The Whole Kit and Kaboomle
We at Paizo are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Savagesparrow Studios! Are you going to be at PAX…
‘Homeworld Fleet Command’ Lets You Engage in Epic Space Battles That Won’t Take a Whole Afternoon
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D&D: Sandeep Parikh And Jasmine Bhullar Talk DesiQuest
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Dungeon Delver's Guide: Three Page Dungeons
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Kickstarter Highlights: Endure Cosmic Horror, Undead Hamsters, and Ducks
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Terminator inspired CY_Borg RPG supplement has players fleeing an immortal killer robot
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Dire Wolf Digital Acquires Fandom's Tabletop RPG Business
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‘Space Quest’ Sequel ‘SpaceVenture’ Gets Release Date After a Decade on Kickstarter
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Outside the Box – August 26th
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Kickstarter Launching Next Week!
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Roleplaying Products You Didn’t Know You Were Missing: Lines of Fiction – Part Three
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Edgar Allen Poe inspired RPG features the horrors of Sleepy Hollow and beyond
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Designer of half-game, half-poem Lilancholy jokingly calls it “evil WarioWare”, but it looks like so much more
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Dark Souls board game “revitalises” rules for two new core sets featuring Tomb of Horrors and Painted World
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Modiphius Launches 'Homeworld Fleet Command'
New Tabletop Miniatures Board Game Based on Gearbox Entertainment's 'Homeworld' Universe Modiphius Entertainment launched Homeworld Fleet Command, a new tabletop…
Homeworld Fleet Command board game promises huge fleet battles that won’t destroy an entire evening
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The Rise of Streaming RPGs: ‘Critical Role’ & More
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Kickstarter Highlights: RPG ‘Zinequest Begins’ & More
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Transformation is a Cronenberg-esque solo RPG about becoming a monster
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Rune looks like the perfect solo TRPG for those of us who need more Elden Ring in our lives
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Be A Monster! Pledge Now for Roll for Combat Kickstarter’s Final Week
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This weird tabletop RPG was inspired by Adventure Time and Samurai Jack
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My Chemical Romance inspired RPG includes stickers
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Outside the Box – August 19th
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‘D&D takes itself so seriously’: Dr. Grordbort RPG creators on sending up 5E and swapping magic for science
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Into the Odd is a far port from conventional tabletop RPGs that is well worth the journey
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Hereditary and Gorillaz inspired this demonic solo RPG
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Kickstarter Highlights: Sherlock Holmes Takes on Cthulhu & More
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Dungeon Delver’s Guide: Random Dungeon Delves
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‘All our RPGs start with the people’: Chris Spivey on Harlem Unbound, Haunted West and what comes next
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This D&D 5E campaign book from a team of Black creators sweeps an entire continent onto new maps
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Indigenous TRPG Coyote & Crow’s first expansion brings an in-universe dice game to life
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Outside the Box – August 12th
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Gate Pass Gazette #6 Is Here!
Monthly Live Stream Next week the EN Publishing monthly live stream. This month Jessica, Morrus and Paul Hughes are here…
Roleplaying Products You Didn’t Know You Were Missing: Lines of Fiction – Part Two
In the first part of this three-part article, I looked at one of the elements of RPGs lost to time…
Official Stormlight Archive miniatures are on the way, but you can't use them in D&D 5E (yet)
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‘Lord of the Rings Roleplaying’ Brings Middle Earth to D&D 5E
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Kickstarter Highlights: Save a Cursed 8-bit Forest & More
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Evil Genius Productions – 3rd Party Licensing and Owen KC Stephens Editor-in-Chief
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Free League Announces 'Dragonbane'
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Mere Anarchy: Adventure Perilous Role-Playing Game
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The One Ring is the next tabletop RPG to get the D&D 5E adaptation treatment
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The Lord of the Rings RPG For 5E – Free League Publishing
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The Eternal Search: Two factions, an adventure and Death in Space
Jesse Dixon is a programmer by day and a tabletop gamer by night, and I imagine both skillsets are in…
What were the best board games at Gen Con 2022? Everything we saw and played at the US tabletop convention
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The Dungeon Delvers Guide
This essential tome for creating, exploring, and running dungeons in your 5E or A5E game is coming to Kickstarter very…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #164
It’s August, it’s ZineQuest, it’s GenCon, it’s the Edinburgh Festivals, and this is your summary of RPG news! Welcome! This…
Outside the Box – August 5th
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Here’s the Table of Contents from the Dungeon Delver’s Guide!
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Free League Publishing Announces New Edition Of Dragonbane
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Free League Announces Dragonbane RPG at Gen Con
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Free League is reincarnating Sweden’s first TRPG as “mirth and mayhem roleplaying” game Dragonbane
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A Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity inspired found footage RPG is coming
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2022 Diana Jones Award
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Dogs with jobs: Were-Woofs! is a ZineQuest success for Leyline Press
Mew-Tants is an indie RPG from 2020 by Aled Lawlor. Lawlor has since co-founded Leyline Press and taken the long-promised…
The One Ring – Free League Publishing – Review
The One Ring role-playing game is set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth 20 years after Bilbo went on an adventure and…
HUMAN… ALMOST: Making A Free RPG Pamphlet
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Kickstarter Highlights: Get Trapped in a Mörk Borg Prison & More
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D&D’s beholders star in RPG supplement Big Eye Chungus
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Lo! Thy Dread Empire goes grimdark and anti-capitalist as a ZineQuest wargame
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IGDN's 2022 Groundbreakers include games where one player is a gun and a JRPG-inspired, post-fantasy Brazil
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Sentinels of Multiverse series is getting another video game adaptation
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Add 100s of Magic Items to Your 5E Campaign With ‘Arcane Armaments’
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Hobby Game Sales Up One-Third in 2021
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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #163
RPG news listed and delivered at bullet point speed. That’s how we celebrate Friday here! Welcome! The RPG news summary…
The Star-Crossed Seaway Returns!
It’s Friday 29th July, here’s what we’ve been up to at EN Publishing this week. Til Death Do Us Part: Adventures…
Outside the Box – July 29th
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Red Opera and Sirens RPG writer Rick Heinz discusses the tribulations of working at Apotheosis.
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RPG Stories Virtual Tabletop’s Worldbuilder Puts Others To Shame
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Rolling Together: Indie RPG creators joining forces to change the industry for good
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Play an entire RPG in an hour with these adventures for D&D 5E
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Monte Cook Games – Cypher System Open License Is Now Available
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Dustbunnies: Life Under the Couch offers whimsical Savage Worlds adventures for gamers of all ages
Dog House Rules are Kickstarting their all-age-appropriate Savage Worlds Dustbunnies: Life Under the Couch core rules. Karl and the team…
Dungeon Delver's Guide: Let’s Go Shopping
A descent into a dungeon is not to be made without preparation. For players who love shopping-trip sessions, Dungeon Delver's…
Pokémon-style TRPG supplement for D&D features over 160 monsters to catch
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Kobold Con Schedule: Gen Con
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Kickstarter Highlights: Bosch RPG, 3D Print the Harbingers of the Apocalypse, & More
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Skeleton to E4, Viking To C5 – There Are No Book Moves In ‘Dead Man’s Chess’
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New Battlezoo Kickstarter Campaign
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Snap Ships Tactics – Kickstarter
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Sons of Anarchy-esque supplement for D&D lets you form your own motorcycle gang
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Steve Jackson Games Shells Out New 'Munchkin' Cards
Steve Jackson Games will release Munchkin Turtle Carnage, a new mini-expansion for the classic card game, which will hit stores…
Scribes in the Shadows: Meet the Authors of the Dark Archive!
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Onyx Path Publishing Kickstart the Aether Tabletop Roleplaying Game
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First ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Movie Will Feature the Aang Gaang
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Til Death Do Us Part
It’s Friday 22nd July, here’s what we’ve been up to at EN Publishing this week. Til Death Do Us Part: Adventures…
Outside the Box – July 22nd
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Pathfinder Revolution! launches on Kickstarter from Steve Jackson Games
Tabletop publishers Steve Jackson Games and Paizo Inc. have joined forces once again for the release of Pathfinder Revolution!, funding…
Stranger Things co-op board game coming in 2023 from Pandemic Legacy designer
A co-op Stranger Things board game is in development from the co-creator of Pandemic Legacy and studio behind Zombicide. Stranger…
Marvel United publisher deal with Sony opens the door for The Last of Us, God of War TRPGs
The company behind the Marvel and X-Men: United board games, as well as - bafflingly - PAW Patrol, have secured…
Kickstarter Highlights: Gorgeous Dice, Dwarven Terrain, and Decked Out Board Games
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Call of Cthulhu Classic TRPG is returning for GenCon 2022
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Steve Jackson Games and Paizo Launch 'Pathfinder Revolution!'
Steve Jackson Games and Paizo, Inc. launched Pathfinder Revolution!, a new edition of the Revolution! board game, which is currently…
An Industry Professional’s Guide to SDCC 2022 Programming
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Kickstarter Korner – A Folklore Bestiary (5e & OSE)
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Theory of Magic Sourcebook: This astrophysicist is funding a 5e book to explore magic with science
There’s a game balance logic to magic in D&D’s 5e, but what else would a highly trained astrophysicist find? We’ll…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #161
Welcome to the end of the week, may your dice roll as you want them. Let’s take a look at…
Gate Pass Gazette #5 Is Here!
It’s Friday 15th July, here’s what we’ve been up to at EN Publishing this week. 65 Enchanted Trinkets on IndieGoGo…
Outside the Box – July 15th
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Ian Stuart Sharpe, Creator of the Vikingverse, Talks About When the Wolf Comes RPG
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