Warhammer 40K: New T’au ‘Pathfinder Character’ On The Way
Games Workshop has a teaser for a new T’au Pathfinder model coming. Want to take a guess at who it…
Order in the Court! Danger Zones: Courthouse Now Available!
While superheroes are often involved in stopping crimes and capturing criminals, how many times have the heroes in your Mutants…
Free to Download: Yeraksys: Dying World BYTE RPG Setting Beta Version
Yeraksys: Dying World BYTE RPG Setting Beta Version is free to download right now, and the usual price is $9.60.…
Deep dive, deep space: A review of Battlestar Galactica: Designing Spaceships
This is a quick review of Eaglemoss and Hero Collector’s Battlestar Galactica: Designing Spaceships. The 192-page hardback is due out…
D&D: Last Week to Back ‘Skyraiders Of Abarax’ Kickstarter
Tracy & Laura Hickman’s Skyraider of Abrax Kickstarter campaign is pulling into its final week with new stretch goals in…
Hiring Update: Kym Weiler
Some thrilling news is spreading around the warrens! Starting today, I will be the new Sales Manager of Kobold Press,…
Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is like an episodic Spirited Away that’s part RPG, part legacy game – preview
Nestled in the heart of an isolated forest sits a home filled with residents looking for a future they can’t…
D&D 5E Guide: How To Multiclass – Barbarian
Multiclassing in D&D is a great way to add depth to your character. Beef up your Barbarian with this 5E…
Free RPG Day 2021 – The Loot! (Part 1)
White onLinda by Photo .Cottage Grim While I went to work (we need money for RPG books, you know), my…
Wizards of the Coast Updates 'The List'
Wizards of the Coast updated The List, a curated list of cards that can be found in Set Boosters, starting…
40K’s New Black Templars, Critical Role Player Options, Crimson Countess & Jinx
Check out the upcoming 40K Black Templars’ minis, Critical Role Wildemount player rules, Star Wars’ stylish N-1, The Boys Season…
Arneson v. Gygax: The Freeman Deposition
When Dave Arneson’s lawsuit against TSR was nearing a trial date at the end of 1980, his legal team…
D&D Accessories: Let’s Get Gelatinous (Cubes)
Everyone loves a Gelatinous Cube, so we’re going to add more of them do your next D&D session with these…
D&D: Exandria’s Spired City – Jrusar
High above dense jungle rise five rocky spires that make up the city of Jrusar, where Critical Role, Campaign 3…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To Sigil – City of Doors
With new settings on the horizon, and a multiverse opening up, come and explore the center of it all: Sigil,…
Lord of the Rings ugly Christmas sweaters
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Genre Police: Too Cool For School
When constructing my survey of terms in the RPG space, The Rule Of Cool (a.k.a Rule Zero) was one I…
Genre Police: To Cool For School
When constructing my survey of terms in the RPG space, The Rule Of Cool (a.k.a Rule Zero) was one I…
Free to Download: Icon of Death – A Dragon Warriors Solo Adventure
Icon of Death is the sixth in the Tales of Red Ruin from Red Ruin Publishing. The solo Dragon Warriors…
D&D: Wildemount Player Options Feature In Campaign 3 Mysteries
The Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount features prominently in Critical Role’s campaign 3, and it helps to solve some of its…
We Did It! The Kickstarter Is Over!
Check your Kickstarter inboxIn your Kickstarter PM inbox you will see links to download the PDFs from your primary reward tier. That's…
How to Create a Homebrew Magic Item Using D&D Beyond
So you’ve got the perfect magic item dreamed up, a +3 hammer of aggressive door opening. Or maybe you've jotted down…
Mothership’s 1e sci-fi horror boxed set slithers beyond $750,000 in funding
Will it hit a million? Acclaimed sci-fi horror Mothership has taken to Kickstarter to fund a boxed set and a…
Starfinder One-Shot: The Great Grav Train Robbery—Let’s Go Do Some Crimes!
Look, the plan couldn’t be simpler. Just rappel onto the roof of a speeding train filled with armed gangsters, somehow…
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…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #125
November 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💸 Links may earn commission Gang, it’s been a long week! Fortunately,…
Outside the Box – November 5th
Hello again, this week we have news from Knight Models, Wargames Atlantic, Scibor Miniatures, Warlord Games, Anvil Industry, 3D Alien…
Paizo Supports Extra Life 2021 this Weekend and Beyond!
Extra Life 2021, supporting the Children’s Hospital Network, runs on November 5th, and Paizo is supporting their fundraising efforts! This…
Warhammer 40K: Codex Lineup Confirmations And Leftovers
We know which codexes are coming to close out the year. So what’s in store for the codexes in 2022?…
Dwarven Forge find success with ambitious Dice Reliquaries project
Thrones for your math rocks? Painted, LED enhanced and sculpted displays that can be used as terrain or even counters…
The Song Undying: Reborn by the Song, Part 2
Through the Song Undying, Salamondre can fully restore the dead or dying, though they come back as undead. Within the…
'Magic: The Gathering's' Standard Set Sales Slide
TCGplayer unveiled their October data for sealed TCG product sales and price changes, and the data pointed to some new…
D&D: Strixhaven Preview Coming Next Week At Roll20 Con
Come take a peek inside the hallowed halls of Strixhaven’s College of Magic next week as part of Roll20 Con.…
RPG Review – DIESEL
Welcome to the Finder’s Archive and a review is what we have in store for you this week. 😊 We…
Quest-powered RPG Salvage Union allows players to pilot mechs with ease
Build and pilot mechs in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with accessible tabletop roleplaying game Salvage Union, based on the RPG system…
‘TSR’s Most Heavily-Censored Module – Prime
In the early days of TSR, before the Satanic Panic, one module proved to be infamous enough that it was…
An early look at Leyline Press’ Salvage Union RPG
Salvage Union is a new RPG from Leyline Press, the publisher created by Aled Lawlor (Mew-Tants) and Panayiotis Lines (Shadow…
New 'Magic: The Gathering' 'D&D' Miniatures Starter Sets Incoming
WizKids will release two Magic: The Gathering Miniatures: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Starter Sets into retail in February 2022.…
Warhammer 40K: Let’s Talk Custodes, GSC, T’au and the Meta
Adam here talking all about the exciting new stuff coming for Custodes, GSC, T’au and how it could affect the…
Starfinder Society: The End Of Fame
Greetings, Starfinders! Earlier this year we announced that Fame would be going away, and this naturally prompted a number of…
November 2021 Organized Play Update
OPC Musings By the time you read this, I will have returned from my first physical convention as a Paizo…
Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous: An Interview with Banana Chan and Sadia Bies (Pelgrane Press)
🐙 Disclosure: The post contributor may earn affiliate commission on sales from this page.Occasionally a publisher reaches out with a…
Over 2,000 game deals: Fandom throws Fanatical a birthday bash
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.It’s Fanatical’s birthday and we benefit from…
PWYW: Revolution Comes to the Kingdom enters beta
Porcupine Publishing, the talent behind the excellent and trope-busting The Elephant and Macaw Banner RPG, have released a beta edition…
D&D: Five Solid Words To Use For the Command Spell
Sticks and stones might break your bones, but these five words will hurt you– when used as part of the…
Why the Employees of Image Comics Unionized
The announcement came earlier this week from the editing and publishing staffers at the new Image Comics union, Comic Book…
RPG: ‘Shanty Hunters’– A Game About Collecting And Singing Magical Sea Shanties
The new Shanty Hunters RPG on Kickstarter will finally give you an excuse to make your friends sing sea shanties…
Star Wars: Five Force Powers That’d Better Be in the Next ‘Star Wars’ Movie
We’ve seen the Force in movies, but there’s so much more to it. Check out our favorite Star Wars Force…
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim board game takes place before the events of the video game
The upcoming board game adaptation of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will take place before the events of the original…
Ranking all 25 Pikachu on the Pokémon: TCG Pikachu V-Union card
The new Pokémon: TCG Celebrations set, which commemorates 25 years since the release of the trading card game, was released…
D&D: Make Haste! Kickstarter for ‘Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition’ Ending Soon
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition ruleset will change the way you play D&D. Its Kickstarter is in the homestretch– time…
Goatlands Adventure Omnibus – An Interview With Jason Tondro (Fainting Goat Games)
When I found out that Mike Lafferty of Fainting Goat Games had a new project coming to Kickstarter, Goatlands Adventures…
The Flash, Always Sunny Returns & More! BCTV Daily Dispatch 04 Nov 21
Rat-tailed Jimmy is a second-hand hood. Deals out in Hollywood. Got a '65 Chevy, primered flames. Traded for some powdered…
Star Trek Adventures: Writing for the Gamemaster’s Guide
By Michael Dismuke, STA Contributing Writer Are you afraid to become a gamemaster? Do you have plenty of stories, plots,…
Five years on, the Cthulhu Hack RPG returns for your soul, cash and a second edition
The award-winning Cthulhu Hack is back on Kickstarter. It’s been five years since the award-winning RPG came out, mixing simple…
All Hail 'D&D's' 'Lolth, the Spider Queen!'
WizKids will release Magic: The Gathering Miniatures: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms - Lolth, the Spider Queen, a premium figure,…
Dungeons & Monsters: 120 3d-printing files for tabletop minis for less than 20 squid
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Kickstarter Round-Up: ‘Senjutsu’, Plus Amazing Encounters for 5e, and More
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Amazing Encounters and Places – 5e Amazing Encounters &…
Free web-based soundboard Tabletopy launches paid-for software version at DriveThruRPG
There are two ways to use Tabletopy, and it is a good combination. The first is Tabletopy.com. The website loads…
Let’s Play D&D With ‘The Eternals’ Black Knight
Dane Whitman was in The Eternals, but when will we get the Black Knight? Until his next MCU moment, let’s…
Defenders of the New Century return to Kickstarter: Superpowers and Eldritch Gates
Lewis Johnson’s Defenders of the New Century is a post-war tabletop RPG where the island nation finds efforts to rebuild…
D&D: Five Ways To Make An Honest GP
Adventuring is great work– when you can get it. But when you’re between quests? Here are five honest ways to…
Iconic Encounter: Tracks In The Snow
Nhalmika Ironsight ran through the fresh snow. It wasn’t that much snow—it wouldn’t reach higher than mid-shin on a human—but…
A Cube of Christmas Borg!
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Parties of Interest: White Orchid Hunting Lodge
Parties of Interest brings you brand-new organizations to add depth and flare to your campaign and expand your roleplaying opportunities.…
D&D: How You Can Romance The Githyanki Thanks to Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch
New patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 restores the ability to romance the brooding, beautiful Githyanki warrior. Oh, and other things…
Kidrobot 'Dungeons & Dragons' Minis from WizKids
WizKids announced the first wave of the Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition Monster Mini Series by Kidrobot, releasing in August…
7 scariest monsters in Dungeons & Dragons 5E
If you’re planning on running a horror-themed Dungeons & Dragons 5E one-shot or campaign for your adventuring party and you’re…
Aquatic Traps
You see “aquatic” in one of my article titles, you know I’m working on stuff for Under the Seas of…
D&D: Everything We Know About ‘Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos’
With a dragon’s treasure in hand, we look towards the future. Looks like student loans and Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos.…
Running Role-playing Games with Brendan Lasalle (Goodman Games)
Brendan Lasalle, Goodman Games staff writer, joins me on the podcast today. Brendan lets us know how he began playing…
Embrace the Chaos – Random Player Order and You
AMG announced back in September that they were instituting some fundamental changes to X-Wing, specifically eliminating the bid to determine…
Playing only trans characters in tabletop RPGs helped me understand myself
In a one-liner that didn’t land quite as well I’d hoped in the Zoom seminar, I described my two main…
Finally!!! Atlanta Braves Win!!!
This is no longer the Darkest Timeline. We finally got to see the damn sailboat. It’s magical. *** I didn’t…
Warhammer 40K: 2003’s Original Deathwatch
Today, we’re taking the time machine back to 2003 to check out the roots of the original Deathwatch from 3rd Edition.…
U.S. Sues to Block PRH Acquisition of Simon & Schuster
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil suit to block the Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon &…
Craft your own virtual tabletop maps with the return of the Maps Bonanza and software for less than a buck
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.The Cartographer’s Collection from ProFantasy is back…
Anime: ‘Sword Art Online’ Movie Tops Japanese Box Office
The Sword Art Online Progressive movie Aria of a Starless Night tops Japanese box offices in its opening week– and…
Tech and Weapons in the Expanse RPG
“The Expanse RPG is designed to tell stories in the universe of The Expanse novels, not to be a tactical…
D&D: The Five Best Melee Classes
Dungeons & Dragons is full of bruisers, brawlers, and fighters. But which classes are the best melee classes of D&D?…
Free to Download: Path of the Planebreaker and Citadel of the Fate-Eater preview
Monte Cook Games are running a Kickstarter called the Path of the Planebreaker which opens up D&D’s multiverse to even…
D&D: This Githyanki Statue Will Haunt Your Desktop
Keep your desk safe from Illithids with the new D&D Githyanki statue. It’s straight off of the cover of the…
Gift Guide: Young Adult Graphic Novels
Teens can be picky readers, but most of them have passions of one sort or another, whether cosplay, cooking, or…
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26 October–1 November 2021: Star Wars RPG (finally) announced
This week, we finally get some news about the fate of Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars RPG: unsurprisingly on its way…
Why the D&D Player Survey Takes Aim At Settings and Player Motivations
A new D&D player survey from WotC seems focused on getting at what makes your settings tick, and signals a…
The Workshop – The Nature of Homebrew
House Rules poster, film copyright 2009 Let’s talk about a question that I see brought up pretty regularly in various…
Actions in Combat
In Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, we've tweaked combat to give it a little more variety. We have flexible types…
Bring Your Adventures to the Big Screen with VoxStory, The Cinematic TTRPG
VoxStory is the cinematic way to experience tabletop roleplaying – now on Kickstarter! Traditional games can be intimidating for new…
Miniatures Gift Prospects for Retail Shelves
Much like recent years, miniatures have been a solid seller in 2021 and should be a pretty hot gift item…
The Making of a Giant Skeleton Painting
For many days, during a stormy autumn week… …I locked myself in my studio. This is the progress of a…
Goatlands gets a helpful adventure omnibus for its 5e multi-genre setting
Goatlands is a campaign setting from Fainting Goat Games that uses D&D’s 5e system. The setting has typical D&D high…
Traveller Imperium Tour offers 11,000 worlds and a Starter Collection priced at $15
Traveller’s Little White Book that reproduces the 1981 rulebooks and the brand new Classic Traveller Fascimle Edition are found in…
Join the Battle for Beyond, a 6-Part Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Coming Nov. 12!
In a realm between worlds lies the Temple of Beyond, an arena where adventurers from across the multiverse compete against one another for their…
D&D Monster Spotlight: Black Dragons, Even Dragons Have Bullies
Known for their cruelty, evil, and especially odoriferous home, the D&D Black Dragon is one of the worst for an…
RPG zine project SideQuest launches today with a community focus
SideQuest launched today. It’s a project to gamers discover RPG zines and for their creators to promote them. Inspired by…
Shotguns & Sorcery brings the dragon emperor and fantasy noir to 5e
Geek Native gave a glowing review to Shotguns & Sorcery, the Cypher System and Robert J Schwalb’s design work on…
D&D: Five Spells To Wake The Dead
All Hallow’s Eve has come and gone, but you can still wake the dead in D&D with these five spells.…
Review – Dungeons & Dragons: The Wild Beyond The Witchlight
Last month, Dungeons & Dragons released their latest adventure book as players got to play the whimsically spooky The Wild…