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Retell the popular and tragic Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in the upcoming roleplaying game Follow Me Down. Inspired…

Mansions of Madness and Legacy of Dragonholt designer Nikki Valens has returned with their latest ambitious story-focused board game, Artisans…

Odyssey of the Dragonlords won’t be the only D&D 5e adventure setting from James Ohlen’s Arcanum Worlds Raiders of the…

Itch.io is a platform for selling games. It started off with indie computer games and has grown into a more…

Heroes won’t rise from the Death Spiral, at least not conventional ones. The year is 2044 and the world’s governments…

As a freelance columnist at EN World, I’ve watched EN Publishing’s Level Up since Morrus first proposed the concept on…

Sail a ship along the river in search of its source in Upriver, Downriver, an upcoming roleplaying game inspired by…

Experience the World of Darkness in a new way with Vampire: The Masquerade - War of Ages, the first LARP…

The Kickstarter has launched! Over the next month, we have plenty of fun stuff to show you. Let’s start with…

Monte Cook Games has released a 16-page Claim the Sky preview for the Cypher System. The tabletop RPG is a…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Mag of Holding: Gothic Horror – 5e Mag of…

It’s been a big week for Image imprint comics courting roleplay groups as the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series Chew…

A new board game based on tabletop roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu, Terror Paths, is on its way. Adapted from…

Odd Bard Games and author Tim Earley announced the Holler, a folk horror for Savage Worlds nearly a year ago.…

Want crunchier rules and customizable characters? Deadlier monsters with exploration challenges? Level Up wants to change the way you play…

Dice Kapital are on the hunt for £12,300 to Kickstart the printing of Ecopunk: 2044. The plain text version of…

We’re back from a short break, with some very big news: D&D is getting a big revision, coming in 2024…

Root and Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile designer Cole Wehrle has revealed that his next release will be a…

Having just finished an award-winning run, tabletop RPG-themed comic DIE is already heading into a new medium thanks to a…

A new charity bundle of indie tabletop RPGs aims to support those fleeing the Talbian in Afghanistan by offering dozens…

The RPG supplement The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great GM pushes towards the £100,000 Kickstarter funding level as GMs,…

Is there any life in the Terminator franchise? Nightfall is working on The Terminator tabletop RPG, a Kickstarter for the…

There’s no doubting the value Mike Shea and Sly Flourish bring to the roleplaying games community. The seventh Kickstarter from…

Vast Grimm is a MORK BORG third party RPG from Infinite Black. I backed the Gamefound for it, and the…

National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 to October 15. The month recognizes the history, contributions, and influences…

To Level Up! So the Apocalypse War has landed and we are feverishly putting the finishing touches on our successful…

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Welcome to another issue of Outside the Box – this week with news from Para Bellum Waragmes, Knight Models ,…

The award-winning sci-fi horror RPG Mothership has announced a new boxed set will be coming to Kickstarter in just over…

Jacob Wood’s RPG takes us to a European Almshouse, in 1347 AD, during the Black Death. The village has succumbed…

On YouTube, Joe Manganiello of Deathstroke / Arkhan the Cruel / Alcide Herveaux fame has been helping promote the Kickstarter…

Award-winning tabletop RPG Mothership has announced a first edition boxed set to be crowdfunded on Kickstarter beginning November 2nd. It…

Critical Role has announced the start of their long-awaited Campaign 3 on October 21st. Here’s what we know so far!…

Origins Game Fair, GAMA’s tabletop gaming convention, returns September 30th to October 3rd, 2021 in Columbus, Ohio. This gathering is…

Tackle a zombie apocalypse as a party of disabled characters living in 14th century Europe in the upcoming roleplaying game,…

Anjali Bhimani — known for portraying fire genasi Fy’ra Rai on Exandria Unlimited and Symmetra in the first-person shooter Overwatch —…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! The Ancestors – Voljaryk Introducing Voljaryk, the First Skoldungar!…

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The Battlezoo Bestiary Kickstarter has been a massive success to date, including three huge books not only fully compatible with…

Embark on a delicious adventure into a world of sweets and treats in Just Dessert, a supplement for Dungeons &…

A tabletop RPG adaptation of Kieron Gillen’s award-winning comic DIE comes to Kickstarter in November, courtesy of Rowan, Rook and…

Athelen Publishing is running a Kickstarter for a new d20 RPG. Described as a dark and gritty tabletop roleplaying game,…

Fandom owns D&D Beyond, Fanatical and hundreds of fan wikis. It’s a company that reach a vast number of geeks…

Brazilian tabletop RPG designer Cezar Capacle works within a system that he believes weighs creators on a faulty scale and…

In the next image, you can see how initiative is introduced. While you probably know how initiative works in 5E,…

Chronicle your attempts to escape a dinosaur theme park or your ambitions for raptor-based revenge in Clever Girl, a roleplaying…

Guts & Glory is a tabletop RPG mashup of the raid dynamics of games like Monster Hunter with OSR hexcrawl…

The publisher behind the Zombicide franchise, Cmon, has acquired the studio known for releasing roleplaying games such as the Broken…

Gallant Knight Games’ TinyD6 RPG Mecha & Monsters was the publishers second game. It’s back on Kickstarter with Mecha &…

With all the old favorites you know and love, plus over 200 new items, Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition is…

An upcoming roleplaying game inspired by the likes of the anime Free and cult classic film Bring it On is…

Explore Central Europe in the 15th century in the upcoming tabletop adaptation of the video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Announced…

Gnome Made Games’ Demiverse funded on Kickstarter in less than two days. It’s a campaign setting of up to 50…

Gloomhaven, the popular board-game-turned-tactical-RPG is getting ready to leave early access–it’s headed to a PC near you coming next month!…

Welcome to another issue of Outside the Box – this week with news from Knight Models , Wargames Atlantic, Mierce…

It’s the week after Gen Con, and so, as predicted, there’s no shortage of RPG news and new tabletop releases…

Cryptozoic has released details about the launch of Batman:  The Dark Knight Returns – The Game and the DC Deck-Building…

Return to the world of Into the Odd with a remastered version of the tabletop roleplaying game coming from the…

RPG publisher Onyx Path has another successful Kickstarter for their Werewolf: The Apocalypse line. A deluxe edition for a W20…

Compass Publishing House will launch EIDOL: the Endless Dungeon on Kickstarter on the first of October. The project alert page…

It’s hard to think of two more diametrically opposed jobs than a pulmonary physician and a board game designer, yet…

Gotham City Chronicles, the upcoming Batman RPG from Monolith Studios, is looking better and better after a sneak preview shows…

Outland have their next RPG project for Alan Bahr’s Tombpunk up on Kickstarter. Having created the fo-fi fantasy rule system,…

On social media, one of the TTRPG designers I deeply respect asked her network of creators for their preferred RPG…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! The Delver’s Guide to Beastworld – 5e The Delver’s…

Dungeon in a Box is back on Kickstarter, bringing with them 2D plastic minis or tabletop RPGs. Such minis are…

Fed up of Western RPGs? Kalymba is an RPG written by Daniel Pirraça, from Brazil. It was successfully funded in…

This week: Gen Con is underway, but crowd control causes some controversy. Meanwhile, stories of a toxic culture at Paizo…

The pledge target for the next version of Into the Odd was met within moments of the Kickstarter launching. The…

Free League Publishing has teamed up with Electric Bastionland creator Chris McDowall to produce Into the Odd, a tabletop role…

We’ve already taken a look at the planetouched tieflings and aasimar, but now it’s time to peek at the mighty…

Valiant Entertainment will release Valiant: Fight for Deadside to Kickstarter later this year. Valiant: Fight for Deadside is a co-operative…

Knock! – Issue 2 is as good as the first. The Merry Mushmen have done it again, which is all…

Flabbergasted! is a humorous tabletop RPG set in the 1920s, and therefore I’m immediately reminded of the brilliant antics of…

Dark Veil Studios has launched its titular RPG on Kickstarter, with a campaign to raise $30,000 for a game set…

Superpower3D have a 3d-printable accessory on Kickstarter to do away with spindown dice and other trackers. The Stegodial is a…

Dear friends, It was just about a year ago that we announced the Complete Character Chronicles Kickstarter, our first foray…

Hello and welcome back to Outside the Box – this week with news from Atomic Mass Games, Corvus Belli, Artel…

Level Up, the upcoming ruleset for ‘Advanced 5th Edition’ is previewing one of fantasy’s most iconic monsters: the tarrasque, bigger…

Become a member of high society and blunder your way through in Flabbergasted, an upcoming roleplaying game set during the…

We’ve had the free download sample of the inclusive super sentai RPG Queerz. In the game, characters are superheroes who…

At some point in a rapidly indeterminate past, people held events called parties. Several to dozens of these people would…

At AndoCon 2018, I played Derek A. Kamal’s Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse. Playing as a mouse on a motorcycle turned…

Andrews McMeel’s new RPG project, Blackbirds from Ryan Verniere, the creator and lead developer, powered by Daniel D. Fox’s Zweihander,…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Crimson Escalation   Every few years or so, incredible…

A substantial part of my work day is spent on Twitter, following conversations and tracking trending topics. While it’s one…

Banana Chan - co-creator of Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall - is co-designing another horror roleplaying game called Suburban…

The mythology of Latin America rarely features in RPG supplements. Pathfinder has gone beyond fantasy Aztecs and Mayans to find…

Dwarven Forge has plenty of Kickstarter experience, $20 million worth of it. Now the module maker is moving into new…

This week: a new RPG from the co-creator of Dragonlance; a new initiative looks to bring the magic of ZineQuest…

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’…

Every cat owner has been there - you’re playing a tabletop RPG with friends around the living room table when…

RPG designer Freddie Taylor-Bell’s Briar & Bramble openly acknowledges the influence of The Animals of Farthing Wood and Watership Down…

JstTerrain (pronounced “Just terrain”) just launched on Kickstarter, and there’s a “back within 48 hours” offer to add an extra…

Defeat a collection of over 100 deadly creatures and create equipment from their parts in Battlezoo Bestiary, a roleplaying game…

I’ve been wondering what to do with a set of mosquitos trapped in amber dice I have. It looks like…

The collection of magical items and companions Peculiar Discoveries is doing well on Kickstarter, hitting its funding goal several times…

Zäta Doe has the humble goal of €50 to Kickstart The BURST System for roleplaying games. However, to get a…

Welcome back to another issue of Outside the Box. This week we have news from Corvus Belli, Otherworld Miniatures, Anvil…

That was the week that was. Now it’s time for an RPG news summary, and a bullet-point speed headline look…