Conventions

Hello everyone! Wow, as of the time I’m writing this the last couple weeks have been eventful, to say the…

If you’re have been thinking about cosplay as your own character, now is the time and these shops are here…

Hero Points are a popular feature in Pathfinder Second Edition. They help player characters be more, well, heroic. Who doesn’t…

In early October, a friend messaged me about 9th Level Games’ The Excellents. The mention of that RPG started my…

Cruel giants and demons devastated the land, forcing people to use primal magic to create a safer haven and portals…

Richard Garfield, the creator of board games such as King of Tokyo, has designed a new game about dungeon-crawling called…

Tribe 8 is a post-apocalyptic RPG from Dream Pod 9 published in 1998. Designed by Phil Boulle, Josh Mosqueira and…

Hot on the heels of Avatar Legends’ record-breaking Kickstarter, another beloved animated series is headed to the tabletop as a…

A mere day after closing the book on 2021’s gathering, Essen Spiel has announced the dates for next year’s board…

The Queen’s Dilemma, the sequel to acclaimed narrative legacy game The King’s Dilemma, won’t see a release date next year,…

This episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast is sponsored by eBay. To learn more visit ebay.com/scantolist. It’s Essen Spiel 2021! Matt,…

While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple…

The Cowboy Bebop RPG will let you play as the characters seen in the anime series, including Spike and Faye,…

In Business 3x3, a business retailer or executive will share their experience with three things they’ve done right, three things…

It's been a busy year for Anjali Bhimani as she's debuted new voices in video games, taken part in Critical…

Sticking within the licensing rules for MORK BORG third-party content, I believe, and thus meaning you need a copy of…

You can find Part One here. Day 2 We continued on with another quick stop at the Exhibit Hall and…

This week: a leak reveals that Critical Role is the highest-grossing channel on Twitch. Meanwhile, Wizards releases a new supplement…

This episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast is sponsored by eBay. To learn more visit ebay.com/scantolist. It’s Pre-GX time on the…

An officially licensed tabletop RPG adaptation of the Cowboy Bebop anime has been announced ahead of a Kickstarter campaign in…

Richard J Sellati of R. Sell Games Publishing has published as a Pay What You Want an 8-page Safety Tools…

OPC Musings While obviously a lot has happened in the past few weeks, I wanted to give you all a…

PAX Unplugged has announced that masks will be mandatory and full vaccination required for entry to the Philadelphia board game…

Luke Gygax and Gary Con, the tabletop RPG convention named after D&D co-creator Gary Gygax, has issued a statement addressing…

On this week's Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Liv and Lolies put their own spin on Squid Game by imagining which board…

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

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

Paizo LIVE is our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and occasional guests talking about upcoming sweet…

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💰 Sales from links may earn us money The darkness is beginning…

ReedPop is launching The Haul, a new online marketplace for third-party sellers, on October 1, the company announced. The new…

We don’t get Honey Badgers here in Scotland. We get the friendly Wind in the Willows types with black and…

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

Gen Con 2022 will return to its traditional summer timing next year, the announcement of the US board game event’s…

I’m certainly dating myself, but long ago, I loved to haunt the aisles of the games auction at Gen Con…

As Gen Con 2021 began its second day on Friday, ICv2 went on a search for the hidden gems of…

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

Gen Con, the largest U.S. tabletop game show, drew 35,000 attendees, around half the nearly 70,000 that attended the last…

TCGplayer released their August data for sealed product sales and price changes. This data set shed light on some new…

Another Gen Con is in the books, and what an unusual Gen Con it was, in many regards.As folks may…

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

Gen Con 2021 News: Catalyst Games unveiled Shadowrun: The Kechibi Code, a new plot sourcebook for Shadowrun: Sixth World RPG,…

In the month since we announced our latest class playtest, there’ve been rumors, speculation, and Pathfinder fans across the internet…

In the month since we announced our latest class playtest, there’ve been rumors, speculation, and Pathfinder fans across the internet…

The upcoming Kill Team Box featuring Adepta Sororitas and T’au will feature some new units and some returning terrain options…

News crew, assemble! Dicebreaker’s crack editorial squad Matt, Meehan and Chase take over for a podcast filled with talk of…

My public statement on Wednesday was a fundamental expression of Paizo’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, values that I share…

Spire sequel Heart: The City Beneath and Alice is Missing, the small-town mystery played over text message, have triumphed at…

This weekend we covered some awesome Hawkeye cosplay, looked at an ‘advanced’ version of a classic D&D monsters and got…

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

Edge Studios is the RPG studio owned by Asmodee and which picked up Fantasy Flight’s tabletop RPGs during the dramatic…

The ENnies have revealed their 2021 winners. The event was streamed on YouTube even though GenCon was running with an…

Nibcard, a multifaceted tabletop business and initiative based in Nigeria has taken home the Diana Jones 2021 Award, as presented…

Mind your manners and make your Cosplayers happy. Here’s everything you need to know when approaching Cosplayers at Events! It’s…

Gen Con, the largest board game convention in the US, held its first day of events and exhibition on September…

It’ll get easier for third party writers to write and sell content for Paizo’s Pathfinder and Starfinder RPGs. At the…

Join Paizo Publisher and Chief Creative Officer Erik Mona for a peek at upcoming Paizo releases! [embedded content] highlights include:…

Today at Gen Con, we announced a new way for members of the Pathfinder and Starfinder communities to create content…

WizKids featured a physical prototype of D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: Gargantuan Tiamat (see "Tiamat Miniature!“), and its packaging…

At last, an excuse to play Vampire the Masquerade the way you’ve always wanted to. A new World of Darkness…

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

With Gen Con approaching, I thought it would be good to talk RPG shop with some of the talent behind…

It’s 1am in the morning in Kwanchai Moriya’s neck of the woods and, yet, the board game artist is wide…

Horror roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu is marking 40 years since its release with a limited-edition revision of the RPG’s…

A thing of dark desire; the limited edition Keeper Rulebook to celebrate 40 years of Call of Cthulhu is a…

After taking Saturday to go hang with family (and watch the Georgia Tech Football game that I’m still not sure…

Never miss a product release again with subscriptions that suit your playstyle. From rulebooks, world guides, adventures and accessories to…

If you want to have a session where everything’s taken to the extreme, then look no forward than your narrator,…

Jon Peterson usually writes histories of game design. His latest book, Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons…

I have a new book coming out next month called Game Wizards. Unlike my previous books, which are histories of game…

It was, as they say, a game-time decision. After the cancelation last year, our 2020 passes were rolled over to…

Last time around I started this mashup between Modern AGE and Blue Rose without knowing how much I’d get into…

Beasts, wagons, merchant companies and more await you in a new campaign setting that looks to give 5th Edition a…

September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission It’s a Friday and the start of the…

OPC Musings Those of you with high Perception modifiers will notice that this section has a new title. As of…

Dungeons and Dragons’s VanRichten’s Guide to Ravenloft and Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of’s Book of Skelos explores different…

Gen Con is back for 2021, with a slew of exciting upcoming board games for players to experience at the…

R. Talsorian Games, the RPG publisher behind Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk Red, has become the latest publisher to withdraw from…

I really enjoyed writing Lost Ilium the other week. I didn’t know if the mashups were going to be a…

Jayson Elliot, who set up one of the later TSR’s and The Gygax Magazine, has a Premier Issue of The…

Gloomhaven creator cuts ties with The Broken Token after a former employee accuses the CEO of “five years of sexual,…

Hasbro has finally revealed details on their upcoming Fall Fan Convention with the Hasbro Pulse Con. We start with the…

Magnetic Press Play, a tabletop game company whose genesis we covered not too long ago, has gotten their first tabletop…

The Indie Game Developer Network has announced their list of nominees for the Indie Groundbreaker Awards for innovative RPG design…

The Indie Game Developer Network has announced its shortlist of candidates for the 2021 Indie Groundbreakers Award across five categories,…

The long history of RPGs in America is weirdly localized in the midwest–and in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, you can now…

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

It’s Friday, and the big news here at Geek Native HQ this that nerdy blogger will soon be on the…

OPA Musings The news last week about reduced scenario production is, of course, disappointing. We’re saddened that we won’t be…

Joe Manganiello doesn’t seem content to rest on the fact that his D&D character became “canon”–the powerhouse performer has a…

There are two modes of Call of Cthulhu: Classic and Pulp. In Classic, you play everyday people, called Investigators, who…

Flying Buffalo is the tabletop RPG publisher behind Tunnels & Trolls. Tunnels & Trolls is the second-ever traditional tabletop RPG…

Webbed Sphere, Inc. announced that they have acquired Flying Buffalo, Inc. in a deal that was finalized on July 31.…

Designer and artist Jeeyon Shim has won the Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program for 2021, the first year this specific…

GMD Online is a British RPG publisher and community. There are two ways to get involved with the community; via…

In the first two parts of this three-part series, I talked about how the pandemic induced rescheduling of a number…

UK Games Expo starts for most people as an in-person event on the 30th. That’s this Friday. It runs to…

This week, ICv2’s top-selling games show the success of Cyberpunk and third-party 5e games. Hasbro reveals its Q2 results, showing…

The Long War goes ever on… Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure. From the Grimdark,…

Loke already announced the starter kit New Box of Adventure – Valley of Peril that contains maps, tokens and other…

I had a chance to talk to Grace Collins (they/them), CEO of Snowbright Studio, Quill Kolat (They/Them) the Creative Manager…