Spiders and Pirates and Dragons, Oh My!
Welcome back to another EN weekly blog. This week, we’ll be heading back over to our EONs patreon page to…
An interview with Louis Cassidy-rice, the man who’s found a way to make cheaper mushroom dice
Do you ever use dice as markers on your tabletop? Are some games of Dungeons & Dragons ones where a…
Paizo Unveils 'Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Basic'
Paizo, Inc. has unveiled Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Basic, a large Flip-Mat for TTRPGs, which will release in January 2022. This…
World Mental Health Day 2021: Video games charity Safe in Our World highlights progress
Co-funded by Leo Zullo, Safe in Our World is a charity to keep the focus on mental health issues in…
A solo RPG: Secrets of the Vibrant Isle
Craig Campbell and NerdBurger games have had a string of acclaimed Kickstarter successes. The latest campaign, Secrets of the Vibrant…
Finder’s Archives – Cascade Bluffs
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D: WotC Announces New Books Delayed
Citing issues with “goblins” Wizards of the Coast have recently announced that both its upcoming 2021 D&D books will be…
Indie horror RPG bundle gathers haunted cabins, vampires next door and trans necromancers for a Halloween game night
A new bundle on indie marketplace Itch.io is offering a readymade collection of horror RPGs to play this Halloween. The…
How Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Did What D&Didn’t – Prime
In an age of both dungeons and also dragons, one fantasy roleplaying game carved a niche that stands to this…
Hook up with ghosts and ghouls in horror romance RPG Motel Spooky-Nine
Visit a haunted hotel in search of love in Motel Spooky-Nine, a horror roleplaying game about meeting and romancing the…
Greek legend RPG Follow Me Down looks ideal for Hades fans
Retell the popular and tragic Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in the upcoming roleplaying game Follow Me Down. Inspired…
‘It was important that the characters feel like real people’: Nikki Valens on representation and storytelling in Artisans of Splendent Vale
Mansions of Madness and Legacy of Dragonholt designer Nikki Valens has returned with their latest ambitious story-focused board game, Artisans…
'Flesh and Blood TCG' Tells Two 'Tales,' 'Magic: The Gathering' Finds Footing
TCGplayer released their September sealed product sales and price change data, which shed light on some of the trends developing…
New D&D 5E sourcebook starring Baldur’s Gate characters Minsc and Boo gets a surprise release, only to vanish
Dungeons & Dragons 5E dropped a surprise new sourcebook earlier this week, starring two fan-favourite characters from video game series…
Wizards of the Coast Offers 'Magic Companion' Promos
Wizards of the Coast is offering promos to WPN stores to give away to players that sign up for Innistrad:…
Free to Download: Raiders of the Serpent Sea 5e Player’s Guide from ex-Bioware geeks
Odyssey of the Dragonlords won’t be the only D&D 5e adventure setting from James Ohlen’s Arcanum Worlds Raiders of the…
Paizo Announces 'Pathfinder Goblin Firework Fight'
Paizo announced Pathfinder Goblin Firework Fight, a new party game, for release in December 2021. Goblins have invaded the town…
Thursday Art Assault – Haunted Cats!
‘Dusk Dweller’ – 2021 – J Edward Neill ‘Listen to the Night’ – 2021 – J Edward Neill Find more…
MTG: Angrath The Flame-Chained Promo Card
Come and take a look at the APAC Year of the Ox Promo card, Angrath the Flame-Chained, everyone’s favorite Ixalan…
October 2021 Organized Play Update
OPC Musings While obviously a lot has happened in the past few weeks, I wanted to give you all a…
Stressful and exciting: an End of the Line RPG guide to Itchfunding
Itch.io is a platform for selling games. It started off with indie computer games and has grown into a more…
Leaked Twitch Data Reveals ‘Critical Role’ Is Top Paid Streamer At $9.6 Million
A recent hack of Twitch reveals source codes and creator payouts according to data leaked to the internet yesterday. Critical…
Cybernoir RPG Ecopunk 2044 wants to inspire action through its stories of environmental resistance
Heroes won’t rise from the Death Spiral, at least not conventional ones. The year is 2044 and the world’s governments…
D&D: ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Adds New Class and Weaponized Salami in ‘Patch 6’
Baldur’s Gate 3’s newest patch will unveil a new class and allow you to dual-wield salami. Find out more at…
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Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition: An Interview With Russ Morrissey (EN Publishing)
As a freelance columnist at EN World, I’ve watched EN Publishing’s Level Up since Morrus first proposed the concept on…
Princess Mononoke and The Hobbit inspired this queer fantasy RPG
Sail a ship along the river in search of its source in Upriver, Downriver, an upcoming roleplaying game inspired by…
Vampire: The Masquerade – War of Ages is the series’ first official LARP book
Experience the World of Darkness in a new way with Vampire: The Masquerade - War of Ages, the first LARP…
Class Preview: Adept
The Kickstarter has launched! Over the next month, we have plenty of fun stuff to show you. Let’s start with…
Warhammer 40K Christmas jumpers warn of logistical trouble
I dunno if it’s a sales trick but the Merchoid Warhammer 40K ugly Christmas sweaters I had bookmarked to blog…
Free to Download: Claim the Sky – a preview of Monte Cook Games’ superhero RPG
Monte Cook Games has released a 16-page Claim the Sky preview for the Cypher System. The tabletop RPG is a…
Iconic Encounter: Ominous Tides
“REAGENTS!” The goblin, Fumbus, came bounding out of the palms onto the beach with something in his hands raised triumphantly…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Gothic Horror Adventure, Undead STLs, and an Ever Changing 5e Dungeon
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Mag of Holding: Gothic Horror – 5e Mag of…
Let’s Play D&D In Hocus Pocus
Dungeons and Dragons is all just a bunch of Hocus Pocus when the Sanderson Sisters cast a spell on you…
D&D: It’s Inktober So Try A Magical Tattoo
Everyone knows the best kind of ink is a tattoo and the best tattoos are magical tattoos. Break out the…
Game Wizards: D&D Development Timeline
While Game Wizards has plenty to say about the big picture of TSR’s corporate financials, it also pays a…
Gastronomic detective comic Chew plates up a Forged in the Dark-style RPG adaptation
It’s been a big week for Image imprint comics courting roleplay groups as the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series Chew…
Call of Cthulhu: Terror Paths adapts the horror RPG into a co-op board game
A new board game based on tabletop roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu, Terror Paths, is on its way. Adapted from…
Play with Class: Summon a Super Sorcerer
Welcome to another installment of the Play with Class series where we will give you solid steps to run each…
D&D: ‘Minsc & Boo’s Journal Of Villainy’ Brings New Monsters, NPCs, And More
A journal of the legendary adventures of a legendary Ranger and his miniature Giant Space hamster brings new monsters, villains,…
Be the Big Fish in WizKids' 'Squid Inc.'
Next April, WizKids will launch Squid Inc., a game about office politics in the ocean’s largest corporation. In Squid Inc.,…
PAX Unplugged makes full vaccination and masks mandatory for December return of board game convention
PAX Unplugged has announced that masks will be mandatory and full vaccination required for entry to the Philadelphia board game…
Rogue Champions – Justice Events Review
Marvel’s Champions has grown over the years since its initial release. Each aspect now has a large pool of upgrades…
D&D 5E Guide: How To Multiclass – Rangers
Multiclassing in Dungeons & Dragons adds versatility to any character. But how do you multiclass as a wilderness-stalking ranger? Let…
No-Prep Gamemastering and Obsidian Portal with Zac Harrison
My guest today is game master and Obsidian Portal emissary, Zac Harrison. We have a wide-ranging conversation touching on a…
The Entirety Of Twitch Appears To Have Been Leaked
If you have a Twitch account you might want to run and change your password after reading this article as…
Old stories, new forms: Rewriting folklore as RPGs brings fresh perspectives and cultures to the table
Think of an old story. Not just old to you, but a story that’s old to the world; one that’s…
Introducing the IDW Star Trek Year Five Tie-in Release
By Jim Johnson, STA Project Manager Astute fans of Star Trek Adventures might note that, over the last few years,…
WizKids Reveals New 'Magic: The Gathering Premium Figures'
WizKids revealed new Magic: The Gathering Premium Figures for release into retail in December 2021. These single-count miniature packs feature…
Diamond Top 400 Graphic Novels–August 2021
Top 400 Graphic Novels – August 2021 Rank Index Title Price Pub Est.Qty 1 19.67 RETURN OF LIVING DEADPOOL TP…
Dress Up This October With This Month's Free Subscription Perk!
Don your masks and cast your spells for October is upon us! This month's free subscriber perk is an artful collection…
Wizards of the Coast make Minsc and Boo’s Journal of Villainy available on Print-on-Demand for charity Extra Life
There’s a new D&D print book available today as Wizards of the Coast has made Minsc and Boo’s Journal of…
Pinnacle to launch Savage Worlds’ folk horror Holler on the October 12th
Odd Bard Games and author Tim Earley announced the Holler, a folk horror for Savage Worlds nearly a year ago.…
Tales of Lost Omens: Special Delivery
“No no no no nononoooo!” Trying frantically to keep his load of boxes and bushels more or less balanced, Hanish…
Unified Space – Transmission One
BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to the first transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current…
Unified Space – Transmission Two
BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to the second transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current…
Unified Space – Transmission Three
BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to the third transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current…
Unified Space – Transmission Four
BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to the second transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current…
D&D: Level Up Brings ‘Advanced 5th Edition’ To Kickstarter
Want crunchier rules and customizable characters? Deadlier monsters with exploration challenges? Level Up wants to change the way you play…
It's Here! It's Time To LEVEL UP Your 5E Game!
Welcome to Level Up, a standalone game which enhances the 5E ruleset which you know and love. If you love…
The AGE of Wonderful (and Misfit) Toys
So, backstage, we developers have been talking about the different properties of AGE as a system, and how they might…
The day Facebook died: Name your own price for the “You Are The Facebook Janitor” RPG
Yesterday, the Border Gateway Protocol’s for Facebook’s network vanished. As a result, it was no longer announcing its presence to…
Travelers of the Multiverse
Journey to the far corners of the multiverse as one of the playable races in today’s Unearthed Arcana! This playtest…
Plant a tree, download for free and back Ecopunk: 2044 – the cybernoir RPG
Dice Kapital are on the hunt for £12,300 to Kickstart the printing of Ecopunk: 2044. The plain text version of…
BREAKING: Final ‘Smash Bros. Ultimate’ Fighter Revealed!
The final Smash Direct has dropped and revealed the last Smash fighter to be added to the roster! Spoilers ahead.…
Join team Dicebreaker at EGX 2021 with live stage shows and online streams
Events are finally on their way back after over a year of us all desperately missing them here at Dicebreaker,…
21 September–5 October 2021: Dungeons & Dragons’ Next “Edition”
We’re back from a short break, with some very big news: D&D is getting a big revision, coming in 2024…
The Workshop – The Future of D&D, 2021
Writer’s Note: By the time this article will hit publication, the livestream of the event where this news broke will…
D&D: WotC Unveils New Rules For Monsters And Player Races
Sage Advice is back after a long hiatus, as WotC unveils “the future of monster stat blocks” as well as…
Root and Oath creator announces story-driven sci-fi board game Arcs: Collapse and Conflict in the Void
Root and Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile designer Cole Wehrle has revealed that his next release will be a…
WizKids Announces Another Gargantuan $399.99 'D&D Icons of the Realms' Figure
WizKids announced the D&D Icons of the Realms: Gargantuan Tarrasque figure for release in September 2022. The Tarrasque is one…
Preview the Drakewarden Ranger Subclass From Fizban's Treasury of Dragons!
As part of 2021's D&D Celebration, Wizards of the Coast provided a sneak peek at the Drakewarden ranger subclass coming…
Corruption, brothel trips, sexual harassment and more: Gary Con addresses lawsuit
Luke Gygax and Gary Con, the tabletop RPG convention named after D&D co-creator Gary Gygax, has issued a statement addressing…
October Horrors begin: The Cthulhu Hack bundle
Based on The Black Hat RPG, a system praised by many geeks in the know is Just Crunch Games’ Cthulhu…
Starfinder Evolutionist Playtest Wrap-Up!
With the close of the Starfinder evolutionist playtest, we want to thank everyone who participated whether by filling out a…
D&D Monster Spotlight: Werewolves, Enemy or Lupine Love Interest
Lycanthropes of all kinds exist in D&D, but today we’re taking a look at the monster movie (and teen romance)…
Creature Evolutions
Sage Advice is a series of articles in which Jeremy Crawford, one of the D&D Studio’s game design architects, talks…
D&D Accessories: Candy Dice We Wish We Could Trick-or-Treat For
Halloween means it’s time for scary RPG one shots, and candy! Or you can get the best of both worlds…
From the Deck of a Sandship: More Encounters within the Mhalmet Expanse
Despite its size, the Mhalmet Expanse remains a relatively busy territory with the Mhalmet Road connecting various settlements and sites.…
What board game would you stake your life on? We imagine our tabletop Squid Game on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
On this week's Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Liv and Lolies put their own spin on Squid Game by imagining which board…
RPG: VtM ‘Swansong’s Emem Is The Toreador You Wish You Could Play
A new trailer for the upcoming Vampire: the Masquerade video game, Swansong, reveals a jazzy Toreador diva that will warm…
“Why do we play games?”: DIE’s creators and Grant Howitt discuss adapting the comic into a tabletop RPG
Having just finished an award-winning run, tabletop RPG-themed comic DIE is already heading into a new medium thanks to a…
D&D: Players Push For Metric System In “New Evolution”
A “New Evolution” of Dungeons & Dragons is coming in 2024, and with it comes a push by players to…
Astral Projections – Free RPG Day 2021 Update
I just perused the Free RPG Day 2021 site again and it looks like as the weather is cooling, the…
TRPG Bundle for Afghan Support offers dozens of indie RPGs for $20 to aid those targeted by the Taliban
A new charity bundle of indie tabletop RPGs aims to support those fleeing the Talbian in Afghanistan by offering dozens…
Guy Sclanders’ The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great GM surges through 2,000 backers
The RPG supplement The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great GM pushes towards the £100,000 Kickstarter funding level as GMs,…
Armor & Materials
In Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, equipment gets something of an overhaul, with new weapons, armor, and properties, all designed…
Call of Cthulhu publisher Chaosium acquires The Dhole’s House
The Dhole’s House is a free site for Call of Cthulhu RPG fans, players and Keepers alike. Chaosium, the publisher…
Square Enix Celebrates Five Years of 'Final Fantasy TCG: Opus'
Square Enix will release Final Fantasy TCG: Anniversary Collection Set 2022 into retail stores in May 2022. This set celebrates…
WizKids Reveals Two 'D&D Idols of the Realms' Sets
WizKids revealed two D&D Idols of the Realms: Boneyard 2D sets, Set 1 and Set 2, for release in December.…
40K Templars New Army, D&D guide to Hlal, Star Wars Visions Timelines, and Metroid Dread
Check out everything from 40K new Black Templars army, D&D guide to Hlal, plus Boo. Then take a look at…
Rolling for Initiative — Supply Chains, Postal Woes, and RIP Terry K. Amthor
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Dungeons and Dames 2021: Is this sexy D&D done right?
Sinopa Publishing listed their 56-page illustrated Dungeons and Dames 2021 pin-up book on DriveThruRPG last month. It’s the first edition,…
Fan-made Terminator: Hunter Killer gives us hope for a wartorn future
Is there any life in the Terminator franchise? Nightfall is working on The Terminator tabletop RPG, a Kickstarter for the…
Murder and death for Progress: A review of SLA Industries 2nd edition
I nominated SLA Industries as one of my top 10 RPGs of 2020 for my local indie gamers zine. It…
Mike Shea and SlyFlourish package up RPG help with The Lazy DM’s Companion
There’s no doubting the value Mike Shea and Sly Flourish bring to the roleplaying games community. The seventh Kickstarter from…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To The Village Of Hommlet
Hommlet is a humble village situated near one of the most infamous dungeons in Greyhawk. Come tour the village near…
Free to Download: Hack100 rulebook
An old school style, percentile-based, RPG Hack100 is now available for free. The 35+ page PDF is black and white,…