Fantastic Worlds Productions: Reaching for the Stars While Keeping It 100
A blue-collar crew just trying to scrape by are forced by bad luck, corporate intrigue, and their empty bank accounts…
Sugar Dice: Shock, amuse and reward your players with candy dice
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Imagine the scene. You let the dice…
Exclusive: Explore inside Critical Hit – A Gaming Mystery
Novelist and game designer W.M. Akers has just launched their latest Kickstarter. Critical Hit is a mystery novel about murder…
D&D: The Summer Of Drizzt Heralds A New Novel
In case you missed it, this Summer is going to be the Summer of Drizzt. What is that all about?…
Finding a Big Bad: Beasts
The Beast class of monster is hugely varied from the common Frog to the monstrous Tyrannosaurus Rex. Beasts do cap…
Transmissions into Unified Space
Welcome to the first transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current events and…
The Workshop: Heroes on Demand – Roger Stevens “The Shield”
Sentinel Comics The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook CoverI’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the Sentinel Comics Roleplaying…
Start playing RPGs Tales from the Loop and Symbaroum for under £1
If you’re looking to take your first steps into the retro-futuristic sci-fi universe of Tales from the Loop and dark…
Pandemic, Catan and Pathfinder RPG publishers pull out of physical Gen Con return
The publishers behind major board games including Pandemic, Catan, Arkham Horror and Ticket to Ride, as well as fantasy tabletop…
Heroes of Barcadia is a drinking dungeon-crawler that wants to be fun without getting drunk
A drinking board game inspired by an April Fool’s Day joke is headed to Kickstarter next month, hoping to give…
Warlock 101: Undead Patron in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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Tabletop Gallery: Drakespawn March of Malerion
Drakespawn Knights patrolling a Realmgate Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure. From the Grimdark, to…
Heroes Of Barcadia Kickstarter Campaign Goes Live On June 7th
Self-proclaimed "ThinkGeek minions"-turned-game-designers Rollacrit are launching the official Kickstarter campaign for Heroes of Barcadia, a drink-based role-playing game that originally started…
Find One Eyed Willie’s Rich Stuff in ‘The Goonies’ Board Game
Make sure to bring a Baby Ruth bar. You know, just in case. Funko Games has announced The Goonies: Never…
Begin your adventures with Tales from the Loop and Symbaroum for less than a quid
Humble Bundle and Free League Publishing have today launched a bundle offer for several award-winning RPGs. Tabletop roleplaying games like…
PaizoCon Europe Online 2021: Tickets, GM Signups and More
Bonjour and Güten Tag, players and GMs! We know you’re all getting ready for PaizoCon Online this weekend, but we…
Shawn Tomkin has reached the stars with Ironsworn: Starforged, but he couldn’t do it alone
Designer Shawn Tomkin never really expected Ironsworn to achieve its current level of success and popularity. The touted low-fantasy tabletop…
Somninauts: Dreamy mystery adventures in RPG form
Fish in the Pot have a rules-light RPG up on Kickstarter that’s attracted a “Project We Love” label from the…
Rogue’s Gallery: Brahm the Venturer
Brahm is tall and broad shouldered like most of his kin. He keeps his chest and back uncovered so as…
Licensing, Support, & Compatibility
This article is a little different to the previews we’ve been sharing over the past months. In this article, we’d…
Ships of the Expanse – Welcome Aboard
This is the book you’ve all been waiting for! The first major supplement for The Expanse RPG is all about…
Game of the Year turns the tabletop into a video game studio hungry for awards
Could a video game about Cthulhu driving a taxi with incredible hair physics win an award? Game of the Year,…
Can you guess popular board games from their worst one-star reviews? It’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Dicebreaker’s new video producer Liv joins familiar faces Matt, Wheels and Lolies to talk through what we’ve been up to…
A Crash Course on Four Common Types of Art Print
So… You say you’re in the market for some art prints. First of all, awesome. After all, art prints have…
Astral Projections – Cyberpunk RED Play Experience
Finally, a few weeks ago, my gaming group was able to play CyberpunkRED (CPRED), which I was really hyped for.…
D&D: WotC Adds Three New Types Of Drow, Retcons Drow Lore
With the ‘Summer of Drizzt’ looming over us all, WotC has unveiled three new types of drow: Udadrow, Aevendrow, and…
CMON Announces ‘Army of the Dead: A Zombicide Game’
CMON announced Army of the Dead: A Zombicide Game, a new board based on Netflix's hit movie. Army of the…
DUNE #17 – Faction Characters: The Suk
By Andrew Peregrine In Dune: Adventures in the Imperium there are several character types that offer special powers and abilities.…
Create Magical Ornaments in ‘Winter Queen’
CrowD Games will release Winter Queen, a new abstract board game, which will hit stores on June 16. In Winter…
Paizo Will Release Two New ‘Starfinder RPG’ Card Sets
Paizo will release two new sets of Starfinder RPG cards in the second half of 2021. Alien Archive 1 &…
Dwayne Johnson in ‘Super-Pets’; Animated Drizzt Short; Bruce Timm’s New ‘Batman’ Series; New ‘Spidey’ Pre-School Series; ‘Mech Cadets’ Series, ‘Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two’
A raft of geek animation news broke in the last few days and we round it up here.Dwayne Johnson is…
Rolling for Initiative — Back to Normal? Not Quite
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Under pressure sci-fi excellence: A review of Last Fleet
Black Armada published the Joshua Fox designed Last Fleet after a successful Kickstarter. It’s an excellent game, truly it’s great.…
Exclusive extract from Transgressive Horror by Darren Watts
Darren Watts, along with Steve Long, founded Hero Games. That means he’s the president of the RPG publisher responsible for…
“So You Want The Tall Vampire Lady to Catch You” is an RPG for your personal collection
In Capcom’s Resident Evil: Village the most memorable villain might not be the big bad Mother Miranda, but the “big…
Genre Police: Just the Two of Us
I gaze into her eyes over the table. For a moment, we hold focus, wrapped up in the experience we…
ACE! The Awfully Cheerful Engine is a loving parody of 80s games
Live and funded on Kickstarter is Russ Morrissey (EN World, WOIN), Dave Chapman (Doctor Who, Star Trek Adventures) and Marc…
Here’s what the Satanic Panic looked like for D&D: Remastered 60 Minutes footage
In the years after D&D’s release, it did not go down well with some Americans. The concern arose from the…
D&D: Want To Crank Up The Tension? Use Rests Sparingly
The real power fantasy of D&D is that you can reliably get a good night’s rest, and wake up feeling…
The alien neo-noir post-post apocalypse: Favor RPG
Favor is an ambitious first project from Eclipse Entertainment and a post-post apocalypse RPG on Kickstarter. The game has a…
Make monsters your prey: A review of Wolf Hounds
Wolf Hounds is a tabletop RPG from Devin Fortman. It’s a Name Your Own Price game, published by Hare Trigger…
RPG Kitchen: Rent a tabletop RPG
You might have heard the joke or urban myth of the Millennial / Gen Z / Sagittarius saying, “What if…
The ‘Doctor Who’ Roleplaying Game: RPG Spotlight
Early episodes of Doctor Who may be lost to space and time, but you can still jump in your police…
Hideous Laughter Productions Presents: Bestow Curse!
Hello again Paizo-verse friends and family alike! It’s Steve from Hideous Laughter Productions, and I’m so thrilled to present to…
Trailblazing
It’s Alive! The kickstarter campaign for the Awfully Cheerful Engine is live, fully funded, and through it’s first stretch goal!…
Bard 101: College of Spirits in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Imagine a bard reaching for their instrument, seemingly about to buff a party member. Suddenly, an unnatural, dissonant melody echoes…
Release Update and Community Competition Winner
by Gavin Dady This week I’m going to give a general update on the status of the release schedule, and…
Into the Wilderness: Presenting Choice
Kareem pulled himself over the ridge, rolling to his feet to take in the valley. Waterfalls crashed over cliff faces…
Wizards of the Coast delivers a double dose of Drizzt Do’Urden in latest reveals
Everyone’s favourite drow snagged the spotlight during a May 20th livestream on Dungeons & Dragons’ YouTube channel, where publisher Wizards…
D&D: The Crew Behind Critical Role’s ‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ Talks RPGs
In another Legend of Vox Machina update, the cast and crew behind Critical Role’s upcoming animated series get down to…
Grid Force partners with LGBTQ+ non-profit It Gets Better
“You are not alone” is the message that many young lesbians, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people need to hear…
Twitch backed Into the Mother Lands actual play takes their RPG to Kickstarter
Twitch’s Into the Mother Lands is a rightfully popular actual play. Now, the POC-created and Cortex-powered RPG is on Kickstarter.…
From Kingdom Death to Mörk Borg, modern tabletop gaming owes a huge debt to Kentaro Miura and Berserk
It was with great sadness that the world learned of the death of Kentaro Miura, at 54. The mangaka was…
Finder’s Archive – Bottomless Vault
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
Pick up Pathfinder 2E for under $5, plus adventures, sourcebooks and accessories for the fantasy RPG
The second edition of Pathfinder can be grabbed for under a fiver in the latest Humble RPG Bundle, along with…
Preview: ‘Magic: The Gathering’ ‘Modern Horizons 2’
Wizards of the Coast revealed new spoilers for their upcoming Modern Horizons 2 set. This set is scheduled to be…
Add Eight Orc Minis to Encounters with Latest ‘D&D Icons of the Realms’ Set
WizKids revealed D&D Icons of the Realms: Orc Warband, a new miniatures set, in August. One of the most iconic…
Big Companies Continue to Bail on Attending Gen Con Indy 2021
Asmodee USA, Asmodee NA studios, and Ultra PRO Entertainment will not be physically present at Gen Con Indy 2021. The…
Thursday Art Assault – Where Have the Days Gone
Where Have the Days Gone Find more vivid, surreal art at…
Paizo’s Humble Bundle includes the 2e core rules for a couple of quid
Paizo has today launched a compelling offer on Humble. The core 2e Pathfinder rules and many other downloads are in…
Starfinder Society Year 4 Rule Changes
Greetings, Starfinders! With the launch of Year 4 just a week away, we wanted to provide our final update on…
Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary Humble Bundle
Today, we’re launching the Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary Humble Bundle to support Stop AAPI Hate. The bundle’s tiers include PDFs…
Amazon drops price on D&D’s Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft was published…
The greatest board game stories are told around the tabletop, not on it
The choose-your-own-adventure style of storytelling is finding itself in an increasing number of new board games. Games such as Gloomhaven…
Tabletop RPG Into the Mother Lands is crowdfunding stories about “a brighter, blacker future”
Upcoming tabletop RPG Into the Mother Lands officially launched its Kickstarter campaign in an effort to crowdfund a sourcebook for…
GAMA launches tabletop game search engine with 100,000 titles
This week the Game Manufacturers Association launched the Tabletop Game Industry Catalog. In effect, the site is a search engine…
The Awfully Cheerful Engine!: An Interview With Russ Morrissey (EN Publishing)
Russ Morrissey, the owner of EN Publishing and EN World (where I freelance), has a new project on Kickstarter, the…
Dungeons & Dragons reported a record year of sales and viewership in 2020
Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast recently touted some figures compiled over the last year that showed the…
You Are the Dungeon is a journaling game that flips the RPG formula on its head
Trap and ensnare foolhardy adventures inside your gates in You Are the Dungeon, an upcoming roleplaying game that switches the…
An Elder Scrolls title has been teased by the studio behind Too Many Bones
Chip Theory Games, the publisher responsible for releasing the dice-building board game Too Many Bones, has teased a potential Elder…
“Digital fatigue” is fuelling board game sales among adults – report
The rising number of older players looking for a non-digital alternative to video games helped the tabletop gaming industry reach…
Wizards of the Coast Updates Event Policies
Wizards of the Coast updated their event policies in anticipation of starting up in-store play on May 28. There were…
Using the undead as slaves: Necrobiotic’s dark charm lures in the RPG crowd
Penny for a Tale has a dark RPG on Kickstarter that’s doing well. It has a “Project We Love” tag…
PaizoCon Online 2021 Twitch Events
We’ve written about the hundreds of Paizo Organized Play games occurring at PaizoCon Online, and the Paizo Events Discord is…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Gladiators, Mercenaries, and New Civilizations
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Hoplomachus: Victorum Hoplomachus: Victorum is a brand-new, standalone arena combat…
Starfinder: Scoured Stars— Episode 09 | Beacons in the Dark!
While exploring the vasts of space, the Starfinders come across distress signals from their allies. Where others are in trouble,…
Flash Gordon RPG Receives New Booster Box Treatment
Hey there adventurers! Pinnacle Entertainment Group has announced a crowdfunding campaign for a new booster box for The Flash Gordon…
VoxStory is a traditional RPG designed for the television screen
Have you ever watched something on a screen and thought, “That would be great for roleplaying?” I did with Minecraft.…
Ratatosk: Squirrel-Folk Organizations
“Spies? What do you mean, spies? Yes, yes, I know what the word means! I was just unaware you needed…
2020 Was the Best Year Ever for Dungeons & Dragons – Again!
Global sales reach all-time high, strong figures boosted by play-at-home community initiatives in 2020Renton, WA – May 19, 2021 –…
Worldbuilding: Create your own Trinkets table
Thumbnail image from Pirates of the CaribbeanWhile doing some worldbuilding of my own I found a note my past self…
Rogue Champions – Aggression Card Review
Marvel’s Champions has grown over the years since its initial release. Each aspect now has a large pool of upgrades…
Sirens Battle of the Bards with Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone
Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone join me on the podcast to discuss Sirens: Battle of the Bards. The new D&D…
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is the greatest comic book RPG you haven’t played
When you ask most fans about a roleplaying game involving the Marvel universe, they think of TSR’s Marvel Super Heroes,…
Paizo Will Not Appear at Gen Con Indy in 2021
Paizo, Inc. announced that they will not have a physical presence at Gen Con Indy 2021. A few days before…
Karnivool, My Pandemic Band
The last concert I physically attended was a 10 Years concert on New Year’s Eve, 2019. We were able to…
Taliesin Jaffe’s Domain of Dread: Vendamir, a Land of Tomes and Ashes
Taliesin Jaffe joined D&D Beyond's Amy Dallen on stream to celebrate the release of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft! Together,…
MTG: Phyrexian-Language Praetors In MTG Arena And Secret Lair
Good news for dedicated souls out there trying to deciper the Phyrexian language, MTG: Arena will soon have all five…
NeverEnding version 2.0 to launch this week with beast heads and prosthetics
NeverEnding is a site that helps you generate character illustrations. You can use it for free or pay a little…
Let’s Concept a Creature for the Art of Paizo Panel at PaizoCon Online
On the Art of Paizo panel at PaizoCon (12 Noon Pacific on Sunday, May 30), artist Kent Hamilton will design…
Paizo’s Gen Con 2021 Update
Paizo will not have a physical presence at this year’s Gen Con Indy. Instead, like last year, we will focus…
RPG Accessories: D&D Under The Sea
Whether you’re playing an ocean themed game or just love a good day on the beach, there are RPG accessories…
BattleTech: A Time of War bundle includes everything you need to play the MechWarrior RPG for $13
Mech roleplaying game BattleTech: A Time of War is the star of the latest Bundle of Holding deal, stomping down…
Unprepared Casters breathes new life in D&D podcasts: Editorial
The surge of popularity in tabletop RPGs resulted in a plethora of D&D podcasts. D&D podcasts such as The Adventure…
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Eight
Welcome to Chapter 2: Group Patrons! You know what, I’m not even going to guess how far I’ll get in…
Finding a Big Bad: Aberrations
Aberrations are a monster class that does not lack for iconic and terrifying baddies to throw against your party. From…
Free to Download: Heavy Gear Blitz! 3e small format rules
Usually $19.99, the latest Heavy Gear Blitz! rules are a free download, in small book format, from DriveThruRPG. Dream Pod…
D&D: Dark Alliance 1st Act Gameplay Reveal And Xbox Game Pass Launch Day
Come take a look at the whole first act of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, as well as exciting game…