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With the Kickstarter stretch goals falling like bowling pins, it’s time to meet the next one: Varskyle, the dragonborn marshal!

SwapMini 2.0 Modular Miniatures – STL As you may already know, Swapminis are modular, which means that each character is composed…

One of the oddest and most extravagantly presented tabletop RPGs of the last ten years is briefly reappearing in this…

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The polymorph spell is one of 5E’s most iconic and useful spells, and it’s a staple of fantasy fiction and…

Widely popular “mud-and-lasers” tabletop RPG Lancer has announced that it will publish a massive second printing of its physical rulebook…

A new board game called Defenders of the Wild looks like a cooperative version of Root. Set within a vast…

Solo tabletop RPG Notorious has announced an expansion that will move away from the galactic centre of its Star Wars-inspired…

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An upcoming supplement for Dungeons & Dragons 5E will let you see how your character lives before, between and after…

The Drowned Earth Expansion Welcome to The Drowned Earth, a tropical world of pasts and futures, where dinosaurs haunt the…

Chapter 3 of Campaign Builder: Castles & Crowns includes details on how your castle is laid out and the various…

By Georgie R.Art by Thibault Ollier   Cohors Cthulhu is back with Modiphius Entertainment’s 2d20 system! A few things have been…

The Level Up Starter Box launched on Kickstarter last week. We’ve already met at T’lingbet, the dragonborn ranger, Akanni, the…

Tainted Grail, the dark fantasy co-op board game inspired by the legends of King Arthur and other folklore, will receive…

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This week, we sat down with our Twitch chat and rolled up a brand-new ruler from our Campaign Builder: Castles…

A tabletop adaptation of hugely influential manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell is due to arrive next year.…

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The Level Up Starter Box launched on Kickstarter last week. We’ve already met at T’lingbet, the dragonborn ranger, Akanni, the…

An upcoming Dungeons & Dragons 5E supplement will aim to bring the folk-horror vibes of classics like The Wicker Man,…

Hail and well met, Pathfinders and Starfinders! This month’s new releases place you at the breaking point of a centuries-old…

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By Georgie R.Art by Danny Spitz If you’ve seen our previous blog post on Factions in Cohors Cthulhu, then you’re ready…

Let’s take a look at Gywven, the dwarf rogue.

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Ryoko’s Guide to the Yokai Realms – 5e   This week’s header image is from this campaign. Ryoko’s Guide is…

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We’ve already taken a look at T’lingbet and Akanni. Now it's the turn of Diamond, the planetouched cleric.

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By Modiphius EntertainmentArt by Danny Spitz   In our previous blog post, we covered the Hidden Wars seen in Cohors Cthulhu…

Akanni is one of the pregenerated characters in the Level Up Starter Box.

Teatime Adventures, one of the most feel-good roleplaying games of recent years, is back with a pleasantly cozy second edition…

Creators of Terraforming Mars, one of the most popular contemporary board games, have garnered criticism and ire amongst fans after…

Snowbright Studios launched four Teatime Adventures RPG books onto BackerKit. The crowdfunding campaign was fully-funded in 38 minutes, and sits…

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Tombpunk RPG: The Mausoleum Edition This week’s header image is from this campaign. Art by Kristopher Neal McClanahan. TOMBPUNK is…

A new board game based on the Witcher video games enables players to embody iconic characters from the series. The…

Mörk Borg’s creative and art-forward approach to RPG design has spawned a number of unique twists on its grime-crusted fantasy…

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By Georgie R.Byline art by Adrián Sánchez Cohors Cthulhu is the latest expansion to the Cthulhu universe, Modiphius is developing which…

Both are Adaptations of the Jagex Ltd. MMORPG Steamforged Games announced that preorder for both the RuneScape Kingdoms board game…

The adaptation of decades-old MMORPG RuneScape, first announced last year, has revealed some new information about its upcoming tabletop RPG…

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The Level Up Starter Box is coming very soon and it includes a selection of pre-generated characters. Here’s one of…

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Calling all the Regal Regents and Royal Rulers of the land! Kobold Press presents our honorary Kingdom Ad-Lib, inspired by…

Rogue Angels: Legacy of the Burning Suns   Rogue Angels is a character-driven solo or co-op sci-fi adventure for 1-4 players.…

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The hard sci-fi anthology Black Box Chronicles and the companion artbook Black Box: Design Space are coming to retail after…

Death in the Wailing Swamp – STL   This week’s header image is from this campaign. This set showcases legendary…

You know you’re in for a good time when a text begins with the theoretical collapse of thermodynamics, but upcoming…

Coming Soon! Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E) launched in 2021 with a highly successful Kickstarter. It’s a standalone, backwards-compatible expression…

Serialised horror podcast The Magnus Archives is the latest in an increasing list of multimedia properties being converted into tabletop…

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New sourcebooks design for both The One Ring Roleplaying Game and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E will enable…

Didn’t actually realize it until I began writing these blogs, but this was my 5th year attending Gen Con. I…

Flashing the claws on a Gen Con panel! August 2023 was a huge, exciting month for Kobold Press. Let’s fondly…

Everything old is new again, according to the rules of nostalgia, but there’s more than a wistful yearning for 1990s’…

The Dragonslayer TTRPG will be 300-pages long, and Jeff Easley, a well-known ex-TSR art, will do the front cover art.

Sanction is a simple system for challenge-driven games, with player characters who are usually anything but heroes.

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Widely considered to be one of the best attack spells in the game for wizards of any level and often…

Free League announced Moria – Through the Doors of Durin, a new expansion for The One Ring RPG, which will…

Eat The Reich – RPG   EAT THE REICH is a tabletop roleplaying game in which you, a vampire commando,…

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We hope you have enjoyed the ToV Alpha Release. Seeing it in action at Gen Con 2023 was a highlight…

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A new interpretation of Old School Essentials fashions the old-school inspired RPG system onto a world suffused with gloomy folklore…

We caught up with Free League CEO Tomas Harenstam at Gen Con and talked about his view of the RPG…

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Dolmenwood – RPG   Welcome, traveller, to the fungus-wracked tangle of Dolmenwood, and beware, for all here is not as…

Though Lost Omens Highhelm has been out for some time now, we wanted to take one last look at the…

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Terminal: A Digital Pirate Action RPG   This week’s header image is from this campaign. The world as you know…

We connected with co-creators of Stan Lee’s Genesis, a new Rocketship board game coming to Kickstarter and retail in the…

Dynamite Entertainment has announced the Fire and Ice Miniatures Adventure Game, based on the animated film by Ralph Bakshi and…

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A new edition of Lovecraftesque, the GM-less tabletop roleplaying game, is on its way. Lovecraftesque is a tabletop RPG that…

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Vario’s Carts, Carriages & Contraptions – 5e Welcome travelers, to this guide to carts, carriages,  and other land vehicles within…

Evil Genius Games has announced a trio of new role-playing sourcebooks for 2024:  TheMilitary Handbook, Weapons Locker, and The Garage. …

The window of Red Castle Games in Portland, OR, was broken around 2 a.m. on Sunday, August 6, and the…