Awesomsticks 2020 Year in Review
It's been an up and down year for Awesomsticks, but there are good things coming in 2021. The post Awesomsticks…
One-on-One Roleplaying: Problems to Plan for and Avoid in Your One-on-One Game
One of the reasons we started writing about playing 5th Edition with just two people was that it brought us…
RPG Review – Monsters of the City
Welcome to the Finder’s Archive and a review is what we have in store for you this week. 😊We take…
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021!
Goodbye 2020, and let’s ring in the new year! I think we have all been waiting for this one a…
Leomund’s Tiny Problem
Today I want to talk about Leomund’s tiny hut, which for brevity I’ll be calling LTH for the rest of…
Warhammer 40K: Litanies Of The Lost’s First Adventure – Duty Beyond Death
With Litany of the Lost on the way Cubicle 7 has released a pdf of the first adventure in the…
Thursday Art Assault – Fellmoon Blade
‘Fellmoon Blade’ – J Edward Neill – 2020 Ensnare a ton of vivid dark art at:
Organized Play Review of 2020
As we close 2020, on this last night of the year, each of us took a moment to reflect back…
Aliens Among Us–Alien Archive 4 Unveiled, Part 4
Aliens Among Us–Alien Archive 4 Unveiled, Part 4 Thursday, December 31, 2020 The new Starfinder Alien Archive 4 brings nearly…
A Look Back at Tribality’s Articles and Publications in 2020
2020 has been a long and difficult year. For our writers (and many of you out there too) tabletop RPGs…
A Look Back – Tribality’s Top Articles for 2020
2020 has been a long and difficult year. For our writers (and many of you out there too) tabletop RPGs…
Two Traveller RPG deals in the Bundle of Holding
The Bundle of Holding is ending the year with two Traveller RPG deals. One is Traveller LBBS 1 which first…
Look At Our Cover Art!
This gorgeous wraparound cover art is by Alba Palacio. It features four of our ‘iconic’ characters engaging in an exploration…
Southlands Kickstarter: Final Hours
Do you hear that belching sound coming from the warrens? No, that’s not the kobolds making rude noises—it’s the marker…
2020 Was A Year Alright, Even For RPGs – Here Are The Highs And Lows
It feels like three years, but as 2020 comes to a close, let’s look back at the year in RPGs.…
Conventions
Critical Role
Cypher System
Dungeons & Dragons
General
Kickstarter
Pathfinder & Starfinder
Reflecting Back: Some of Egg’s Favorite 2020 RPG Articles
2020 was a hard year for so many as we, as a planet, dealt with untold tragedies throughout the world.…
WFRP: Middenheim City Of The White Wolf Is Up For Pre-Order
The City of the White Wolf has opened up–Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay has released a new massive city supplement for Power…
Pathfinder Bounties Offer Ease and Adaptability
“An older halfling woman in bright clothes quickly approaches, a large golden wolfhound at her side. She places herself before…
Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: December 30, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Cat Knights – 54mm Minis Welcome, dear friends! Blood Carrot Knights…
GM’s Toolbox: Lost In The warrens
GM's Toolbox: Lost In The warrens Wednesday, December 30, 2020 Mazes are sometimes just the thing a story needs, but…
Let’s Talk About Archetypes
We’ve shown you several draft Level Up classes (and we’re busy revising those based on the extensive survey feedback we…
1400 Sneak: A lo-fi heist-fantasy RPG
There’s a free demo of James Lennox-Gordon’s lo-fi heist-fantasy 1400 Sneak RPG on Itch.io. If you like the game, the…
Let’s Play D&D With Grogu
The Mandalorian may be gone until 2021 and Grogu may have flown off to continue his Jedi training, but we…
Midgard Alchemy: More Potion Formulations
There are several things to keep in mind when you are using these formulas for your campaign or for making…
Oath of Justice – Paladin Sacred Oath D&D 5e
Thumbnail art by HyunJoon Kim Oath of Justice The Oath of Justice has paladins settle on being the law, or…
Rogue Review- Haunted Mansion- Call of the Spirits
A year ago, my family went on a big trip to Disney World. The first reports of Coronavirus were coming…
The Monster First in Tabletop RPGs with Lucas Zellers
The host of the Making a Monster podcast Lucas Zellers joins me on the podcast today. We discuss his monster’s…
The New Faces of Design
Creating new rules and expansions for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game takes a lot of work. Over the past year, the…
Apex Legends Gets A New Stories From The Outlands Video
Respawn Entertainment has released a brand new Stories From The Outlands video for Apex Legends for Season 7. The video…
Free to Download: To the City of Brass
To the City of Brass is a free 21-paged PDF for D&D on DriveThruRPG from Wizards of the Coast. The…
RPG: Celebration Dice For The New Year
Roll initiative on the new year with these dice that will feel like a tiny New Year’s Eve party every…
Using Monsters Beyond Their Stat Blocks: Goblinoid Tactics
I know I promised to discuss Orcs in last week’s article, but I had a realization that I missed something…
The Game Mechanic: G is for GNS Theory
Okay, so I may have cheated a little by using an acronym that’s not, strictly speaking, a game mechanic. But…
The Terminator RPG: Quick Start is now available as a Pay What You Want download
Nightfall Games have released a 44-page Quick Start for their forthcoming The Terminator RPG. You can download it from DriveThruRPG.…
The Last Minis Preview (of 2020)
The Paizo offices (or our home offices, I guess) may be closed for the holidays, but that doesn’t mean we…
Free to Download: Three-Dragon Ante
Wizards of the Coast added Three-Dragon Ante to DriveThruRPG in November. It’s a free download. Three-Dragon Ante is a card…
PEG offers Savage Worlds Foundry upgrade
You can download and install a free Savage Worlds Adventure Edition for Foundry. However, you can also visit PEG’s store…
Titan Effect: Half-price bundle and bio-powered Community Content
Titan Effect is a tactical espionage and science fiction RPG powered by Savage Worlds. Right now, you can grab a…
Free to Download: Arcane Anthems for your RPGs
Arcane Anthems is a Patreon that creates free music for your tabletop RPGs. The sound files here are neither background…
Trapmaster: Chilling Encounters
So far, we’ve looked primarily at simple traps, but often you want an entire set piece to be a deadly…
‘Aliens’ Expansions Add A Ton Of Customization and Replayability
Once you know all the ins and outs of a mission-based game, it can get stale. But with these expansions,…
Astral Projections – “The Mandalorian” Gear: Whistling Birds (SWSE)
In honor of The Mandalorian‘s Clan (of Two) Mudhorn, I have been making stats for some cool gear from Season…
Rolling for Initiative — Notable Events (Besides the Epidemic) of 2020
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
A 'State of Level Up' Address!
We're hard at work on the rest of the game. Here's some quick-fix insights! These are quotes from the text.…
Which pets make the most popular dungeon companions?
There’s nothing unusual about mixing the life as an adventurer and as a pet owner. D&D rangers have animal companions,…
What are the best board games and RPGs of 2020? The team decides in a special GOTY Dicebreaker Podcast!
In a special episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast to finish up 2020, the whole team - Matt, Johnny, Lolies, Wheels…
Warlock’s Apprentice: Bearfolk Honey Axes
The bearfolk of the Northlands, the Rothenian Plains, and Dornig are renowned for their love of honey. No other race…
Finder’s Archive – Blossoming Sands
Copyright Wizards of the Coast. Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.In this column, we take some of…
Curated Christmas offers on DriveThruRPG
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales. At this time of year, sales…
Games of the Year 2020: Junk Art co-designer Sen-Foong Lim
Sen-Foong Lim is the co-designer behind beloved party games Junk Art and Rock, Paper, Wizard, as well as fantasy village…
RPG: Happy Christmas Adventuring!
It’s Christmas, so mix it up with some holiday themed adventures: Dungeons & Dragons 5e D&D 5e Holiday Adventure –…
AoS: Walk The Streets Of Brightspear
Come and walk the streets of Brightspear with a new sourcebook for Soulbound, the Age of Sigmar Roleplaying Game. Brightspear…
Happy Holidays from the Organized Play Team
We decked the halls, lit the candles, hung the holly, and partook of so many sugarplums! But before we settle…
D&D: Take A Look At The Original Map Of The Forgotten Realms
The Forgotten Realms are a well-explored piece of D&D lore… but here’s where it all began, the original Faerun, as…
Tome of Mystical Tattoos for 5e makes its mark
Karl Nicolas’ Kickstarter to publish a compendium of over 100 unique and fully-illustrated magical tattoo for 5e is doing well.…
Little Feet: The Legend of Gimcrack Jack (5e), a Review
Little Feet: The Legend of Gimcrack Jack is an all-ages adventure designed for the Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition ruleset.…
Games of the Year 2020: Alice is Missing and Icarus creator Spenser Starke
Spenser Starke is the designer behind mutiple roleplaying games such as the unique civilisation building RPG Icarus and this year's…
Mean Streets to Hostile Environments
Judging the Galaxy After last week’s Grand Galactic Tour, the final Judge Dredd & the Worlds of 2000 AD blog…
We Review The Critical Role Funko POP Collection
In the fall of 2020, the cast of Critical Role made what, at the time to them, was a geek…
GM’s Toolbox: Gravehall
The restless dead sometimes wander the world as skeletons or zombies, but necromancers are as innovative as they are evil.…
AGAINST THE GODS THEMSELVES
By Chris Birch It was 2012 when we first set out with members of Section M to confront the forces…
Aliens Among Us–Alien Archive 4 Unveiled, Part 3
The Starfinder Roleplaying Game is both weird and wonderful. So, even though the Holiday season is upon us—or perhaps because…
D&D: Dark Alliance Is Coming In 2021 For PC And ‘Consoles’
It was around this time last year that we got our first glimpse of the new D&D Dark Alliance. It’s…
Games of the Year 2020: Delve creator Anna Blackwell on the solo roleplaying of Thousand Year Old Vampire and Ironsworn
Anna Blackwell is a writer, journalist and game designer. She is the creator of storytelling RPG Those Who Play and…
Assassin’s Creed artist creates the Ultimate RPG Battle Map Creation Kit for VTTs
Xavier Deschenes has created environments in computer games for companies like EA and Ubisoft. Now they’re on Kickstarter with Ultimate…
Preview: ‘Pathfinder Battles: Darklands Rising’ Miniatures
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Expanding Codex Collection
Dear readers, we’ve collected our much-loved Expanding Codex series from designer Mike Welham! It’s now available in PDF. At a…
Fix a Broken Timeline as All-Powerful Hags in Mundane Magic TTRPG
A new freeform tabletop roleplaying game gives players the chance to right some cosmic wrongs while dealing with escalating consequences…
Blades in the Dark get a Bundle of Holding
Forged in the Dark RPGs are going in number and they’re powered by Blades in the Dark by One Seven.…
Give a meaning to your open-world quests
Thumbnail art by Anato Finnstark How to create an open world campaign || How to create quests for open world…
Watching Tabletop RPGs Online the Future of the Gaming Industry with Cat Tobin
Cat Tobin, co-owner and CEO of Pelgrane Press, returns to the podcast. We discuss the future of tabletop role-playing games…
Rogue Squadron- Revenge of the Sith
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
WizKids Unveils Another Figure for Their 'Dungeons and Dragons' Chromatic Dragon Series
WizKids unveiled D&D Icons of the Realms: Adult Blue Dragon Premium Figure for release in April. The blue dragon is…
BattleMechs And Cyberpunks: A History Of FASA
From the Final Frontier to the Inner Sphere, with a stop in the Shadows along the way, here's a look…
Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: December 23, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Calo’s Book of Monsters Calo’s Book of Monsters is designed as…
A Love For Everyday – 6
Four years ago, I created a homemade book for my wife with all these quotes about Love from our……
AoS: Trouble Is Brewing In The Mortal Realms
When trouble brews in the Mortal Realms, and year-end festivities come to Brightspear, it’s all fun and games–until someone steels…
The Day The Law Died
Released today is the latest Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD adventure and sourcebook.More
Worlds Collide: Pathfinder® for Savage Worlds
Hello Pathfinders! You may have heard Pinnacle Entertainment Group is converting some of Paizo’s legendary Adventure Paths to the Savage…
The Oni that ruined Jinglemas: A Tier 2 Christmas one-shot adventure
If you have been reading my Monthly Encounters for some time, you may recall Encounter #4: The Oni that Ruined…
Welcome To Fly Free or Die
Fly Free or Die is the newest Adventure Path for the Starfinder RPG. It’s a story about working class heroes.…
RPG Accessories: D&D Christmas
Christmas is right around the corner and now is your last chance to get extra festive for your last few…
D&D: The Perfect Gifts For Your 1st-Level Adventurers
What do you get the adventurer who has everything? Why not try one of these common magic items–items so plain…
Using Monsters Beyond the Statblock: Goblinoids
Recently, I’ve been feeling a little stuck in my encounter building. So, I decided to take a big picture look…
RPG: Pathfinder And Savage Worlds Coming Q4 Of 2021
That’s right, soon you’ll be able to adventure across Golarion using Savage World’s rules–your favorite adventure path is getting a…
D&D: Playtest The “Advanced” Barbarian Today
Come check out the new Barbarian, renamed the Berserker. All the rage, none of the baggage. Check out the latest…
The Game Mechanic: F is for Fumble
No, not that type of fumble...Fumbles, AKA Crit Fails and – in some cases – Nat 1s, are a game…
Asmodee USA Will Release 'Cantaloop Book 1: Breaking into Prison' into U.S. Trade
Asmodee USA will release Cantaloop Book 1: Breaking into Prison, story game by Lookout Games, into U.S. trade on January…
Wizards of the Coast Reveals Two 'Magic: The Gathering' 'Kaldheim Commander Decks'
Wizards of the Coast revealed Elven Empire and Phantom Premonition, two new Kaldheim Commander Decks for Magic: The Gathering, which…
Warhammer 40K: Last Call For The Only War Humble Bundle
Today’s the last day to grab all the Only War books under one single humble bundle. Join the Imperial Guard…
Tabletop Gallery: Tabletop Winter Wonderland
This time of year, everyone gets along. Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would…
Support ComicBooks For Kids!
My friends and supporters, I first want to first thank you for reading this, for supporting Paizo, and most of…
Kobold Press T-Shirt Giveaway
We’re giving away one of our amazing T-shirts from TeePublic and you could win it! All you have to do…
A Few Nightmares Before Christmas
We’re just a few days from the most magical day of the year, but for Pathfinder players, every day is…
What’s Up with Modern AGE? Winter 2020 Edition
I haven’t blogged about Modern AGE in a while. As we’ve mentioned before, COVID prompted us to change how and…
RPG: Pathfinder’s Pocket Bestiary Packs Many Enemies In A Tiny Book
Pathfinder 2nd Edition has a new pocket sized Bestiary out, as long as your pockets can hang with holding more…
Beyond the Audience: Stay Cool
This is the final article in our series all about improving your games in a way that both your players…