28 tabletop games have made $1m on Kickstarter in 2021 so far
Tabletop games have already raised $146 million on Kickstarter in 2021, with more than two dozen projects individually breaking the…
Are RPGs TV’s Next Goldmine? – ‘Blades In The Dark’ And ‘Exalted’ In Development
Not one but two different RPG franchises have announced TV shows in development. Blades in the Dark and Exalted will…
Despite a cinematic release, The Green Knight tops Netflix charts for August
The streaming show search engine JustWatch has given the most-watched movie slot for Netflix audiences in the States to The…
D&D: WotC Lead Designer Talks Bard Class Origins
It’s the 90s all over again, because D&D’s lead rules designer takes us all Behind the Music with Bards, celebrating…
Rogue Squadron- Black Flight
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
Publishing RPGs on DriveThruRPG Do’s and Don’ts with Adriel Wilson
DriveThruRPG’s Indie Publisher Representative Adriel Wilson joins me on the podcast today. We talk about the do’s and don’t of…
17–31 August 2021: Blades in the Dark on TV
This week, John Harper’s hit RPG, Blades in the Dark, will get a TV adaptation; Virtual Tabletop platform, Role, raises…
Wanderhome studio’s next RPG is a game about ghost families called Our Haunt
Our Haunt, an upcoming roleplaying game about being a household of ghosts, is the next RPG from the publishing company…
Blades in the Dark RPG to get a TV show
Warp Films are working on a Blades in the Dark TV show, as confirmed by John Harper in a Tweet.…
Blades in the Dark RPG is being adapted into a television series
Blades in the Dark, the dark fantasy roleplaying game about pulling off heists, is being adapted into a television series.…
Sequioa Games Announces 'Flex NBA'
Sequioa Games announced Flex NBA Trading Tile Board Game Starter Set and Series 1 booster set, which will hit stores…
Wizards of the Coast Sponsors English Soccer Team
Wizards of the Coast announced that it will sponsor the Leyton Orient FC, an EFL League 2 soccer team, for…
Repost: He’ll See Me On The Flipside
I’m 7-years old. The kid across from me has issued a challenge to me. We’re both to submit to the…
Nerds Gummy Clusters Reveals New Dungeons & Dragons Packaging
Today Nerds candy along with Dungeons & Dragons revealed the packaging for the new Nerds Gummy Clusters with a D&D…
Players Become a Real American Hero in the 'G.I. JOE Roleplaying Game'
Renegade Game Studios will release the G.I. JOE Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and accessories later this year. In the G.I.…
Strength of Thousands: Magaambya Staff
The first chapter of the Strength of Thousands Adventure Path, Kindled Magic, is now available and contains an article describing…
Mortal Kombat Legend's Joel McHale Compares Cage to Winger & More
Mortal Combat Legends, Battle of the Realms releases today, and comedy superstar Joel McHale (Community, Stargirl) has once again been…
Lancer designers suspend work on planned sourcebooks, citing life changes and pandemic stressors
The creative duo behind popular mecha tabletop RPG Lancer has suspended development on three books originally crowdfunded through its Kickstarter…
Monsters and Dragons and Pirates, Oh My!
Monsters and Dragons and Pirates, Oh My! Tuesday, August 31, 2021 After over a year and a half of…
D&D: Five Worlds Your Characters Should Adventure In
D&D has countless worlds, as long as you can’t count very high. There are more than you’d think though! Everyone…
Book Mashup: Vaporwave Rose, Part 1
I really enjoyed writing Lost Ilium the other week. I didn’t know if the mashups were going to be a…
How to Easily Incorporate Side Quests
Side quests don’t have to be distracting fetch quests or the infamous escort quests so often present in MMORPG games.…
WotC Files Netrunner Trademark – Is A Rebirth In The Cards?
After Wizards of the Coast filed a new trademark for Netrunner, could a rebirth of the classic cyberpunk card game…
WizKids Launches 'D&D Prismatic Paint'
WizKids launched its D&D Prismatic Paint line of products, which are expected to hit stores in January 2022. This new…
Beat the superpowered streets of neo-noir RPG City of Mist on the cheap with latest Bundle of Holding
The latest Bundle of Holding offers both sourcebooks for the detective-meets-urban myth RPG City of Mist, plus a collection of…
RPG character backgrounds are rubbish – here’s how to make a good one
Creating a character for a roleplaying game is a labour of love. Coming up with a cool concept, poking and…
D&D: How To Multiclass In 5th Edition
Multiclassing in Dungeons & Dragons can be a great way to add some flexibility, depth, and power to your character.…
The Workshop – Other Fantasy RPGs
The other week I posted an article about one of the current “conversations” around 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons, specifically…
Power Rangers RPG drops D&D 5E gameplay, will debut new Essence20 system
The Power Rangers Roleplaying Game will no longer be based on Dungeons & Dragons 5E, publisher Renegade Game Studios has…
Wyrmworks Publishing shares a free disabled NPC to the DMs Guild every week
Wyrmworks Publishing has a spooky name, but a kind heart. Perhaps that’s just my Werewolf: The Apocalypse view of the…
Preview: 'D&D Frameworks' Character Packs
WizKids released preview images of their first wave D&D Frameworks character packs (see "WizKids Launches 'D&D Frameworks'"). These miniatures will…
D&D 101: Choosing a Race for Your Dungeons & Dragons Character
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It’s time to explore the dreaded City of Mist
Son of Oak’s City of Mist is a superhero detective noir RPG based on the Apocalypse Engine with custom tags…
Renegade Game Studios Announces Power Rangers Roleplaying Game
Renegade Game Studios is morphin' into action as they will be releasing the Power Rangers Roleplaying Game later this year.…
Coming Soon: Tech & Teachers
The September 2021 product release date is scheduled for the 22nd, less than a month away. So, lets preview what…
D&D Monster Spotlight: Phase Spiders, Set Phasers To Nope
What happens when you mix the worst aspects of a Giant Spider with the teleportation of a Blinkdog? Nightmare fuel…
D&D: Five Spells To Beat The Heat
It’s the height of summer and your adventuring party is wearing leather and metal–here are five spells to help beat…
Feel the darkness: Red Dawn – Into the Dawnlands battles towards funding on Kickstarter
Since bookmarking the 5e campaign setting Red Dawn: Into the Dawnlands as a Kickstarter to write up, I see it’s…
Modify, don’t reinvent: A review of There Once Were Dragons
There Once Were Dragons is an old school vibe of a tabletop RPG from One Dwarf Army. It’s been out…
Rogue’s Gallery: Hjalmar Dåkassen
Hjalmar Dåkassen carries an air of superiority whether he is in a jarl’s council chambers or having a drink with…
Renegade Game Studios Unveils 'Power Rangers RPG'
Renegade Game Studios unveiled the Power Rangers Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, which is currently on preorder. Roleplayers can now assume…
Check Out Essence 20 – Hasbro’s New RPG Engine For Transformers, GI Joe, And More
Renegade Games recently unveiled a new RPG system that will bring Hasbro’s many worlds, like Transformers, GI Joe, and Power…
We talk intriguing indie RPGs, MTG's latest reveals and Netrunner's (possible) return on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
On the latest Dicebreaker Podcast, Matt, Wheels and Chase get together to talk interesting indie RPGs, take a trip through…
D&D: Kobold Press’ New Book Will Add 50 New Subclasses
A new 5th Edition sourcebook from longtime 3rd-party publisher Kobold Press, Tome of Heroes, will add more than 50 new…
Astral Projections – Of Posergangs, Bodysculpting, and Elflines (Cyberpunk RED)
Art © 2021 by CD Projekt S.A. The Elflines Online (ELO) free Cyberpunk RED (CPR) supplements from R. Talsorian Games…
Pushing the Button
War is on the horizon. In fact, it’s so close we can see the contrails of the Total Annihilation Devices…
Six New 'Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figures' Incoming
WizKids revealed six new Pathfinder Battles: Premium Painted Figures that will hit retail stores in November. Pathfinder Battles Premium Painted…
D&D’s Unknown Rules, Arby’s Dice, DUNE’s House Harkonnen, League of Legends Cosplay, Critical Role Statues
Take a look at D&D’s unknown rules, Arby’s new D20s, House Harkonnen speaks, along with League of Legends Cosplay, and…
Rolling for Initiative — Whither the Entry Level Promo Deck?
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Legal advice on Intellectual Property in RPGs
Often – and it should be always, but I forget – when Geek Native alludes to legal decisions, options or…
RPG Accessories: D&D Swag For Autumn Druids
Crunchy leaves and crisp air means it’s time to find the RPG accessories perfect for an autumn druid or just…
Genre Police: Staying On Track
Railroading. What a term. It hovers like a spectre over the hobby. Players dread the railroading GM who is ready…
D&D: Mordenkainen, Master Of Neutrality
Dedicated to maintaining “the balance”, this Wizard is basically D&D’s sorcerer supreme. Come join us as we visit the Man,…
Historica Arcanum: The City of Crescent wants to shake up your 5e sensibilities
Historica Arcanum: The City of Crescent does three things, two of which might be seen as a shakeup. The third…
Free to Download: New Call of Cthulhu character sheets for the RPG’s 40th birthday
Call of Cthulhu turns 40 in October. That’s an impressive run for the amazing RPG, and Chaosium is making sure…
D&D: Icewind Dale – An Adventurer’s Guide
Grab your winter cloak, your ring of warmth, and make sure to stock up on rations, because we’re going to…
D&D: ‘Critical Role’s Vex And Vax Vox Machina Statues
A new series of collectible statues was unveiled earlier this week from the team at Critical Cole and Sideshow Collectibles.…
Karokans – a Crabfolk Race for D&D 5e
This week on the Campaign Trail, I thought I would share a new undersea racial option I am working on…
An interview with James Introcaso as MCDM’s Arcadia future is confirmed
When Matt Colville announced that MCDM would start a magazine, he was very clear about the commercial requirements. Arcadia would…
Road Trip! 3 Steps to Making Travel Fun in Dungeons & Dragons
Your party sets out to the Mire of Haunted Dreams. Eighteen days of thick Feywild jungle lie ahead of them. But as each…
Pledge to the NIOBE & DURA: Wrath of the Ancient Kickstarter and Get the Pathfinder: Niobe Adventure!
“We all have a Niobe inside ourselves, and it’s time to let her roar.” That’s an excerpt from the foreword…
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…
Outside the Box – August 27th
Ahoi-hoi and welcome back to Outside the Box! This week with news from North Star Military Figures, Mierce Miniatures, Creature…
More Stream Overlays for Pathfinder & Starfinder
Months ago, as we were preparing for the Jasper’s Game Week 2021 charity fundraiser, we received an email from Anne…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #115
August 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Sales from links may earn us money As Friday rolls around…
The Song Undying: A New Cult, Its Leader, and a Terrible Relic
A rapidly growing cult in Zobeck, the Song Undying has driven the clergy of certain temples in the city, including…
'Horizon Zero Dawn' Details Revealed
Steamforged has shared release information for the first four titles in its new Horizon Zero Dawn game series, including the…
D&D: So About Those Arby’s Dice…
For one shining, glorious minute, Arby’s was selling an entire set of tabletop dice. They’re gone now, but you can…
Netrunner trademark filing sends players speculating on the cyberpunk card game’s future
Someone in the Android: Netrunner community discovered that Wizards of the Coast is filing legal paperwork for a trademark over…
Finder’s Archive – Cabal Stronghold
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D – Rules You Didn’t Know Were In The Game
Do you ever need to do something weird that you don’t think D&D has a rule for? Check the Dungeon…
An argument for more sophisticated Tier 1 adventures
Geek Native invited Marius Brunner, the author of the D&D adventure The Goblin Bathwater Incident, to write about Tier 1 adventures.…
RPGs & The Feds: That Time The Secret Service Raided Steve Jackson Games – PRIME
Have you ever written a game so good that the Secret Service raids your offices, seizes your computers... even your…
MTG: New Secret Lairs Are Timeless Reimaginings Of Classic Cards
In their latest batch of Secret Lair drops, WotC reveals that Magic is getting all Timey-Wimey with their art, and…
Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate Daemonunters – New Cinematic Trailer!
There’s a new trailer just out for Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters and the Grey Knights have never looked better! [embedded content]…
Hasbro approve the release of the Essence 20 RPG system
Wizards of the Coast have a new RPG system in the ecosystem to be mindful of, and it’s connected to…
Hasbro release Essence20 as an RPG system to rival D&D’s 5e
Wizards of the Coast have a new RPG system in the ecosystem to be mindful of, and it’s connected to…
We’re removing the playtest documents!
We will soon be removing the playtest documents from this website. If you want to keep them for any reason,…
Level Up: Feature List
Below is a list of just some of the many innovations and new features to be found in Level Up:…
D&D: Five Spells Perfect For Sneaking
Stealth in Dungeons & Dragons isn’t always just the purview of rogues. With these five spells, even the clumsiest caster…
Free to Download: Cyberpunk RED Jumpstart Conversion Guide
Gamers introduced to RPGs by the success of D&D 5e and shows like Critical Role seem to lean more heavily…
Nightfall Games returns to Kickstarter for more SLA Industries RPG
Nightfall Games are looking to bolster their stable of SLA Industries books with two more through Kickstarter. The campaign has…
Roleplay as a lonely sock: A review of Searching for my Solemate
I paid $3.00 for Searching for my Solemate a GM-less tabletop RPG from Ninja Penguin. Based on what else I…
The Herbalist’s Primer gives roleplaying groups a crash course in practical and magical botany
Flex both green thumbs during the next tabletop session with the Herbalist’s Primer, a system-agnostic supplement describing 100 different plants…
'Persuader-Class Tank Droid' Reinforces 'Star Wars: Legion'
Atomic Mass Games has announced the NR-N99 Persuader-Class Tank Droid Unit Expansion for the Star Wars: Legion tabletop miniatures Game,…
D&D: Take A Look At WizKids’ New Framework Minis
WizKids has unveiled a preview of their new Framework series of miniatures–new sprue-based D&D minis that will let you custom…
Steamforged to Send 'Resident Evil 3' to Retail
Steamforged Games has shared details for the upcoming retail launch of Resident Evil 3: The Board Game, based on the…
Why does everyone hate Monopoly? The secret history behind the world’s biggest board game
Tabletop games have come a long way since the 1930s when the Parker Brothers first unleashed the game of Monopoly…
Thursday Art Assault – Seeds of the Shadow Queen
‘Seeds of the Shadow Queen’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Find more dark, surreal art at…
Will Avatar Legends Change Tabletop RPG Forever? PART TWO
In the first part of this two-part series, I reviewed the buildup to the launch of Avatar Legends, the tabletop…
D&D: How A World Of Warcraft Composer Scores Critical Role’s ‘Legend Of Vox Machina’
The Legend of the Legend of Vox Machina continues as the Critical Role team unveils the composer of the show’s…
The Price of Coal weaves a historical story of labour rights in West Virginia’s coal country
Live through a period of rising tensions just before the US government sent federal troops to quash a workers’ uprising…
D&D: Helpful diagram shows how many targets are hit by a 30ft by 5ft line
In Dungeons & Dragons 5e, several spells have a range/area described as 30 ft long and 5 feet wide. For…
Pandemic, Mysterium and Legend of the Five Rings are being turned into comics
The worlds of board games Pandemic and Mysterium, along with RPG and card game Legend of the Five Rings, are…
Parleying With Monsters: Sweet-Talk These 3 Creatures Out of Combat
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Kickstarter Round-Up: Hizuru, Not Enough Mana, Uncharted Lands, and More
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Hizuru This is the true neverending story. The looping…
New Spells from the Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic Liveplay!
In the Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic liveplay, you can have a great time learning the Pathfinder Second Edition game and…
D&D: Five Magic Items Perfect For Beginners
Magic items are great treasures for anyone… but these five magic items are perfect for players who are new to…
Ratatosk: New Squirrel-Folk Variants (Part Two)
“Imagine the horror of a dozen angry squirrel-folk ready to cut you to pieces. Now, imagine them with a warlock’s…