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Welcome back to a new issue of Outside the Box, this week with news from Corvus Belli, Para Bellum Wargames.…

Grab your dice and a Howard Shore playlist, Free League announced a release date for The One Ring RPG. It’s…

CMON’s Marvel Zombies miniatures board game, which uses the Zombicide core mechanics (see "CMON Launches ‘Marvel Zombies’ Board Game on…

The One Ring RPG will hit the shelves of brick & mortar games stores and online storefronts on March 22nd,…

A new tabletop RPG plans to pack an emotional punch into just 18 cards that can fit into your pocket.…

In the first part of this three-part series, I talked about Kolchak: The Night Stalker and why a tabletop roleplaying…

A standalone RPG based on Mörk Borg plans to take its heavy metal roleplaying to the seven seas later this…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! (This week’s featured image is from this campaign.) Rancid…

Snowbright Studio announced that T. Caires has joined their company as the Chief Operations Officer and co-founder. This Cleveland-based LGBTQ+…

A tabletop roleplaying game inspired by The Muppets called Felt, Friendship and Feelings, lets players create a puppet persona and…

Tabula Sono lets you build 3D digital maps on the fly for all of your RPG adventures and share them…

What Foul Dust is a solo RPG inspired by the classic American novel The Great Gatsby that has players becoming…

February would normally herald the beginning of Zinefest, a Kickstarter-hosted event where indie tabletop designers attempt to design and crowdfund…

This week: Polygon looks at Kickstarter’s last year of tabletop games and considers its future. Meanwhile, Edge revives an old…

The designer behind the deep-sea survival video game Subnautica, Charlie Cleveland, has created a scenario for the upcoming roleplaying game…

Inspirisles, last year’s innovative tabletop RPG that taught players real sign language as they ventured through a Celtic-inspired fantasy world,…

The Legend of Vox Machina is available to stream now on Amazon Prime. Do the first three episodes hold up…

Some in the zine community said no to Kickstarter moving ZineQuest from February to August to tie in with GenCon…

A deck of cards and stack of books become the foundations of an anthology of stories, myths and folktales in…

Adam E. Bell Games launched its Kickstarter for the card game Legend Has It on January 25 and it continues…

Play as a party of paw pals ‘doin’ dog stuff’ in Heckin’ Good Doggos, an upcoming roleplaying game all about…

After holding one of the most successful Kickstarter projects in history, the crew of Critical Role has finally released The…

Here we go again, this week with news from TT Combat, Artel W Miniatures, Mantic Games, Knight Models, Grim Forge,…

I didn’t back the Kickstarter campaign for The Legend of Vox Machina, an animated series which makes its debut on…

Mörk Borg, Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell’s little yellow book of screaming death, has been a vector of influence…

For those old enough to remember The Night Stalker, featuring the debut of Darren McGavin as paranormal reporter Carl Kolchak,…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! The Oracle: Issue 19 The magazine is chock full…

The Legend of Vox Machina starts early access today. While you’re waiting, here’s Vox Machina in a new clip getting…

As we recently announced, we’re making a new standalone AGE System game, Cthulhu Awakens, which will start crowdfunding over at…

The Tome of Beasts 3 Kickstarter is live! More than 400 monsters lurk in Kobold Press’ final Tome of Beasts.…

This week: Critical Role’s The Legend of Vox Machina reveals its all-star cast; D&D teases coming changes in Monsters of…

Author’s Note: Sorry in advance mobile users. This is going to be an image heavy post. Further apologies for any…

Based on the MMORPG by Jagex Ltd. Steamforged announced that they have inked a deal with Jagex Ltd. to bring…

During the London Toy Fair, Jagex revealed they have partnered with Steamfoged Games to create a TTRPG for RuneScape. According…

Challenge, delight, and terrify your layers with over 400 monsters! Tome of Beasts 3 brings over 400 monsters to your…

Long-running PC MMORPG RuneScape is being adapted into a board game and tabletop RPG. The popular online multiplayer game, which…

Are we in a 3d-printing boom? The scale of ambition from some tabletop gamers is clear as a desktop app…

Welcome back to another issue of Outside the Box, this week with news from Knight Models, GCT Studios, Artel W…

It’s commonplace within tabletop RPGs to assume settings and worlds are contained to books - bound pages full of descriptions…

Tell stories in the run-up to the historical riots that made LGBTQIA+ rights heard in Stonewall 1969 - A War…

Fight for survival in a dystopian future world where people are made to hunt one another in the upcoming tabletop…

9th Level Games have a Kickstarter alert page live for Venture Village. The Polymorph powered RPG is intended therapeutic and…

Possum Creek Games, the indie design studio behind Wanderhome, Sleepaway and Wickedness announced it will no longer use Kickstarter due…

Seattle-based outfit Green Ronin Publishing announced Jan 19th that it is developing a tabletop RPG steeped in the cosmic horror…

At d20 Radio, I talked about my experience as a publisher attending MACE 25, November 12 to 14, 2021 at…

Attempt to survive the brutality of Forbidden Psalm: Regicide, a campaign for the miniatures game inspired by tabletop RPG Mörk…

Play an upcoming board game featuring adorable goblin characters that fits entirely inside a mint tin box. A storytelling game…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! The Willing Sleepers: Betrayal – STL Welcome to our…

Troy Hewitt lives in Seattle, WA, and is a 20-year veteran of online community management and digital communications in the…

CMON launched its Marvel Zombies miniatures board games and expansion on Kickstarter. The campaign is already fully-funded at $3.48 million…

Free League Publishing has announced Urban Operations, the first expansion set for its Twilight:  2000 roleplaying game.  This boxed expansion…

With games like Avatar Legends and a Blade Runner RPG in the works, 2022 is going to be full of…

Explore the depths of fear in an upcoming roleplaying game set underwater, called Dive. A horror TRPG, Dive was inspired…

What’s an acceptable price for power? If one could stop an oncoming flood, ward a toddler from death or summon…

Here we go again, this week with news from Corvus Belli, Wargame Exclusive, Artel W Miniatures, Wargames Atlantic, Hardcore Miniatures…

One More Quest, the upcoming RPG spin-off from dexterity game Dungeon Fighter, will receive an adventure collection featuring familiar names…

The latest trailer for the animated series based on the first Critical Role campaign, The Legend of Vox Machina, has…

The gates of Hell opened after world-renowned metal band Death Agent ritually sacrificed Ronald Reagan on stage in 1986, ultimately…

2022 is shaping up to be one of the biggest years for tabletop roleplaying releases yet. There are a bevy…

MACE 25 ran from November 12 to 14, 2021 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place in Charlotte, North Carolina. As…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Blazon The widespread use of armorial bearings in the…

Paizo veteran Mark Seifter will join Roll for Combat as the Director of Game Design overseeing the Battlezoo product line. …

Nostalgic science fiction art book-turned-RPG-turned-board game Tales from the Loop hits retail on February 8th. The cooperative title leans into…

When devising this year’s list of our most anticipated roleplaying game releases, we had to make an active effort to…

Find new ways to implement a classic monster from Dungeons & Dragons with Mimics, An Unnecessary Work. A supplement designed…

Where last week I took a second to look at my writing releases and set goals for this upcoming year,…

The monstrous compendium gets a beastly new expansion full of new monsters from legendary designers in Tome of Beasts 3!…

Kickstarter has announced that Zinequest’s yearly invitation to crowdfund short, A5 paper-sized tabletop RPGs will fall later in the year.…

Happy New Year! everybody. We’re back with a big update of everything that happened in the industry while we were…

A new tabletop roleplaying adventure aims to bring the puzzle-driven dungeons of The Legend of Zelda to the likes of…

Hull Breach is a new anthology for horror sci-fi game Mothership 1E. And it’ll show you why in space, nobody can…

Something Lurks in the Shadows! Coming soon to Kickstarter, with over 400 monsters at your fingertips, Tome of Beasts 3…

2022 looks to be an especially exciting year for board game releases. After a number of delays last year due…

Darlene, the original designer of the Wizard-head logo for TSR announced publicly that she has refused usage to the new…

Scott Almes, the creator of the space-themed board game Tiny Epic Galaxies, has designed a new solo game called Wreckland…

With 2021 wrapping up, I reached out to Nightfall Games to discuss their 2021, their plans for 2022, and the…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! About a World: Narrative Handbook About a World is a…

Alex Aboud, the founder of Dragori Games, joins me on the podcast today to discuss the Tanares RPG campaign setting…

A new supplementary anthology book called Hull Breach is being released for the sci-fi roleplaying game Mothership. Including over 200…

The problem with this writing gig is that almost all of it happens behind the scenes. It becomes a topic…

TSR have re-filled the paperwork in the right court to continue their fight against D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast.…

Create, run and play campaigns of Dungeons & Dragons 5E featuring characters with disabilities, neurodivergence and mental illnesses using Limitless…

An upcoming tabletop roleplaying game based on the Dark Souls series of video games is coming to a bonfire near…

Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…

Sean K Reynolds is an RPG designer with significant Wizards of the Coast credits to his name. Today he made…

Looking Back, Heading Forward This is it… the final blog post of 2021. Has it really been a year already?!?…

As a regular attendee of multiple tabletop gaming conventions, I’m writing a plea: Convention organizers, mark your calendars with the…

The year is winding down, and that means it’s time to look at our favorite things from this past year.…

The ancient spirits in the game have had enough of waiting and watching. They possess people to achieve their goals,…

Welcome back for the last issue of Outside the Box for 2021! We have news from Mierce Miniatures, Wargames Atlantic,…

This blogger faces disability challenges and has tried but failed to commission art showing adventurers of all body types and…

I started corresponding with Panayiotis Lines during his time with Modiphius Entertainment. Now that he’s running his own company along…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! The Sh*tty Not Compendium – 5e You might be…

Writer and game designer, Tristan Zimmerman, returns to the podcast today. Tristan and I discuss three historical topics and situations…

Critical Role‘s animated special is well underway to release earlier than expected. Now we have a first look at The…

2021 has been a banner year for tabletop roleplaying games. Great RPGs are being played on tabletops real and virtual…

It’s been a long journey, but Absalom, City of Lost Omens is almost here! That means it’s time for the…

Here we go again, this week with news from Corvus Belli, Para Bellum Wargames, Atomic Mass Games and more!Corvus Belli…

Trinity Knot Studio has backed nearly 100 Kickstarter campaigns and has started five. We’ve seen the name on Routinely Itemised:…

On Kickstarter, there’s a new RPG setting that’s based on Robert E. Howard’s pulp fantasy novels, Thurian Adventures. Using 5e…