Month: March 2021

What probably began as just the space combat system within the Star Wars RPG became an entirely separate board game.…

Steve Jackson Games made money in 2020, although slightly less than in 2019 and managed to keep all staff employed…

Modiphius has steadily been building up their games and today announced Five Parsecs from Home will add to their Adventure…

Ready for more science-fantasy adventure?! Watch the premiere on YouTube or listen to the podcast on Amazon Music, iHeart Radio,…

All art belongs to MCDMRight before March finishes James Introcaso surprised me with another early copy of Arcadia. This is…

We’ve all been there–you’re exploring a dank, supposedly empty dungeon, when suddenly your DM starts rolling dice. Time to hide…

Pierce Fraser’s Kickstarter for HC SVNT DRACONES 2.0: Mastered as met and exceeded the goal of $20,000. There’s still three…

With all the chaos of the last year, it’s more important than ever for people to set aside their differences…

Dante’s Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy, is the inspiration for an upcoming roleplaying game supplement for Dungeons…

If Blizzard was to design a tabletop RPG setting for D&D’s 5e edition, it would probably be built by Chris…

Welcome to another installment of the Play with Class series where we will give you solid steps to run each…

Ares Games announced Brancalonia RPG Setting Book, a Medieval Italian fantasy setting that is compatible with 5E rules, for release…

Chris Metzen, co-creator of Warcraft, Starcraft, and founder of the new Warchief Gaming studio is currently working on an epic…

A lot of things came out of AMG about X-wing this past week. First, the first new releases of products…

Ferdinand Leeke Zwergenkönig Laurin am Hof des Dietrich von BernTristian Zimmerman returns to the podcast to discuss the rose-realm of…

Google+, the social network your boss tried to get you to use, was actually surprisingly important to the RPG industry.…

Twenty years ago, GW launched the Tau, and the game has never been the same. Take a look at their…

I’ve obviously done my fair share of interviews on this site, but it’s always a bit crazy to find myself…

The brand new Magic: the Gathering action RPG is in open beta as of today. Will you have your combo…

After three months of beta testing with a select group, Roll20 has now opened the beta test of the mobile…

The second teaser for I’m Standing on a Million Lives trailer is sung by a virtual idol time to read:…

After launching Warchief Gaming last year, Chris Metzen - the former vice-president for Blizzard and worldbuilder for titles such as…

In Southwest England, in the 70s, as Thatcher is taking on the trade unions and the miners, you can find…

Warchief Gaming, the tabletop publishing company co-founded by two ex-VPs of Blizzard, has announced its debut roleplaying game. Auroboros: Coils…

They say confronting one’s worst fears can strip them of their potency. Whether or not that’s true, players can explore…

Free League Publishing has revealed Symbaroum:  Alberetor – The Haunted Waste, the fifth adventure in The Chronicle of the Throne…

Alberetor – The Haunted Waste is the fifth part in The Chronicle of the Throne of Thorns campaign for the…

I have what seems like hundreds of characters ready-made, eager to throw them into the next campaign I get to…

There are lots of ways to deal dungeons and damage in Dungeons & Dragons, but with so many options, which…

'Cyberpunk RED Data Screen', 'Cyberpunk RED Data Pack', and 'Black Chrome' Sourcebook R. Talsorian Games announced three new products for…

Raise the sails and make sure there’s a scribe nearby to take all this down because storytelling RPG Agon has…

This week: the GAMA expo brings interesting insights into the RPG industry; an ill-thought-out Asian-themed sourcebook is pulled from production;…

In 1997 Wizards of the Coast bought Dungeons & Dragons from TSR, keeping the game in print. Now they’ve owned…

Image from The Dragon Prince, copyright WonderstormIn preparation for the upcoming Tales of Xadia release for the Cortex Prime system…

The thing about gathering a couple Jewish folks together to play two or three tabletop roleplaying games is that it’s…

Hi there, art lovers. Do you love art prints, but not so much framing? Do you prefer art that arrives…

Place your bets on this one. I’m stumped. Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think…

There’s a certain school of design that’s all about more; more sub-systems, more mechanisms, more chrome. The only thing these…

The world of D&D is just as awful as ours. Don’t believe me? Here’s five ways someone can slide right…

Modiphius already makes Fallout Wasteland Warfare a skirmish game with an RPG spin-off accessory, but a 2d20 game is coming.…

This week sees the release of Into the Idiot Box for Mutants & Masterminds, and Jason Keeley’s entry into the…

The protagonists of the classic Fallout games are similar in a few regards: they’re all human, and most of them…

DarkEnergy from Entanglement Interactive is an RPG set during the apocalypse. The game happens as events unfold and as the…

There gets to be a point where traps are expected. It’s inevitable for meta-gaming to creep in, even unintentionally, particularly…

Tabletop RPG jams are known for pushing creative constraints on applicants, tasking them to conjure art unders specific circumstances or…

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Gen Con, one of the biggest tabletop gaming conventions out there has announced that they are back on–coming this September.…

Shadow of Mogg is an RPG that explores post-Brexit London. It’s written by Panayiotis Lines as is the result of…

Brainstorm campaigns for roleplaying games such as Dungeons & Dragons 5E with The Deck of Many Quests, a collection of…

Antonna and Deanna, AKA “The Twins,” are a package deal. They prefer to work as bodyguards but also handle other…

By Fred Love, STA Contributing Writer Last year, Star Trek Adventures project manager Jim Johnson presented me with the exciting…

By John Houlihan Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 has had a wonderfully successful launch and we’re really glad so many of you…

Free RPG day will be held on October 16, 2021, organizers Gaming Days LLC announced, with a return to the…

Legendary Adventures Epic 5e is a supplement to take characters and help DMs deal with beyond level 20. At a…

Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…

Last year, Modiphius released Star Trek Adventures: Klingon Core Rulebook. The publisher had been selling Star Trek Adventures: Core Rulebook…

Pandora: Total Destruction is described as X-Men meets Akira. Characters are untrained supers (the world no longer uses the phrase…

Helping people with coughs and lacerations pays my bills. I love working as a PA, and don’t plan to leave…

The retailer Awesome Dice are on Kickstarter to fund some gorgeous hieroglyphic dice sets. Furthermore, the campaign has been launched…

Celebrate 15 years of trapsmithing, RPGs, and artisanal kazoo manufacturing with us! Yes, Kobold Press hits the big “one-five.” Enjoy…

Last week, I was running a DND game over Discord, and one of the players was late by a couple…

Yesterday we released the playtest candidate for our Cleric class. This is the accompanying survey.As always, it’s OK if you…

Cryptids Inc is set in modern-day the United States of America, where most people don’t believe in monsters, yet they…

What this isThis is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then answer…

The Black Atlantic After a short break for a new serial taking a look at the system that drives the…

Grab your Pip Boy and as many Nuka Cola caps as you can carry, this week we’re jumping into the…

The release of the Pathfinder Bestiary 3 is just over the horizon, and as a preview of the content you'll…

March 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Ads: Links may earn commission Welcome to the tail end of…

Grab a pitchfork and light the torches when sitting down to play Teeth: Night of the Hogmen, a new one-session…

Indie designer Spencer Campbell launched the Kickstarter campaign for Frame, a tabletop RPG “love letter” to Warframe on March 13th.…

On this week’s podcast, Matt’s been sailing Forgotten Waters, Meehan’s been seeing what we do in the shadows in indie…

A deeper, vested interest in the campaign, combined with the parity of responsibility for driving the story, often lead duet…

D&D, as you would expect, tops the ICv2 bestseller RPG chart autumn 2020 composed of data taken from retailers, distributors…

BJ Hensley’s Digital Dragon Studios have released a smartphone app for Pathfinder 2e combat. The Pathfinder 2e Combat Tracker is…

Playable humanoid tree-frogs were cut from Candlekeep Mysteries and we are all poorer for it. But don’t worry, they’re coming…

DC Comics announced The Last God HC for release on August 3. The Last God HC is a unique 448-page…

Legendary Games announced a new Pathfinder 2e product this week called Asian Spell Compendium. Jason Nelson quickly apologised, asked retailers…

Welcome back to Outside the Box, this week with news from Knight Models, Infinity, North Star Military Figures, Artel W…

The After is a Savage Worlds RPG from Fainting Goat Games that is set on Earth after the invading alien…

RPG designer Jason Nelson published a letter to Legendary Games’ website March 18th apologising for the “inherently culturally insensitive” Asian…

Wizards of the Coast updated the set names and release dates for their Q3 and Q4 Magic: The Gathering set…

Coming to Kickstarter this summer, the AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE! is a roleplaying game of action comedy!More

Edward Burne Jones - Public Domain. Painted in 1861Hello again everyone, And welcome to Part 2 of the Dungeon Creation…

Longtime game retailer and GAMA officer and director Brian Dalrymple passed away of natural causes Wednesday night, March 17, according…

From Strixhaven’s magical academy to the distant shores of the Forgotten Realms, here’s a look at what’s on deck for…

Last week, we revealed the title for Year 4 of Starfinder Society: Year of the Data Scourge. This week, we…

By Nathan Dowdell First appearing in 2013 with Mutant Chronicles 3rd edition, the 2d20 System has been a part of…

The universe of Dungeons & Dragons is filled with some very strange places indeed. Thanks to the diversity of settings…

Steamforged Games teased Sonic the Card Game, a racing card game, which will be headed to market in 2021. This…

‘Sanctum of Twin Souls’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Unearth more dark, otherworldly landscapes at:

In February, there was a sea of fresh RPG offerings via Kickstarter. Many of them were Zine Quest 3 products,…

Dark Alliance, the upcoming D&D 3rd-person brawler, is looking better and better. Come check out the first few minutes of…

This chart of the Top 10 Board Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Fall 2020 (September-December).  The charts are based…

This chart of the Top 5 Non-Collectible Miniature Lines (hobby channel) reflects sales in Fall 2020 (September-December).  The charts are…

These charts of the Top 10 Hobby Channel Collectible Games, Top 3 Mass Market Channel Collectible Games and ​Top 5…

Retailers and distributors expressed satisfaction with sales of hobby games during the Fall 2020 season (September-December), probably the most challenging…

Savage Worlds Adventure Edition, the latest version of the acclaimed Savage Worlds, came out in 2018 and is only now…

It looks like major RPG and tabletop conventions in the US and UK are happening this year, just reduced. Gen…

 Give us your feedback on our D&D Adventurers League program! Whether you play in our official public play campaigns weekly…

Pathfinder- and Starfinder-compatible publishers submitted fourteen new products to paizo.com. Spheres Apocrypha: Expanded Alteration Options (PFRPG) PDF Compatible with Pathfinder…