Six New 'Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figures' Incoming
WizKids revealed six new Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figures that will hit retail stores in November. Pathfinder Battles Premium Painted…
D&D’s Unknown Rules, Arby’s Dice, DUNE’s House Harkonnen, League of Legends Cosplay, Critical Role Statues
Take a look at D&D’s unknown rules, Arby’s new D20s, House Harkonnen speaks, along with League of Legends Cosplay, and…
Rolling for Initiative — Whither the Entry Level Promo Deck?
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Legal advice on Intellectual Property in RPGs
Often – and it should be always, but I forget – when Geek Native alludes to legal decisions, options or…
RPG Accessories: D&D Swag For Autumn Druids
Crunchy leaves and crisp air means it’s time to find the RPG accessories perfect for an autumn druid or just…
Genre Police: Staying On Track
Railroading. What a term. It hovers like a spectre over the hobby. Players dread the railroading GM who is ready…
D&D: Mordenkainen, Master Of Neutrality
Dedicated to maintaining “the balance”, this Wizard is basically D&D’s sorcerer supreme. Come join us as we visit the Man,…
Historica Arcanum: The City of Crescent wants to shake up your 5e sensibilities
Historica Arcanum: The City of Crescent does three things, two of which might be seen as a shakeup. The third…
Free to Download: New Call of Cthulhu character sheets for the RPG’s 40th birthday
Call of Cthulhu turns 40 in October. That’s an impressive run for the amazing RPG, and Chaosium is making sure…
D&D: Icewind Dale – An Adventurer’s Guide
Grab your winter cloak, your ring of warmth, and make sure to stock up on rations, because we’re going to…
D&D: ‘Critical Role’s Vex And Vax Vox Machina Statues
A new series of collectible statues was unveiled earlier this week from the team at Critical Cole and Sideshow Collectibles.…
Karokans – a Crabfolk Race for D&D 5e
This week on the Campaign Trail, I thought I would share a new undersea racial option I am working on…
An interview with James Introcaso as MCDM’s Arcadia future is confirmed
When Matt Colville announced that MCDM would start a magazine, he was very clear about the commercial requirements. Arcadia would…
Road Trip! 3 Steps to Making Travel Fun in Dungeons & Dragons
Your party sets out to the Mire of Haunted Dreams. Eighteen days of thick Feywild jungle lie ahead of them. But as each…
Pledge to the NIOBE & DURA: Wrath of the Ancient Kickstarter and Get the Pathfinder: Niobe Adventure!
“We all have a Niobe inside ourselves, and it’s time to let her roar.” That’s an excerpt from the foreword…
GW, Warhammer, 40K & Fantasy Minis Trivia Challenge
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
Outside the Box – August 27th
Ahoi-hoi and welcome back to Outside the Box! This week with news from North Star Military Figures, Mierce Miniatures, Creature…
More Stream Overlays for Pathfinder & Starfinder
Months ago, as we were preparing for the Jasper’s Game Week 2021 charity fundraiser, we received an email from Anne…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #115
August 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Sales from links may earn us money As Friday rolls around…
The Song Undying: A New Cult, Its Leader, and a Terrible Relic
A rapidly growing cult in Zobeck, the Song Undying has driven the clergy of certain temples in the city, including…
'Horizon Zero Dawn' Details Revealed
Steamforged has shared release information for the first four titles in its new Horizon Zero Dawn game series, including the…
D&D: So About Those Arby’s Dice…
For one shining, glorious minute, Arby’s was selling an entire set of tabletop dice. They’re gone now, but you can…
Netrunner trademark filing sends players speculating on the cyberpunk card game’s future
Someone in the Android: Netrunner community discovered that Wizards of the Coast is filing legal paperwork for a trademark over…
Finder’s Archive – Cabal Stronghold
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D – Rules You Didn’t Know Were In The Game
Do you ever need to do something weird that you don’t think D&D has a rule for? Check the Dungeon…
An argument for more sophisticated Tier 1 adventures
Geek Native invited Marius Brunner, the author of the D&D adventure The Goblin Bathwater Incident, to write about Tier 1 adventures.…
RPGs & The Feds: That Time The Secret Service Raided Steve Jackson Games – PRIME
Have you ever written a game so good that the Secret Service raids your offices, seizes your computers... even your…
MTG: New Secret Lairs Are Timeless Reimaginings Of Classic Cards
In their latest batch of Secret Lair drops, WotC reveals that Magic is getting all Timey-Wimey with their art, and…
Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate Daemonunters – New Cinematic Trailer!
There’s a new trailer just out for Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters and the Grey Knights have never looked better! [embedded content]…
Hasbro approve the release of the Essence 20 RPG system
Wizards of the Coast have a new RPG system in the ecosystem to be mindful of, and it’s connected to…
Hasbro release Essence20 as an RPG system to rival D&D’s 5e
Wizards of the Coast have a new RPG system in the ecosystem to be mindful of, and it’s connected to…
We’re removing the playtest documents!
We will soon be removing the playtest documents from this website. If you want to keep them for any reason,…
Level Up: Feature List
Below is a list of just some of the many innovations and new features to be found in Level Up:…
D&D: Five Spells Perfect For Sneaking
Stealth in Dungeons & Dragons isn’t always just the purview of rogues. With these five spells, even the clumsiest caster…
Free to Download: Cyberpunk RED Jumpstart Conversion Guide
Gamers introduced to RPGs by the success of D&D 5e and shows like Critical Role seem to lean more heavily…
Nightfall Games returns to Kickstarter for more SLA Industries RPG
Nightfall Games are looking to bolster their stable of SLA Industries books with two more through Kickstarter. The campaign has…
Roleplay as a lonely sock: A review of Searching for my Solemate
I paid $3.00 for Searching for my Solemate a GM-less tabletop RPG from Ninja Penguin. Based on what else I…
The Herbalist’s Primer gives roleplaying groups a crash course in practical and magical botany
Flex both green thumbs during the next tabletop session with the Herbalist’s Primer, a system-agnostic supplement describing 100 different plants…
'Persuader-Class Tank Droid' Reinforces 'Star Wars: Legion'
Atomic Mass Games has announced the NR-N99 Persuader-Class Tank Droid Unit Expansion for the Star Wars: Legion tabletop miniatures Game,…
D&D: Take A Look At WizKids’ New Framework Minis
WizKids has unveiled a preview of their new Framework series of miniatures–new sprue-based D&D minis that will let you custom…
Steamforged to Send 'Resident Evil 3' to Retail
Steamforged Games has shared details for the upcoming retail launch of Resident Evil 3: The Board Game, based on the…
Why does everyone hate Monopoly? The secret history behind the world’s biggest board game
Tabletop games have come a long way since the 1930s when the Parker Brothers first unleashed the game of Monopoly…
Thursday Art Assault – Seeds of the Shadow Queen
‘Seeds of the Shadow Queen’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Find more dark, surreal art at…
Will Avatar Legends Change Tabletop RPG Forever? PART TWO
In the first part of this two-part series, I reviewed the buildup to the launch of Avatar Legends, the tabletop…
D&D: How A World Of Warcraft Composer Scores Critical Role’s ‘Legend Of Vox Machina’
The Legend of the Legend of Vox Machina continues as the Critical Role team unveils the composer of the show’s…
The Price of Coal weaves a historical story of labour rights in West Virginia’s coal country
Live through a period of rising tensions just before the US government sent federal troops to quash a workers’ uprising…
D&D: Helpful diagram shows how many targets are hit by a 30ft by 5ft line
In Dungeons & Dragons 5e, several spells have a range/area described as 30 ft long and 5 feet wide. For…
Pandemic, Mysterium and Legend of the Five Rings are being turned into comics
The worlds of board games Pandemic and Mysterium, along with RPG and card game Legend of the Five Rings, are…
Parleying With Monsters: Sweet-Talk These 3 Creatures Out of Combat
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Kickstarter Round-Up: Hizuru, Not Enough Mana, Uncharted Lands, and More
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Hizuru This is the true neverending story. The looping…
New Spells from the Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic Liveplay!
In the Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic liveplay, you can have a great time learning the Pathfinder Second Edition game and…
D&D: Five Magic Items Perfect For Beginners
Magic items are great treasures for anyone… but these five magic items are perfect for players who are new to…
Ratatosk: New Squirrel-Folk Variants (Part Two)
“Imagine the horror of a dozen angry squirrel-folk ready to cut you to pieces. Now, imagine them with a warlock’s…
Soon you’ll be able to cuddle your own Nurgling… even the 6 foot one!
Games Workshop has revealed a new partnership with Koyo, and this shouldn’t be cute, but it is Nurgling plushie. Nurglings,…
New 'Magic: The Gathering Secret Lairs' Are 'Out of Time'
Wizards of the Coast has launched the Magic: The Gathering Out of Time Superdrop, which includes four foil and five…
MTG: Magic Reveals New D&D Crossover – Battle For Baldur’s Gate
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms brought the world of D&D to Magic: the Gathering for the first time. But it won’t…
'Sahuagin Warband' Invades 'D&D Icons of the Realms'
WizKids has announced a December release date for its new D&D Icons of the Realms: Sahuagin Warband pre-painted miniatures set.…
Source Point to Adapt Asmodee Games to Comics
Source Point Press and Asmodee Entertainment have set up a licensing agreement that will allow Source Point to publish comics…
Rogue Review- Oh My Gold!
Oh My Gold! by Blue Orange Games is a quick kid’s game where you set out as pirates to find…
D&D: WotC Takes Aim At The Player’s Handbook Classes With New Survey
It seems that Wizards of the Coast is taking another look at the classes in the Player’s Handbook, according to…
West End Games to Pendragon RPG with Peter Corless
Today, my guest is Peter Corless, a game designer who worked for West End Games and once owned the Pendragon…
Fortnite and Street Fighter are coming to Magic: The Gathering in 2022
Video games Fortnite and Street Fighter will be among Magic: The Gathering’s next pop-culture crossovers, with the immensely popular battle…
Dungeons & Dragons: Battle for Baldur’s Gate announced by WotC
There’s a new Dungeons & Dragons: Battle for Baldur’s Gate on the way, and it’ll be Wizard of the Coast’s…
'Magic: The Gathering' Release Calendar for 2022/2023
This ICv2 calendar tracks the release dates of Magic: The Gathering sets made by Wizards of the Coast. The calendar…
'Magic: The Gathering' Store Championships Will Make a Return in 2021
Wizards of the Coast revealed that they will be supporting Store Championships for FLGS. The first Store Championships will be…
Wizards of the Coast Announces Three More 'Magic: The Gathering' Releases
Wizards of the Coast announced Commander Collection: Black, four Pioneer Challenger Decks 2021, and Innistrad: Double Feature, for Magic: The…
Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer Thoughts
I must admit… I watched the leaked version a few hours before the official release of the trailer. However, I’m…
Roll For Combat’s Battlezoo Bestiary Coming to Kickstarter!
The summer heat is causing all sorts of monsters to stir from hiding, including the 100+ new creatures in the…
Magic: The Gathering Showcase 2021 Recap – Tons Of Info Revealed
Today, Wizards of the Coast conducted their Showcase 2021 stream for Magic: The Gathering, the first trading card game to hit…
Magic: The Gathering’s 2022 sets include a return to Kamigawa and Dominaria, along with an urban fantasy plane
Perennial trading card game Magic:The Gathering plans to revisit favourite past planes and blaze trails into new ones through four…
D&D: Five Wizard Subclasses, Five Characters
Wizards are the the nerds of the D&D world, spending countless classroom hours studying magic. But when you can control…
Strength of Thousands: Music Is Math Is Magic
Anchor Root was no stranger to anxiety. It had been one of her closest companions since childhood. She had hoped,…
The first issue of The Dragon Magazine is live on ebay
Jayson Elliot, who set up one of the later TSR’s and The Gygax Magazine, has a Premier Issue of The…
Upcoming 'Magic' 'Universes Beyond,' 'Secret Lairs' Revealed
'Street Fighter' and 'Fortnite' Joins 'Tales of Middle-earth,' 'Warhammer 40,000' Wizards of the Coast has shared plans for upcoming releases…
The Runehammer VTT goes free, the Viking Death Squad and new hardbound Index Card RPG both get a retail release
The indie RPG studio Runehammer, the company behind the multi-world, streamlined d20 Index Card RPG has teamed up with Modiphius.…
Dive Into the Aquarium for M&M
The release of Danger Zones: Aquarium is a bit of time travel on our side of things, because Aquarium was…
Hold On Someone’s Making A Lupin III RPG?
Get ready to steal the best treasures in the world for your very own, because a brand new rpg based…
The Russo Brothers leave Magic: the Gathering’s Netflix show over creative differences
Magic: the Gathering’s animated adaptation has lost The Russo Brothers as showrunners after the pair parted ways with the Netflix…
Wizards of the Coast Unveils New 'Magic: The Gathering' 'D&D' and 'Masters' Sets
Wizards of the Coast unveiled Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate, Unfinity, Double Masters 2022, and Jumpstart 2022 all for…
D&D: Baldur’s Gate 3 Glitch Makes NPCs Bend Over Backwards To Look At You
Do you ever get the feeling you’re being watched? If so, you’re probably playing the latest version of Baldur’s Gate…
The Workshop – WARPLAND by Gavriel Quiroga
Warpland Cover Image Disclaimer – The author of this game contacted us asking if we would be interested in reviewing…
Does Avatar Legends live up to The Last Airbender? We play the RPG’s quickstart rules to find out!
Avatar: The Last Airbender's world has enraptured kids and adults alike the world over since it first aired on Nickelodeon.…
Dark Sun spiritual successor Red Dawn presents a new wasteland setting for D&D 5E
Survive a post-apocalyptic wasteland in the aftermath of the fall of a high magic kingdom in the Red Dawn: Into…
Shadowrun bundle lets you get started with the classic science-fantasy RPG for under $8
A Shadowrun: Sixth World bundle is offering the beginner box for the sixth edition of the beloved sci-fi roleplaying game…
Wizards of the Coast Announces 2022 'Magic: The Gathering' Standard Sets
Wizards of the Coast announced four brand-new Standard sets scheduled for release in 2022. The first Standard set coming out…
Dungeon Fighter RPG spin-off sees players aiming dice throws to perform actions
Fling dice at targets to score successful actions in One More Quest, an RPG spin-off from the dexterity board game…
Encounter Building Preview
Level Up Narrators will find themselves referring to this table frequently. Along with new monster math and CR values, we…
Preview: 'D&D Frameworks' Seven-Count Monster Kits
WizKids released preview images of their seven-count monster kits releasing in the first wave upcoming D&D Frameworks line (see "WizKids…
Forgotten Flutes, Missing Brides and Spells Galore
Welcome to the latest news! This week, another successful Kickstarter, adventures and trinkets, and more spells then you can shake…
Wondered about getting Shadowrun 6e? Now it’s a bundle deal
Live until September 13th, the Shadowrun Stories deal at the Bundle of Holding has Shadowrun fiction and rulebooks from the…
Gloomhaven, Others Break Ties with Broken Token Due to Sexual Assault Allegations
Gloomhaven creator cuts ties with The Broken Token after a former employee accuses the CEO of “five years of sexual,…
D&D Monster Spotlight: Dungeons and Dragons’ Dumbest Monsters
Some monsters in the manual are scary, formidable, and likely to at least attempt to kill you and your party.…
D&D: The Five Best Things Your Starting Money Can Buy
Struggling to spend your starting gold? Well we’re here to help make sure that you start your new character with…
Scrying on Subscriptions: Pathfinder Lost Omens
The Age of Lost Omens Ten thousand years ago, the world of Golarion came close to ending. Earthfall, as this…
Archives of Alexandria trapped me on a corrupted spaceship of pure information because I’m bad at Wikipedia
Nearly as long as there has been a Wikipedia, there have been games that use it as a playground. There’s…
It’s not too early for Christmas… dice trees! Kickstarter finds thousands for quirky dice spinners
Do you have a dice that’s shaped like a Christmas tree? Or a miniature Christmas tree that spins like a…
Trapmaster: Beating Traps, the Kobold Way
Listen up kobolds! This month we’re going to do something different. Rather than tell you how to trap your lair…
Alien invention: Outland acquires the two-shot RPG Negocios Infernales
Negocios Infernales (Infernal Negotiations), a diceless, GM-less, collaborative, “two-shot” role-playing game from the husband-wife team, Carlos Hernandez (The Assimilated Cuban’s…
Wizards of the Coast Updates EventLink and MTG Companion App
Wizards of the Coast has made some updates to their EventLink and MTG Companion digital organized play tools for retailers…
The Dune RPG’s First Expansion Arrives With Sand And Dust
The desert world of Arrakis is the center of the known Universe, and at the heart of it all, the…