Curse of Hearts: Controversial horny vampire D&D goes back on sale
The D&D vampire adventure that sparked a debate about inconsistent standards in fantasy art goes back on sale.
Free to Download: Acheron RPG beta
Pop over to Dark World Studios and you can download the alpha/beta of their gritty 1930s RPG Acheron. Check your…
RPG: Pathfinder Unveils A Fearsome New Bestiary
When Paizo adds more monsters to a game, they go big–as we see in this preview of a beastly new…
Free to Download: RPG & Wargame Supply Sourcebook
The RPG & Wargame Supply Sourcebook is a new and free monthly digital magazine that collates commercial messages from tabletop…
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Trollhalla Press
Trollhalla Press' founder, Ken St Andre, wrote the second traditional tabletop RPG. Tunnels & Trolls came out a year after…
D&D: An Adventurer’s Guide To Pelinore
This week we’re shaking the dust off of a classic flat world from the other side of the pond… But it’s…
D&D designer Kate Welch leaves Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast hired game designer Kate Welch in 2018 to work on Dungeons & Dragons. Welch’s credits include…
EN World Announces ‘Advanced’ Take On 5th Edition D&D Rules
Earlier this week, EN World announced that they’d be developing an “Advanced” take on the 5th Edition rules we all…
D&D: Girls, Guts, & Glory Afterlife – Episodes 1-3
The party finds themselves in a strange new place with some memory loss, a small new friend, and more questions…
Survey Results #1: Broad Outlines
We received thousands of votes on our first survey, which addressed the broader outlines of Level Up. Thank you to…
Frostgrave Second Edition Pre-Orders are Now Open – Free Mini & Awesome Bundles
Frostgrave Pre-Orders are up and Frostgrave Second Edition sets to release for August 20th, 2020. Osprey Games shared a few…
Storm Edge Campaign Setting 11: Way of Thunder and Sumo wrestling in The Eight Isles
Welcome back to the world of STORM EDGE: THE ADVENTURES IN EIGHT ISLES! This week, we are introducing a new…
End of the Campaign
The Return of Rogue Heading back to our eagerly anticipated Rogue Trooper supplement for Judge Dredd & the Worlds of…
D&D Beyond hands out discount coupons for its birthday
Fandom’s D&D Beyond has turned three. To mark the anniversary, the digital marketplace and growing toolset have tweeted out some…
The Ark Is Coming
The Ark Is Coming Friday, August 14, 2020 From the vast reaches of space comes an unusual sight: the…
RPG Spotlight: Rifts
In the post-post apocalypse there are gargoyles in Germany, techno-wizardry can make anything possible and if you don’t like it,…
Critical Role Vox Machina Gets Their Own Funko Pop Wave
The hit Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role is getting their own wave of collectibles from Funko. Vox Machina…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #61
August 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment💶 Links may earn ad money Phew, what a busy week; another…
The Dicebreaker Podcast heats up with beach-ready board games, chaotic camel racing and tabletop football
In an especially summery (in other words, we’re all boiling in the heat), Matt, Lolies, Johnny and Meehan take refuge…
D&D: Critical Role’s New Book, New Funko Pops! Are Up For Pre-Order While They Last
With a new book on the way, and eight new Funko Pop! figurines recently unveiled, Critical Role is serving up…
Outside the Box – August 14th
Welcome back to Outside the Box – this week with news from Atomic Mass Games, Wargames Atlantic, Fantasy Flight Games,…
Finder’s Archive – Blighted Woodlands
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives. In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic:…
D&D Takes On The Thing In New Rime Of The Frostmaiden Preview
There’s some Thing familiar about a recently revealed crashed Netherese city in the frozen reaches of Icewind Dale… somebody better…
Epic Encounters include everything you need to run a D&D 5E adventure in one box
Jump straight into two different roleplaying adventures with Epic Encounters, a new series of all-in-one boxed scenarios designed for Dungeons…
Classic ‘80s Dungeons & Dragons adventure Castle Amber is being revised for 5E
Escape a haunted manor occupied by tortured ghosts in Original Adventures Reincarnated #5: Castle Amber, a revised version of a…
The Art of Skirmishing: To the Death
You could not call such bloodshed a victory. Dwarven pike had met draconic spear wall, neither buckling until lines were…
Free to Download: 2020 Gongfarmer’s Almanac – Nearly 800 pages of Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures
16 full volumes of RPG material and adventures make up the giant download.
Shadow of the Weird Wizard introduced
Robert J Schwalb’s Shadow of the Demon Lord is a dark and dangerous RPG. It’s not family-friendly. This week, Schwalb…
Organized Play Online Convention Updates
Organized Play Online Convention Updates Thursday, August 13, 2020 Janira shuffles the papers in front of her, smiling as…
D&D: Five Accessories to Make the Game More Accessible
This week, let’s take a look at how Faerûn and the adventurers who visit are making it a world anyone…
Bundle for Beirut! $235 worth of RPGs for $30
A blast tore through Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut last week, it was so strong that it reduced the struggling…
Pathfinder: Kingmaker Definitive Edition Designer Livestream!
Pathfinder: Kingmaker Definitive Edition comes to consoles on Tuesday, August 18! The new edition will take adventurers to the Stolen…
10 Feywild adventures: Through the Veil launches
The Feywild is a plane of high magic that exists near the material plane in D&D.
10 Feywild adventures: Through the Veil launches launches
Through the Veil: Tales of the Feywild is an adventure supplement now available at the DM’s Guild. The Feywild is…
Tableplop, the free virtual tabletop for RPGs, gets an upgrade
Tableplop is a free browser-based virtual tabletop for D&D and other roleplayers. Users can share encounter maps, roll dice, track…
D&D and Paizo Rule The RPG Roost – Top Five RPGs According To Sales
The numbers are in, and according to data collected by ICv2 there are two big names in RPGs right now–and…
Kobold Press bucks the trend; sets up fashion store on TeePublic
If you’re a blogger or an indie publisher, then you think long and hard about trying to turn whatever content…
D&D: WotC Teases New Settings, Digital Tools
Wizards of the Coast have put out a new survey hinting at possible new setting materials and some kind of…
Burials of Teganshire: An Interview with Griffon Lore Games
Crowdfunding a tabletop RPG on IndieGoGo is not always an easy task, but Griffon Lore Games is building an audience…
Thursday Art Assault – The Sea and the Shadow
‘The Sea and the Shadow’ – J Edward Neill – 2020 Satisfy your art fix at Share this: Like this:…
Altered Carbon’s brutal Fightdrome is becoming a card game series
A new card game set in the violent Fightdrome of sci-fi series Altered Carbon is releasing later this year. The…
Don't Get Trapped Under Ice Without 'D&D Heavy Metal Dice'!
Ultra PRO announced Dungeon's & Dragons: Icewind Dale Heavy Metal Dice for release in November 2020. This time Ultra PRO…
Don't Get Trapped In Ice Without 'D&D Heavy Metal Dice'!
Ultra PRO announced Dungeon's & Dragons: Icewind Dale Heavy Metal Dice for release in November 2020. This time Ultra PRO…
Paizo, Inc. Reveals 'Pathfinder Bestiary 3'
Paizo, Inc. revealed Pathfinder Bestiary 3, a rulebook for use with Pathfinder RPG 2E, for release in Q2 of 2021.…
Age Of Sigmar: Soulbound Unveils A Deadly New Conspiracy
The majestic cities in the Mortal Realms are triumphant bastions of gleaming artifice–and as a new Soulbound supplement reveals: rotten…
Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: August 12, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Kordran Conflict – 3D Printable Strategy Game On the distant planet…
Tales from the Drift: Making Waves
Tales from the Drift: Making Waves Wednesday, August 12, 2020 I smile encouragingly at the wounded dragonkin. Trinek stares…
I’LL TAKE YOU RIGHT INTO THE DANGER ZONES
If you’ve been following Mutants & Masterminds news the last few months, you’ve probably heard me talk way too much…
Free to Download: The Wildsea RPG – Playtest Guide
Felix Isaacs has released The Wildsea Free Playtest Guide (PDF Link) and it absolutely worth your time. I don’t know…
Apocalypse achieved in 7 minutes – Twilight: 2000 on Kickstarter
The 2020 ENnies Publisher of the Year, Free League Publishing, has launched their next Kickstarter. It's for the fourth edition…
Press Release: Kickstarter for Twilight: 2000 by Free League Funded in Seven Minutes
Free League Publishing – Aug 12, 2020 14:19 BST The Kickstarter for the edition of the classic roleplaying game Twilight: 2000 was launched…
Brief Description of 5e Classes and Subclasses (Ideal to Show to your Players), Part 5
Thumbnail image from MtG’s Gift of Immortality card by Matthew Stewart So… We finally got the Eberron official release we…
10 best worker-placement games
Worker-placement board games offer extremely strategic play experiences, pushing players to devise complex tactics to make the most out of…
Rogue Squadron- Don’t Get Burned
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
D&D: Need A Villain For Low Level Adventures? Try One Of These Five Monsters
Low-level adventures are the most popular out there right now. Want a monster to shake things up? We’ve got you…
Gamemaster Tips and Tricks with Jason Brick
Writer and game designer Jason Brick drops in on the podcast to discuss running tabletop role-playing games. Jason has written…
Kobold Press Now on TeePublic
Wave that Kobold flag! Kobold Press is teaming up with TeePublic to bring you the coolest Kobold swag available. These…
Flash Gordon is being turned into a card game for its 40th anniversary
Flash Gordon is getting a tabletop card game adaptation, announced to mark the cult sci-fi film’s 40th anniversary. Flash Gordon:…
D&D’s Most Dangerous Game: Pool Of Radiance – Prime
When you die in this game, you won’t die in real life–but your computer might. Come on a journey back…
Steamforged Games Unveils 'Epic Encounters' Fantasy Miniatures Sets
'Epic Encounters: Shrine of the Kobold Queen' and 'Epic Encounters: Lair of the Red Dragon' Steamforged Games unveiled Epic Encounters:…
Top 5 Roleplaying Games–Fall 2020
This chart of the Top 5 Roleplaying Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2020. The charts are based on…
Top 5 Non-Collectible Miniature Games–Spring 2020
This chart of the Top 5 Non-Collectible Miniature Lines (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2020. The charts are based…
Top 5 Non-Collectible Miniature Games–Fall 2020
This chart of the Top 5 Non-Collectible Miniature Lines (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2020. The charts are based…
Top 10 Hobby Channel Card/Dice Games–Spring 2020
This chart of the Top 10 Card/Dice Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2020. The charts are based on…
Top 10 Hobby Channel Card/Dice Games–Fall 2020
This chart of the Top 10 Card/Dice Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2020. The charts are based on…
Top 10 Hobby Channel Board Games–Spring 2020
This chart of the Top 10 Board Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Spring 2020. The charts are based on…
Top Collectible Games–Spring 2020
These charts of the Top 10 Hobby Channel Collectible Games, Top 3 Mass Market Channel Collectible Games and Top 5…
Promising Spring Season Brought Low by COVID-19
The hobby games business started strong in the first two months of 2020, but was then brought low and transformed…
PRESS RELEASE: POWERED by the DREAMR RPG Zine Available Via DriveThruRPG and Itch.io
POWERED by the DREAMR, a Powered by the Apocalypse tabletop roleplaying game in a zine, is available now through DriveThruRPG and Itch.io. In POWERED…
Community Use Policy Update
Paizo’s Community Use Policy is a living document, and we’ve taken the opportunity to update it to make it more…
Geek Native Patron gift: Adventure System RPG and Supers
Now and then, Geek Native has Thank You gifts for site patron and thanks to Idyll Creation’s generosity there’s some…
D&D Accessories: Dice Towers To Fall For
Whether you’re looking for something straight forward and simple or a one of a kind piece of art just for…
Creating a Code of Conduct for Your Event
Posted on Aug 11, 2020 | Questions to Consider So, you’re organizing an event, starting a club, hosting a drop-in…
The Princess Bride is getting a co-op 'adventure book' board game
Cult movie The Princess Bride is being turned into a new co-op board game out later this year. The Princess…
Making wilderness travel exciting: Wonderous Expeditions – Forests launches
Over the years, LoreSmyth has built a reputation as a Kickstarter overperformer. How do I know? The Eindhoven based company…
Building a Pantheon: Creating Universal Gods
Last week, we looked at how to create a single pantheon for a particular culture or race in your setting.…
RPG: Twilight 2000’s New Edition Kickstarter Is Coming Soon
Fria Ligan’s reboot of the beloved Twilight 2000 franchise, a game about WWIII from 1984, is right around the corner.…
4–10 August 2020: Alexa; Cortex; Wanderhome
Like the rest of the UK we are slowly melting into buckets, and dreaming of a winter that we will…
That’s How I Roll: 3 Dice Are Better Than 1
I imagine almost anyone who reads this article has had experience with the d20 system and/or similar single-die task resolution…
Unleash the minstrels of pain! Mörk Borg, the metal role-playing game rocking lockdown
With its dungeons, entrails and metal-inspired hellscapes like The Hall of Cacophonous Screams, this Swedish game has hoovered up awards…
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe RPG on the way from D&D Beyond creator
Wield the Sword of Power in protection of Eternia or scheme to bring about its demise in Legends of Grayskull:…
Encounter of the Week: Jarlaxle’s Reversal
Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part eight of this ongoing mini-series. The characters have just explored…
Need A Goblin To Guard The Store? WizKids Has It Covered!
WizKids will unleash the Pathfinder Foam Replica: Life Sized Goblin into retail in November. Goblins can be helpful little guys…
Tabletop Gallery: Blood Angel & the Grave
Now who’s out for blood? Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make A…
D&D supplement looks to normalise mask-wearing
Playing a high Int character and not able to lug around as much magical armour and equipment as everyone? What…
Yog-Sothothery in Rome: Cthulhu Invictus in the Bundle of Holding
The Call of Cthulhu setting of Ancient Rome brought to horrible life by Golden Goblin Press and Oscar Rios is…
D&D Survey 2020
Help shape future D&D products by taking this survey! We want to hear about the reasons you play, the reasons…
This Week on Twitch, Aug 10 – Aug 16
We’re back from Gen Con Online! We hope you enjoyed the various online panels we had. If you are wanting…
Join The Team!
We are recruiting an elite team of diverse 5E designers to join us on this journey. We pay well, and…
Game of Thrones RPG fans take note: Green Ronin announces the Chronicle System Guild
Green Ronin’s Chronicle System powers the now out-of-license Game of Thrones RPG and the soon-to-be-launched Sword Chronicle. Today, the publisher…
Sword Chronicle: Questions Answered, Plus the Chronicle System Guild
As Sword Chronicle undergoes the final sprint toward release we’ve fielded questions from social media, the GRAAD fan Discord server…
RPG: By The Power Of Grayskull – There’s A Masters Of The Universe RPG
It’s time to grab your magic sword, hold it aloft and get ready to wield fabulous secret powers–a Masters of…
Free to Download: Harbinger Beta RPG rules
Absolute Tabletop have released the beta version of the Harbinger roleplaying game for free. You can download a PDF version…
D&D: Combat Wheelchair Makes Splash With WotC Staff, Critical Role’s DM, But Not All Agree
D&D has a combat wheelchair now, much to the delight disabled gamers, WotC Staff, and Matt Mercer–but not everyone is…
Force Wizard – Endure Force Power
“Force Wizard” is my series on the Force powers in Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars RPG lines. It is primarily…
“We had big dreams!”: Dice Throne Adventures creators on going co-op and making 'Gloomhaven Lite'
In the Dice Throne universe, the Mad King has been sitting on his throne for a thousand years. Immortal reign…
Crime caper RPG Fiasco’s new boxed second edition is out this week
The second edition of movie-inspired RPG Fiasco is coming to retail stores later this week following the game’s successful Kickstarter…