For the Love of Cthulhu Open the Magnificent Box
There are two modes of Call of Cthulhu: Classic and Pulp. In Classic, you play everyday people, called Investigators, who…
Flying Buffalo, the oldest RPG publisher in existence, bought by fulfilment company Webbed Sphere
Flying Buffalo is the tabletop RPG publisher behind Tunnels & Trolls. Tunnels & Trolls is the second-ever traditional tabletop RPG…
Wholesome D&D: Enjoy Teatime Adventures in the Verdant Isles
In Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, you’re not in a dungeon crawl that has you hack through goblins because they’re small,…
Highmoon Press to delete all PDF titles and give away print products
Daniel Highmoon of Highmoon Press has emailed previous customers to say that on September the 1st every all the company’s…
Iconic Encounter: Fighting Fire
“We can take it.” “But we don’t have to take it.” Coiling an arm around the vesk’s shoulder, Veerkea gently…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Rat Hordes, Bite Sized Adventures, and a Dog Called Murder
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Ravenous Hordes – STL Six Factions are part of…
Webbed Sphere, Inc. Acquires Flying Buffalo, Inc.
Webbed Sphere, Inc. announced that they have acquired Flying Buffalo, Inc. in a deal that was finalized on July 31.…
Field Guide to Memory co-creator Jeeyon Shim wins 2021 Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program
Designer and artist Jeeyon Shim has won the Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program for 2021, the first year this specific…
Community Spotlight: 10 Homebrew Magic Items We Love
Plate armor made of tableware. A mask carved from a hag's face. These are the kinds of homebrew magic items that inspire…
Catch up on the Secrets of Magic Liveplay!
In Episode 01 | A Lively Welcome: Four scholars are sent to a small desert town to investigate a wild…
‘Avatar Legends’ Is Kickstarting Now – Get In On The Avatar The Last Airbender RPG
The world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra comes to your tabletop in an brand-new RPG…
Add Unique Miniatures from ‘Critical Role’s’ Exandria to RPG Sessions
WizKids will release Critical Role: NPCs of Exandria - Set 1, a new miniatures set, into retail stores in November…
Adventure Zone DM Griffin McElroy and Bureau of Balance co-designers chat about their new board game
The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance is the very first tabletop adaptation of the beloved Dungeons & Dragons actual play…
Rogue Squadron – The Eternals
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
RPG Treasure Hunting, Looting with Archeologist Scott Smallwood
Archeologist Scott Smallwood returns to the podcast to discuss treasure hunting and looting in real life and in role-playing games.…
Dragon Riders of Literature and Film – PRIME
People riding dragons has a long history in media and literature. Let’s take a look. In Games Workshop’s Age of…
Dredd, Xenomorphs, 5E… Oh My!
Welcome to this week’s EN Publishing news update! This week we have new 5E content, a look at two upcoming…
WizKids Reveals Two New ‘Critical Role’ Character Sets
WizKids revealed Characters of Tal'Dorei - Set 1 and NPCs of Tal'Dorei - Set 1, two Critical Role character sets,…
Conan: Waves Stained Crimson Part 2
DESIGNER’S NOTES – Part 2. By Kevin Ross Hi all, here is second part of my overview to the upcoming…
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things – A Review
This past weekend I conned my wife into watching a Time Loop movie. Now, I normally have to qualify this…
Steamforged Games’ “Web Of The Spider Tyrant” Is Hair-Raising Fun
Steamforged Games, a well-known tabletop game design company whose games include Godtear, Guild Ball, and many licensed options, has announced the upcoming…
Magpie’s Avatar Legends RPG Kickstarter takes $1m on the opening day
There are very few tabletop RPGs that have broken the million mark on Kickstarter. Magpie Games’ Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying…
Free to Download: Fragments of the Past Quickstart RPG
Fragments of the Past is a bronze-age tabletop game that is in development and looks good. In exchange for joining…
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game’s Kickstarter campaign is now live
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game launched its crowdfunding campaign on August 3rd, supporting an official adaptation of the widely popular…
Iconic Encounter: Swimming Lessons
“Alright Tuku. Today you’re going to teach me about water spirits!” Ija turned toward her companion and gave a fierce…
Keeping the Creative Panic at Bay (A Ronin Roundtable Guest Post by Nathan Burgoine)
One thing about being a writer with one foot in queer romance and the other in queer spec fic is…
Free League Revisits ‘Forbidden Lands RPG’ with Two New Books
Free League Publishing is offering The Bloodmarch and Book of Beasts, for Forbidden Lands RPG, through a Retailer Pledge reward…
Using Rumors to Create a Living World
As a DM it’s my goal to create a believable world for my players to explore, interact with, and change.…
The Workshop – MtG to D&D: The Poet’s Quill
Art by Anna Fehr, copyright Wizards of the CoastWe’re back this week with another magic item for Dungeons and Dragons 5e…
D&D: Five Ways To Build A Campaign Without Killing A God
Starting a new campaign and want a break from the same old “kill a being powerful enough to be a…
28 July–3 August 2021: Horizons & Hats
This week, a quick update from a quiet week: GAMA announces an accelerator programme for tabletop industry organisations from underrepresented…
The Game of Life: Super Mario Edition contains more Bowser and fewer bills
Travel along the path through the Mushroom Kingdom to defeat the dreaded Bowser in The Game of Life: Super Mario…
Lancer co-creator’s new post-apocalyptic RPG Icon has a free playtest version that’s worth a look
The next generation of heroes were born at the beginning of the Churning Age, a time when peace in Arden…
Geek Native Patron Gift: The Gunblade
Geek Native runs a small Patron program through which you can tip the blog every month. The money raised in…
Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance board game expansion “in the works”
The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance, a board game based on the Dungeons & Dragons actual play series, is getting…
The Dead Rise in ‘Pathfinder 2E’
Paizo, Inc. unveiled Pathfinder Book of the Dead, a new rulebook for Pathfinder 2E, which will hit retail in spring…
Helm Greycastle: New Latinx fantasy comic includes 5e one-shot adventure
Henry Barajas, creator of La Voz De M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo! has a new latinx fantasy comic series. In Helm Greycastle…
The complete Earthdawn 4e RPG comes to the FoundryVTT
The Earthdawn character sheet for 4e is already on the pay-once virtual tabletop challenger Foundry, as is the Compendia and…
Wizard 101: Bladesinging From Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Bladesinging is the subclass for wizards who want swordplay to supplement their spells. Alongside the Eldritch Knight — which fulfills the…
Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone’s Dungeon World supplements surface at the Bundle of Holding
The 2014 bundle of Apocalypse Engine fantasy RPG content from Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone is back in the…
Scrying on Subscriptions: Starfinder Rulebooks
Let’s take a closer look at Paizo Subscriptions, what you can subscribe to right now, and what is coming next.…
Starfinder Evolutionist Playtest Launches Today!
The evolutionist is a new class for Starfinder that brings to bear the power of transformation over time. As an…
We give our first impressions of the new Descent, Fort’s first expansion and Avatar Legends on the Dicebreaker Podcast
In a particularly Nice episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Wheels and Meehan reimagine some of our favourite board games…
Rogue’s Gallery: Namazzi Akullo
With her toned physique and straight-backed gait, Namazzi appears to be a much younger woman than she is. Her wise,…
D&D: WizKids Announces Frameworks – Custom Sprue-Based Miniatures For Your Campaign
WizKids has announced ‘Frameworks’ a new line of customizable, sprue-based miniatures for Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying games. WizKids…
You’re gonna die and you might like it: A review of A Good Death
A Good Death is a solo RPG and journal game from Trent Seltzer. It’s a Name Your Own Price download…
Etiquette & Protocol – TTRPG Safety Toolkit
Etiquette & Protocol (E&P for short) is an occasional feature where I venture into the sometimes thorny OOC arena of…
D&D: WotC Declares That Novels Aren’t ‘Canon’ For 5th Edition And Vice Versa
With a new Drizzt novel out this week, and Dragonlance novels not far behind, WotC sets the record straight on…
‘No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die’ in ‘Spectre’
Modiphius Entertainment revealed SPECTRE: The Board Game, a new James Bond tabletop game, which will release in spring of 2022.…
D&D Price Increase & Artificer Guide, 40K Grey Knight Stat Updates, Star Wars Mistakes
Check out news of an upcoming Hasbro price increase & our 5e Artificer Guide, 40K Grey Knight Stat Updates &…
Rolling For Initiative — Three More Effective Promotions
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Game Devs Of Color Expo Announces Starting Set of Panels & Speakers
The 2021 Game Devs Of Color Expo revealed their first set of speakers coming tot he online event, along with…
Genre Police: Wangrods and Warriors
Do you hate it when someone manages to use the rules of an RPG game to make a character that…
Publishers Spotlight: September 2021 poll open for Patrons
Does your D&D Wizard have the 1st level Conjuration ritual “Tenser’s Floating Disk” but struggles to find a use for…
Fading Suns sails into New Frontiers
Ulisses Spiele is expanding the Fading Suns RPG through a successful crowdfunding campaign. New Frontiers will take characters into barbarian…
Free to Download: Supernatural correction of The Unworld Mysteries
The Unworld Mysteries is an entirely free, alpha release of a supernatural, fast-paced and rules-light noir RPG. The roleplaying game…
Metal cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toon theme? Leo can
The stalwart and productive Leo Moracchioli’s stream of heavy metal successes continue. Some companies convert franchises to RPGs; Leo turns…
Brand New Images from Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms
Just released today from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is a quartet of few fresh images from Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle…
D&D Beyond cancels anniversary competition after a backlash
D&D Beyond’s Frame Design Contest has been cancelled after artists expressed it asked for too much and offered too little.…
Keeping Faith
Drawing on our precognitive powers over the last few weeks,, we’ve been taking a sneak peek at the Judge Child…
D&D 101: A Quick Breakdown of Classes in Dungeons & Dragons
Welcome to Dungeons & Dragons, a roleplaying game where you'll create a hero to play as in adventures! One of the…
MTG: WotC Announces Commander Is Coming To Arena – Sort Of!
A new 100-card Historic Brawl queue is coming to Magic: the Gathering Arena, giving fans the closest thing yet to…
Looking for a big baddie for your RPG? Liches: Dance Macabre offers the Sorrow Lords for 5e and Pathfinder
Texas in August Studio astutely points out that Liches may be a good choice for big bad in RPGs, but…
Free to Download: At One With Nature a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror
A Miskatonic Repository book, At One With Nature, is a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror from Graham James, with potentially…
Humble Bundle launches RPG Heroes putting $113 worth of computer games on offer
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.It’s been a busy day for Humble…
WizKids to launch paint range and sprue-based miniatures range this year
WizKids created the eCommerce mini store DnDMinis last year with Wizards of the Coast. Now, GamesRadar is reporting the company…
Tales From The Drift: Body Recovery
“Give it your allsix. Give it your allsix.” The chipper voice sang out in the spacious green and yellow interior…
RPG Spotlight: Night Witches
This week we’re stepping into the shoes and the biplanes of the historical World War II era bomber regiment, The…
The Legend of Vox Machina Shares Updated Voice Cast Production Details
Critters rejoice! The Legend of Vox Machina animated series is coming soon to Amazon Prime. And to give us a…
Expanding on the Expanse
Since the launch of Pathfinder Second Edition, we’ve released a number of adventures set in the Mwangi Expanse. The upcoming…
Harbingers of the Yawning Void: Cult Activities and Adventure Hooks, Part 3
Presented here are more adventure hooks for your mid-to-high level characters. As before, these can be used as single encounters,…
Finder’s Archive – Ending the Campaign
Photo by Konevi from Pexels (Public Domain)When should you End your campaign? This is one of those little nuggets that…
Pathfinder spin-off RPG Starfinder bundle includes beginner box, sourcebooks and adventures worth $400
Experience adventures in outer space with the Starfinder RPG, which is currently available at a discounted price in a Humble…
Top Secret: The Espionage RPG That Got TSR Raided By The FBI – PRIME
Yes, the satanic panic gripped the nation and got D&D books banned, but another RPG had a brush with authority.…
G.I. Joe deckbuilding game revives the classic cartoon and toy line in card form
Command a team of G.I. Joes against the nefarious forces of Cobra in the upcoming G.I. Joe Deck-Building Game. Based…
The Elder Scrolls Call To Arms: July Roundup
Hello friends. Today we are looking at the releases for July, including our first printed content expansion, Histories of the…
Start your Starfinder adventures and help ComicBooks for Kids with unusual Humble Bundle
It’s a big one. Paizo Publishing has a Starfinder RPG bundle worth hundreds on Humble. Unusually, there’s a $50 tier…
SoulMuppet Publishing’s space western Orbital Blues RPG hits trailer
Published through a successful Kickstarter, a project that even a cassette tape, Orbital Blues is a space western homage to…
Starfinder Beginner Box Humble Bundle
Today, we’re launching the Starfinder Beginner Box Humble Bundle to support ComicBooks For Kids! The bundle’s tiers include PDFs of…
Competition: Win the GMD CORE RPG in softback
GMD Online is a British RPG publisher and community. There are two ways to get involved with the community; via…
Descent: Legends of the Dark’s impressive digital companion sets a new bar for app-powered board games
Descent: Legends of the Dark is a bold - and controversial - new direction for the beloved dungeon-crawler series. Like…
D&D: Dimension 20’s New Series Gives An Awesome Spotlight To Fantasy High’s Damsels In Distress
Dimension 20’s new D&D series, The Seven goes back to school–fantasy high school that is, with a look at “seven…
Will You Attend A Gaming Convention In 2021? PART THREE
In the first two parts of this three-part series, I talked about how the pandemic induced rescheduling of a number…
WotC: Actual Play Shows Are Shaping The Future Of D&D
From shorter adventures, to encounters with more of a roleplay focus built in, D&D’s lead designer confirms: actual play shows…
Cluedon’t is a reverse game of Cluedo where murderers want to be caught
Find all the evidence you need to get yourself arrested for murder in Cluedon’t, a reverse version of the classic…
The servant has become master: Warp Games funds Banality
A simple trifold brochure offers a worryingly realistic dystopian cyberpunk future. Warp Games’ Banality RPG has a focus on improvisation…
Dungeons & Dragons 5E cleric class explained
Clerics are best known for being the designated healers of Dungeons & Dragons 5E. Which is actually a little limiting,…
D&D and Magic: The Gathering to see prices increase later this year due to rising shipping costs
Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons fans will notice a slight increase in prices sometime between now and the…
Jessa Blackthorne reveals new WizKids new D&D map range
I’ve noticed the rise of neoprene battle mats on Kickstarter and am tempted. A single large sheet that protects the…
Doctor Who RPG regenerates with a second edition, lets you create your own TARDIS
The Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game is time-travelling its way into a new era for the tabletop RPG with the…
Experience UK Games Expo’s shopping bonanza from afar with #SelfPromoTradeHall
UK Games Expo starts for most people as an in-person event on the 30th. That’s this Friday. It runs to…
Preview: ‘D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight’ Booster Set
WizKids released a massive preview of the D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Booster Set,…
‘Stormbird Expansion’ Swoops Down on ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’
Steamforged Games revealed the Stormbird Expansion, for Horizon Zero Dawn boiard game, which will be coming to preorder soon. The…
By Night Studios offer two money-back Monthly Loot Coffins
Where are you with monthly subscription offerings such as Loot Crate? The model has had an ebb and flow. Now…
Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game Second Edition Has Been Released
Cubicle 7 Games revealed that they have released the Second Edition of Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game, available for pre-order.…
D&D Canon
Every expression of D&D has its own canon. Our studio treats D&D in much the same way that Marvel Studios…
Surviving the Feywild: A Cautionary Tale About Harold the Halfling
While we can only imagine at the wonders that The Wild Beyond the Witchlight will bring to light, the following is a…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Foodie Magic for 5e, Sandwich Masters, & Rat Queens BFF
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! War of Ashes – STL & Resin Minis Bigger!…
Secrets of Magic Liveplay!
In Episode 01 | A Lively Welcome: Four scholars are sent to a small desert town to investigate a wild…
Dungeon Tables: Random Encounters in Cities
Adventuring in the wilds can be fun, but sometimes your campaign remains within the borders of a town, village, or…