It’s Johnny’s last week!
Johnny Chiodini departs team Dicebreaker for new shores later this week. Ahead of waving a fond farewell and wishing good…
Player memo kits for RPGs
I like these player memo kits from R-N-W. They’re attractive and practical at the same time. You’re getting a digital…
Monster Preview: Green Dragon
The Monstrous Menagerie contains more in-depth treatments of the O5E monsters you already know and love. We include interesting, varied…
Dungeon Con Online announced with groundbreaking new technology
A partnership from Goodman Games and Dungeon Masters Guild will bring a celebration of all things D&D 5e in the…
Let’s Take A Journey…
The Journey Rules Journeys are the heart of exploration. They’re not the only thing in the exploration pillar, but they…
Gary Gygax’s own DM has finally licensed his original works
Robert J. Kuntz is an author and game designer who played with Gary Gygax in that fateful demonstration by Dave…
The gang enter Crime City, check out Cosmic Frog creator’s next game and talk more D&D film news in the Dicebreaker Podcast
Plus: tips on running RPGs over Zoom and our favourite third-party creators.
Level Up Survey: Wizard
Today we released the playtest candidate for our Wizard class. This is the accompanying survey. As always, it’s OK if…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #90
Well, now, Kickstarter’s Zine Quest was huge, and it ended with piles of stinky brown stuff hitting the whirling blades…
Level Up Playtest Document #11: Wizard
What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…
Former D&D Beyond Founder Joins Demiplane RPG
Adam Bradford, founder of D&D Beyond, has joined with Demiplanem a new digital platform for tabletop RPGs. After big shakeups…
The new D&D computer game comes from a surprising studio
Hidden Path Entertainment has confirmed that that they are working on a triple-A D&D computer game with Wizards of the…
The One Ring 2E becomes highest-funded tabletop RPG on Kickstarter
The Kickstarter campaign for The One Ring Roleplaying Game: Second Edition closed on March 4th having raised SEK 17,070,638, which…
Roll20’s annual Orr report shows D&D remains biggest draw, but smaller RPGs thrived in 2020
Digital roleplaying platform Roll20 released its annual Orr Group Industry Report on February 18th, sharing some hand-picked insights behind the…
One-Page Adventures Nears The End!
Thanks to all of our loyal backers, our project is off to a great start. IN fact, we're now in…
Handimonsters Patreon: An Interview With Jacob Rodgers (Handiwork Games)
Patreons are an important part of the monetization of RPGs. Not only for RPG news*, also many RPG publishers. Handiwork…
Kickstarter Round-Up: 3D Print Fantastic Orcs & Battle Some Necrojerks
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Crystalpunk – 5e Setting Crystalpunk is a brand new…
D&D BREAKING: New Open World Game In The Works From One Of The Makers Of CS: GO
Call it de_dungeons&dragons; there’s a new 3rd-person, open-world D&D game in development from Hidden Path Entertainment, of CS: Go fame.…
DMs Guild Publishing, the RPG Door Problem with Matthew Whitby
DMs Guild creator and game designer Matthew Whitby pops in on the podcast. In addition to being a creator on…
How Dungeons & Dragons helped me discover my gender identity
There is a joke I’ve seen with some regularity in queer tabletop RPG spaces: “At least one of the players…
D&D On The Air In The 80s, The Lost Radio Play – PRIME
Before Matthew Mercer, before Acquisitions Incorporated, before anyone had streamed anything, Dungeons & Dragons had their very own radio play.…
Hugh Grant will play the villain in the Dungeons & Dragons film
The upcoming Dungeons & Dragons film has found its antagonist in Oscar-winning actor Hugh Grant, as well as an additional…
D&D Accessories: Gift Sets
Picking out the perfect gift can be challenging, but with D&D themed gift sets finding an awesome present for the…
Best Way to Design a Quick Campaign Setting
Start small When building a setting quickly keep your focus on the immediate locations your party will be. No need…
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Five
See, I told you it wasn’t going to be quite as long until I wrote the next one! If you…
Champion’s Spotlight #2 – Catti-Brie
Last time we looked at the first of the “Core 12” Champions in the Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms…
Custom miniatures studio Hero Forge adds option to create wheelchair users
In celebration of International Wheelchair Day, Hero Forge has announced the option to create miniatures of wheelchair users. The company,…
Tabletop Gallery: I Want it Captured Alive!
Fabius does love a unique pet. Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make…
Kickstarter executive cancels The Perfect RPG campaign amid backlash to Dungeon World co-creator’s involvement
Kickstarter’s VP Head of Community Luke Crane has cancelled the recently launched campaign for The Perfect RPG after receiving public…
Kickstarter Million Dollar RPG’s
Two Kickstarted RPGs have breached the million dollar mark and they are both ending this week. From Twisted Taverns to…
Good Old Plays: The throwback RPGs giving modern roleplaying “a breath of fresh air”
Garth lived for nine minutes. He was born in half that time, a trio of six-sided dice rolled six times…
Try Before You Buy – Owlbear Rodeo Virtual Tabletop
Many modern RPGers have embraced virtual tabletops for online play, many of them full of gaming goodies. You can have…
D&D Ramping Up ‘Cadence Of Releases’ In 2021
After D&D’s big wins for Hasbro, WotC announces they’ll be increasing the cadence of releases, meaning more books and more…
Rolling for Initiative — More Thoughts on Hasbro's Investor Day Announcements
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Rolling for Initiative — Thoughts on Hasbro's Investor Day Announcements
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
D&D: Barovia, The Cursed Lands of Strahd
With the new announcement about a new guide book, we’re taking a closer look at the lands of Barovia –…
D&D’s New Movie And Magic’s New Series Get Production Update
In the wake of WotC’s big promotion at Hasbro, we also got some news about the upcoming D&D and M:tG…
How can you defuse player conflict at the table? We discuss in this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast
This week’s episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast is sponsored by Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos. Visit https://store.team17.com and use code…
Outside the Box – February 26th
Welcome to another issue of Outside the Box, this week with news from Creature Caster, Fantasy Flight Games, Knight Models,…
D&D: WotC Levels Up At Hasbro – A New Division All Their Own
After three record breaking years, Wizards of the Coast has become its own operating division within Hasbro, taking on new…
Finder’s Archive – Boros Guildgate
Copyright Wizards of the Coast. Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.In this column, we take some of…
Magic: The Gathering to explore Middle-earth, the 42nd millennium and more in Universes Beyond
Wizards of the Coast announced that collectible card game Magic: The Gathering will release future sets based in established fictional…
Level Up Survey: Adept
Yesterday we released the playtest candidate for our Adept class. This is the accompanying survey. As always, it’s OK if…
WizKids Unveils 'Greece Lightning'
WizKids unveiled Greece Lighting, a new race game, for release in June. In Greece Lightning, players navigate their boats around…
WotC Makes More Money than Hasbro's Toy Business
Hasbro announced at its annual Investor Event Thursday that it would begin reporting Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming…
Level Up Playtest Document #10: Adept
What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…
Pathfinder: Sundered Waves Liveplay at the Gen Con Spring Showcase
After years apart, four members of a doomed pirate ship gather to celebrate the life of their former captain and…
Indigenous-owned FLGS Pe Metawe Games wants to build an inclusive hobby community, both near and far
David Plamondon, owner of Pe Metawe Games in Edmonton, Alberta, has created an Indigenous-owned and operated hobby store in hopes…
How to Make Your D&D Battles More Dynamic With Environmental Hazards
Battles are the moments that many Dungeons & Dragons DMs and players live for, but they can also become routine.…
It's a Trap! Make Your D&D Battles More Dynamic With Environmental Hazards
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Avatar: The Last Airbender RPG first details: five playable eras, keeping Balance and how bending will work
Mark Truman, CEO of Magpie Games, feels like the last decade of the studio’s work has all led to the…
D&D: Unearth Magical Treasures From Kobold’s Vault Of Magic
Kobold Press’ latest Kickstarter, Vault of Magic, features more than 800 new magic items for 5th Edition–come see what wonders…
I Remember When All This Was Trees: An Interview With Barak Blackburn and Ellie Hillis (Density Media)
Disclaimer: Barak Blackburn laid out one of my RPG projects. Barak Blackburn is one of the best zinesters in the RPG…
D&D And Cthulhu Top The RPG Charts
The numbers are in, and to nobody’s surprise, Dungeons & Dragons is still #1, but Call of Cthulhu has surged…
RPGs: The Many Worlds Of RIFTS – Prime
Back in the 80s, Palladium carved out a niche as one of the biggest producers of RPGs, and that's thanks…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Weird Walkers, Diceless RPG, & Slick Virtual Tabletop
It’s RPG ZineQuest season! Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! RPG fans – it’s time…
D&D’s Dragon Quest Came So Close To Beating HeroQuest, If Not For One Mistake
It’s always such a shame when a really great game with tons of potential fades away because of one simple…
7 Random Generators for Dungeon Masters
Today I wanted to share with you all some of the best tools for dungeon masters to use to create…
When should GMs ask for Dice Rolls?
Have you ever asked your player to do a Perception check to see a paper with a clue they need…
6 things the new Dungeons & Dragons movie needs to do to become a critical hit
I’m a big fan of watching movies that catastrophically fail on so many levels that they somehow come out the…
D&D: Domains of Dread In The New Ravenloft Book
The upcoming Ravenloft book will feature 30 different “Domains of Dread” what’s a Domain of Dread, and what’s in the…
WizKids Will Produce a 'D&D'-Branded Paint Line Under an Expansion of Their Wizards of the Coast Licenses
They Will Also Make 'D&D' and 'Magic: The Gathering' Prop Replicas, 'D&D' Action Figures, and More! WizKids revealed that it…
MTG: Time Spiral Remastered Sneak Peek
Time Spiral Remastered is coming soon, and it’s the draft format we’ve all been waiting for. Take a brief look…
D&D Accessories: Potions for your Game Table
Potions are useful, plentiful, and look pretty cool, so let’s figure out a few ways to add potions to our…
D&D: WotC Reveals New Covers For Van Richten’s Guide To Ravenloft
Now that the official WotC announcement has dropped–here’s a look at the covers for Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft alongside…
Dungeons & Dragons returns to an iconic setting with Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
The next sourcebook for Dungeons & Dragons 5E has been revealed as Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, a title that…
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft is the Next D&D 5e Book – May 2021
Yesterday retail outlets started posting holding pages for an upcoming Dungeons & Dragons book and we’re seeing covers show up…
D&D: Beadle And Grimm’s Legendary Curse Of Strahd Unboxing
Have you seen the new legendary edition Curse of Strahd box from Beadle & Grimm? Celebrate a return to Ravenloft…
'Dungeons & Dragons' Returns to 'Ravenloft'
Wizards of the Coast announced D&D Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft for release on May 18. WotC revisits the Ravenloft's…
D&Tea pairs the perfect brew with your Dungeons & Dragons campaign
Clutch a character’s fate and a steaming cup of masala or a mint brew in hand with D&Tea, a set…
D&D: The Newest Book Is Van Richten’s Guide To Ravenloft
The newest D&D book will take you deep into the mists of Ravenloft to hunt monsters with Van Richten’s Guide…
Tabletop Gallery: Old-School Slaanesh
Brothers – I think we found an OLD part of The Warp! Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or…
Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft
Alt-Cover An alternative art cover with a distinctive design and soft-touch finish is available exclusively in game stores on May 18,…
Rose Petals: A PDF Preview
While the technologies of portable document format (PDF) files and print on demand (POD) has allowed us to bring The…
Rolling for Initiative — Shining Fates and Yet Another Reason Why Hasbro Won't Sell D&D
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
D&D: Crit Role Goes To Hell Today!
In just a few hours Matthew Mercer is taking his good friends straight to hell for your entertainment. This gruesome…
Finder’s Archives – Dungeon Accessibility
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.Today we take a break from the normal lands of Magic to…
More Monsters Coming for 'D&D Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures'
Seven more monster miniature packs will be joining the Dungeons & Dragons Nulzur’s Marvelous Miniatures line in July. Like all…
WizKids Figure and Terrain Release Calendar for Q3 of 2021
Retailer Tool Tracks Releases of 'D&D', 'Pathfinder', and Other WizKids' Fantasy Figures WizKids has been producing a ton of figures…
First Steps In Buying Original RPG Artwork
Original cover artwork by Michael Gaydos for Onyx Path Publishing’s The Black Hand: A Guide to the Tal’Mahe’RaFor decades, I’ve…
Exploration Challenges, Boons, & Monster Signs
Other Encounters Of course, Exploration Challenges aren’t the only things you might come across on a journey. We also have…
Public libraries are using D&D to forge friendships and build community
Dungeons & Dragons has ventured forth from the Forgotten Realms and into the forefront of pop culture after featuring in…
Modiphius Entertainment Reveals 'The Spy Game'
Modiphius Entertainment revealed The Spy Game, a new espionage RPG, for release in April. In The Spy Game, players can…
Indie RPGs show roleplaying can – and should – be far more than Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is such a behemoth in the tabletop roleplaying game scene that it’s become a synecdoche for the…
Thousand Year Old Vampire creator announces companion book and an autobiographical game
Tim Hutchings, the creator of Thousand Year Old Vampire, has confirmed the existence of a companion book for the RPG,…
D&D: Need A Rare Weapon? Try One Of These
Tired of the same old short sword, long sword, great sword options? Here are five weapons out of D&D’s past…
Champions Spotlight #1 – Bruenor Battlehammer
I’ve fallen back into Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms hard over the last little week (in my defense, them…
5 best solo RPGs you can play by yourself
However, do not despair, because when extroversion is at an all time low, the space is cleared and prepped for…
Tabletop Gallery: Grimdark Gutbuster
Being a Nurgle dentist is weird. Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make…
A Wolfenmoot Gift
Some time ago, Green Ronin staff were introduced to the wonderful notion of Wolfenoot, a holiday created by a boy…
D&D: The Paladin & The Fiend
Valentines day may have come and gone, but you can still find love at the heart of this adventure with…
