Polish both a sword and a pint in solo journaling game The Broken Cask Inn
Don an apron and sling mugs of fantasy brew in The Broken Cask Inn, a new solo journaling game about…
Force Wizard – Unmatched Destiny SA (Mystic Career)
“Force Wizard” is my series on the Force & Destiny Careers’ Signature Abilities. Many Mystics seek to know and understand…
DUNE #14 – Faction Characters: The Fremen
By Andrew Peregrine In Dune: Adventures in the Imperium there are several character types that offer special powers and abilities.…
Call of Cthulhu 7e invades the Astral Tabletop realm
Astral Tabletop is a browser-based virtual tabletop with free and paid for tiers. The platform has a partnership with DriveThruRPG.…
Serpent Folk Slither Their Way into ‘Epic Encounters’
Steamforged Games revealed Epic Encounters: Chambers of the Serpent Folk, a new encounter-in-a-box, for release in July. Chambers of the…
Rolling for Initiative — ‘Strixhaven’, Oh ‘Strixhaven’! Where Art Thou?
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Warhammer World Building: Soulbound City of Anvilgard
Warhammer World Building creates campaign settings using Cubicle 7’s Warhammer RPGs: Soulbound, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and Wrath & Glory. Each RPG features player characters exploring…
The actual play D&D stream Venture Maidens Kickstarts 5e campaign setting
The actual play show Venture Maidens run by DM Celeste Conowitch and features Brittany Quintero, Naseem Etemad, Sage Stafford, and…
By Night Studios take pre-orders on Mind’s Eye Theatre: Vampire Volume 2
By Night Studios run, with permission, the World of Darkness Mind’s Eye Theatre LARP experience. Mind’s Eye Theatre has been…
Studio Agate confirm an English version of Vermin 2047
French RPG publisher Studio Agate known for Shadows of Esteren and FateForge are in the process of crowdfunding Vermine 2047.…
Free to Download: Sci-fi RPG – FinalHorizon
FinalHorizon is a sci-fi RPG from GoodKnightGames that was published late in March and is available for free from DriveThruRPG.…
My First Little Sacrifice for Solemn Vale
Invoking Playmobil, Dirty Vortex shared on Instagram this fantastically creepy illustration for Solemn Vale. Solemn Vale is a folklore horror…
Macross and Robotech Decades Old Lawsuits Have Finally Been Settled
One of the oldest legal wars in entertainment history has ended in a settlement that works in the fanbase’s favor.…
D&D: Enter The World Of The Venture Maidens
Popular D&D podcast the Venture Maidens invite you to explore their world with a new 5E roleplaying setting with new…
Kingdoms of Hârn: Kaldor leans into its gritty realism
Columbia Games have long provided Hârn in a three-ring binder format, and that has many advantages. However, it doesn’t make…
The Witcher TTRPG confirms A Tome of Chaos
Cody Pondsmith, the lead designer of The Witcher tabletop RPG, has announced that A Tome of Chaos is the in-development…
The Bestiary of Stargrave – Mindgrippers, Tanglers, & Robots Oh My
Check out what you might come up against in Stargrave’s random encounters. To start, you will need a crew, but…
No-Prep Character: Pet Revitalization Project
By Vanessa Hoskins Have you ever had a beloved family pet expire due to old age, illness, or getting hit…
Filling the Ranks
An Apocalyptic Cast In this week’s installment of our Judge Dredd & the Worlds of 2000 AD blog, our last…
Toss A Coin To The Witcher Role-Playing Game: RPG Spotlight
Season Two may not come out for a while yet, but there’s no reason we can’t go back to the…
Outside the Box – April 9th
Hello again, this week we have news from Infinity, Wargame Exclusive, Mad Robot Miniatures, Wargames Atlantic, Wyrd Miniatures and more!A…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #95
Welcome to the weekend, geeks! If you want to keep up with the blog, even without even visiting the blog,…
One-on-One Roleplaying: Adapting Published Campaigns
Throughout this series, we’ve covered several best practices for one-on-one play, and we hope that you’ve been able to put…
The Dune RPG Is Available Now Digitally
If you want to rule Arrakis, you’ll need desert power. If you want to play the Dune RPG, you’ll need…
We talk horror RPGs, gambling and Spongebob memes with the host of Draw Your Dice podcast, Jeremy Gage
This week’s episode of the Dicebreaker podcast is graced by the presence of Jeremy Gage, a game designer and host…
We Die Young is a supernatural counter-culture RPG
Eric Bloat describes We Die Young as the spiritual successor to Dark Places & Demogorgons, another title from Bloat Games.…
Finder’s Archive – Dungeon Creation (Part 5)
Stay awhile and listen… Welcome to the fifth installment (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) of the Dungeon…
Venture Maidens actual play podcast launches its own RPG sourcebook for D&D 5E
A campaign guide inspired by the Venture Maidens podcast - an actual play D&D 5E show starring an all femme-identifying…
What’s the opposite of dump stat?
In RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, it is often possible to create characters by assigning points or values to attributes.…
Ultra PRO Offers Up ‘Magic: The Gathering’s’ Mystical Archive
Ultra PRO announced Magic: The Gathering Mystical Archive Playmats for release in June. Magic players can now use art from…
Toy Vault Announces More ‘Pathfinder Puzzles’
Toy Vault, Inc. announced that they will release new Pathfinder Puzzles in June. They were granted the Paizo license to…
Thursday Art Assault – Gateway to the Lone Soul
‘Gateway to the Lone Soul’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Unearth more dark landscapes at:
PaizoCon Pathfinder Society Release Preview
Before I let Thurston talk about our upcoming scenarios, one quick announcement: the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is now sanctioned…
Twilight Imperium: Embers of the Imperium RPG confirmed for summer 2021
In the latest edition of Twilight Imperium Codex from Fantasy Flight Games, there are two pages of news that seem…
WizKids Unveils ‘D&D Icons of the Realms: Adult Green Dragon Premium Figure’
WizKids unveiled a D&D Icons of the Realms: Adult Green Dragon Premium Figure for release in July. Although not quite…
Arkelon Chronicles brings alien technology to a fantasy RPG
Quebec-based Wendigo Workshop is Kickstarting a traditional RPG called Arkelon Chronicles which merges fantasy and sci-fi together. The game is…
Take revenge on an evil celestial body in “hyper-TTRPG” Ten Million HP Planet
Any time the planet breaks bad and kills nearly everyone you knew and loved, there’s only one course of action:…
Out today: Dune – Adventures in the Imperium 2d20 RPG
Modiphius’ 2d20 RPG Dune: Adventures in the Imperium costs £250 for the Collector’s bundle and sold out. The good news…
First They Came is an RPG where players are blindfolded and listen to immersive audio
Put on a blindfold and experience a roleplaying game about hiding from persecution in First they Came, an upcoming RPG…
Legendary Adventures: An Interview With Mike Myler (Legendary Games)
Mike Myler, a fellow columnist at EN World and an amazing designer, has a new Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition…
Bestiary 3 and Early April Releases
March’s new releases rolled to April 7 but are worth the wait; they include Bestiary 3 with over 300 creatures,…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Folk Horror RPG and 2 Games That the Create the Night Sky
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Dungeon Notes Dungeon Notes is a brand new system,…
D&D 3.5 Ed Board Game Is Very Simple, But That’s A Good Thing
Tabletop RPGs are complicated and diving right in can be too much, too fast. But what if… I’ve been playing…
Starfinder: Scoured Stars Returns with Out in the Cold!
Starfinder: Scoured Stars returns tonight with Episode 04 | “Out in the Cold,” at 6 p.m. Pacific on the official…
Eco-science fiction RPG Blue Planet: Recontact is crowdfunding a revised third edition that maintains its anticolonial themes
Sabotage corporate industrial projects and defend an adopted homeworld in Blue Planet: Recontact, an upcoming new third edition of the…
Free to Download: 6 monsters
Handimonsters is a Patreon-powered subscription service from Handiwork Games that delivers monsters. The contributors’ credits reads like a hall of…
Level Up Playtest Document #16: Combat Maneuvers
Welcome to the 16th Level Up playtest document. Last year we released the first half of the combat maneuvers as…
Zobeck Gazetteer Wallpapers
It’s a new month, and everyone’s gaming! So here’s a city-tastic set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or…
First They Came is an RPG you play blindfolded
Set in Berlin in 1942, telling the story of those persecuted by the Nazi regime, First They Came is an…
Feeling Nostalgic For Spycraft? The Spy Game Blends Espionage And D&D 5E
The Spy Game brings superspy espionage action to the d20-fueled rules of 5th Edition D&D–a modern adaptation with more guns,…
Building Locations for Open World Campaigns – GM Tips & Tricks
Thumbnail art by Dominik ZdenkovićHow to create an open world campaign || How to create quests for open world campaignsGive…
We Die Young takes supernatural RPGs back to the counterculture Seattle of the 1990s
Grab a coffee, see a basement show and slay a demon in the same afternoon with We Die Young, an…
Cubicle 7 Releases More Deets on ‘Champions of Order’
Sourcebook Adds Lumineth Realm-Lords as a Playable Faction in 'Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound RPG' Cubicle 7 unveiled Champions of…
Fallout #4 – Full of Action (Points)!
Players of the Fallout videogames will be familiar with the spending of Action Points. In the earlier games, every action…
Rogue Squadron – Rebel Generals
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
The Lazy Dungeon Master, Fantastic Lairs with Mike Shea
Podcast host, writer, and RPG designer, Mike Shea visits the Dicegeeks.com podcast today. Mike is the author behind The Lazy…
With Strange Aeons – How The Call Of Cthulhu Changed The Face Of Roleplaying Games – PRIME
Your favorite adventures and livestreams owe more to Sandy Petersen’s Call of Cthulhu than Gary Gygax’ Dungeons & Dragons. Here’s…
Does Love Forgive? is a two-player supplement for the Call of Cthulhu RPG
Roleplay one-to-one sessions of the Call of Cthulhu RPG with Does Love Forgive?, a set of scenarios designed to be…
SendingStone is a video chat solution for VTTs
Do you use Discord and a virtual tabletop even though the VTT has a video chat solution of its own?…
Free Chapter – Hollow Empire – Vadim
The splintering door shattered Vadim’s peaceful sleep. A booming voice ripped through the early morning tranquility. “You slept with my…
Download the All-New D&D Beyond App!
D&D Beyond is excited to announce the release of the all-new, consolidated D&D Beyond App! Gone are the days of…
The All New D&D Beyond App is Coming!
D&D Beyond is excited to announce the upcoming release of the all-new, consolidated D&D Beyond App! Gone are the days…
D&D Accessories: Let Your Characters Fly High With These Battle Risers
Battle risers are an often forgotten RPG tool, but when the closest monster takes flight, you’ll want to know exactly…
Draw Your Weapon with the Pathfinder Magic Armanents Deck!
Available in print and digital download on Wednesday, April 7! A hero collects treasure at every step of their journey,…
Reveal a randomised, scratch-off character sheet in radical RPG Scratch & Claw
Sometimes, character creation can feel like a chore, a bunch of busy work standing between the player and the game.…
Blue Planet 3e is an RPG set in humanity’s precarious future
Biohazard Games with Gallant Knight have taken the third edition of the acclaimed hard science Blue Planet RPG to Kickstarter,…
Virtual reality tabletop Demeo announces launch date
Demeo is a “virtual virtual” tabletop. That’s to say, it uses a virtual tabletop in which you can move your…
Midgard Icons: The Ghoul Emperor
The Ghoul Emperor Nicoforus the Pale is the undisputed ruler of the Dread and Endless Imperium of the Darakhul, a…
5 Tips For Outlining A TTRPG Session
If you are a new Dungeon Master or a player who is curious to try running a game, I want…
The Workshop: NPC File – Granny Horns
Original artist unknown. All rights reserved. Come in, child. Come in. I’ve got fresh sweet rolls and a cup of…
5 best digital card games that aren’t Hearthstone
Back in the heady days of 2014 when grand worldwide events were taking place - like Gangnam Style hitting two…
Vaesen: Mythic Britain announced as Free League brings nordic horror to 19th century British Isles
Vaesen is a horror RPG from the award-winning Free League Publishing. The game is based on the gothic art of…
Unlock the Eldritch Mysteries of the Galaxy with ‘Starfinder Galactic Magic’
Paizo, Inc. announced Starfinder Galactic Magic, a new rulebook for Starfinder RPG, for release in November. Galactic Magic adds arcane…
Shadow Art Finds Spring 2021 Art Sale
For all my website and social media followers… March 29th – April 30th… A HUGE dark art coupon. Buy two…
Magic: Legends – Meet The Dimir Assassin
Combining the powers of blue and black mana, the Dimir Assassin takes finesse to play–but in the right hands, a…
The latest Chivalry and Sorcery RPG on offer at the Bundle of Holding
Chivalry and Sorcery is one of the oldest fantasy RPGs still being published, and the 5th edition (that’s the C&S…
$10 bundle for over $90 worth of RPGs: Help game designer Tiago Rolim out
There’s a good cause RPG bundle on Itch.io right now, and for the next 24 days, in which you can…
Tabletop Gallery: Grimdark Extraction
Classic Stealth Suits get the job done! Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would…
Cosy critter RPG Wanderhome and its pastoral adventures are now available
Take a journey through sleepy hamlets and picturesque woodland landscapes in Wanderhome, a tabletop RPG about traveling animals and the…
The Beacon – Danger Zones: Lighthouse is available now!
Lighthouses conjure up all kinds of images of moody, Gothic stories of mystery, hauntings, and murder along isolated, lonely coastlines,…
Wizards of the Coast Unveils Early Deets on the ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Set
Wizards of the Coast unveiled early product details for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set…
Tome Unbound: Dancing Foliage
Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a dancing foliage without modifying its challenge rating. Dance…
Indie RPG bundle packages dozens of games to pay for designer’s COVID-19 hospital treatment
A group of Latin American tabletop RPG designers have banded together to raise funds for one of their own currently…
Death in Space wows Kickstarter with its bleak blue-collar sci-fi RPG
Death in Space is two things; it’s a bleak view of life in space powered by capitalism and a work…
Roll With Me is a free virtual tabletop dice roller
I’m happy to recommend Roll With Me.xyz as a good solution for making intelligent dice rolls online. What do I…
Astral Projections – Deanna, Cyberpunk RED Solo
Antonna and Deanna, AKA “The Twins,” are a package deal. They prefer to work as bodyguards but also handle other…
Weekend Play Report – Ex Novo, and the joy of mapmaking games
Hello, Dicebreaker readers. Welcome back to another week of board game and RPG news. Let’s kick it off with a…
Goodman Games Obtains ‘Dark Tower’ Rights From Judges Guild
Goodman Games announced that they will publish a new edition of the Dark Tower module for 5E. Dark Tower is…
Rolling for Initiative — Best Month Ever
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
dScryb launches on Foundry VTT with a membership giveaway
dScryb is a subscription site, with a free tier, that provides GMs and DMs with boxed text to read to…
A Date for Monsters! Monsters! Monsters! Galore
Everything leaves a trace. That’s been my guiding principle researching the history of early wargames and role-playing games: any…
D&D: Mythos Monsters Brings Cosmic Horror To Dungeons & Dragons
The monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos are crashing headlong into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Will they survive? Probably…
Genre Police: Player Roles
Last time, we talked about players roles, in particular the practical things your players do at a table and what…
Apocalypse 5E by Blue Phoenix Games picks up 700 years after the fall
Apocalypse 5e is an adaptable setting in which characters explore the world 700 years after humanity’s fall. How did the…
UFO Press merges into Rowan, Rook and Decard
UFO Press has been absorbed into fellow British RPG publisher Rowan, Rook and Decard with founder Minerva McJanda joining the…
Free to Download: Horror sci-fi RPG – Incoming Call
Incoming Call is a sci-fi RPG for 1 to 3 players, no GM, and it’s free to download. The game…
War Stories
Tales of the Apocalypse The Apocalypse War inferno continues to rage, even as we close in on the end of…
D&D: Pre-Order Dark Alliance Today And Unlock A Beholder-Eye Axe
The new Dark Alliance game is up for pre-order right now, along with an exclusive Beholder-based weapon set. Check it…