Rolling for Initiative — Three Practices Publishers Should Adopt
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Wheel of Time, 40K’s New Rules, MTG Spoilers, D&D Level Up for FREE!
Can Wheel of Time be saved by Season 2? Check out 40K’s upcoming new rules, MTG’s Kamigawa spoilers, and D&D’s…
Taking Up The Battle
Esoteric Orders In this week’s blog, we continue or delve into the terrifying secrets hidden within the covers of The…
D&D Accessories: Tropical Accessories To Distract You From The Cold
It may be cold outside, but we can make our D&D sessions into a paradise with these tropical D&D accessories.…
D&D: Adventurer’s Guide To Zariel, Archdevil of Avernus
Zariel, the ruler of Avernus is an angel who would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. So let’s…
Games Workshop Pre-Orders: ‘Pricing & Links’ – Fury of the Deep Weekend
Fyreslayers vs Idoneth Deepkin? It’s time for Fury of the Deep! Plus some more Blood Bowl goodies from Games Workshop.…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To Drizzt Do’Urden
In all of Dungeons & Dragons, one name has come to represent two swords and a pocketful of memes: the…
D&D: Five Mounts For Adventurers Who Are Smol But Mighty
Their size might be small, but their hearts are medium–and so are their mounts. Here are five special mounts for…
Nominees Announced For 25th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards
This week, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) revealed their complete list of nominees for the 25th Annual…
What Is the Far Realm? A Timeless Land of Writhing Flesh and Elder Evils
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GW, Warhammer, 40K & Fantasy Minis Trivia Challenge
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
On the Next Paizo LIVE: Moons and Magic!
Paizo LIVE is our near-monthly, 2-hour live Twitch show featuring the Paizo staff and guests talking about upcoming Pathfinder and…
Outside the Box – January 14th
Here we go again, this week with news from Corvus Belli, Wargame Exclusive, Artel W Miniatures, Wargames Atlantic, Hardcore Miniatures…
‘Power Rangers’ & ‘Transformers’ RPGs Up For Pre-Order, PDFs Out Now
Both the Power Rangers and Transformers RPGs are available for pre-order now from Renegade Games. But you won’t have to…
The Song Undying: Magic
These spells were developed by Salamondre and the cult, harnessing the power of the Song Undying and the Thrice-Cursed Heart.…
Finder’s Archives – Cathedral of Serra
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D: ‘Level Up’ Is Free On Foundry VTT
Level Up, the Advanced 5th Edition ruleset, is available now for free on the Foundry virtual tabletop platform. Fans of…
BoLS PRIME: People Have Been Putting Bunnies In Games Since The Dawn Of RPGs
Roleplaying games' history is full of dungeons and also dragons. But gaming is just as full of fluffy bunnies, often…
7 Wonders creator and D&D writer headline adventure collection for Dungeon Fighter RPG One More Quest
One More Quest, the upcoming RPG spin-off from dexterity game Dungeon Fighter, will receive an adventure collection featuring familiar names…
Bundle of Holding Encore!
The books may have come to their conclusion, but you can keep the story going at your own game table…
Putting the Fur in Firbolg: The Evolution of a Character Race
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'Questlings RPG' Heads to Retail
Leitman Games will release Questlings RPG into retail on January 26, 2022. In Questlings RPG, players take on the roles…
Marvel's 'Eternals: The 500 Year War' Coming to Webtoon
Marvel will place its first comic on the Webtoon platform on January 20, when it launches the seven-part series Eternals: The…
D&D: The Five Best Paladin Subclasses
Whether you’re fighting or smiting, being a Paladin is pretty great. Here are the five best Paladin subclasses. Paladins are…
Level Up Is Now On Foundry
We're excited to present the beta release of the Foundry VTT Level Up system! The system is game-ready, but this…
D&D: The Worst People On Oerth
When it comes to Greyhawk, the world is populated by some truly horrendous folks… and these are five of the…
Critical Role animated series gets new trailer, premiere airs later this month
The latest trailer for the animated series based on the first Critical Role campaign, The Legend of Vox Machina, has…
Jack into a dirty and demonic alternate reality in upcoming RPG Cybermetal 2012
The gates of Hell opened after world-renowned metal band Death Agent ritually sacrificed Ronald Reagan on stage in 1986, ultimately…
Upcoming RPGs 2022: 10 tabletop RPG releases you should play
2022 is shaping up to be one of the biggest years for tabletop roleplaying releases yet. There are a bevy…
MACE 25 – Attendee Reactions To North Carolina’s Legendary Tabletop Gaming Convention
MACE 25 ran from November 12 to 14, 2021 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place in Charlotte, North Carolina. As…
D&D: Here’s A List Of Every Monster In ‘Monsters Of The Multiverse’
A day after the table of contents leaked, an intrepid YouTuber has determined almost all 260 monsters in Monsters of…
Exploding Kittens Has New President
Exploding Kittens, Inc. has a new president via an internal promotion to the newly created position, the company announced. Carly…
ComicBooks for Kids Sent 600 Packages and 20 pallets of Comics to Medical Facilities in 2021
ComicBooks for Kids sent out 600 packages at 8,0000 pounds, plus 20 pallets of free comics in 2021, according to…
Iconic Encounter: The Taste of Time
For the second time today, Ciravel found herself exceedingly grateful for seatbelts and stabilizers. The first moment of gratitude was…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Viscounts of the West Kingdom, RPG Adevntures, Sci-Fi STLS, and More
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Blazon The widespread use of armorial bearings in the…
Mark Seifter Joins Roll For Combat Team
Paizo veteran Mark Seifter will join Roll for Combat as the Director of Game Design overseeing the Battlezoo product line. …
Let’s Play D&D With Attack On Titan
Attack on Titan is back for its final season, but if you’re not ready to say goodbye to these characters,…
Unified Space – Transmission Five
by Ivan Sorensen BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to transmissions from Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data,…
The Legend of Vox Machina Wants to “F**k S**t Up” in Red Band Trailer
So when we last checked in with Amazon Prime Video & Critical Role's highly-anticipated The Legend of Vox Machina, fans who…
Tales from the Loop board game brings cooperative sci-fi investigation to retail in February
Nostalgic science fiction art book-turned-RPG-turned-board game Tales from the Loop hits retail on February 8th. The cooperative title leans into…
RPG: Solo But Not Alone 2 Bundle – 100+ Games Helping Jasper’s Game Day
Solo But Not Alone 2 is a bundle of more than 100 solo RPGs, and proceeds benefit Jasper’s Game Day.…
Bards with Class: College of Cuisine
Not all bards inspire others through their words and song. Bards of the College of Cuisine express themselves through food…
From Cowboy Bebop to Dark Souls, why licensed RPGs need to do better in 2022
When devising this year’s list of our most anticipated roleplaying game releases, we had to make an active effort to…
Monte Cook Games Reveals 'Ptolus GM Screen'
Monte Cook Games revealed the Ptolus GM Screen, for Ptolus RPG, which will arrive in retail stores on January 26,…
Wizards of the Coast Announces New 'Magic: The Gathering' 'Challenger Decks'
Wizards of the Coast announced new Magic: The Gathering Challenger Decks 2022, which will release on April 1, 2022. There…
Rogue Squadron- Jank Tank II
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
D&D: Someone Leaked All The Player Races In Monsters Of The Multiverse
A new video reveals leaked screenshots and all the player races from Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse. A massive…
Game Master Storytelling with Aron Jolley-Meers
Author and game master, Aron Jolley-Meers, joins me on the podcast today. We discuss tons of different ways game masters…
D&D’s Mimic monsters take centre stage in RPG supplement
Find new ways to implement a classic monster from Dungeons & Dragons with Mimics, An Unnecessary Work. A supplement designed…
Handimonsters Annual 2022 turns a Patreon of monsters into a book
Handimonsters is a Patreon from Handiwork Games, the RPG publisher behind Beowulf and the upcoming A|State 2e. At $3, you…
Eight Years and Counting
Where last week I took a second to look at my writing releases and set goals for this upcoming year,…
Connecting 40K and Age of Sigmar – It’s All One Timeline
Can we find a direct connection between Warhammer 40K and Age of Sigmar? The clues are all right in front…
Neverwinter: Dragonbone Vale Set To Release In February
Perfect World Entertainment has revealed plans for Neverwinter: Dragonbone Vale, set to be released on PC next month and consoles…
D&D: Five Famous Wizards
If you’ve ever cast a spell and wondered why it’s Bigby’s Hand? Or where is the rest of the Bigby?…
Single-player RPG bundle Solo but Not Alone once again fundraising for suicide prevention
Solo but Not Alone 2 is the followup to last year’s charity bundle and will once again raise funds from…
Heritage Puts Madden's Office-Copy of 'John Madden Football (1990)' on Auction Block
Imaged by HAHeritage Auctions has put a Wata 9.2 A+ Sealed Copy of John Madden Football (1990) on the auction…
What are the most exciting board games and RPGs of 2022? It’s the first Dicebreaker Podcast of the new year!
It’s the first Dicebreaker Podcast of the new year, and we’re seeing in 2022 with style! Matt, Liv and Meehan…
D&D: ‘The Tome Of Beasts 3’ Lurks In The Shadows
The monstrous compendium gets a beastly new expansion full of new monsters from legendary designers in Tome of Beasts 3!…
Kickstarter moves annual ZineQuest initiative to August, but indie designers have different plans
Kickstarter has announced that Zinequest’s yearly invitation to crowdfund short, A5 paper-sized tabletop RPGs will fall later in the year.…
D&D Has Rules For That Too!? – Five More D&D Rules You Didn’t Know About
5th Edition is streamlined and accessible, to the point where you might not have known it D&D has rules for…
The Workshop: There’s An Adventure in That – Something Rotten!
Something Rotten! All Rights Reserved If you know me, it’s no secret that I’m a fan of musical theater. And…
15 December 2021–10 January 2022: Happy New Year
Happy New Year! everybody. We’re back with a big update of everything that happened in the industry while we were…
As an autistic GM, tabletop RPGs provide a perfect structure for social interaction
Imagine you’re at a party where everyone is playing a game you don’t understand. You’re trying to parse the game’s…
Legend of Zelda-style dungeons come to D&D and other tabletop RPGs in puzzle adventure Aberrant Reflections
A new tabletop roleplaying adventure aims to bring the puzzle-driven dungeons of The Legend of Zelda to the likes of…
Rolling for Initiative — I Was One for Three in 2021
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Tabletop Simulator apologises and temporarily bans global chat after multiple LGBT bans on chat
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Portal Games Will Co-Publish 'Gutenberg' English Edition
Portal Games will co-publish Gutenberg, a new board game by Granna, which will release into retail in March 2022. In…
D&D Monster Spotlight: Shoosuvas Are The Undead Demon Hyenas From Your Nightmares
What happens when the demon god of the gnolls decides he needs a giant hyena-like demon to help with Material…
D&D: Dust To Dust – Five Magic Dusts
They say that all we are is dust in the wind. But, you can prove them wrong by scattering handfuls…
RPG: Hull Breach Launches For Mothership, Hits Almost 3000 Percent Funded In Under A Week
Hull Breach is a new anthology for horror sci-fi game Mothership 1E. And it’ll show you why in space, nobody can…
Tome of Beasts 3
Something Lurks in the Shadows! Coming soon to Kickstarter, with over 400 monsters at your fingertips, Tome of Beasts 3…
CMON Will Release Two 'A Song of Ice and Fire' Starter Sets into Retail
CMON will release the Stark Starter Set and Lannister Starter Set, for A Song of Fire and Ice: Tabletop Miniatures…
Wizards of the Coast Announces 'Magic: The Gathering' 'Kamigawa' AR Experience
Wizards of the Coast announced that customers of WPN stores will be offered an in-store, web-based augmented reality experience to…
Upcoming board games 2022: 11 board game releases you should play this year
2022 looks to be an especially exciting year for board game releases. After a number of delays last year due…
Astral Projections – Kazuhiko “Kaze” Wyvern (Nomad for Cyberpunk RED)
© 2022 Linda Whitson If there’s any place Kaze (“wind” in Japanese and pronounced “Cah-zee”) is more comfortable than astride…
D&D: Original Wizard-Head Artist Says ‘No’ To Controversial TSR
Darlene, the original designer of the Wizard-head logo for TSR announced publicly that she has refused usage to the new…
Tabletop RPG tech: Infinite Realms plans to bring interactive computer graphics to your actual table-based gaming
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Mage Knight studio’s next game features 10 unique factions
The next upcoming board game from the studio behind Mage Knight, Wizkids, will include 10 unique factions for players to…
40K T’au Drones Rules, D&D’s Invisibility, Witcher Cosplay, Wheel of Time Review
Check out new T’au Empire Drone Rules, a closer look at D&D Invisibility, an awesome pair of ‘The Witcher’ cosplays,…
D&D Accessories: Play Your Next Session In A Winter Wonderland
It’s gotten cold outside, so why not bring your D&D characters to a winter wonderland of their own with these…
Beyond Comprehension
The Ultimate Battle In our most recent blog – the final one of 2021 – we took a look back…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To The Multiverse
There are many ways of representing the cosmology of D&D. But one of the most popular is the “Great Wheel.”…
Warhammer 40K BREAKING: Updated T’au Drones Confirmed
The T’au Empire’s Drones are back with an updated set of rules for 9th edition. Take a look. This image…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To Moradin
If you’ve ever played a D&D video game, you’ve heard a dwarf’s heavily brogued voice yell “by Moradin’s [beard/hammer/axe].” But…
These are the D&D monsters created by AI
Redditor Deep-Fold trained an AI called ruDALL-E on official D&D monsters. The code for the project mainly comes from this…
D&D: Hunting Wascally Wabbits? Grab Your Spear And One Of These Five Magic Helmets
Come and take a look at five magic helmets from D&D’s past, that we feel deserve a chance to be…
Warhammer 40K: 1987’s Birth of the Grimdark
In September 1987 Games Workshop rolled out the announcement for an all-new hardback named: Warhammer 40,000 and the Grimdark was…
Monster Spotlight: Lay Siege to Your Enemies With the Horizonback Tortoise!
To celebrate the coming release of Call of the Netherdeep, Critical Role's first adventure book, we're taking a deep dive…
GW, Warhammer, 40K & Fantasy Minis Trivia Challenge
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
Time is running out to grab the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginners Bundle!
Last month, we launched the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginners Bundle to support The Trevor Project and Tabletop Gaymers. At the…
Free Demo: 3d visualisation for online TTRPG play – The RPG Engine
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How To Be More D&D – A Self-Help Book
A new D&D self-help book wants to give you inspiration in real life. Check out How To Be More D&D…
Saints of Midgard: St. Ssesmiyra, the Horned Saint
The Midgard Worldbook already details a score of saints dedicated to the war god Mavros, but the other deities have…
Finder’s Archives – Castle Vantress
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D: Invisibility Doesn’t Work The Way You Think It Does
Invisibility is a powerful combat advantage. But it doesn’t work the way you think it does. Let’s unravel invisibility in…
BoLS Prime: That Time A D&D Game Trashed Hard Drives Out Of Spite
With Baldur's Gate 3 gearing up for release, let's take a look back at one of the most dangerous D&D…
Wizards of the Coast Releases More Deets on 'Magic Game Day'
Wizards of the Coast released more details on the upcoming Magic Game Day events, scheduled for March 5-6. WotC announced…
What’s Hot in Indie TTRPGs analysis evolves for 2021
Epistolary Richard runs a Patreon to fund investigations and trends in the tabletop RPG hobby. The latest research, What’s Hot…
Tiny Epic Galaxies' designer next solo game is about post-apocalyptic car combat
Scott Almes, the creator of the space-themed board game Tiny Epic Galaxies, has designed a new solo game called Wreckland…
Renegade Announces Two New 'Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid' Expansions
Renegade Game Studios announced Time Force Ranger Pack and Merciless Minions Pack #1, for Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid,…