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Here we go again, this week with news from Atomic Mass Games, North Star Military Figures, PAra Bellum Wargames, Artel…

Return to the massive structure on the brink of revolution - or chaos - with Sin, an upcoming sourcebook for…

Forbidden Games is poised to release the action-selection game Lizard Wizard into the hobby trade. The second game in Forbidden’s…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Architects of the Deep: Notice Boards Every tavern, in…

Italian model maker Game Start is offering what they call “world’s first interactive miniatures” for tabletop games via a Kickstarter.…

Visit worlds featuring diverse orcish cultures removed from harmful fantasy tropes using the Encyclopedia lore and toolbox book for Dungeons…

Steve Jackson Games made money in 2020, although slightly less than in 2019 and managed to keep all staff employed…

Modiphius has steadily been building up their games and today announced Five Parsecs from Home will add to their Adventure…

Pierce Fraser’s Kickstarter for HC SVNT DRACONES 2.0: Mastered as met and exceeded the goal of $20,000. There’s still three…

Dante’s Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy, is the inspiration for an upcoming roleplaying game supplement for Dungeons…

If Blizzard was to design a tabletop RPG setting for D&D’s 5e edition, it would probably be built by Chris…

Chris Metzen, co-creator of Warcraft, Starcraft, and founder of the new Warchief Gaming studio is currently working on an epic…

After launching Warchief Gaming last year, Chris Metzen - the former vice-president for Blizzard and worldbuilder for titles such as…

In Southwest England, in the 70s, as Thatcher is taking on the trade unions and the miners, you can find…

Warchief Gaming, the tabletop publishing company co-founded by two ex-VPs of Blizzard, has announced its debut roleplaying game. Auroboros: Coils…

This week: the GAMA expo brings interesting insights into the RPG industry; an ill-thought-out Asian-themed sourcebook is pulled from production;…

DarkEnergy from Entanglement Interactive is an RPG set during the apocalypse. The game happens as events unfold and as the…

Shadow of Mogg is an RPG that explores post-Brexit London. It’s written by Panayiotis Lines as is the result of…

Brainstorm campaigns for roleplaying games such as Dungeons & Dragons 5E with The Deck of Many Quests, a collection of…

Legendary Adventures Epic 5e is a supplement to take characters and help DMs deal with beyond level 20. At a…

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

Pandora: Total Destruction is described as X-Men meets Akira. Characters are untrained supers (the world no longer uses the phrase…

Helping people with coughs and lacerations pays my bills. I love working as a PA, and don’t plan to leave…

The retailer Awesome Dice are on Kickstarter to fund some gorgeous hieroglyphic dice sets. Furthermore, the campaign has been launched…

What this isThis is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then answer…

March 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment Ads: Links may earn commission Welcome to the tail end of…

Grab a pitchfork and light the torches when sitting down to play Teeth: Night of the Hogmen, a new one-session…

Indie designer Spencer Campbell launched the Kickstarter campaign for Frame, a tabletop RPG “love letter” to Warframe on March 13th.…

On this week’s podcast, Matt’s been sailing Forgotten Waters, Meehan’s been seeing what we do in the shadows in indie…

Legendary Games announced a new Pathfinder 2e product this week called Asian Spell Compendium. Jason Nelson quickly apologised, asked retailers…

Welcome back to Outside the Box, this week with news from Knight Models, Infinity, North Star Military Figures, Artel W…

The After is a Savage Worlds RPG from Fainting Goat Games that is set on Earth after the invading alien…

RPG designer Jason Nelson published a letter to Legendary Games’ website March 18th apologising for the “inherently culturally insensitive” Asian…

Coming to Kickstarter this summer, the AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE! is a roleplaying game of action comedy!More

In February, there was a sea of fresh RPG offerings via Kickstarter. Many of them were Zine Quest 3 products,…

Orc painters, vampire gossips, talking owls, and gnomish voice-thieves! A collection of evocative, colorful NPCs for your D&D game!More

Monte Cook Games promised us a new type of RPG product with The Darkest House. The campaign launched last night…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Universe Ball Anthlogy – RPG Universe Ball Anthology #1…

You have to train. You must get better today than you were yesterday. You must be better tomorrow than you…

Geek Native has a preview of Defenders: Throne of the Bandit Lord, a choose your own path book base on…

This week: the Old School Revival revival; a beautiful Hellboy-inspired RPG; and a fascinating Kickstarter that blurs the line between…

Asmodee USA announced three new distribution deals today, adding the Tabletop Tycoon lines and beginning exclusive relationships with Thundergryph Games…

The Terminator RPG launched its Kickstarter campaign on March 11th, offering a first look at publisher Nightfall Games’ upcoming roleplaying…

A campaign from 1985 Games is bringing cost-effective and good-looking D&D notebooks to tabletop fans. A set of journals, complete…

These dice are beautiful, flash with siren colour combinations, know your roll, and report that to your virtual tabletop. It’s…

What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…

The folks at RM Printable Terrain are at it again! This time, they are taking to MyMiniFacotry to crowdfund a new STL…

Swords cross and hearts race with this uniquely colorful game of adventure, fighting, and those complex romantic frenemy feelings: Thirsty…

We’ve made it through the week together, and now it’s time to take a bullet-point look back at RPG news…

This episode of Dicebreaker Podcast is sponsored by Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos. Visit https://store.team17.com and use code DICE10 for…

Nightfall Games, the publishers of SLA Industries, has launched their Kickstarter project for The Terminator RPG. It has funded already,…

How do you exercise power and build coalitions in an explicitly stratified society? That’s one of the questions at the…

GTG, aka Geek Tank Games, have made paper minis before. I backed a 300+ set and the experience was smooth,…

Every RPG is interesting, but some concepts are so interesting that I have to ask where they came from. DIESEL…

The tabletop RPG translation of Druid City Game’s competitive board game Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef will be coming…

The inexorable march of technology in the last few years can easily be marked by humanity’s ability to stuff RGB…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Orconomics Orconomics is “the” boardgame to recreate the chaotic economic…

LoreSmyth have a knack at knowing what DMs and GMs are looking for. This time, it’s cults. GMs need cults…

Earn a master’s degree in wandology from a college floating on a river of crabs, or something equally mystical and…

Grab your spats, your tailcoats and your best British accent, Mage: the Ascension, 20th Anniversary Edition is getting Victorian. There’s…

Explore a world reborn from complete ecological collapse and set in a science-fantasy North America never touched by European colonialism…

Hoodwink believers and hide the truth in Our God is Dead, a rules-light roleplaying game about running a religious organisation…

A team of Native American RPG creators have a roaring Kickstarter success on their hands in the shape of Coyote…

Well, now, Kickstarter’s Zine Quest was huge, and it ended with piles of stinky brown stuff hitting the whirling blades…

What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…

Command the vast powers of one of four quantum realms in a doomed quest to stave off an entropic catastrophe…

Welcome to another issue of Outside the Box, this week with news from Creature Caster, Fantasy Flight Games, Knight Models,…

The Kickstarter campaign for The One Ring Roleplaying Game: Second Edition closed on March 4th having raised SEK 17,070,638, which…

Thanks to all of our loyal backers, our project is off to a great start. IN fact, we're now in…

February is over, but ZineQuest 3 is still going. As the Zine-fueled RPG extravganza winds down, take a look at…

Patreons are an important part of the monetization of RPGs. Not only for RPG news*, also many RPG publishers. Handiwork…

Reunite with a long-separated friend by following a map sewn by your own hand in A Mending, a solo keepsake…

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Crystalpunk – 5e Setting Crystalpunk is a brand new…

Defend a home at the edge of the world in Stonetop, an upcoming RPG system of “hearth fantasy” based on…

Thumbnail art by Andre Wahl If you are looking to run more underwater encounters in a fully underwater campaign setting,…

Embark on adventures each day of an entire year using the 2022 Quest Calendar, an upcoming roleplaying game that takes…

Play and run a horror roleplaying game entirely online with The Darkest House, an upcoming RPG from the publisher responsible…

Straight from the Editorial Director’s snout, the Dispatch provides a sneak peek at upcoming publications and projects headed from the…

A Kickstarter Collection titled ‘The Perfect RPG’ has been canceled after designer Adam Koebel was revealed to be one of…

Kickstarter’s VP Head of Community Luke Crane has cancelled the recently launched campaign for The Perfect RPG after receiving public…

Two Kickstarted RPGs have breached the million dollar mark and they are both ending this week. From Twisted Taverns to…

Modiphius Entertainment announced The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim the Boardgame for release later 2021 pending a successful crowdfunding campaign on…

Hello, Readers! I know things here at Awesomsticks have been inconsistent content wise. There are many reasons for this, but…

Tabletop publisher Possible Worlds Games announced it would be curating a monthly subscription of small tabletop RPGs, with a Kickstarter…

Welcome to another issue of Outside the Box, this week with news from Creature Caster, Fantasy Flight Games, Knight Models,…

Follow a tale of generational change across time and geography with City of Winter, the new storytelling RPG from Heart…

Deep Water Games has announced a deal to produce Rat Queens:  The Board Game, based on the Image Comics series…

What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…

David Plamondon, owner of Pe Metawe Games in Edmonton, Alberta, has created an Indigenous-owned and operated hobby store in hopes…

Skyrim, the immensely popular entry in the Elder Scrolls series of roleplaying video games, is being adapted into an upcoming…

Mark Truman, CEO of Magpie Games, feels like the last decade of the studio’s work has all led to the…

Kobold Press’ latest Kickstarter, Vault of Magic, features more than 800 new magic items for 5th Edition–come see what wonders…

Disclaimer: Barak Blackburn laid out one of my RPG projects. Barak Blackburn is one of the best zinesters in the RPG…

It’s RPG ZineQuest season! Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! RPG fans – it’s time…

What do medieval knights, diner placemat menus and Discord servers all have in common? They’re elements of the new hidden-role…

Grab a controller and prepare to leave tyre tracks on the rugs with Tiny Turbo Cars, a new competitive board…

Become an imaginary friend and provide a child with support in the upcoming roleplaying game Little Katy’s Tea Party. A…

Learn the closely guarded secrets of an arcane tome in The Wizard’s Grimoire, an asymmetric tabletop roleplaying game from Apocalypse…

Clutch a character’s fate and a steaming cup of masala or a mint brew in hand with D&Tea, a set…

Cross the genre borders between fantasy and sci-fi with Quest: Cosmic Fantasy Edition, a newly-announced version of the beginner RPG…