D&D: Alignment Axed For New Monsters – Confirmed
Candlekeep Mysteries is, in many ways, a glimpse at what the future holds for D&D–and it’s looking like the future…
Post-Apocalyptic Movie Geek Out with Ty Rucker (Part 3)
Game designer Ty Rucker and I continue our post-apocalyptic movie geek out. We finally reach the 21st century and discuss…
Rogue Review- Anima Beyond Fantasy
Some friends were talking recently about the antics they had in an RPG system I have never heard of before…
It hates you: The Darkest House invites you in
Monte Cook Games promised us a new type of RPG product with The Darkest House. The campaign launched last night…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Sea Monsters, Giant Trolls, & Beautiful Middle-earth
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Universe Ball Anthlogy – RPG Universe Ball Anthology #1…
Kickstart the Comic – The Fox Chronicles #1
You have to train. You must get better today than you were yesterday. You must be better tomorrow than you…
Star Trek Adventures: Mission Briefs Pack 001
By Michael Dismuke, STA Contributing Writer What an electrifying era to write about! The United Federation of Planets is newly…
D&D Accessories: Get Inspiration With These Bard Tools
Music and instrument themes make for beautiful D&D accessories if you happen to play a bard who deserves to be…
Dark Alliance: Wizards of the Coast to publish their first computer game in June
We knew the Dungeons & Dragons computer game Dark Alliance was coming, and now we know it’ll hit consoles and…
Wonderstorm Taps Brotherwise for ‘Dragon Prince’ Minis Game
Brotherwise Games has reached a deal with Wonderstorm to produce The Dragon Prince: Battlecharged, a miniatures-based board game inspired by…
What to have ready before Session Zero
Session Zero refers to a pre-campaign meeting in which the DM and the players come together to create characters, fill…
Renegade Game Studios’ Printings of ‘Vampire: The Masquerade 5E’ Books are Headed to Retail
Renegade Game Studios will release reprinted editions of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Roleplaying Game core rulebook and sourcebooks into…
Inspired by Wonder Woman and Captain America, superhero RPG The First Knight lets you roleplay your own cinematic universe
Explore the origins of a modern myth through a series of interconnected one-shot adventures in new tabletop RPG The First…
10 best online board games you can play in your browser
It is a truth universally acknowledged that board games are better in person. However, getting your gaming group together on…
RPG: Life Is Like A Hurricane Here In Dukk Borg
You might solve a mystery or rewrite history in this new duck-centric adaptation of Mork Borg, one of the most…
Choose your own path adventure Defenders: Throne of the Bandit Lord based on solo RPG Lone Wilderlands launches on Kickstarter
Geek Native has a preview of Defenders: Throne of the Bandit Lord, a choose your own path book base on…
9–15 March 2021: Old School; Apocalypse; Shiny
This week: the Old School Revival revival; a beautiful Hellboy-inspired RPG; and a fascinating Kickstarter that blurs the line between…
D&D: Candlekeep Mysteries – The BoLS Review
The doors of Candlekeep have opened, revealing a library full of mystery and adventure–but how do the mysteries stack up?…
The Workshop – Pirates of Pugmire Review
I’ve talked at length about my love for Eddie Webb’s Pugmire and its sister book Monarchies of Mau on this…
Star Trek Adventures: Introducing the Klingon Quickstart
By Jim Johnson, STA Project Manager In late 2020, Modiphius Entertainment released a new version of the Star Trek Adventures…
Fallout #1 – Now With Icosahedrons!
The new Fallout tabletop roleplaying game is almost upon us, allowing you to explore the desolate wastelands of post-nuclear America…
Candlekeep Mysteries Review
Available everywhere today (March 16, 2021), Candlekeep Mysteries is an anthology of seventeen mystery-themed adventures. Each adventure is centered around…
Asmodee Announces Three Distribution Deals
Asmodee USA announced three new distribution deals today, adding the Tabletop Tycoon lines and beginning exclusive relationships with Thundergryph Games…
Tabletop Gallery: Perfection Meets Pestilence
Watch out for the Nurglings! Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make A…
D&D: Where We’re Going We Need Roads And These Five Vehicles
One of the biggest parts of any adventure is getting where you’re going. Here are a few different ways to…
Authors of Awesome Ancestries (And Heritages)!
While the writers of our Paizo products are always credited in the front and back of the books, a simple…
Dune #12 – Behind the Shield Wall
By Andrew Peregrine The gamemaster always has the hardest job, but we've done our best to make it as easy…
When the Developer Plays: Dueling Time!
Last time I told you about the Modern AGE Threefold game I don’t Game Master, but play in as Andrzej,…
Tome Unbound: Repository
Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a repository without modifying its challenge rating. Curse of…
Battle Skynet and the machine uprising across time in upcoming The Terminator RPG
The Terminator RPG launched its Kickstarter campaign on March 11th, offering a first look at publisher Nightfall Games’ upcoming roleplaying…
Pencil strokes of madness: The Anatomical Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors
I don’t think the old saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is always true. If I found a…
Business 3×3: Jean David Michel and Brian Tamm Megabrain Comics
In Business 3x3, a business retailer or executive will share their experience with three things they’ve done right, three things…
Animon Story is shaping up to be the perfect tabletop RPG for Pokémon and Digimon fans
Animon Story describes itself as a "game about kids and their monster friends evolving to overcome adversity". If you're already…
Force Wizard – Prophecy SA (Mystic Career)
“Force Wizard” is my series on the Force & Destiny Careers’ Signature Abilities.Today, padawans (or acolytes, if you’re amongst my…
GW Brings 'Piety and Pain' to 'Warhammer 40,000'
The zealots of the Adepta Sororitas face off against the sadistic slavers of the Drukhari in the Piety and Pain…
Rolling for Initiative — 'Dungeons & Dragons' as Therapy
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
D&D: Candlekeep Mysteries Table of Contents
Candlekeep Mysteries is set to release on Tuesday, March 16th, but the table of contents has already found its way…
Warhammer World Building: Soulbound City of Brightspear
🐙 Disclosure: The post contributor may earn affiliate commission on sales from this page. Warhammer World Building creates campaign settings…
Instagram worthy D&D note-taking: Dungeon Notes thrives on Kickstarter
A campaign from 1985 Games is bringing cost-effective and good-looking D&D notebooks to tabletop fans. A set of journals, complete…
Games Workshop appoints ex-Hasbro Studios exec to lead Warhammer entertainment
There is a Warhammer TV show coming that’ll focus on Gregor Eisenhorn, and it’s being made by the same studio…
Cruel whimsy: A review of Skycrawl
Skycrawl is a hexcrawl RPG that’s a cut above many others that I’ve looked at. Whereas many hexcrawls are about…
Opinion: Getting Back Into Wargaming Post-COVID Is A Tough Task
This past year's global COVID-19 pandemic was undoubtedly a tough challenge for everyone, but it was quite tough for gamers,…
Dad GM: The show must go on
Redditor Drawing_the_moon shared this heart warming RPG comic one-shot. What a good sport. +1 dad points. You can follow the…
Pixels: The shiny Bluetooth dice that the internet is raving about
These dice are beautiful, flash with siren colour combinations, know your roll, and report that to your virtual tabletop. It’s…
Level Up Survey: Bard
Yesterday we released the playtest candidate for our Bard class. This is the accompanying survey. As always, it’s OK if…
From concept to cover: Modiphius share Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 process
Boris Martsev is a concept artist who worked on Modiphius’ Achtung! Cthulhu project. By the sounds of it, Boris finished…
Level Up Playtest Document #12: Bard
What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…
Introducing the Pathfinder Combat Tracker App
If you’re a fan of the Pathfinder Combat Pad for tracking initiative (and if you aren’t, you should check it…
3D Print These Cool Minis for Your RPG and Skirmish Games
The folks at RM Printable Terrain are at it again! This time, they are taking to MyMiniFacotry to crowdfund a new STL…
The Heart of the Matter
O.L.D. to N.E.W. We’re taking another short interlude from our walk through of the Apocalypse War supplement for Judge Dredd…
Thirsty Sword Lesbians: RPG Spotlight
Swords cross and hearts race with this uniquely colorful game of adventure, fighting, and those complex romantic frenemy feelings: Thirsty…
Unearthed Arcana 2021: Folk of the Feywild Breakdown
There’s a new collection of Feywild (not all of them fey) races in the new Unearthed Arcana document, continuing the…
GM’s Day Sale cuts the price of Cyberpunk Red, Alien RPG, Age of Sigmar – Soulbound and more on DriveThruRPG
Those who run tabletop campaigns often shoulder a lot of creative labour between and during sessions, not to mention the…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #91
We’ve made it through the week together, and now it’s time to take a bullet-point look back at RPG news…
Why Your Low-Level Characters Should Have Unusually Powerful Items
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Planet Generator: Button press planets into existence for your sci-fi RPG
Imagine the scene, a character in a sci-fi RPG has consulted the star charts of a sector, looking for a…
No-frills RPG A Dragon Game pokes fun – and holes – in Dungeons & Dragons’ design
Dungeons & Dragons gets widely and constantly critiqued by folks, both fans and otherwise. Call it justified or a symptom…
What’s the most underrated class in tabletop RPGs? The answer to this and more on the latest Dicebreaker Podcast
This episode of Dicebreaker Podcast is sponsored by Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos. Visit https://store.team17.com and use code DICE10 for…
Harbingers of the Yawning Void: Followers and Minions
Those who serve the Yawning Void are terrifying to those not loyal to the cult. Nihilistic and apparently suicidal, they…
Wheels is Dicebreaker’s new Head of Video!
Happy Friday! I’m delighted to end the week with some very exciting news: Michael Whelan is Dicebreaker’s new Head of…
The Terminator invades Kickstarter for a tabletop RPG
Nightfall Games, the publishers of SLA Industries, has launched their Kickstarter project for The Terminator RPG. It has funded already,…
Finder’s Archive – Dungeon Creation (Part 1)
Hi Everyone,This time around we’re starting another little mini-series. This one is all about “making your own dungeon.” This one…
D&D: Four New Fey Folk Race Options In Unearthed Arcana
Unearthed Arcana is back with four different ways for players to play folk from the Feywild, take a look at…
Fallout Friday Community Blog
By Jon Webb As part of the ongoing #FalloutFriday initiative, we wanted to showcase not just the efforts of everyone…
MTG: Historic Anthology IV Brings 25 Blasts From The Past
With 25 cards bringing a blast from gaming’s past, there’s a whole lot to look forward to in Magic: the…
Thursday Art Assault – Sins of the Seven Moons
‘Sins of the Seven Moons’ – J Edward Neill – 2021 Unearth more surreal secrets at:
Long-running MUD rolls out quests written by tabletop designers
MUDs, Multi-User Dungeons, are an early form of online RPG. Players would log into shared servers, experience text only worlds,…
Introducing Starfinder Society Year 4
Art by Mark Molnar It’s time for the Starfinder Society to rally together against a mysterious new threat! A series…
Free to Download: Welcome to Drakonheim
Zadmar Games have released another free RPG that’s worth your time. Taking inspiration from Sneak Attack Press’ system-agnostic fantasy setting…
LATAM Jam wants to connect Latin American indie tabletop creators and build their audience
It can be easy to miss non-European and non-American game scenes. Digital marketplaces and physical shipping routes already favour nations…
Folk of the Feywild
Wander into the magical realm of the Feywild in this month’s Unearthed Arcana! With the playtest options in the PDF…
John Harper gives his blessing to flogging Lasers & Feelings hacks
Lasers & Feelings is a Name Your Own Price one-page RPG inspired by a song from the geeky music of…
Strive for improvement under the thumb of far-future capitalism in RPG Tomorrow on Revelation III
How do you exercise power and build coalitions in an explicitly stratified society? That’s one of the questions at the…
D&D: How To Be Stealthy When No One Has Stealth
Stealth is always an option in D&D–even when nobody is skilled at it. Just follow these tricks, and every mission…
Over 400 paper minis as GTG go Trash mob style
GTG, aka Geek Tank Games, have made paper minis before. I backed a 300+ set and the experience was smooth,…
D&D: The Combat Wheelchair’s Version 2.1 Adds Four New Subclasses
The Combat Wheelchair is back with an updated new ruleset that adds four subclasses designed use the chair, including Matt…
DIESEL: An Interview With Steven Pankotai
Every RPG is interesting, but some concepts are so interesting that I have to ask where they came from. DIESEL…
Tidal Blades’ upcoming RPG has announced a publisher, new details
The tabletop RPG translation of Druid City Game’s competitive board game Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef will be coming…
Become a detective through time and fantasy with a bundle of Gumshoe RPGs
Seek clues in the ancient past and other worlds with the Gumshoe 3 RPG Bundle of Holding, a collection of…
CMON Will Release 'A Song of Ice & Fire: Greyjoy Starter Set'
Into the U.S. Hobby Channel in April CMON will release A Song of Ice & Fire: Greyjoy Starter Set, a…
Get the sci-fi Stellaris for less than a squid as $135 worth of goodies list in Humble Bundle
🐙Sponsored Post paid for by Geek Native. We may earn a commission on sales. Stellaris is a computer game in…
Starfinder: Misery’s Company By Tim Pratt
Today, we’re excited to launch the first piece of multi-part Starfinder fiction, Misery’s Company, a serialized novella by Hugo Award-winner…
Starfinder: Scoured Stars Liveplay Premieres March 17
The planet of Golarion is gone, and the details about what happened to it are lost to the Gap, a…
Hacks of popular one-page RPG Lasers & Feelings can now be sold after designer opens up licence
Tabletop RPGs using John Harper’s Lasers & Feelings as their foundation can now be listed and sold thanks to an…
The UK’s favourite computer game by city
Patrol Base are an Airsoft company, and I bet they’re not enjoying the lockdown. However, in a sensible bit of…
Hold back an impending disaster in Hellboy-inspired RPG Apocalypse Keys
Designer Jamila Nedjadi has teamed up with Blades in the Dark publisher Evil Hat Studios to create an upcoming tabletop…
Roleplaying In The Wasteland – The Fallout Classic Collection
War, war never changes–but the Fallout series sure does. Though today it’s a 1st-person crafting open world shooter, time was,…
Midgard Alchemy: Hag Marks
A hag can magically bestow a mark on a willing creature, binding them. The marks take different forms, depending on…
Going off the rails – GM’s Tips and Tricks
It took you 10 hours along the week but you’re finally ready for anything your players may come up with…
Competition: Win a copy of The Forest Dragon Bang & Twang
Bang & Twang is fast, easy to learn and fun to play. In fact, it’s suitable for ages 8 and…
D&D: Solasta Crown Of The Magister Introduces Digital Dungeon Maker
The best part of Neverwinter Nights is back. Create your own custom dungeons with Solasta: Crown of the Magister’s new…
Rogue Review- LAAT/i Gunship
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at the ships you can fly in Fantasy…
Dungeon Master Advice, RPG World Building with Anto Cerrato
RPG YouTuber Anto Cerrato is today’s guest on the Dicegeeks podcast. Anto shares his expertise running D&D campaigns and sessions.…
Pixels’ electronic, Bluetooth-enabled dice bring the physical heft back to digital adventures
The inexorable march of technology in the last few years can easily be marked by humanity’s ability to stuff RGB…
How The Worst RPG Became The Industry’s Most Prestigious Award – Prime
The Diana Jones Award is handed out every year for "excellence in gaming" but it's actually a remnant from one…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Sci-Fi Adventures, a Prison Break, & Orcs With Money
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! Orconomics Orconomics is “the” boardgame to recreate the chaotic economic…
Remarkable Cults & Their Followers: Add a dangerous organisation to your RPG
LoreSmyth have a knack at knowing what DMs and GMs are looking for. This time, it’s cults. GMs need cults…
WizKids Reveals 'D&D Icons of the Realms Miniatures: Snowbound'
'Huge Booster', 'Huge Booster 8 Ct. Brick' and 'Frost Giant and Mammoth Premium Set' WizKids revealed D&D Icons of the…