Conventions

Star Trek Adventures offers many different formats for Game Masters to choose from. There are: campaigns, standalone missions, mission briefs…

Tabletop roleplaying games can give us some funny ideas about languages and linguistics. At least, I know they did for…

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Earlier this week, Kickstarter announced the hiring of Everette Taylor as the crowdfunding company’s newest CEO. Taylor takes the helm…

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Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Atomic…

It was his third time watching Annihilation that finally broke Raph D’Amico open. The designer of new tabletop RPG The…

Tabletop gaming is increasingly no longer a one-box hobby. Whether it’s the latest Kickstarter board game replete with endless expansions,…

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The biggest board game convention in the world is once again upon us. Essen Spiel 2022 is set to take…

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As an occasional publisher, one of the main avenues for connecting with fellow gamers and fans are face-to-face conventions. In…

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By John Houlihan Has it really been a year since Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 made its debut? It has! What a…

The classic Star Trek trope involves a lone ship setting out into the darkness of space, discovering civilizations not yet…

Editor’s Note: This Ronin Roundtable is intended as advice for GM’s of Mutants & Masterminds, and it contains a few…

EGX returns to London’s ExCeL this weekend from Thursday September 22nd to Sunday 25th - and you’ll be able to…

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

Are you an adventurer who longs to explore the lone-lands of Eriador? Then rejoice, for today Free League Publishing has announced The…

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We’re excited to announce that Dicebreaker has launched a new memberships programme that will offer members - that’s you lovely…

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Where do I begin to tell you about how awesome the new M&M PDF Mega-Bundle offer from Green Ronin is…?Ah,…

Rogue’s Gallery is a series dedicated to showing detailed NPCs at different CRs, useful as mentors, rivals, patrons, or just…

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Shanghai was the most exotic of all the locations the investigators visited. Between the language and cultural barriers, the characters…

There was something nice about the reduced attendance last year. It was like traveling back in time about a decade…

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We at Paizo are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Savagesparrow Studios! Are you going to be at PAX…

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Book of Ebon Tides has launched! We have the inside look at the new book with its designers, Celeste Conowitch…

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OPC Musings Welcome to a joint update for August and September! After Gen Con I simply did not have the…

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The Games Industry Conference, a new B2B event, will launch in the UK in February 2023, the organizers announced.  The…

There’s an official board game based on the Homeworld real-time strategy series, and it’s hoping to deliver fast paced combat…

Last week we started our celebration of all things Infinite by introducing you to some of our Infinite Masters authors.…

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Kenya, in my opinion had the highest chance of a TPK in all of Masks of Nyarlathotep. There was a…

We visited the ENHANCE Gaming booth at Gen Con and got a view of their full range of RPG, TCG,…

This is the second part of my latest trip to “The Best Four Days in Gaming”, Gen Con. Part 1…

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This week’s episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast is a very special one, as Matt, Wheels and Meehan tackle all the…

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The Kineticist Class Playtest ends on September 5th, which means there’s just a few weeks left to test out the…

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The story of Gen Con 2022, as told through ICv2's staff photos, started off on Thursday August 4, 2022. This…

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After a lost year in 2020 and us opting for Origins instead last year, we picked back up on the…

On Friday August 5, 2022, a WizKids representative gave ICv2 an tour of the new products at their booth. This…

Chris Spivey’s breakthrough RPG, the Call of Cthulhu and GUMSHOE-compatible Harlem Unbound, threw a spotlight on the cultural revolution of…

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Board gaming has exploded in popularity over the past two decades, but the uninitiated still often express incredulity about the…

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Thank you for a successful show! We had an absolute blast at Gen Con 2022 this year! Thank you for…

July was a wild month for Pathfinder and Starfinder Infinite! We saw over 40 new entries, including the first titles…

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Hello GenCon friends and attendees! Last week was a very eventful GenCon 2022, and we were delighted to see so…

Wizards of the Coast offered up Secret Lair: Festival in a Box, a new drop set for Magic: The Gathering,…

By Shaun Hocking Howdy, Wastelanders! It’s August already which means it’s time for a fresh new #FalloutFriday. Jon Webb has…

Avalon Hill teased upcoming Heroquest products at Gen Con 2022 as well as the return of Heroscape. Avalon Hill had…

In the first part of this three-part article, I looked at one of the elements of RPGs lost to time…

An official line of miniatures based on Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive books is set to launch on Kickstarter. The range…

Gen Con 2022 is in the rearview mirror after bringing a reported 50,000 attendees to Indianapolis, Indiana last weekend for…

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INDIANAPOLIS (August 8, 2022) — Gen Con, the largest and longest-running tabletop gaming convention in North America, returned to Indy…

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Between countries in Masks of Nyarlathotep, it was expected the investigators got down time. This was when they leveled up…

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Luke Gygax’s Gaxx Worx™ Signs As Inaugural Third-Party Publisher To Launch Its Wartime-Horror Tabletop RPG Strange & GrimSan Mateo, CA –…

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Tolkein roleplayers are feasting well this year, as The One Ring 2nd Edition tabletop RPG has just announced a new…

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Free League Announces The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying For 5E“This is the Master-ring, the One Ring to rule them…

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

Gen Con 2022 is over, bringing to a close four days of board games, RPGs and tabletop excitement and anticipation…