Briar & Bramble: The sorrow of a Watership Down RPG
Freddie Taylor-Bell has today released the ashcan version of Briar & Bramble. Ashcan editions are generally the first look at…
The Ratatosk: Spells of the Squirrel-Folk
“Though they may not look it upon first glance, the ratatosk count clever and skillful spellcasters among their number. How…
New Cthulhu mythos RPG Against The Gods Themselves will span both time and several media formats
Fight a time-spanning war against cosmic horrors and cult leaders in a newly announced series of titles set in the…
D&D: The Kobold Guide To Monsters Offers New Perspective On Designing Monsters
Kobold Press is bringing their signature style and introspection to the art of fantasy monster design in the Kobold Guide…
Tabletop roleplaying has given players comfort, connection and control in a world that’s taken them away
Roleplaying games are far more than just a social hobby. They are a form of collaborative storytelling, whose roots extend…
How GMing made me an Extrovert, kind of – GM Tips & Tricks
Clickbaitey article name? Possibly. However, I wanted to talk about the ways I believe GMing has changed much of my…
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D&D: Chris Metzen’s New 5E Campaign Is The Best Way To Play A Salamander Person
Ex-Blizzard visionary Chris Metzen’s first foray into 5th Edition is Kickstarting now. Packed with new player content: Auroboros, Coils of…
Rogue Character- Anima Beyond Fantasy- Building a Ki Character
A few weeks ago I took an overview look at the RPG Anima Beyond Fantasy. This week we’re going to…
Streaming TTRPGs with Matt Jowett
Matt Jowett, Free League Publishing Twitch Director, joins me on the podcast. We discuss streaming tabletop role-playing games and Matt’s…
“They Sue Regularly” The Many Lawsuits Of TSR – Prime
Back in the 80s and 90s, people joked that TSR stood for “They Sue Regularly” and when you look at…
WizKids Will Release Two ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Single-Count Monster Packs
WizKids will release two single-count Magic: The Gathering Unpainted Miniatures packs, with their wave 15 offerings, which will be coming…
Repost – Forget Me Not
I wrote this blog during the very first year of doing blogs, and it hit upon me as I was…
Who We Are And What We Do
Author: Ray Winninger Welcome to our new Studio Blog! We created this space to give you a glimpse behind the…
Against The Gods Themselves: Modiphius announce a new RPG
In an interview with Wargamer, Chris Birch, Modiphius’ founder, has revealed a new RPG called Against the Gods Themselves is…
The cheap way to start Dungeon Crawl Classics
Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics is one of those systems that you might first encounter when someone recommends a game…
High Magic and Unconventional Heroes: New Compatible Products
Pathfinder- and Starfinder-compatible publishers submitted fourteen new products to paizo.com. Lands of Theia — 2nd Edition (PF2E) PDF Compatible with…
Free to Download: Wicked Ones lets you play as the dungeon baddies
Following on from a successful Kickstarter in 2019, which I backed, Wicked Ones now has a free download which you…
Designer of subverted fantasy RPG Wicked Ones explains decision to offer core book for free
Wicked Ones, a Forged in the Dark RPG about monsters gradually building a dungeon lair and combating pesky heroes, is…
$100,000 earned by Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent in the 5e setting’s opening minutes
Warchief Gaming has done it. Already. Within moments. Chris Metzen, ex-worldbuilder of Blizzard and a robust social ads campaign has…
Designing a Realistic Map For Your Campaign
When designing your map there are a few rules of thumb to keep in mind. These mostly have to do…
The Workshop – Bardic Inspiration Volume 1
Hey you. Yeah, you. I’ve got a question for you. Do you like Dungeons and Dragons? Do you like music?…
D&D: Take A Look Behind The Scenes Of Dark Alliance
Come and take a behind the scenes look at the making of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, the upcoming D&D…
Keystone: North America is the next big board game for nature lovers after Wingspan
Grow and nurture ecosystems in Keystone: North America, an upcoming board game about the importance of protecting fundamental species. Keystone:…
12–19 April 2021: Pandemic; Free League; Future
This week, a few articles again reflect on the pandemic, and what the future will mean for our industry —…
Disability representation in tabletop gaming matters – here are the games doing it right
Over the past decade there has been a surge of disability representation in pop culture, from movies and TV shows…
Magical Kitties Save the Day RPG is scampering back to Kickstarter next month
The family-friendly roleplaying game, Magical Kitties Save the Day, is returning to Kickstarter for another campaign later this month. Called…
Wizards of the Coast Releases Photo Teasing the Next ‘Magic: The Gathering’ ‘Secret Lair’ Release
Wizards of the Coast released a new clue as to the what cards will be featured in the next Secret…
MTG: MrBeast Is Giving Away $25,000 On Magic: Arena This Friday
This Friday, two lucky participants will win $25,000 playing games against YouTuber MrBeast in Magic: the Gathering Arena. YouTuber Jimmy…
Spring into Action with the April Showers Sale!
All Paizo PDFs and digital products are 25% off through Sunday, May 2nd! Just click on the “On Sale” tab…
Can you help prevent suicide by playing TTRPGs?
TTRPGs and Mental Health Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TTRPGs) and mental health go hand-in-hand in today’s world. TTRPGs have become a…
Tabletop Gallery: The Doctor Will See You Now
In the right circumstances, Fabius Bile does house calls. Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You…
Warhammer Quest: Cursed City is Too Big To Fit In One Article
For all the talk surrounding Cursed City, we still haven’t been able to discuss everything about it. But we’re doing…
Biohazard Games: Jeff Barber on using RPGs as a lens for modern concerns
It takes just a quick Google to find well researched and articulate essays on how horror and sci-fi reflect current…
400 grimdark monsters for 5e’s Grim Hollow
Ghostfire Gaming has always done well with their Grim Hollow Kickstarter campaign targets. I’ve not backed, but people keep coming…
Read an illustrated playthrough of solo RPG Thousand Year Old Vampire via Twitter
Live vicariously through the documented exploits of a centuries-old creature of the night while browsing Twitter, thanks to one person’s…
Rhydan Roundtable: Hunter and Prey
This Ronin Rhydan Roundtable is inspired by a question from a Blue Rose fan regarding the events of the adventure…
Rogue’s Gallery: Victrolis Hapenny
Victrolis is not tall by any standard, and she is reed thin. Her high cheekbones are framed by long nut-brown…
Shadow Art Finds – How I Create My Surreal Backgrounds
Hi there, art lovers. Over the last few years, I’ve fielded a ton of great questions from artists, collectors, and…
D&D: Jeff Grubb’s Long-Lost Mystara Setting Book Is Coming This Year
While there are still three official setting books still coming soon from WotC, it seems like veteran designer Jeff Grubb…
Try Before You Buy – Growing Pains (Star Trek Adventures)
TM & © 2021 CBS Studios Inc. © 2021 Paramount Pictures Corp.“Try Before You Buy” is an occasional segment of…
Fallout What Makes the Companion App tick!
In September 2020, we brought you the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare digital companion, the most comprehensive app of its kind. Originally…
Ads of the Serpent: How Warchief Gaming promoted Auroboros’ Kickstarter ahead of launch
In just a few days, Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent opens on Kickstarter. In a world of 5e campaign settings…
Genre Police: Storming The Dungeon
Ever notice that the dynamics of your campaign can change? Like you can have a run of really spontaneous sessions…
Storm Weavers is a narrative style adventure board game for one player
In Storm Weavers, there is no party of heroes. There is just you. You’re Thymin, a dwarven mercenary travelling across…
Snail wizards lead Monkstone Miniatures impressive debut
Monkstone Miniatures made their debut this week, and social media likes what they see. The new British fantasy miniature maker’s…
Looking for a Roll20 Developer
EN Publishing is looking for an in-house Roll20 developer to work with us on a freelance basis to bring our…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To The City Of Spiders – Menzoberranzan
Welcome to the Underdark. Don’t mind the spiders. Today we visit the only fantasy city to provide free web access…
Fantasy Flight Games: Now Available – New Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game Products
New Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game Products are now available from Fantasy Flight Games. via Fantasy Flight Games…
Stats: 50% of roleplayers get weekly sessions
Do you find it challenging to land a weekly RPG session? Sites Demiplane, Mindflayer and Crawlr are trying to help…
Let’s Look At The Level Up Character Sheet
A character sheet is your portal into the game world. As a player, it’s your primary interface, and it’s important…
The Game Machinery announce Defiant Awakening and a new Defiant edition
This RPG fan was very happy to give the Game Machinery’s Defiant the thumbs up after buying a copy. In…
How to Support Jasper’s Game Day in Their Mission of Suicide Prevention
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Who You Gonna Call?
Last week’s blog brought us to the end of our deep dive into the Apocalypse War supplement for Judge Dredd…
Despair on Danger Island, Malevolence, and The Gilded Cage Next on Paizo LIVE!
Join us for Episode 3 of Paizo LIVE from 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific next Friday, April 23. Paizo LIVE…
Mörk Borg Pulls Lighthearted Gaming Into A Doom Metal Setting: RPG Spotlight
There’s doom, darkness, horror, an in-game mechanism for calculating how close the end of days is, and award-winning graphic design;…
New ‘Catan’ Scenarios
Asmodee will release a new tabletop edition of the digital fan favorite Catan Treasures, Dragons & Adventurers, Catan Studio announced. …
Boy Problems creator Colin Cummings joins the Dicebreaker Podcast to chat beginner RPGs, cat-proofing board games and Carly Rae Jepsen
Listeners and viewers of the Dicebreaker Podcast are in for a real treat this episode. Not only are the entire…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #96
April 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentLinks may earn commission Howdy, geeks. Once again, we find ourselves at…
Harbingers of the Yawning Void: Cult Activities and Adventure Hooks, Part 2
In the last installment, we presented you with scenarios to introduce the Harbingers of the Yawning Void into your campaign…
Recenter common fantasy assumptions with Southeast Asian zine project A Thousand Thousand Islands
Fling players into a kingdom of stone-hating crocodiles or stack them up against vampires whose heads and guts detach from…
RPG: TaleSpire Brings Beautiful 3d Terrain To Your Virtual Tabletop
A new program combines the aesthetics of 3d miniatures and terrain with the expansive creativity of a virtual tabletop. Check…
Finder’s Archive – Dungeon Creation (Part 6)
And greetings again, in the sixth installment of Dungeon Creation. This should (but we’ll see by the end) be the…
D&D: Matt Colville’s New Class – The Illrigger – Is The Hellknight Of Your Dreams
The Illrigger is a brand new full class for 5th Edition from MCDM productions–powered by infernal magic, it’s the Hellknight…
Fallout Friday
By Jon Webb “Change is the only constant in life” - Heraclitus Welcome to April’s Fallout Friday. This is the…
Thursday Art Assault – One Winter’s Night
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An Awfully Cheerful Trailer!
Check out this trailer for the AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE! Coming soon to a Kickstarter near you.More
The quickest growing RPG in Roll20 last quarter wasn’t D&D; it was The Burning Wheel
Luke Crane, the designer of The Burning Wheel, has been in the news of late. The dramatically cancelled The Perfect…
Wizards of the Coast taking direct control of some D&D translations
When D&D 5e was young, fans became so frustrated that Wizards of the Coast were so slow to translate the…
April 2021 Convention Update
Greetings, all! With spring in the air and convention season on the horizon, we wanted to take a moment and…
Humble Bundle steps in to sort out your Warhammer 40K book collection
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales.As Games Workshop are ramping up their…
D&D: Five Perfect Warlocks, Their Weapons And Supplies
Warlocks are a fairly new concept to D&D, introduced by Wizards of the Coast–but there’s still a ton of famous…
Gamers fight loneliness with the British Red Cross
The British Red Cross is running Operation Anti-Loneliness and there are 10 days to sign up. If you do, then…
Orbital Blues: A space-western RPG during an era of hyper-capitalism
Orbital Blues: A space-western RPG during an era of hyper-capitalism SoulMuppet Publishing is already at double their Kickstarter target for…
“Hope for the best and plan for the worst”: The challenges facing tabletop gaming conventions after lockdown
When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11th 2020, the Game Manufacturers Association was hosting its…
D&D: Dragonborn And Kobolds Revamped In New Unearthed Arcana
A new Unearthed Arcana introduces some powerful new updates for some of D&D’s “weakest” player options–check out new Dragonborn and…
Druids: Secrets of the Primal Circle Part 1: An Interview With Matthew Yarro (Home Brewed Games)
When I heard about Matthew Yarro’s plans to do a deep dive into the druid class for 5e, I was…
Wizards of the Coast Lifts ‘Magic: The Gathering’ In-Store Play Suspension for Japan
Wizards of the Coast has lifted their Magic: The Gathering in-store play suspension for Japan, but not for North America,…
Kobold Press Announces ‘Kobold Guide to Monsters’
Kobold Press announced Kobold Guide to Monsters, a new sourcebook for use with fantasy TTRPGs, which will release on May…
Goodman Games Reveals ‘Dungeon Crawl Classics Glow Dice’
Goodman Games revealed Dungeon Crawl Classics Glow Dice, dice sets for use with DCC roleplaying games, which are expected to…
Bundle deal on RPG battlemap blueprints for 221B Baker Street, a Drow City, a Nautilus and more
0one have a long history of superb cartography. I’ve covered them on this site back when it was known as…
The Illrigger – An MCDM Class for D&D5e – Breakthrough
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Kickstarter Round-Up: Try to Survive Space, Battle in the 9 Worlds, & Upgrade Your Bases
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Foundation Foundation™ is very easy to learn. There are…
Roblox fans will soon have a themed Monopoly board game of their own
The newest edition of classic and ubiquitous property trading board game Monopoly might be a hit for the Roblox fans…
Hi, I Wrote the Pathfinder: Fumbus Comic
Is there a more elegant way to title this post? Probably, but this is the most direct. Hey there, my…
Disability-focused Dungeons & Dragons supplements raise funds for Bristol Children’s Hospital Play Team
Community creator and Bristol Children’s Hospital Play Team member Isaac Cooke Khan has released a pair of Dungeons & Dragons…
Tales Of Lost Omens: Adumbration
I’m sorry, but that painting isn’t for sale. This particular item I’m keeping for myself. Why, you ask? Well, there’s…
How To Play Dragon Turtles Like Unstoppable Terrapin Kaiju
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Epic Games have raised $1 billion to build a vast computer roleplaying game that spans the internet
Epic Games, the company owned by Tim Sweeney and China’s Tencent, announced it had raised a new $1,000,000,000 in funding.…
Dungeon Tables: Travel Challenges and Complications, Part 3
A GM’s work is never done, so to make things easier on you, we’re providing a series of tables to…
A bit about Imposter Syndrome and rejection
There comes a time in any content creator’s mind when they look at their body of work and start thinking,…
Ruins of Symbaroum: A Kickstarter to bring Symbaroum to 5e funds in minutes
Free League Publishing have a million-dollar Kickstarter with The One Ring and while I doubt Ruins of Symbaroum will reach…
How to Successfully Handle Player Character Death
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D&D: New To The Game? Here’s A “Tutorial” Adventure
New to D&D, and especially RPGs in general? Here’s a great way to introduce new folks to the game! Dungeons…
Rogue Review – Phoenix Cell
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at the ships you can fly in Fantasy…
Battlelords of the 23rd Century with Anthony Oliveira, David Soruco, Kurt Willis
The designers of Battlelords of the 23rd Century TTRPG join me on the podcast. Anthony Oliveira, David Soruco, Kurt Willis,…
New RPG Orbital Blues brings sad space Westerns to the tabletop, along with a cassette tape soundtrack
Put your neck on the line to fill both your empty tank and stomach in upcoming tabletop RPG Orbital Blues,…