Fragged! The tactical post-post-apocalyptic RPG Fragged Empire and its sequel hits the Bundle of Holding
As beings of the far future and emerging from a galaxy wrecking war, characters are generically engineered remnants on a…
Larks on carts: Fairy Trails RPG heads to a successful Kickstarter
Bandit Camp’s Fairy Trails is a Powered by the Apocalypse game in which you play fairies travelling around on a…
Tabletop Gallery: Typhus’ Sickly Assault
The Death Guard are noted for their spartan attitude. Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure.…
It’s A Great Big World Out There
The first volume of the Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path, “Planetfall,” is out now, but whenever your group plans…
So You Want to Play a Dimension Hopping Trickster God for Some Reason, Part 2: We Got Your Timelines Right Here
Last time on SYWtPaDHTGfSR, I chose an article series title that did not lend itself to a catchy acronym. I…
Rogue’s Gallery: Zarkut Baros
Zarkut Baros stands straight and proud despite his short and portly figure. His well-fitted armor is polished and embossed in…
Magpie Games release free Avatar Legends: The RPG Quickstart and announce exclusive Kickstarter edition
Confirming the name of the official Avatar RPG as Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, Magpie Games have released a free…
You can now play the Avatar: The Last Airbender tabletop RPG with free quickstart rules
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, an upcoming tabletop RPG based on the world of animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender…
Runescape Mobile – The BoLS Review
RuneScape is a blast from the days of MMORPGs past. Now on Mobile, RuneScape delivers a world with more than…
D&D Live Lineup Reveal: Tiffany Haddish, Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, And More Join The Ranks
D&D Live is going to be packed with famous faces ready to play some Dungeons & Dragons, including Patton Oswalt,…
Astral Projections – Baby Rancor for FFG Star Wars
© 2021 Disney/LucasFilm Ltd.Last month, the xenobiologist was busy studying the Brezak. (FFGSW and SWSE) This month they turn their…
The best Dungeons & Dragons references in Magic: The Gathering’s Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is the latest Magic: The Gathering set and, alongside being one of the more cumbersome…
Rolling for Initiative — More on Distributor Mags, and Has ‘Pokemon’ Crested?
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Free to Download: Jailbreak by Greg Stolze
Veteran designer Greg Stolze has released a psychological horror classic from Gildor Games to DriveThruRPG. Jailbreak is a 26-page download…
Tears of a Machine: A slice of life RPG about giant mechs made from monsters and their pilots
Russell Collins and Robot Claw Design are funding mecha-drama The Tears of a Machine SC edition on Kickstarter, and there’s…
Look to the Stars
Owen Krysler Returns! Before we launch into this week’s blog, if you haven’t caught the news over on our social…
9 years of adventure: A review of Jackals – The Fall of the Children of Bronze
The Fall of the Children of Bronze is a campaign for Jackals, except it isn’t. Clearly, to take a stab…
A flooded and Savage World: The Drowned War RPG
Star City Savages are Kickstarting a Savage Worlds Official Licensed Product and a roleplaying game set in a drowned world.…
Fans finish D&D 80s cartoon by animating Requiem from original script
The brave teen heroes of the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon never got home. Why not? It wasn’t because Dungeon…
D&D’s Pelinore – An Adventurer’s Guide To The Flattest World
This week we’re shaking the dust off of a classic flat world from the other side of the pond… But…
Irish mythology adapted for D&D 5e: Heroes of Tara Player’s Guide
Jacob Duerksen has crowdfunded an adaptation of 5e based entirely on Irish mythology. The result is the Heroes of Tara…
Stephen Dinehart and Giantlands quit TSR and won’t pay to use the trademark
Once billed as a co-founder of TSR Games (3), the company formed after the trademark on TSR Games (2) lapsed…
Unleash destruction: Humble Bundle on Warhammer 40K computer games and more from Slitherine
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.Whether we like the new UX on…
Artificer 201: A Guide to Multiclassing
Dungeons & Dragon's artificer is a master tinkerer, creating and using magical items to enhance their combat prowess or their…
Pathfinder: Secrets of Magic Liveplay with Jason Bulmahn Premieres Wednesday, July 14
Four esteemed graduates from the College of Mysteries in Absalom are sent to a tiny desert village in eastern Thuvia…
Build Out Your Sci-Fi Force with Death Fields Minis from Wargames Atlantic
Wargames Atlantic offers six awesome sets of miniatures that you could easily use for any sci-fi miniatures game or RPG campaign.…
No-Prep Character: Gristleburst
The goblin alchemist Gristleburst is the fourth and final member of the protagonist adventuring part in the Pathfinder novella, The…
RPG Spotlight: Goblin Quest
If you’re looking for an RPG that’s hilarious, rules light, and simple enough to start playing in less than five…
D&D Live 2021
Dungeons & Dragons and G4 have assembled a studious and accomplished crew of adventurers to bring D&D Live 2021 to…
Outside the Box- July 9th
Welcome back to Outside the Box, this time with news from Corvus Belli, Privateer Press, Footsore Miniatures, Warlord Games, TT…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #108
We’ve made it to the end of the week, but TSR Games (3) did not, nor did TSR Games (2),…
Wizardman: Queer and Chaos is a free tabletop RPG processing trauma through magic
The act of creation is often described as an exercise of catharsis, giving the artist an avenue for exploring -…
Kobold Dispatch: July Edition
Straight from the Editorial Director’s snout, the Dispatch provides a sneak peek at upcoming publications and projects headed from the…
The D&D Cartoon Streams On Twitch Today – Don’t Miss
The classic Marvel Studios D&D Saturday morning cartoon (and if that isn’t a marketer’s dream) is streaming all day on…
Level Up & Electronic Tools
Virtual Tabletops (VTTS)A LOT of people play online these days, and we want to support those people.Out of the gate…
Swords, sorcery and weird science-fantasy: Hyberorea marches its way to 3e on Kickstarter
North Wind Adventures set a goal of $20,000 to bring a third edition of the swords, sorcery and weird science-fantasy…
D&D: Baldur’s Gate 3 Has A New Patch With Background Goals, Non-Lethal Attacks And More
The next major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3’s early access release is due out July 13th, and with it comes…
Finder’s Archive – Brushlands
Copyright Wizards of the Coast.Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of…
Talislanta, The RPG WotC Published Before D&D – PRIME
Before D&D and Magic: the Gathering, Wizards of the Coast was a small RPG publishing company in Seattle, Washington that…
Horror and conspiracy in 18th century America: A review of Flames of Freedom
Flames of Freedom is a Grim & Perilous RPG powered by Zweihander, and it is published by Andrews McMeel. It’s…
‘Magic: The Gathering’ Strikes Back
TCGplayer unveiled their June data for sealed product price changes and sales, revealing trends that have developed in the TCG…
MTG: The Gods Of Adventures In The Forgotten Realms
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms gives the gods and goddesses of Dungeons & Dragons a taste of Planeswalking power in…
HarperCollins to Launch Middle Grade ‘D&D’ Publishing Program, Including Graphic Novels
Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have granted HarperCollins exclusive rights to publish middle grade fiction and graphic novels tied…
Free to Download: The World of Wyldrvir RPG from young game designers
Bee and Crow are young adult creators who created and are giving away the core rules for The World of…
High Risk, High Reward: New Releases from Paizo
From Mwangi to Smuggler’s Moon to an uninhabited planet in the Vast, from an international fighting tourney to a haunted…
The Queen’s Dilemma will expand the narrative legacy framework of its board game predecessor
A followup to The King’s Dilemma, 2019’s board game of monarchical decisions, has been announced. The Queen’s Dilemma reunites the…
RPG: The New TSR Saga Ends – No More TSR’s
After a whirlwind few weeks the TSR saga has come to an end as the final TSR rebrands in a…
Defiant RPG: An Art Interview With Marcin Kuczyński (Game Machinery)
Kate (Katarzyna Kuczyńska) and Martin (Marcin Kuczyński) of Game Machinery have a new project on Kickstarter, Defiant. This RPG, in…
“I’m hoping to offer something different in the co-op space”: Earthborne Rangers creator talks RPG influences and sustainability
Andrew Navaro has left his position as studio manager at Chip Theory Games - the publisher behind the upcoming Elder…
You can watch Tiffany Haddish, Seth Green and Patton Oswalt play Dungeons & Dragons next week
Comedians and TV stars Tiffany Haddish, Seth Green and Patton Oswalt will be playing Dungeons & Dragons next week as…
WizKids Returns to Barovia with Two New ‘D&D Icons of the Realms’ Sets
WizKids unveiled two more D&D Icons of the Realms: Curse of Strahd Premium Box Sets, Denizens of Barovia and Denizens…
TSR Games (3) now distances itself from TSR Games (3), rebranding to Wonderfiled
I began the day by calling TSR Games (3) a parody and finding an actual parody of “TSR Michael”. I…
Last chance to get this RPG? Cubicle 7 takes the lost Lone Wolf to Bundle of Holding
Last week, in a surprise and only a few weeks after announcing a commitment to the game, Cubicle 7 announced…
Tales From The Drift: The Monolith
From low atmospheric orbit, the crashed starship could have easily been mistaken for some great beast, slain in the heat…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Napoleonic Wars, Paranormal Investigations, and Archmagic
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Skeptics SKEPTICS is a cooperative, dice rolling game, where…
Welcome to the Expanse!
You’ve been waiting, and here it is! Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse is out today, coming out hot just before…
Tiffany Haddish, Patton Oswalt, Debrorah Ann Woll, and Others Announced for D&D LIVE 2021
Here is another press release for D&D Live 2021.TIFFANY HADDISH, CAST OF A.P. BIO, DRLUPO AND MORE ROUND OUT THE…
Ratatosk: Three Adventure Seeds
“How active are ratatosk on Midgard? Well, that’s quite hard to say. What is one more squirrel among the hundreds…
RPG: TSR Games, The One Not On Fire, Rebrands As Solarian
The tale of two TSR’s has come to an end as the company that makes ‘Top Secret’ rebrands itself as…
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to get a Pandemic-style board game adaptation
World of Warcraft and Pandemic might not sound like the most natural fit, but the venerated MMORPG will be the…
Superhero Week: Super Solo – A solitaire framework for superhero gaming
The 7th of July is the final day of Superhero Week, an annual event that I hope brings us together…
D&D: How To Make Fighting A Darklord (Or Other Boss) Spectacular
Now that Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft is here, and Darklords are back, you might be wondering, how do you…
Solo Role-Playing Games with Luke Miller
Game designer Luke Miller joins me on the podcast today. We talk gamemaster advice, writing, and running solo tabletop role-playing…
Rogue Squadron- Weapons Package
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
Power Rangers: Deck-Building Game’s first standalone set features more playable heroes and villains
Fight using the strength of the Zeo Crystal or command The Machine Empire in the first expansion for the Power…
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22 June–6 July 2021: The TSR Controversy
The past two weeks have been dominated by one subject: the new TSR and all the controversies surrounding it. In…
Exclusive: a|state 2e cover reveal and sign-up launch
Handiwork Games has launched the sign-up page for a|state on Kickstarter. Geek Native has some pictures, including the cover, to…
Free Short Story by John McGuire – The Secrets of Storytelling Part 1
A few years back I had the opportunity to write a short story for an anthology collection Beyond the Gate…
Warhammer 40K: Space Wolf Comes To Xbox
Looking to get your hands on some turn-based tactical action? Warhammer 40K Space Wolf has come crashing onto the Xbox…
8 D&D World Building Tips From Lou Anders and Travis Vengroff
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8 Worldbuilding Tips From Lou Anders and Travis Vengroff
Worldbuilding can be one of the most rewarding parts about playing Dungeons & Dragons. You get to take your friends into…
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms RED BAND TRAILER
Exciting news for fans of video game violence and animation. This weekend WB Home Entertainment released both a Red Band…
D&D Accessories: Summer Dice
Summer is time for cookouts, beach trips, and playing D&D inside with air conditioning. If it’s too hot outside, bring…
Out of this World: Horizons of the Vast Player’s Guide
“Welcome to Project: Horizon! As part of this onboarding seminar, we’ll be exploring some of the challenges you should expect…
‘Conan the King’ Arrives to Claim the Throne
Modiphius Entertainment will release Conan the King, a new sourcebook for Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, on July…
Cursed Captains of Cthulhu bring combines cutlasses and cosmic horror
The back of The Spy Game success with 5e, Black Cat Gaming is bringing Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos to golden age…
So You Want to Play a Dimension Hopping Trickster God for Some Reason, Part 1: Making a God in Modern AGE and Threefold
Let’s imagine that somehow, the cultural zeitgeist has moved to the unlikely place of trickster deities jumping through alternate universes.…
Record Times for Comics and Graphic Novels this Spring
The comics and graphic novel market had an excellent spring, with record sales for many, according to our interviews and…
Finding a Big Bad: Monstrosities
This week we take a look at one of the broadest categories of monsters in Dungeons and Dragons 5e: Monstrosities.…
‘Waves Stained Crimson’ Brings Pirates And Seafaring Adventure To The Conan RPG
Avast me hearties, the life of a pirate awaits in Hyborea with a new book for the Conan RPG, Waves…
The Workshop – Savage Worlds Pathfinder Review
Pathfinder copyright Paizo Inc, Savage Worlds copyright Pinnacle Entertainment GroupOne of the bigger stories at the end of last year…
How visionary comic book artist Moebius inspired a new wave of weird tabletop RPGs
The influence of comics artist Jean Giraud, better known by his pseudonym “Moebius”, stretches as far as the desert horizon.…
Goodman Games’ ‘DCC: Dying Earth’ Fully-Funded on KS
Goodman Games announced that its Dungeon Crawl Classics: Dying Earth Boxed Set, for DCC RPG, is fully-funded on Kickstarter. As…
Wizards of the Coast Anticipates Shortfalls in ‘Magic: The Gathering’ ‘Adventures in Forgotten Realms’ Products
Wizards of the Coast revealed that they are anticipating some shortfalls in the availability of Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in…
Rolling for Initiative – An Argument for the Distributor Magazine, and Congrats Mike Webb
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
EN Publishing News: Vampires, Coins and a Fine Shrubbery
Greetings everyone! It’s been a busy week at EN Publishing, with some upcoming Awfully Cheerful Engine! adventures that take on…
Tabletop Gallery: Separatist Captain Nemo Strikes
Prepare to repel boarders! Everybody loves a good picture of a fully painted-up tabletop adventure. From the Grimdark, to the…
Scrying on Subscriptions: Pathfinder Rulebooks
Let’s take a closer look at Paizo Subscriptions, what you can subscribe to right now, and what is coming next…
From the Deck of a Sandship: Of Ne’er-Do-Wells and the Roadrunner
Across the deserts of the Southlands, caravans full of riches travel between glittering spires and wealthy trading houses. Behind distant…
Move over MTG + D&D! We invent the RPG-card game crossovers that don’t exist (yet) on the Dicebreaker Podcast
This episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast is sponsored by Wild Bill's. Use promo code CHEERS15 for 15% off your first…
The 80’s D&D Cartoon Returns To Twitch This Friday
Grab your magic hat, your best friend unicorn, and your sense of adventure as the classic D&D Saturday morning cartoon…
Weird Stories wants to capture the strange mystery of David Lynch, Haruki Murakami and The Twilight Zone in a tabletop RPG
Upcoming RPG Weird Stories aims to bring the mysterious, surreal storytelling of David Lynch movies, Haruki Murakami novels and TV…
Astral Projections – Fever Dreamer, Braindancer (Cyberpunk Red)
Dreema Roman was a star ballerina in a corps sponsored by a Corporation – the kind of thing corps do…
D&D: ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Reveals New Patch, Panel From Hell III
Larian Studios is gearing up for another Panel from Hell as a major update for Baldur’s Gate III releases later…
2021’s Best Cosplay, Plastic Horus Heresy, Age of Sigmar Launches, Star Wars Slave 1 Controversy
We’ve got everything from plastic 30K rumors, to AoS 3 launch news, the year’s top Cosplays, and Star Wars’ fandom…
Superhero Week: Capes & Crooks aims to bring superpowers to 5e
Justin Handlin and Crit Academy are a D&D discussion podcast group that have been streaming their playtests for Capes &…
44 years of tabletop gaming changed this weekend as GAMA votes in new membership structure
The Games Manufacturers Association has been going for 44 years in the United States. It was created to protect and…
Superhero Week: A review of Amazing Heroes!
Amazing Heroes! is a superhero RPG from Martin Lloyd. Martin is probably best known as the designer adamantine best-seller Amazing…