The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984 inspired this tabletop roleplaying game
Dark Nation, an upcoming roleplaying game, is inspired by the likes of The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. A tabletop RPG…
Ride atop flying cows and bears in fantasy tabletop RPG Between Clouds
Jump on top of a trusty steep and fly through the skies in Between Clouds, a tabletop roleplaying game set…
Corvus Belli Announces Warcrow – A New Fantasy Universe From The Makers of Infinity
Advertisement Get ready for a new IP from the makers of Infinity. Corvus Belli is dipping their toes into the…
Outside the Box – March 25th
Advertisement Here we go again, this week with news from Corvus Belli, Victoria Miniatures, Warlord Games, TT Combat, Perry Miniatures…
Infinity studio announces new ‘classic fantasy’ universe Warcrow, miniatures wargame and dungeon-crawler on the way
Corvus Belli, maker of sci-fi miniatures game Infinity, has revealed a new fantasy universe called Warcrow. Warcrow is said to…
Here’s a Jane Austin-inspired romance roleplaying adventure for D&D 5E
An Unexpected Wedding Invitation is a Jane Austin-inspired romance tabletop roleplaying adventure designed to be played with Dungeons & Dragons…
Inspired by the golden age of martial arts movies, Fight to Survive is an action-packed tabletop RPG with a time-skipping twist
A new tabletop RPG will see players fight through the ages in a world inspired by the greats of action-movie…
ICv2 Interview: Stone Blade Entertainment CEO Justin Gary
We caught up with Stone Blade Entertainment CEO Justin Gary at GAMA Expo to find out more about SolForge Fusion,…
Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan steps down after three years
Kickstarter’s CEO Aziz Hasan is stepping down after three years at the head of the crowdfunding giant. The decision was…
‘My dream is to create the first massively-multiplayer tabletop RPG’
Teburu was first revealed way back in 2019 as a highly ambitious meeting of tabletop board gaming and futuristic technology,…
PSI Signs Magpie, Andrews McMeel, Archon, More
Publisher Services, Inc. has signed seven companies, including Magpie Games, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and Archon Studio for sales and fulfillment…
Dead by Daylight: The Board Game creator on turning the hit video game into “co-op murder Battleship”
A Dead by Daylight board game is releasing in time for this Halloween, bringing the hugely popular multiplayer video game’s…
Voidrunner’s Codex Playtest: Psion
Welcome to the first public playtest document for the Voidrunner’s Codex, Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition’s upcoming science fiction rulebook.…
The Dungeon Gits are coming
FeralGames’ The Dungeon Gits – Heroes of Fallowgrave funded in hours and buckled up because that means they are coming.…
Outside the Box – March 18th
Advertisement Welcome to another issue of Outside the Box, this weeks with news from Mantic Games, Artel W Miniatures, 3D…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Tiny Tome, Hamlet, Thousands of Meeples, and More
Tiny Tome https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/longtailgames/tiny-tome Tiny Tome is a book of 50 single-page RPGs from dozens of different creators. Each game fits on…
Become a… Legends of Avallen review
I’ve had a PDF copy of Legends of Avallen for a while. I’m not the only one; it’s a silver…
Games Workshop ends sales of Warhammer 40k and Age of Sigmar to Russia
Games Workshop, the company that produces the two popular Warhammer miniature wargame lines, announced it will no longer sell products…
Tiny Tome collates 50 one-page RPGs into a single book
A new collection of indie roleplaying games will bring together 50 one-page RPGs in a single book. Tiny Tome collects…
So Now There’s A Faith No More RPG, And It’s ‘The Real Thing’
Advertisement Is it selling out or buying in to have a whole tabletop RPG based on your music? Either way,…
Beneath Stolen Skin: The Evolution of the Chronicles of Darkness’ Skinchangers PART ONE
CW: Animal abuse, body horror In the New World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness, Skinchangers are a player character horror option…
Venture Bros inspired tabletop RPG Staged Heroism unites heroes and villains in ineptitude
Staged Heroism, an upcoming tabletop roleplaying game inspired by The Venture Bros series, sees heroes and villains being united in…
'SolForge Fusion' Gets Retail Release in Q2
Stone Blade Entertainment is planning a hobby trade release for its new hybrid deck game Solforge Fusion in Q2, and…
50 single-page RPGs: Tiny Tome funds on Kickstarter
It's a straightforward idea; loads of different creators are tasked with fitting a whole RPG on both sides of a…
Biohazard Games: Blue Planet RPG returns in a bundle deal
This is hard sci-fi. The science of this tabletop game tries to be as real as possible. It's also the…
Kickstarter opens applications for paid positions on a community advisory council
Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced that it has opened an application process for positions on a newly created Kickstarter Community Advisory…
Digital without losing the physical, Teburu is a promising next step for hybrid board games
Over the years there have been endless attempts to combine the tangibility of physical board games with the convenience and…
Blessings, Healing, and Peace: EN Publishing launch D&D content Ukraine appeal
Sending "Thoughts and Prayers" has become derision online as it does nothing helpful. British games studio EN Publishing as a…
Old School Essentials reprints classic D&D-inspired TRPG books in two deluxe box sets
Nostalgic for the days when tabletop sessions meant dungeoneering, low hit points and damage matrices? Should magic users both cause…
3D printing is changing tabletop gaming
I saw my first 3D printer years ago in a very fancy shopping mall in Tokyo. I watched enraptured as,…
Predator inspired adventure featured in Forged in the Dark RPG CBR+PNK
Experience a tabletop RPG adventure inspired by the classic 1980s film Predator with CBR+PNK. Called PRDTR, the adventure – which…
The Real Thing is an official Faith No More tabletop RPG inspired by the classic album
Faith No More have inspired an official tabletop RPG, the first in a planned series of five games inspired by…
Cthulhu Awakens Game Master’s Kit!
Available now as an Add-on during our Kickstarter campaign!This morning we are pleased to announce that we will be making…
Revenge TRPG The Slow Knife is Count of Monte Cristo with a red-string conspiracy board
They say revenge is a dish best served cold, but upcoming tabletop RPG The Slow Knife would add calculating to…
Outside the Box – March 11th
Advertisement Here we go again – this week with news from Para Bellum Wargames, Grey for Now Games, Artel W…
SoulMuppet eschew Kickstarter and fund The Lost and the Jammed RPG directly
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The Expanse Meets Cthulhu Awakens!
Art by Tentacles and TeethThe Kickstarter for Cthulhu Awakens, which brings cosmic horror from the unimaginable past, through the 1920s, and into the…
Pinnacle Signs with Outland to Turn RPGs into Comics and Prose Books
The independent publisher Outland Entertainment has signed a comprehensive licensing deal with the RPG publisher Pinnacle Entertainment Group to produce…
Vampires stalk the streets in this Penny Dreadful themed D&D 5E supplement
Introduce creatures of the night to tabletop roleplaying game campaigns and sessions with The Penny Dreadful’s Fanged Fables supplement for…
The Gregarian – Cthulhu Awakens Entity Preview
Check out the Cthulhu Awakens Kickstarter for more details!When insects and worms feast on the remains of certain psychics, sorcerers,…
Outside the Box – March 4th
Advertisement Welcome back to another issue of Outside the Box – This week with news from Para Bellum Wargames, Raging…
Does Love Forgive? From Chaosium: For Ukraine
The Chaosium Group is incentivizing gamers to aid Ukraine in their hour of need by offering a free adventure while…
Zombicide studio releasing English language version of Borrowers-esque RPG
Cmon, the publisher responsible for releasing tabletop titles such as Zombicide and Blood Rage, is releasing an English language version…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Munchkin Batman, Overisles RPG, Sci-Fi STL, and More
In regular Munchkin, you kill monsters. In this game, you commit crimes, ranging from Take Candy from a Baby (not very…
Blue Rose Meets Cthulhu Awakens!
What does Cthulhu Awakens have to offer players and Narrators of Blue Rose? A great deal, as it turns out,…
‘Root’ RPG Won’t Be Long Now
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'Pirate Borg' Spotted Off the Starboard Bow!
Limithron launched Pirate Borg, a new pirate RPG, onto Kickstarter with estimated delivery in October 2022. Pirate Borg is a…
Fragged Empire 2nd Edition Kickstarting Now
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Over 100 tabletop games made $500,000 on Kickstarter last year for the first time
Tabletop projects broke another record on Kickstarter in 2021, with more games funded and more money raised than ever before.…
Setting Realistic Goals
The title should be followed by a question mark: Setting Realistic Goals? Because it is something that I know I’m…
Sci-Fi Toolkits: Early bird deals for Roll & Play Press latest crowdfunded project
Roll & Play Press are back on Kickstarter, with a £12,500 goal to fund two books, hundreds of tables, and…
The Workshop: Kickstarter Korner – Cthulhu Awakens
Art is copyright Green Ronin Publishing It seems that the stars are right. Just last week I dipped my toe…
D&D: ‘Solasta: Crown Of The Magister’ – ‘Dungeon Maker 2’ Contest Winners & Update
D&D: ‘Solasta: Crown Of The Magister’ – ‘Dungeon Maker 2’ Contest Winners & Update Advertisement Solasta: Crown of the Magister,…
Darkest Days is an Elden Ring-esque tabletop roleplaying game
An upcoming roleplaying game called Darkest Days enables players to explore an Elden Ring like fantasy world. A tabletop RPG…
Caves come alive as 5e creatures: Caver & Cube Familiar Minis, Books, and the C20 (Cave D20)
Severed Books have absolutely torn through the Kickstarter campaign goals for Caver & Cube Familiars. These are models of cave…
Tome of Titans Volume 2 – Kickstarter
Best Selling game publisher 2CGaming hopes to raise $10,000 with their new Kickstarter Tome of Titans Volume 2. Pledge levels…
Outside the Box – February 25th
Here we go again, this week with news from Modiphius Entertainment, Wargames Atlantic, Raging Heroes, GCT Studio, Artel W Miniatures,…
Keepsake game designer Jeeyon Shim branches out with chess-based RPG The Snow Queen
Jeeyon Shim has made a name for herself as a genre trailblazer and steward of some of the most interesting…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Twilight War, Cthulhu Awakens, Burly Girls, and More
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Party First: Twilight War LAST CHANCE – KS ENDS…
‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ Season One Review – Is ‘Critical Role’ Cartoon-worthy?
The entire first season of The Legend of Vox Machina is available to stream now on Amazon Prime. Is there…
Legendary Games, Eight Kickstarters in 2021: An Interview with Jason Nelson
At EN World, I talked to Jason Nelson about Legendary Games’ 2022 plans and some aspects of their 2021 experience.…
8–22 February 2022: NFT, JFC
In this week’s issue: an activist investor pushes for Hasbro to spin Wizards off as a separate company. Kickstarter elaborates…
Swedish kid melange: how Martin Takaichi designed Tales from the Loop’s board game from his own childhood
Free League’s decision to create a board game based on Tales from the Loop, one of its more popular tabletop…
Phasmophobia and D&D collide in this ghostly RPG supplement
Hunt ghosts and escape angry spirits in an upcoming roleplaying game supplement for Dungeons & Dragons 5E. Grizelda’s Guide to…
The Legend of Zelda inspired this monster manual for D&D 5E
A new monster manual called Overworld is inspired by The Legend of Zelda video game series. Overworld is a tabletop…
Zin Never Dies looks like the perfect tabletop RPG for Hollow Knight and Ghibli fans
A new tabletop RPG will explore a magical, mysterious world inspired by the films of Studio Ghibli, with echoes of…
Tabletop Games Set New Record on Kickstarter in 2021
Tabletop game funding on Kickstarter grew 13% in 2021, from $237 million in 2020 to $272 million last year, according…
Hell Comes To The High Plains In ‘Deadlands’ Latest Kickstarter
A new Deadlands Kickstarter will bring a brand new sourcebook full of horrors, critters, and all sorts of monsters, to…
Outside the Box – February 18th
Welcome to a new issue of Outside the Box, this week with news from GCT Studios. Para Bellum Wargames, Hasslefree…
Tome Unbound: Shadow Giant
Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a shadow giant without modifying its challenge rating. Confer…
Goodman Games Launches 'Dungeon Crawl Classics #100' on Kickstarter
Goodman Games launched DCC #100: The Music of the Spheres is Chaos, a new RPG boxed set, onto Kickstarter. As…
Cowboys and creepy creatures collide in another sourcebook for the Deadlands RPG
A new sourcebook for Deadlands: The Weird West, a tabletop RPG set in an alternative universe where the supernatural collides…
Kickstarter won’t allow NFTs on its blockchain protocol but asks creators and backers to help build it
Kickstarter has published a long-anticipated update to its previously announced plans for integrating blockchain into its foundation. The crowdfunding platform,…
It started with whispers: The Fall of Home 2e is on Kickstarter while 1e is free
It started with whispers, and half-heard rumour. A cataclysm. A great calamity. A town wiped off the map. You wouldn't…
Tome Unbound: Bloom Hydra
Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a bloom hydra without modifying its challenge rating. Aspidistra…
Outrider Publications: Outland and Pinnacle strike RPG-to-book deal
I knew Outland was the perfect partner to grow our line of fiction for all our original properties.
New Boss Monster and Dungeon Keeper-esque RPG is about building your own lair
Re-build a lair after the adventurers have up and gone in Dungeon Local 001, a Boss Monster and Dungeon Keeper-esque…
Cyran's Magnificent Walking Marketplace brings a touch of Howl’s Moving Castle to your D&D 5E campaign
A new Dungeons & Dragons 5E supplement will introduce a walking shop - with more than a touch of Studio…
The Weird Century: Cthulhu Awakens in this new Green Ronin AGE System RPG
The Weird Century started in the 1920s and tricked us into believing stories about Cthulhu and the mythos were fiction.…
9 Zine Month RPGs that let you explore sunken submarines, wait for the train and be a hungry seagull
Half of February may already lie in the rearview mirror, but that’s a pessimist’s view on what’s already an incredible…
Press Release: Cthulhu Awakens Kickstarter is Live!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02/15/2022The Cthulhu Awakens RPG Kickstarter is Now Live!Seattle, WA: Green Ronin Publishing is pleased to announce that…
Sable, Dune and Breath of the Wild gave life to this desert tabletop RPG
Glide is an upcoming roleplaying game inspired by the likes of the video games Sable and Breath of the Wild,…
Neon Genesis Evangelion and Star Wars inspired this mech roleplaying game
A roleplaying game inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion and Star Wars has its own Kickstarter campaign. Called Last Sentinels, the…
Disney Villainous publisher Ravensburger confirms plans to crowdfund “a handful of projects” following Gamefound investment
Board game publisher Ravensburger has confirmed its plans to launch crowdfunding campaigns for a number of projects following its recent…
Bloodborne and Berserk inspired dark fantasy RPG Zweihänder gets starter kit
A new starter kit for the dark fantasy roleplaying game Zweihänder is now available. Inspired by the likes of the…
The real-life romance, loss and legacy behind relationship sim board game Fog of Love
When Jacob Jaskov returned to board gaming in the 2010s he found that the hobby he loved had moved on…
Outside the Box – February 11th
Hello again, this week we have news from Knight Models, Para Bellum Wargames, Black Scorpion Miniatures, Osprey Publishing, TT Combat,…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Movie Monsters, Vampire Hunter D, and a Desktop Lathe
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! (This week’s featured image is from this campaign.) Monsters…
Reverse Scooby-Doo TRPG Those Wretched Kids! is part of Zine Month
Become the masked villain in a scenario reminiscent of a classic Scooby-Doo episode in upcoming roleplaying game, Those Wretched Kids!.…
Castles of Burgundy and Villainous publisher Ravensburger gets into crowdfunding with $4.5m investment in Kickstarter rival Gamefound
Board game publisher Ravensburger has made a surprise move into the world of crowdfunding with a $4.5 million investment in…
Frostgrave publisher announces three new TRPGs, including one set da Vinci’s clockpunk Italy
Three brand new tabletop RPGs from Osprey Games will make their way to bookshelves and tables over the course of…
Goblin Errands is an RPG about a day in the life of a gobbo
Live a day in the life of a gobbo in Goblin Errands, an upcoming tabletop roleplaying game about the short…
Dungeons & Dragons spin-off d20 Modern is getting a D&D 5E spiritual successor from some of its original creators
20 years after its original release for Dungeons & Dragons’ third edition, the RPG’s spin-off d20 Modern will serve as…
Ravensburger Invests in Crowdfunding Platform Gamefound
Ravensburger AG, Photo: Felix KaestleRavensburger AG’s Next Ventures fund is investing $4.5 million in new game crowdfunding platform Gamefound, the…
RPG Adaptations: KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER – 50th Anniversary PART THREE
In the first two parts of this three-part series, I’ve written about the history of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, what…
Ocean’s Eleven and Firefly combine in this tabletop RPG about intergalactic heists
An upcoming roleplaying game inspired by the likes of Ocean’s Eleven and Firefly lets players pull off heists in outer…
Munchkin Batman features The Dark Knight, The Joker and more
A new version of the popular Dungeons & Dragons inspired board game Munchkin, features characters from the Batman universe. Munchkin…
City of Mist designers announce new tabletop RPG set in dystopian future Japan
The design team behind modern fantasy tabletop RPG City of Mist has announced their next game project and an accompanying…
Indie RPG Platform Itch.io Declares NFTs ‘A Scam’
NFTs are a scam that only exists to launder money or swindle people. At least, according to the popular Indie…