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…

Armageddon has Arrived! If you have been following our blog, you will be well aware that we have been teasing…

In the first part, you were introduced to Salamondre, the virtuoso lich, and the cursed relic that he uses for…

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

It’s happening folks. Next week Critical Role will make their big announcement on Campaign 3 as a part of their…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Yesterday, D&D’s official social media promoted limited…

Let’s take a look at why Star Wars Visions is so dang good. The Disney Era of Star Wars has…

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

Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…

The latest previews from Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos reveal you can look forward to going to magic school, being an…

Back in the earliest days of D&D, before modules, before campaign settings, D&D relied on two other games, the wargame…

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

WizKids revealed two Dungeons & Dragons Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures: Paint Night Kits for release in January 2022. Paint Night Kit…

Asmodee, one of the largest board game publishers in the world, seems to be back on the market. According to…

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

One of Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition’s new features is the availability of simple-to-use stronghold rules. A stronghold is —…

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

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Hiya, Starfinders! I have something special for you this month. A while back, I was discussing real-world current events that…

Perhaps the biggest surprise in the 2021 Q2 Roll20 report is the re-design. D&D is still the most popular game…

Perhaps the biggest surprise in the 2021 Q2 Roll20 report is the re-design. D&D is still the most popular game…

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

Wild Beyond the Witchlight is full of creatures both whimsical and dangerous. With plenty of new monsters to pick from,…

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,…

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

Tomorrow D&D Celebration kicks off a weekend of gaming, including an official D&D Musical. And you thought people who heard…

Pandaily, a site not yet reviewed by Newsguard for accuracy, is reporting official Chinese media raising concerns about some forms…

Paizo, Inc. announced Starfinder: Drift Crisis, a new sourcebook of Starfinder RPG, which is scheduled to come out in spring…

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

The T’au are in big trouble, and it’s not clear what can fix them. With a host of books already…

This is the Way is a two-page RPG by Emmeryn based on Disney’s The Mandalorian. I’m entirely sure they don’t…

Inferno is a tabletop RPG of Victorian fiction, in which characters might encounter the creations of Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens,…

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

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

Deepen your Pathfinder and Starfinder experiences with the new Starfinder Tech Revolution hardcover rulebook, Pathfinder Bestiary 3 Battle Cards, and…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Amazon’s audiobook company Audible is offering three…

Fireball might pack a powerful punch, but these spells will give your character more utility than your local electric co-op.…

Get ready to give your players the Voight-Kampff test to see who really is human in a newly announced tabletop…

Jeff Alvarez, president of Pathfinder and Starfinder publisher Paizo, posted a second statement to the official forums on September 20th…

“Life here isn’t all nuts and bushy tails.” (Lucano Volpe) The squirrel-folk relish living dangerously, risking life and limb as…

A new official release from WotC gives you access to rules for creating whole new “Domains of Delight” and Archfey…

Alcon Entertainment and Free League Publishing will release an official Blade Runner Tabletop RPG series. It includes Blade Runner and…

Blade Runner, the seminal science fiction film about a gang of fugitive androids, is getting its own official tabletop roleplaying…

Come take a look at some of the draconic secrets revealed in the upcoming Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons. See if…

Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at the ships you can fly in Fantasy…

Comicbook writer Josh Barbeau returns to the podcast. The discussion is a deep dive into story hooks and RPG campaign…

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

The newest campaign for Dungeons & Dragons 5E, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, is currently available at…

Free League Publishing has announced a licensing deal with Alcon Entertainment to produce a tabletop role playing game line based…

WizKids released preview images of their first releases for D&D Idols of the Realms: Essentials 2D Miniatures. These miniatures were…

I always tell myself that this is the year I watch a TON of horror movies during the month of…

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Wizards released The Wild Beyond the Witchlight today. In conjunction, the DMs Guild has launched the Dungeoncraft Spotlight. The DMs…

Dungeons & Dragons today unleashed the first adventure of the world’s greatest roleplaying game set primarily in the Feywild –…

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

Our first project of Pathfinder 2nd Edition—The Slithering Salve—is complete! That's right, last month we assembled the Order for another…

There are 21 new magic items in the new adventure: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, but these five stand out…

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

Edge, the Asmodee owned RPG studio that picked up tabletop roleplaying games from Fantasy Flight, has announced Adventures in Rokugan.…

Archives of the Empire Volume 1 is a high production quality, relatively thin 100-page hardback accessory for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay…

Want to spice up your next encounter? Consider using a trap. Sure, they might take a bit of adjusting, but…

Last week we explored how to use side quests to deliver exposition. But giving the player information is not the…

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

Art by Nicolas Mühlbach This idea started as a joke based on a tweet I saw earlier this morning about…

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is out, bringing the magic of the feywild to your tabletop. But are the rides…

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt sees us returning to the spookiest plane in the Magic: The Gathering multiverse, albeit one that’s now…

They’re Straight Up Villains and they’re dropping killer beats. They’re the hottest thing to drop on the internet in ages.…

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

Timed to coincide with the official release of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure the YouTube channel Splinterverse…

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

'D&D Icons of the Realms: Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft' Booster Brick and More! WizKids will release D&D Icons of…

This week, J Edward discusses not one… …not two… …but three paintings! The inspiration, the process, and all about his…

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt’ werewolves, zombies, ghosts, and other spookables raise a few rules questions. Today WotC has your answers. From…

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight brings two new backgrounds to Dungeons & Dragons. Each is tailored for characters that have a strong…

Goodman Games’ tabletop RPG of post-apocalyptic adventure Mutant Crawl Classics is in the Bundle of Holding. You can get started…

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Now part of Fandom, Fanatical has launched…

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…

Not every monster in the manual is going to attack you without a reason and some can even be fantastic…

Want to surprise your enemies in the next encounter? Try busting out one of these secret weapons and watch what…

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…

Fun.com have a proof of concept Dungeons & Dragons & Pokemon monsters wonderfully illustrated. Take one Displacer Beast (carefully) and…

Nemet and her sandship crew can add some lively possibilities to any campaign or one-time gaming session. Here is a…

Based on the novels by John Michael Greer, Aeon Games is Kickstarting a Weird of Hali RPG. In the world,…

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…

Wyvern Gaming will release Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, a 5E compatible rulebook, which will release on October 5.…

“…Sure, Maybe I’ll encounter a Hellhound, but they don’t spike my heart rate. I’ve got the skills and the programs…

Multiclassing in Dungeons & Dragons opens up a door of possibilities for PCs. Today we’re taking a look at how…

A live performance of the first ever official Dungeons & Dragons musical is set to take place this weekend. Entitled…

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

WizKids revealed three new single-count monster packs for their Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts line, which will release in December.The Pathfinder…

The Pokemon Company International unveiled Pokemon TCG Live, which is an app that allows Trainers to play Pokemon TCG digitally…

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

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