Magpie’s Avatar Legends RPG Kickstarter takes $1m on the opening day
There are very few tabletop RPGs that have broken the million mark on Kickstarter. Magpie Games’ Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying…
Free to Download: Fragments of the Past Quickstart RPG
Fragments of the Past is a bronze-age tabletop game that is in development and looks good. In exchange for joining…
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game’s Kickstarter campaign is now live
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game launched its crowdfunding campaign on August 3rd, supporting an official adaptation of the widely popular…
Iconic Encounter: Swimming Lessons
“Alright Tuku. Today you’re going to teach me about water spirits!” Ija turned toward her companion and gave a fierce…
Keeping the Creative Panic at Bay (A Ronin Roundtable Guest Post by Nathan Burgoine)
One thing about being a writer with one foot in queer romance and the other in queer spec fic is…
Free League Revisits ‘Forbidden Lands RPG’ with Two New Books
Free League Publishing is offering The Bloodmarch and Book of Beasts, for Forbidden Lands RPG, through a Retailer Pledge reward…
Using Rumors to Create a Living World
As a DM it’s my goal to create a believable world for my players to explore, interact with, and change.…
The Workshop – MtG to D&D: The Poet’s Quill
Art by Anna Fehr, copyright Wizards of the CoastWe’re back this week with another magic item for Dungeons and Dragons 5e…
D&D: Five Ways To Build A Campaign Without Killing A God
Starting a new campaign and want a break from the same old “kill a being powerful enough to be a…
28 July–3 August 2021: Horizons & Hats
This week, a quick update from a quiet week: GAMA announces an accelerator programme for tabletop industry organisations from underrepresented…
The Game of Life: Super Mario Edition contains more Bowser and fewer bills
Travel along the path through the Mushroom Kingdom to defeat the dreaded Bowser in The Game of Life: Super Mario…
Lancer co-creator’s new post-apocalyptic RPG Icon has a free playtest version that’s worth a look
The next generation of heroes were born at the beginning of the Churning Age, a time when peace in Arden…
Geek Native Patron Gift: The Gunblade
Geek Native runs a small Patron program through which you can tip the blog every month. The money raised in…
Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance board game expansion “in the works”
The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance, a board game based on the Dungeons & Dragons actual play series, is getting…
The Dead Rise in ‘Pathfinder 2E’
Paizo, Inc. unveiled Pathfinder Book of the Dead, a new rulebook for Pathfinder 2E, which will hit retail in spring…
Helm Greycastle: New Latinx fantasy comic includes 5e one-shot adventure
Henry Barajas, creator of La Voz De M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo! has a new latinx fantasy comic series. In Helm Greycastle…
The complete Earthdawn 4e RPG comes to the FoundryVTT
The Earthdawn character sheet for 4e is already on the pay-once virtual tabletop challenger Foundry, as is the Compendia and…
Wizard 101: Bladesinging From Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Bladesinging is the subclass for wizards who want swordplay to supplement their spells. Alongside the Eldritch Knight — which fulfills the…
Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone’s Dungeon World supplements surface at the Bundle of Holding
The 2014 bundle of Apocalypse Engine fantasy RPG content from Chthonstone Games and Lampblack & Brimstone is back in the…
Scrying on Subscriptions: Starfinder Rulebooks
Let’s take a closer look at Paizo Subscriptions, what you can subscribe to right now, and what is coming next.…
Starfinder Evolutionist Playtest Launches Today!
The evolutionist is a new class for Starfinder that brings to bear the power of transformation over time. As an…
We give our first impressions of the new Descent, Fort’s first expansion and Avatar Legends on the Dicebreaker Podcast
In a particularly Nice episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Wheels and Meehan reimagine some of our favourite board games…
Rogue’s Gallery: Namazzi Akullo
With her toned physique and straight-backed gait, Namazzi appears to be a much younger woman than she is. Her wise,…
D&D: WizKids Announces Frameworks – Custom Sprue-Based Miniatures For Your Campaign
WizKids has announced ‘Frameworks’ a new line of customizable, sprue-based miniatures for Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying games. WizKids…
You’re gonna die and you might like it: A review of A Good Death
A Good Death is a solo RPG and journal game from Trent Seltzer. It’s a Name Your Own Price download…
Etiquette & Protocol – TTRPG Safety Toolkit
Etiquette & Protocol (E&P for short) is an occasional feature where I venture into the sometimes thorny OOC arena of…
D&D: WotC Declares That Novels Aren’t ‘Canon’ For 5th Edition And Vice Versa
With a new Drizzt novel out this week, and Dragonlance novels not far behind, WotC sets the record straight on…
‘No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die’ in ‘Spectre’
Modiphius Entertainment revealed SPECTRE: The Board Game, a new James Bond tabletop game, which will release in spring of 2022.…
D&D Price Increase & Artificer Guide, 40K Grey Knight Stat Updates, Star Wars Mistakes
Check out news of an upcoming Hasbro price increase & our 5e Artificer Guide, 40K Grey Knight Stat Updates &…
Rolling For Initiative — Three More Effective Promotions
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Game Devs Of Color Expo Announces Starting Set of Panels & Speakers
The 2021 Game Devs Of Color Expo revealed their first set of speakers coming tot he online event, along with…
Genre Police: Wangrods and Warriors
Do you hate it when someone manages to use the rules of an RPG game to make a character that…
Publishers Spotlight: September 2021 poll open for Patrons
Does your D&D Wizard have the 1st level Conjuration ritual “Tenser’s Floating Disk” but struggles to find a use for…
Fading Suns sails into New Frontiers
Ulisses Spiele is expanding the Fading Suns RPG through a successful crowdfunding campaign. New Frontiers will take characters into barbarian…
Free to Download: Supernatural correction of The Unworld Mysteries
The Unworld Mysteries is an entirely free, alpha release of a supernatural, fast-paced and rules-light noir RPG. The roleplaying game…