New Munchkin: Warhammer Expansions And More Poking Fun At RPGs
Hundreds of new cards, including new armies, new monsters, new weapons, and the same old wackiness and references. Recently we…
D&D BREAKING – Dragonlance Classic Announced
After lawsuits and leaks, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have officially announced a new, three-book series based on Classic Dragonlance.…
Green Ronin Patreon Roundup!
Patreon is an online platform that creators can use to run subscription services for all kinds of content. As a…
Grab 60+ indie RPGs on Itch.io and help designers create better-looking games
Itch.io bundle runs until February 1st.
Trapmaster: What Do I See?
One way to handle this problem is to vary the ways in which your traps are detected, such as using…
Astral Review – Cyberpunk Red RPG
While the Cyberpunk 2077 video game may have had its well-chronicled release woes, the same fate hasn’t befallen the Cyberpunk…
Dune adventure board game trilogy on the way, starting with this year’s House Secrets
Infiltrate the ruling powers on the planet Arrakis as rebels in Dune: House Secrets, an upcoming board game that uses…
Add a Ferocious Udaak to a ‘Critical Role’ RPG Encounter
'Critical Role: Monsters of Wildemount - Udaak Premium Figure' by WizKids
Portal Games Announces ‘Dune: House Secrets’ at Portal Con
A New Tabletop Trilogy Using the 'Detective' Engine
Retailers – Get Your Free Subscription to 'ICv2's Internal Correspondence'
An ICv2 Release. ICv2 is now mailing free copies of ICv2’s Internal Correspondence, with deep dive analysis of the game…
Rolling for Initiative — Poop and the Rise of the Offensive Game
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
D&D: Level Up’s “Advanced” Warlord
Fans have been clamoring for a 5th Edition Warlord since the beginning–and now, the makers of the “Advanced 5th Edition”…
A History of Hero Points: Fame, Fortune and Fate
“Hero Points” was the name given by James Bond 007 (1983) to a quantified resource players could expend to alter…
DMs Guild Review: The Brewski Jubilee
Art by Tetyana Kovyrina, Pexels Written and designed by Kari Jo “Kage” Freudigmann DM Experience: NovicePlayer Experience: Novice Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐…
D&D: One-Shots – Burning It All To The Ground For Fun
There’s nothing quite as liberating for a DM like running a One-shot just to see what happens. Especially when you…
Stellar Personalities
A Star-Studded Cast Our final installment in the blog for the Judge Child supplement for Judge Dredd & the Worlds…
Age Of Sigmar: Soulbound’s Crucible Of Life Is Out Now
Age of Sigmar’s treacherous campaign of sinister secrets heats up with the next part. Order it by itself, or as…
Dark Art Coupon – Shadow Art Finds
Friday, Jan 22nd through Sunday, Jan 24th Click on the pic below, and get $50 off any order of $100…
Press Release: Grab your free preview of Crystalpunk, a magic-fueled future for D&D 5e
Grab your free preview of Crystalpunk, a magic-fueled future for D&D 5e Plus Three Press recently announced the launch date…
RPG Spotlight: The Expanse Roleplaying Game
Are you an inner or a belter? This week we’re going into space and avoiding protomolecule as we take a…
Danger Zone: Fast Food Restaurant Available Now!
This week we’re releasing a brand new Danger Zone, The Fast Food Restaurant! Atop a rushing subway car, trapped in…
Perfect Adventures for the New Dungeon Master
The most important thing you can prepare for your first game is an adventure that helps your players have fun. We…
Cleric 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Playing the Divine
Clerics are one of D&D's most complex and challenging classes. Learn how to build and play a low-level cleric like…
Wizard 101: A Beginner’s Guide to the Arcane Arts
Learn how to play your first wizard, how to pick out spells for your spellbook, and how to fill different…
Wildemount: Dark Star
Get a free adventure for 7th-level characters set in dangerous wastes of Xhorhas, created by one of the authors of…
Expand your RPG art library with Vampire: The Masquerade, Symbaroum and more during DriveThruComics’ book sale
Digital purveyor DriveThruComics is currently hosting a sale on art and making-of books across the site for comics and many…
What would make a good Monopoly? We answer the impossible question on this week's Dicebreaker Podcast
On this week's podcast, Matt, Meehan and Wheels navigate their way around poop jokes and Gwyneth Paltrow’s unfortunate candle mishaps…
Tome of Beasts 2: Lairs Now Available on Fantasy Grounds
MONSTERS ON THE PROWL Tome of Beasts 2: Lairs is now available on Fantasy Grounds! Savage beasts mauling a mountaintop…
AEG Revisits 'Warlord CCG' for the 20th Anniversary of its Launch
Alderac Entertainment Group announced Warlord CCG 20th Anniversary Celebration Pack, a direct sale pack, for release this summer. Over a…
Outside the Box – January 22nd
Here we go again, this week with news about Frostgrave, Para Bellum Wargames, Artel W Miniatures, Wargames Atlantic, Mantic Games,…
Finder’s Archive – Bojuka Bog
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic: The…
D&D 5e Guide – How To Be A Fighter
Fighters are the most popular class in D&D 5e, and after reading through this guide, you’ll understand why–and how to…
Introduce Critical Role monsters and allies to your D&D campaigns with upcoming miniatures collection
Enemies and allies from the world of hugely popular D&D actual play series Critical Role are being recreated in plastic…
WizKids Unveils 'Critical Role' Monster Miniatures Sets
WizKids unveiled two new Critical Role: Monsters of Wildemount miniatures boxed sets for release in April. Critical Role features several…
Level Up Survey: Warlord
Earlier we released the playtest candidate for our Warlord class. This is the accompanying survey.
Level Up Playtest Document #9: Warlord
What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…
Magic: The Gathering Arena – Mobile Early Access January 28th
Coming to Android this month is Magic: The Gathering Arena Mobile Early Access and it’s about time. Magic: The Gathering…
The Best D&D Starter Sets of All Time
If you’re new to a tabletop roleplaying game or are trying to bring a new player into the game, starter…
Organized Play Scenario Previews
'Sorah Ka' artist Mark Molnar Starfinder: This month, we’re releasing the exciting continuations of two Year 3 series, Frozen Ambitions…
Critical Role & WizKids Reveal New Exandria Figures
WizKids and Critical Role have revealed a new line of figures on the way as they bring more characters from…
BOOM! Gets 'Magic: The Gathering'
BOOM! Studios has licensed powerhouse game property Magic: The Gathering for comics in a deal with Wizards of the Coast…
Gun&Slinger lets you play a sentient, magical gun in the RPG’s weird and dangerous world
New tabletop roleplaying game Gun&Slinger tasks players with seeking answers to important questions. How was the world killed? What manner…
Pathfinder 2E Playtest: Two Weeks Left For Gunslingers
Pathfinder has opened up a playtest that features two new classes: an old familiar face and a new star: check…
Thursday Art Assault – Solemnity
‘Solemnity’ – J Edward Neill – 2020 Find more surreal artwork at:
Steve Jackson Games’ GURPS Pyramid Scheme: An Interview With Steven Marsh and Sean Punch
Steve Jackson Games (SJG) is bringing back their magazine, Pyramid, through this Kickstarter. The editors behind it, Steven Marsh and…
WizKids Reveals Three New 'Critical Role: Factions of Wildemount' Miniatures Boxed Sets
WizkKids revealed three new Critical Role: Factions of Wildemount miniatures boxed sets for release in April. Critical Role and WizKids…
Best new board games in January 2021: latest tabletop release dates
The start of the year is often a quieter period for new board games, after the traditional rush of launches…
Lasombra Clan Will Appear in a Future 'Vampire: The Masquerade Rivals' Expansion
Renegade Game Studios announced that the Lasombra clan will be in a future expansion of Vampire: The Masquerade Rivals. Renegade…
Gale Force Nine Unveils Four New 'ALIENS' Miniatures Sets
'Heroes of Hadley's Hope', 'Sulaco Survivors', 'Alien Warriors', and 'Alien Queen' Gale Force Nine unveiled four new 'ALIENS' miniature sets…
It’s popular! Pathfinder for Savage Worlds
This Kickstarter uses the Savage Worlds engine for Pathfinder's Golarion setting. You can back the project at the pitch page.
Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: January 20, 2021
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Cloisters Cloisters is a simple but surprisingly deep two-player…
No-Prep Character: Eleukas
As The Shroud of Four Silences, the new serialized Pathfinder novella from Liane Merciel, comes to a close, we’re presenting…
Let’s Play D&D In The Matrix
Grab your darkest sunglasses and trenchcoat, this week we’re jumping into the internet of 1999 as we play D&D in…
D&D: Five Games To Play While You Wait For More Baldur’s Gate 3
Have you finished all of Baldur’s Gate 3, Act I? Waiting for early access to end so you can get…
Pathfinder For Savage Worlds Is Here
Golarion comes crashing into Savage Worlds this week, with the launch of a new Kickstarter for this amazing RPG crossover…
Midgard Chronicles: A New Branch on the Old World Tree
Something new has appeared on the Kobold Press store. It went up without a lot of fanfare, and I didn’t…
ZEITGEIST: Death of the Author
Coming soon is a brand new ZEITGEIST adventure by Ryan Nock! This adventure is set in 522 AOV, two decades…
My experience with The Wretched (Why you should play it!)
It’s been some time since I last did one of these! This has mostly been because I haven’t been able…
Cleric dice set lets you roll a chalice, war hammer and potion bottle
Embrace the caring and protective nature of the Cleric character class by rolling a set of dice shaped like blessed…
Symbaroum starter set invites new players into the RPG’s dark woods of Davokar
Swedish tabletop RPG Symbaroum has announced a new beginner’s bundle - Treasure Hunts of Davokar - that includes rulebooks, maps…
Poor Heroes, Rich Heroes, and Fly Free or Die with Jason Tondro (Starfinder)
Starfinder developer Jason Tondro drops in on the podcast today. The discussion ranges from gamemaster advice to poor heroes and…
Rogue Champion- Marvel’s Voltron…?
With all of the IP’s that Disney has bought up in recent years, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that…
HeroQuest: The Card Game seemingly leaked for spring release
An Amazon listing for HeroQuest: The Card Game suggests a distilled, card-based version of the classic dungeon-crawler will launch sometime…
New Year’s Resolutions and the Easy Button
Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay A new year and a chance to start over fresh. Make your resolutions on how…
AoS: The Crucible Of Life
The Shadows in the Mist deepen with the release of Part 3 of the first Soulbound campaign: Crucible of Live.…
Free League to publish the Symbaroum Starter Set: Treasure Hunts in Davokar
ALIEN and Vaesen publisher Free League is taking pre-orders on the Symbaroum Starter Set: Treasure Hunts in Davokar.
Gore, nudity and sexuality: Dungeon Bitches carve into Kickstarter
Dying Stylishly Games’ crew of Emily Allen, Sarah CaraPace and Mxtress Khan have a Powered by the Apocalypse Kickstarter success…
December 2020 Compatible Products
Check out the new Pathfinder- and Starfinder-compatible products—all PDFs—recently posted on paizo.com in the last month of 2020. Marvelous Merfolk…
RPG Accessories: Let’s Make A D&D Room
This week we’re going to put together an entire dungeons and dragons themed room so you can have a fun…
Our Shores designers want their Kickstarter to be the first wave of Southeast Asian RPGs going mainstream
The creative force behind the #RPGSEA hashtag has been swelling for years. Tabletop designers across Southeast Asia use it as…
Join the Mickey Mastermind Club! with our Official Patreon
Art by Jeff Carlisle. Green Ronin have launched our first official Patreon, providing new game material for Mutants & Masterminds…
Competition: Win Aramini Circus
In Aramini Circus, players are trying to load up trains with animals, providing the colours and numbers match. Published by…
Using Monsters Beyond Their Stat Blocks: Mind Flayers
Today we’ll tackle the infamous inter-planer menace: Mind Flayers. Let’s take a look at how a DM could incorporate these…
VTT Tips: Sharing Kobold Press Content with Your Players
You’ve purchased content on Roll 20 and now you want to share it with your players so they can access…
Forbidden Lands, fantasy RPG from the studio behind Alien and Tales from the Loop, is under $8
For less than $8 players can begin a campaign in the world of Forbidden Lands, the throwback fantasy RPG by…
The PC Factory: Sabah
This week, I’m making a character for the excellent space-fantasy RPG, Coriolis. Think of Coriolis like Firefly if it was…
Quest RPG gets two official adventures: a light-hearted murder-mystery and skeleton cook-off
Two official adventures for the roleplaying game Quest, featuring a train murder-mystery and undead cooking, have been announced. The adventures…
Free League Publishing Reveals 'Symbaroum Starter Set'
Free League Publishing reveals Symbaroum Starter Set: Treasure Hunts in Davokar, a new entry-level set for Symbaroum RPG, for release…
Tabletop Gallery: The Grimdark Hurts So Good
“Watch where you stick that!” Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make A…
DriveThruRPG and OBS lose saddle-stitch printing
Lightning Source, the print-on-demand company used by OneBookShelf (OBS), will discontinue saddle-stitch printing on the 1st of March.
The Forbidden Lands retro-fantasy RPG comes to The Bundle of Holding
Free League Publishing’s multiple award-winning fantasy RPG Forbidden Lands is now available at the Bundle of Holding. In the Forbidden…
Mythroll Armory’s TileFormers: Magnetic scenery clicks on Kickstarter
There’s been no shortage of innovation in the world of tabletop terrain and scenery in recent years. Kickstarter is usually…
Become Legends in “The Adventure Zone” Board Game
Whether your battling an evil cult on a train or wrestling a ring from a dragon, one thing’s for certain;…
Remix Monopoly, Cluedo and other classics into better games with hack collection A Fine Mend
Breathe new life into the stuffy boxes in the back of your closet with A Fine Mend, a printed set…
John Wick writer developing live-action Dungeons & Dragons TV series
The creator of action movie franchise John Wick is working on a live-action Dungeons & Dragons series for television, it’s…
Boy Problems, The Carly Rae Jepsen RPG, Gets B-Side
Boy Problems isn’t just a great Carly Rae Jepsen song, it’s also a Carly Rae Jepsen Sci-Fi Heist RPG, and…
Rogue’s Gallery: Wraithstrider
Living Shadow. While seeking an end to their indenture, Wraithstrider’s dreams were haunted by an unknown being of liquid darkness.…
Lighthearted is an RPG that mixes The Breakfast Club with magic and vampires
Attend community magic college and face the many challenges of growing up in Lighthearted, an upcoming roleplaying game inspired by…
Astral Projections – Fated Duel SA (Guardian Career)
“Force Wizard” is my series on the Force & Destiny Careers’ Signature Abilities. Today, we look at the first of…
DUNE #7 – Dune Peninsula, Tacoma
by Simon Berman To say I’ve been waiting a long time to work on a Dune roleplaying game would be…
Game Companies Combine
dV Giochi Acquiring Ghenos S.r.l. Italian game company daVinci Editrice S.r.l. (a/k/a/ dV Giochi) is acquiring Ghenos S.r.l., the company…
The Crafty Rogue’s Spell card books
Do you use spell cards in D&D or other RPGs? It’s a straightforward and effective idea; rather than force players…
Critical Role Fjord Pledges His Sword to Sideshow Collectibles
The next member of The Might Nein from the hit series Critical Role has arrived at Sideshow Collectibles. The Half-Orc…
Rolling for Initiative — Pokemon, the Halo Effect, and Congratulations Sara Erickson
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Genre Police: Creation Stories
The process of character creation is a framing device. It shows us as players what the game cares about, how…
Ironsworn Solo RPG tool The Augur updates
The latest update to The Augur adds new contextual drag and drop, new maps, locations, portraits and avatars.
Arcana Familia: An esoteric cyberpunk RPG
Aurora Torchia has a tabletop RPG based on Blackjack and set on a future Earth where technology and sinister occult…
The Origins of Rule Zero
The idea that a gamemaster has the discretion to alter or discard published rules was not an invention of…