present in MMORPG games.…
WizKids launched its D&D Prismatic Paint line of products, which are expected to hit stores in January 2022. This new…