Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Are you ready to level up your 5E game? Level Up, the standalone 'advanced 5E' backwards compatible tabletop RPG! Kickstarter…
Courts of the Shadow Fey Now Available on Roll20
Courts of the Shadow Fey! The stand-out adventure of shadowy fey and courtly intrigue, Courts of the Shadow Fey is…
What is Level Up?
Level Up is the working title or codename for an upcoming standalone tabletop roleplaying game. This game is conceptualized as…
RPG: Starfinder’s Next Adventure Path Wants You To Know That Wizard Came From The Moon
You know how it goes, one minute you’re exploring milennia old ruins, the next you’ve accidentally unleashed an aeons old…
Competition: Win “The After” a Savage Worlds Adventure Edition setting
The After is a Savage Worlds Adventure Edition campaign setting. The post-apocalyptic setting was successfully Kickstarted last year and is…
Free to Download: Land of Eam RPG open beta bundle
Star & Flame Games have published Land of Eem RPG as a “Pay What You Want” product with a suggested…
Storm Edge Campaign Setting 10: Sword Master
Welcome back to the world of STORM EDGE: THE ADVENTURES IN EIGHT ISLES! This week, we are introducing a new…
After the War
In a break from the scheduled post we promised in our previous blog, this week seemed a prudent point to…
Lebanese Red Cross Relief Fund: $10 for 52 games
There are a host of great looking RPGs in this charity supporting Itch.io bundle.
Dark Matter: The Cat Box is a unique monster
Mage Hand Press has a flying Kickstarter success on their hands with the Dark Matter Starter Set. The current tally…
Green Ronin publishes their classic Death in Freeport for D&D 5e
The original Death in Freeport is 20 years old and was the first adventure published under the new Open Game…
RPG Spotlight: MechWarrior
Suit up, pick out your team and jump into the twelve meter tall mech of your choice, this week we’re…
Meet The Legendary Authors!
While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple…
Barbarian 101: Path of the Battlerager
Let’s take it from the top! Become a master of every subclass in D&D with Class 101. This week’s entry…
Return to Freeport
Twenty years ago, at Gen Con in August of 2000, Green Ronin Publishing released one of the very first adventures…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #60
August 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💶 Ads: Links may earn commission It’s the start of the month,…
We solve crimes with Sherlock Holmes, beef with D&D gods and go uncover in Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 in this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast
On this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt is joined by consulting detective Wheels and street urchin Meehan to talk about Wheels’…
In Case Of An Emergency Is An RPG Inspired By The Videogame Control
If you enjoyed Remedy’s Control released last year, or if you’re a fan of the SCP Wiki, you’ll love In…
Thought Police Interactive launch a crisis TTRPG sale
Thought Police Interactive make storytelling games and tabletop RPGs.
The Eye of Klothys Review
All images were taken from Mythic Oddyseys of Theros. Thumbnail image from the reviewed product’s cover After being one of…
Mantic: Creating a Custom B.P.R.D. Rookie in Hellboy The RPG
Get a look at the character sheet for the upcoming RPG! Mantic did a large amount of research when they…
It has my heart: Werewolf’s Heart of the Forest
I've played a short demo of Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest and loved it. The full game…
Finder’s Archive – Blighted Steppe
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic: The…
Deep Magic Wallpapers
It’s August, and everyone’s gaming! So here’s a magical set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or whatever electronic…
Dune: Imperium is a new deckbuilding game from Clank! co-creator, based on the sci-fi movie remake
Dire Wolf, the co-maker of deckbuilding card game Clank!, has revealed that it’s currently working on Dune: Imperium - the…
Elder Scrolls Development Blog #6: The Great Plan Part 3
By Gavin Dady In this update we will give you some target dates for the forthcoming releases. COVID-19 and the…
Bully Pulpit Games Will Release a New Edition of 'Fiasco'
Bully Pulpit Games will release Fiasco: Boxed Edition, a new version of the classic roleplaying caper-gone-wrong game, on August 12.…
August Update— Release Schedule, Sanctioning, Spotlights and Conventions!
August Update— Release Schedule, Sanctioning, Spotlights and Conventions! Thursday, August 6, 2020 OPM Musings Wow. Eleven weeks. That is…
Wanderhome charms Kickstarter with an RPG inspired by the likes of Brian Jacques and Hayao Miyazaki
Jay Dragon picked up a Judges Spotlight in the ENnies for their game Sleepaway. A little publicity and a lot…
Iconic Encounter: Interesting Times At Okira Station
Iconic Encounter: Interesting Times At Okira Station Thursday, August 06, 2020 When the explosions started, Navasi’s first thought was,…
D&D: New This Month On DriveThru & DM’s Guild
Take a trip back to the Labyrinth and Eberron before becoming a Witcher and visitng the Feywild this month on…
D&D: Secrets Of The Mind Flayers
Knowledge is power, but for a Mind Flayer, knowledge is also a seasoning that will make your brain even more…
Necromunda: Underhive Wars Gets A Release Date
Focus Home Interactive has announced a release date for the upcoming video game Necromunda: Underhive Wars – Mark your calendars!…
D&D Cyberpunk game Entromancy gets its first expansion
Entromancy is an agile cyberpunk fantasy. It feels more D&D than Shadowrun, despite the obvious parallels. In my review, I…
In Case of an Emergency is a tabletop RPG inspired by reality-bending video game Control, and it’s out now
From creator of Carly Rae Jepsen RPG Boy Problems.
Post-apocalyptic transhuman Eclipse Phase RPG now available on laser-engraved USB
Eclipse Phase is an RPG from Posthuman Studios, set after World War III and 90% of the planet’s inhabitants have…
D&D: Undead Unearthed Arcana Unveils Two New Subclasses
Undead creatures and spirits are at the heart of the latest Unearthed Arcana, with two new subclasses for the Bard…
Tales of Pride: An RPG Anthology For Pretty Fairy Princesses – An Interview With Jack Rosetree
A friend shared the Kickstarter of Jack Rosetree’s Tales of Pride, an adventure anthology for the Pretty Fairy Princesses RPG,…
Join Dicebreaker in the Metaverse next weekend as we play RPG Blades in the Dark!
Watch the Dicebreaker team attempt to steal a powerful magical artefact from a terrifying foe in a special Blades in…
UA 2020 – Subclasses, Part Four Breakdown
Surprise! Is werewolf. No, sorry, I meant that it is a new Unearthed Arcana release, bringing us a new bardic…
Thursday Art Assault – The Shadow Stag
‘Shadow Stag’ – J Edward Neill – 2020 Satisfy your art fix at Share this: Like this: Like Loading...
Brand-New Digital Dice of Healing Free for D&D Beyond Subscribers!
D&D Beyond subscribers rejoice! It's a brand-new, free set of digital dice for you to celebrate our third anniversary! Not…
Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: August 5, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Brass Rings Pocket RPG Brass Rings is a game of adventure…
Homebrew Horrors: Three New Hydras
Want new monsters? Come and get ‘em! Let Theros and Icewind Dale combine with the frigid cryohydra—plus two other many-headed…
Subclasses, Part 4
Two spooky subclasses manifest in today’s Unearthed Arcana: the College of Spirits for bards and the Undead patron for warlocks.…
Now You Can Play Starfinder With Nathan Fillion, Laura Bailey, And Alexa
Starfinder has an interactive audio adventure out featuring the voices of Nathan Fillion, Laura Bailey, and more–available now on…Alexa? RPGs…
Monthly Encounter #12: An Abominable Cavern (lvls 5-10)
Thumbnail art from Grady Frederick Here at Tribality, we’ve decided to provide our readers with Encounters ready to be added…
Wanderhome is a relaxing animal RPG inspired by Redwall, Studio Ghibli and the Moomins
Step into a world of swaying grass and shaded creeks in Wanderhome, an upcoming roleplaying game that turns players into…
D&D: Baldur’s Gate 3 Delayed, But A Release Date Is Coming Soon
Baldur’s Gate 3 will be missing their August deadline for their Early Access release–but it looks like the game is…
Summer Star Wars Updates
Last week saw a lot of updates coming out of Fantasy Flight Games. First the points update on Tuesday and…
Running Tabletop RPGs with Patrick Kanouse
Patrick Kanouse is a longtime gamemaster and novelist. He joins me on the podcast to discuss running tabletop role-playing games.…
Starfinder RPG’s episodic Amazon Alexa game is out now, stars Critical Role’s Laura Bailey
The first three episodes of sci-fi RPG Starfinder’s interactive game for smart home speaker Amazon Alexa have launched, starring Laura…
Rich Thomas founder of Onyx Path Publishing responds to allegations of racist blacklisting
A thread on Onyx Path’s forums brings together public allegations based by RPG designer Khaldoun Khelil against Matt McElroy and…
Dungeon Tables: Trinkets and Treasures
A GM’s work is never done, so to make things easier on you, we’re providing a series of tables to…
Roll20 reports 2020 Q2 boom in RPGs; D&D reigns supreme
It will come as little surprise, but playing tabletop RPGs online using the virtual tabletop Roll20 has never been more…
Amazon and Paizo launch Starfinder audio game
If you have an Alexa or the Amazon Alexa app on your Android or Apple iOS device you can now…
FFG announces two more books for the Legend of the Five Rings RPG
Fields of Victory is a sourcebook for Legend of the Five Rings and Blood of the Lioness is an adventure.…
Arcadia: Matt Colville announces a new monthly Dungeons & Dragons magazine
Matt Colville’s company, MCDM, is working on a new D&D magazine. James Introcaso, who was a co-author on Critical Role’s…
40K: New Edition Points and the T’au Empire
Let’s talk T’au, 9th Edition points changes, and a few key units you want to pay attention to. Let’s begin…
“Alexa, open the Starfinder game!”
Announcing Starfinder, a new interactive Alexa game, featuring voice talent Laura Bailey, Nathan Fillion, and many more! Your browser does…
Space: 1889 resurrected by The Bundle of Holding (twice)
Space: 1889 is a steampunk-themed RPG in which some of the pop-science that the Victorians believed in turns out to…
Great Dalmuti: Dungeons & Dragons Card Game
The Great Dalmuti is a card game that was published way back in 1995 by Wizards of the Coast. It…
RPG Accessoires: Animal Dice
Fish and duckies and bears, oh my! These dice will feel like your bringing your character’s familiar or your favorite…
A News Media Guide for RPG Publishers
When I sought to create a blog that featured news about tabletop role-playing games, I discovered some things that have…
Building a Pantheon: How to Choose Your Gods
Today we start a new series in worldbuilding focusing on a heavenly subject: creating pantheons for your tabletop roleplaying game.…
Dungeons & Dragons 5E modder creates combat wheelchair for disabled RPG characters
An RPG designer has created a combat wheelchair for Dungeons & Dragons 5E, allowing characters with disabilities to more comfortably…
RPG: Hellboy The RPG, Coming Soon To A Kickstarter Near You
A new roleplaying game set in the Hellboy universe is in the works–soon you’ll be able to join the BPRD…
28 July–3 August 2020: The Diana Jones Award; The ENnie Awards; the Indie Groundbreaker Awards
It’s awards season in gaming and oh boy do we have a lot to go through: the Diana Jones Award…
That’s How I Roll – The Skinny on Red Mists
Cover Art by Eric Lofgren© 2016 Bill Edmunds. All rights reserved.As you may have read in previous articles of mine,…
D&D: Midnight Comes To 5th Edition
Midnight, the popular 3rd edition D&D setting where the Dark Lord won the great war and conquered the world, is…
Hellboy is being turned into an RPG, Kickstarter this summer
Comic book series Hellboy is being turned into a tabletop RPG with a Kickstarter campaign launching later this summer. Hellboy:…
Magic: The Gathering creator’s classic card game The Great Dalmuti gets a Dungeons & Dragons do-over
Compete in a game of wits and luck with a fantastical twist in The Great Dalmuti: Dungeons & Dragons, a…
Games Workshop Teases 'Blood Bowl: Second Season Edition'
Games Workshop has unveiled Blood Bowl: Second Season Edition for release during the Holiday Season. COVID-19 may have cast doubts…
Wizards of the Coast Shakes Up 'Magic: The Gathering' With Surprise Bannings
Cleaning Up the Standard and Pioneer Formats Before the Release 'Zendikar Rising' Wizards of the Coast issued a surprise update…
Tempt Fate with 'The Great Dalmuti: Dungeons & Dragons'
Wizards of the Coast has announced The Great Dalmuti: Dungeons & Dragons, ahead of the original The Great Dalmuti’s 25th…
Dark Horse announces a new Hellboy RPG
Mantic Games, who make the Hellboy board game and Dark Horse Comics today announced a new Hellboy RPG. The RPG…
Wizards of the Coast announce a D&D themed Dalmuti
A D&D product that didn’t leak in advance? Not quite. The Great Dalmuti is a 25-year old card game from…
EN Publishing releases Strontium Dog for the Judge Dredd RPG
Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD use EN Publishing's WOIN system (What's Old is New), and Strontium Dog…
The inaugural Gen Con Online draws 40,000 gamers
Gen Con was cancelled this year due to public safety concerns over a rampaging virus. At short notice, the convention…
Histories of War and Loyalty Come to the Rokugan in ‘Legends of the Five Rings’
New RPG Source Book, Adventure Book, and LCG Card Cycle or 'L5R'
Sword Chronicle: Introducing the Shattered Era
A funny thing happened on the way to making Sword Chronicle. Sword Chronicle was based on the simplest of ideas:…
Encounter of the Week: Chaos in Kelvin’s Cairn
Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part seven of this ongoing mini-series. The characters have journeyed through…
D&D: A Crossover With The Great Dalmuti Is In The Cards
Richard Garfield’s other other card game, The Great Dalmuti, is back with a Dungeons and Dragons twist for its 25th…
The Great Dalmuti: Dungeons & Dragons
A Face-Paced Card Game of One-Upsmanship Sometimes you roll a 1... … and sometimes you roll a 20 and crush…
Basic World Building: Design a Stronghold
🐙 Disclosure: The post contributor may earn affiliate commission on sales from this page. In last month’s column, I provided…
FFG Adds Clone Wars Factions to 'Star Wars: Armada'
Ships of the Galactic Republic and the Separatist Alliance will be joining Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars: Armada tabletop miniatures…
RPG: The Gen Con RPG Roundup
Gen Con was this past weekend–and though the convention was totally virtual, the games are all real. Today we’re looking…
The real-life tragedy and sensationalised fantasy behind D&D-inspired movie Mazes and Monsters
For Tom Hanks, it was hardly the most auspicious start to a movie career. Before Forrest Gump, before Turner &…
Astral Projections – Doran’enok for Star Wars Saga Edition
©2014 & TM Lucasfilm Ltd. Millennia ago, the doran’enoks evolved on Arda I, a desert world which had once been…
Reasons A Site Might Be Abandoned P4
(Author’s note: I’m picking up where I left off numerically) One of the classic D&D tropes is a party entering…
D&D: Exploring Eberron Adds New Subclasses, New Races, Opens The World
Exploring Eberron, a new book by creator Keith Baker, expands the world and adds seven new subclasses, seven “Eberronified” races,…
Swedish doom metal RPG Mörk Borg triumphs at 2020 ENnie Awards as Alien RPG named Best Game
This year’s ENnie Awards winners have been announced, naming the best tabletop RPGs of the last 12 months as voted…
Welcome to Midgard: Theocracy of Kammae Straboli
The inquisitors of Kammae know how to strike at their foes’ weakest spots. The priests of the Moon Goddess know…
Diana Jones Award celebrates “Black excellence in gaming” on its 20th anniversary
This year’s Diana Jones Award, an annual prize that recognises “excellence” in the tabletop gaming industry, has been given to…
Paizo Teams Up With Beadle & Grimm's To Bring Premium Campaign Support Products To 'Pathfinder RPG'
Gen Con Online News: Paizo, Inc. announced that it will teams up with Beadle & Grimm's, makers of premium D&D…
40K’s New Sets, Eberron Guide, Star Wars ARMADA Teasers, Paizo & FFG’s Fallout
40K is getting new start sets next week, Star Wars ARMADA has Clone Wars teasers, we talk about Eberron, Pathfinder…
RPG: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Gen Con Starter Bundles
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is having a flash sale as Gen Con closes–come look at these WFRP starter sets while you…
Mage Hand Press’ blasts off with D&D in space and the Dark Matter Starter Set
Mage Hand Press has a success on their hands with the Starter Set for their D&D in space game Dark…