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Fallout What Makes the Companion App tick!

In September 2020, we brought you the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare digital companion, the most comprehensive app of its kind. Originally…

Ads of the Serpent: How Warchief Gaming promoted Auroboros’ Kickstarter ahead of launch

In just a few days, Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent opens on Kickstarter. In a world of 5e campaign settings…

Genre Police: Storming The Dungeon

Ever notice that the dynamics of your campaign can change? Like you can have a run of really spontaneous sessions…

Storm Weavers is a narrative style adventure board game for one player

In Storm Weavers, there is no party of heroes. There is just you. You’re Thymin, a dwarven mercenary travelling across…

Snail wizards lead Monkstone Miniatures impressive debut

Monkstone Miniatures made their debut this week, and social media likes what they see. The new British fantasy miniature maker’s…

Looking for a Roll20 Developer

EN Publishing is looking for an in-house Roll20 developer to work with us on a freelance basis to bring our…

Podcast #146: Roll20 with Nolan T. Jones

This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by Nolan T. Jones, the CEO of Roll20, to talk about the virtual…

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D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To The City Of Spiders – Menzoberranzan

Welcome to the Underdark. Don’t mind the spiders. Today we visit the only fantasy city to provide free web access…

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Fantasy Flight Games: Now Available – New Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game Products

New Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game Products are now available from Fantasy Flight Games. via Fantasy Flight Games…

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Stats: 50% of roleplayers get weekly sessions

Do you find it challenging to land a weekly RPG session? Sites Demiplane, Mindflayer and Crawlr are trying to help…

Let’s Look At The Level Up Character Sheet

A character sheet is your portal into the game world. As a player, it’s your primary interface, and it’s important…

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The Game Machinery announce Defiant Awakening and a new Defiant edition

This RPG fan was very happy to give the Game Machinery’s Defiant the thumbs up after buying a copy. In…

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The Sad Tale of a HeroForge Death Knight

I've gotten a few myself, haven't had an issue with broken bits yet but it didn't have to go through…

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Who You Gonna Call?

Last week's blog brought us to the end of our deep dive into the Apocalypse War supplement for Judge Dredd…

Despair on Danger Island, Malevolence, and The Gilded Cage Next on Paizo LIVE!

Join us for Episode 3 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, April 23. Paizo LIVE…

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A Look Inside Dune 2d20

Dune occupies a strange place in the pop culture pantheon. Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel spawned a series of sequels and…

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Mörk Borg Pulls Lighthearted Gaming Into A Doom Metal Setting: RPG Spotlight

There’s doom, darkness, horror, an in-game mechanism for calculating how close the end of days is, and award-winning graphic design;…

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New ‘Catan’ Scenarios

Asmodee will release a new tabletop edition of the digital fan favorite Catan Treasures, Dragons & Adventurers, Catan Studio announced. …

Boy Problems creator Colin Cummings joins the Dicebreaker Podcast to chat beginner RPGs, cat-proofing board games and Carly Rae Jepsen

Listeners and viewers of the Dicebreaker Podcast are in for a real treat this episode. Not only are the entire…

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #96

April 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission Howdy, geeks. Once again, we find ourselves at…

Harbingers of the Yawning Void: Cult Activities and Adventure Hooks, Part 2

In the last installment, we presented you with scenarios to introduce the Harbingers of the Yawning Void into your campaign…

Recenter common fantasy assumptions with Southeast Asian zine project A Thousand Thousand Islands

Fling players into a kingdom of stone-hating crocodiles or stack them up against vampires whose heads and guts detach from…

RPG: TaleSpire Brings Beautiful 3d Terrain To Your Virtual Tabletop

A new program combines the aesthetics of 3d miniatures and terrain with the expansive creativity of a virtual tabletop. Check…

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Worlds of Design: Is There a Default Sci-Fi Setting?

The science fiction default setting is less clear than the “Late Medieval plus some Tolkien” fantasy default, but let’s talk…

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Finder’s Archive – Dungeon Creation (Part 6)

And greetings again, in the sixth installment of Dungeon Creation. This should (but we’ll see by the end) be the…

D&D: Matt Colville’s New Class – The Illrigger – Is The Hellknight Of Your Dreams

The Illrigger is a brand new full class for 5th Edition from MCDM productions–powered by infernal magic, it’s the Hellknight…

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By Jon Webb “Change is the only constant in life” – Heraclitus Welcome to April’s Fallout Friday. This is the…

News Digest for the Week of April 16

Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! New Unearthed Arcana for Dungeons & Dragons, new release for Paranoia,…

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Thursday Art Assault – One Winter’s Night

‘One Winter’s Night’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Find more surreal art prints and originals at:…

An Awfully Cheerful Trailer!

Check out this trailer for the AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE! Coming soon to a Kickstarter near you.More…

The quickest growing RPG in Roll20 last quarter wasn’t D&D; it was The Burning Wheel

Luke Crane, the designer of The Burning Wheel, has been in the news of late. The dramatically cancelled The Perfect…

Wizards of the Coast taking direct control of some D&D translations

When D&D 5e was young, fans became so frustrated that Wizards of the Coast were so slow to translate the…

April 2021 Convention Update

Greetings, all! With spring in the air and convention season on the horizon, we wanted to take a moment and…

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Humble Bundle steps in to sort out your Warhammer 40K book collection

🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.As Games Workshop are ramping up their…

D&D: Five Perfect Warlocks, Their Weapons And Supplies

Warlocks are a fairly new concept to D&D, introduced by Wizards of the Coast–but there’s still a ton of famous…

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Gamers fight loneliness with the British Red Cross

The British Red Cross is running Operation Anti-Loneliness and there are 10 days to sign up. If you do, then…

Orbital Blues: A space-western RPG during an era of hyper-capitalism

Orbital Blues: A space-western RPG during an era of hyper-capitalism SoulMuppet Publishing is already at double their Kickstarter target for…

“Hope for the best and plan for the worst”: The challenges facing tabletop gaming conventions after lockdown

When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11th 2020, the Game Manufacturers Association was hosting its…

Blue Planet: Recontact: An Interview With Jeff Barber (Biohazard Games) And Alan Bahr (Gallant Knight Games)

Blue Planet is back with a new edition. Crowdfunding via Kickstarter, this book is coming from Jeff Barber of Biohazard…

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D&D: Dragonborn And Kobolds Revamped In New Unearthed Arcana

A new Unearthed Arcana introduces some powerful new updates for some of D&D’s “weakest” player options–check out new Dragonborn and…

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Druids: Secrets of the Primal Circle Part 1: An Interview With Matthew Yarro (Home Brewed Games)

When I heard about Matthew Yarro’s plans to do a deep dive into the druid class for 5e, I was…

Wizards of the Coast Lifts ‘Magic: The Gathering’ In-Store Play Suspension for Japan

Wizards of the Coast has lifted their Magic: The Gathering in-store play suspension for Japan, but not for North America,…

Kobold Press Announces ‘Kobold Guide to Monsters’

Kobold Press announced Kobold Guide to Monsters, a new sourcebook for use with fantasy TTRPGs, which will release on May…

Goodman Games Reveals ‘Dungeon Crawl Classics Glow Dice’

Goodman Games revealed Dungeon Crawl Classics Glow Dice, dice sets for use with DCC roleplaying games, which are expected to…

Unearthed Arcana 2021: Draconic Options

Bundle deal on RPG battlemap blueprints for 221B Baker Street, a Drow City, a Nautilus and more

0one have a long history of superb cartography. I’ve covered them on this site back when it was known as…

The Illrigger – An MCDM Class for D&D5e – Breakthrough

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Kickstarter Round-Up: Try to Survive Space, Battle in the 9 Worlds, & Upgrade Your Bases

Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Foundation Foundation™ is very easy to learn. There are…

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Roblox fans will soon have a themed Monopoly board game of their own

The newest edition of classic and ubiquitous property trading board game Monopoly might be a hit for the Roblox fans…

Hi, I Wrote the Pathfinder: Fumbus Comic

Is there a more elegant way to title this post? Probably, but this is the most direct. Hey there, my…

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Disability-focused Dungeons & Dragons supplements raise funds for Bristol Children’s Hospital Play Team

Community creator and Bristol Children’s Hospital Play Team member Isaac Cooke Khan has released a pair of Dungeons & Dragons…

Tales Of Lost Omens: Adumbration

I’m sorry, but that painting isn’t for sale. This particular item I’m keeping for myself. Why, you ask? Well, there’s…

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Unearthed Arcana: Draconic Options

The latest Unearthed Arcana from WotC is called Draconic Options. It includes three variant Dragonborn races and a new kobold…

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How To Play Dragon Turtles Like Unstoppable Terrapin Kaiju

Epic Games have raised $1 billion to build a vast computer roleplaying game that spans the internet

Epic Games, the company owned by Tim Sweeney and China’s Tencent, announced it had raised a new $1,000,000,000 in funding….

Dungeon Tables: Travel Challenges and Complications, Part 3

A GM’s work is never done, so to make things easier on you, we’re providing a series of tables to…

A bit about Imposter Syndrome and rejection

There comes a time in any content creator’s mind when they look at their body of work and start thinking,…

Ruins of Symbaroum: A Kickstarter to bring Symbaroum to 5e funds in minutes

Free League Publishing have a million-dollar Kickstarter with The One Ring and while I doubt Ruins of Symbaroum will reach…

How to Successfully Handle Player Character Death

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RPG Crowdfunding News – Venture Maidens, Blue Planet, We Die Young, and more

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RPG Print News – Ulisses Spiele, Pinnacle, Palladium and More

Charles Dunwoody started playing and running RPGs with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (before it was first edition) and is currently…

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D&D: New To The Game? Here’s A “Tutorial” Adventure

New to D&D, and especially RPGs in general? Here’s a great way to introduce new folks to the game! Dungeons…

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Rogue Review – Phoenix Cell

Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at the ships you can fly in Fantasy…

Battlelords of the 23rd Century with Anthony Oliveira, David Soruco, Kurt Willis

The designers of Battlelords of the 23rd Century TTRPG join me on the podcast. Anthony Oliveira, David Soruco, Kurt Willis,…

New RPG Orbital Blues brings sad space Westerns to the tabletop, along with a cassette tape soundtrack

Put your neck on the line to fill both your empty tank and stomach in upcoming tabletop RPG Orbital Blues,…

The Ideas Are All Around Us

Something I hear from time to time is this weird idea that writers get ticked off when someone asks them…

Round Table discussion: RPGs with inhospitable settings

Have you thought about setting an RPG in an inhospitable such as a frozen world, dark planet or even in…

The Biggest TTRPG Kickstarter Creators: Free League Is King!

They say you can't make a million in tabletop RPGs. With 26 successful campaigns totaling nearly $8,000,000, Swedish company Free…

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Starfinder: Scoured Stars Returns with “Devotion” LIVE on Twitch

Our 10-episode Starfinder live-play Scoured Stars returns tomorrow night, Wednesday April 14, with “Episode 05 | Devotion,” at 6 p.m….

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D&D: With Ravenloft On The Way, Many Are Hoping Planescape Is Next

With more classic D&D settings on the way, there’s one big reason that people hope Planescape is next on the…

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Surreal fantasy RPG Trokia! expands with Academies of the Arcane

The Melsonian Arts Council will publish a fantasy for the “other world’s favourite fantasy roleplaying game”, and it will add…

Create and play RPGs online using the video game inspired platform One More Multiverse

Gather friends to play tabletop RPGs online or design a unique game system using One More Multiverse, a digital platform…

The Lost Art of Dungeon-Crawling

There is a certain type of adventure that in recent years seems to have fallen out of popularity: dungeons."I Look…

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For the Love of Cthulhu, Keep Your Wits

The investigators are all on the governing body for the Buffalo Terminal Restoration Group. They sit in the boardroom as…

30 March–12 April 2021: Wanderhome; Munchkin; Sin

There are some exciting new releases & announcements this week. Kickstarter hit, Wanderhome arrives on retail. Edge Entertainment quietly (almost…

Dungeons & Dragons graphic novels available for a dollar in Humble Bundle deal

Read up on the world of Dungeons & Dragons with the Humble Comics Bundle: New and Classic D&D by IDW…

Neithernor: Ackerly Green release the FATE Core powered Briarverse RPG

Neithernor is a FATE Core powered game set in C.J. Bernstein’s Briarverse. The alpha digital edition is out today, and…

Jeff Grubb’s Lost Mystara Sourcebook To Be Released

Ex-TSR designer Jeff Grubb wrote a Known World of Mystara sourcebook for AD&D 2E that was sadly never published. But…

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Your Dungeon Needs Chaos Gates

Supergiant released a little vidja game called Hades, and folks, it is simply incredible. Yes okay it came out in…

Tabletop Gallery: Marneus Calgar’s Close Shave

Drazhar’s shaves are the fastest in the galaxy! Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think…

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Introducing the Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Player’s Guide

The powerful sorcerer Hao Jin has returned to the Material Plane to preside as grand judge over her world-famous fighting…

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EN5ider #386 – Dangerous Scenarios: Tricksy Riddles Three

Mike Myler is a freelancing RPG goblin (or goblin that freelances for RPGs?), the editor for the excellent EN5ider Patreon,…

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Paranoia: Mongoose put a black hole inside Alpha Complex

Mongoose Publishing have released a new series of Paranoia RPG supplements. The R&D sourcebook was funded by a Kickstarter. The…

GAMA announces hybrid Expo for 2022

GAMA has had a rough time since the pandemic which resulted in restructures and BLM backlashes. Things are looking up…

LUMEN gets an SRD and a RPG jam, returning after toxic fan backlash

LUMEN is a system reference document (SRD) based on the RPG Light from Gila RPGs. The system was written for…

Planning for the unplanned: Inkwell Ideas offers up monster hunting RPG Sidequest Decks

Inkwell Ideas are back on Kickstarter with a solution for GMs when players do something unexpected. Er, so all the…

Living in Dev-Time

Dev-Time is a lot like Time Travel!“When is that book going to be done? When?”It can be strange living in…

Trapmaster: Ups and Downs

There is nothing funnier than watching an adventurer fall down, except maybe watching them fall down again. As a wise…

D&D: Explore Candlekeep In The Upcoming Virtual Play Weekend

Curious about Candlekeep? Just looking for an excuse to get out there and play some Dungeons & Dragons? Either way,…

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Partners is a roleplaying game for two players inspired by ‘80s detective dramas

Co-star in a roleplaying game inspired by crime drama series with Partners, an RPG designed to support two players. Described…

Polish both a sword and a pint in solo journaling game The Broken Cask Inn

Don an apron and sling mugs of fantasy brew in The Broken Cask Inn, a new solo journaling game about…

April Showers Bring Spring Meatballs

It's finally Spring, a time for flowers, showers, and the dwarven meal, Delzoun "Tide-Me-Overs" from Heroes' Feast. A Spring TraditionLike…

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Mythological Figures: Irene Adler

Today in Mythological Figures we’ve got a woman able to hold her own against the World’s Greatest Detective, that opera…

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Force Wizard – Unmatched Destiny SA (Mystic Career)

“Force Wizard” is my series on the Force & Destiny Careers’ Signature Abilities. Many Mystics seek to know and understand…

DUNE #14 – Faction Characters: The Fremen

By Andrew Peregrine In Dune: Adventures in the Imperium there are several character types that offer special powers and abilities….

Call of Cthulhu 7e invades the Astral Tabletop realm

Astral Tabletop is a browser-based virtual tabletop with free and paid for tiers. The platform has a partnership with DriveThruRPG….

Serpent Folk Slither Their Way into ‘Epic Encounters’

Steamforged Games revealed Epic Encounters: Chambers of the Serpent Folk, a new encounter-in-a-box, for release in July. Chambers of the…

Rolling for Initiative — ‘Strixhaven’, Oh ‘Strixhaven’! Where Art Thou?

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

Warhammer World Building: Soulbound City of Anvilgard

Warhammer World Building creates campaign settings using Cubicle 7’s Warhammer RPGs: Soulbound, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and Wrath & Glory. Each RPG features player characters exploring…

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