R.I.P. Lenard Lakofka
Lenard Lakofka, an influential contributor during the early days of Dungeons & Dragons, passed away October 23 at the age…
The 4th Pillar: Setting up an “Imbalanced” Campaign
It doesn’t matter what game you’re playing: you can break all of its rules and go wild with how you…
John Wick inspired fantasy RPG Urban Shadows gets a second edition
Stalk the streets of a supernatural city in Urban Shadows: Second Edition, the latest entry in the tabletop roleplaying series…
3 Villains for your Halloween-themed one shots or sidemissions
Thumbnail Art by David Harrington Halloween is almost here! Time to get that one-shot or side mission for your campaign…
Tabletop games are coming from ex-Blizzard VPs who worked on Warcraft and Overwatch
Warchief Gaming, a local club founded by two former vice-presidents of Blizzard, has been transformed into a tabletop developer. Beginning…
Warchief Gaming a big new RPG and tabletop games publisher
Chris Metzen was SVP at Blizzards Entertainment and the gaming company's main visionary at the time. He, along with Mike…
Rogue Review- El Dorado
Want some treasure? How about the ultimate treasure of them all, the golden city of El Dorado?Gameplay- B+ The goal…
D&D: Is A Live-Action TV Show In The Cards For Dungeons & Dragons?
During the Q3 conference call, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner hinted that a live-action TV show might be in store for…
The Jordenheim Role-Playing Game with Dan Cross
Role-playing game designer Dan Cross drops in on the podcast to talk about his latest creation, the Jordenheim RPG. Along…
Limited Edition 'Luke Skywalker' for 'Star Wars: Legion'
Fantasy Flight Games is offering the Limited Edition Luke Skywalker Commander Expansion for its Star Wars: Legion tabletop miniatures game,…
Critical Role has launched its own tabletop publisher, Darrington Press
Popular Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying group, Critical Role, has announced the launch of its very own publishing company, Darrington Press.…
Critical Role Ventures into Tabletop Publishing
New Darrington Press Plans Four Titles
Rolling For Initiative — Gifts For Gamers 2020
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
New Release – Tales from Vigilante City
Anthologies are a great smorgasbord of being able to get a wide breadth of stories that you might not have…
Warhammer 40K: Fixing T’au Markerlights in 9th
Let’s talk about how the Markerlight system itself could change for the new edition. I’ve discussed the problems with the…
Critical Role Launches New Publishing Wing Darrington Press
The folks at Critical Role have expanded their business yet again as they have launched a new publishing wing called…
Darrington Press: Critical Role launches RPG and tabletop games publishing company
Matt Mercer and the Critical Role team have launched their own tabletop games company Darrington Press today.
Beadle and Grimm’s Kickstarter Launch.
By the time you read this, we'll be live! In the meantime, we've been furiously updating the Kickstarter page based…
RPG Accessories: D&D Candies For Your Sweet Tooth
It’s that time of year where eating your weight in candy for three months is almost expected of us, so…
Darrington Press, tabletop gaming publisher created by Critical Role announced
Ever since their inaugural stream on Geek & Sundry, Critical Role has expanded its tabletop footprint in the past several…
BREAKING – Critical Role Announces New RPG/Boardgame Publishing Company
Critical Role announces Darrington Press, a new tabletop publishing company with 4 new projects from Exandria and beyond in the…
Pathfinder 2E to Get Complete Character Chronicles by Beadle & Grimm’s
Beadle & Grimm's is publishing a new line of Character Chronicle books for Pathfinder 2E meant to distill the game's…
Media Release: The ALIEN RPG Launched on Virtual Tabletop Platforms – Stay Alive If You Can
Free League Publishing – Oct 27, 2020 14:00 GMT “I can’t lie to you about your chances, but … you…
Get Dungeon Crawl Classics books for less than £1
Explore an eldritch underwater tower, a museum of death and a treasure-stuffed cave with Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG books, which…
Kevin’s Spellbook: Shape Water
Welcome adventurer! Today I crack open my grimoire and tell you about another one of my favorite spells. This time…
Media Release: Community Ambassadors appointed for Chaosium’s Miskatonic Repository and Jonstown Compendium
Chaosium has appointed Community Ambassadors for its Miskatonic Repository and Jonstown Compendium community content programs on DriveThruRPG. The Miskatonic Repository is Chaosium’s platform on DriveThruRPG for independent…
D&D: Get Your Classic Dungeon Crawl On – DCC Humble Bundle
Goodman Games is bringing classic dungeon crawling back to your tabletop with a humble bundle packed full of old school…
That’s How I Roll: The Bone Age, A Review
Disclaimer: I was provided a free digital copy of this game in exchange for an honest review.The Bone Age is…
D&D: Two New Dragon Subclasses Spotted
A new Unearthed Arcana reveals two new dragon-powered subclasses, one for monks and one for rangers–just what is WotC planning?…
Hasbro working on a D&D TV series
The Hasbro earnings call happened yesterday and Wizard of the Coast’s owner seems to be doing okay. It might be…
'Adult Red Dragon Premium Figure' Unleashes Its Fury On 'D&D Icons of the Realms'
WizKids announced D&D Icons of the Realms: Adult Red Dragon Premium Figure, the next release in the chromatic dragon figure…
AoS: A Fateful Night Comes To Soulbound
Come take a look at the newest horror-themed adventure coming to the Mortal Realms. Come see what happens one Fateful…
Tabletop Gallery: Astartes, Alone, Unafraid
Shhhhh… Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make A Great BoLS Pic Of…
Unearthed Arcana 2020: Subclasses, Part Five Breakdown
There aren’t a lot of things that could pull me away from my current freelancing work to get a weekly…
The RPG builder BYTE is out
Abascanto Press have released the BYTE Roleplaying Game Rulebook. The RPG is a successful Kickstarter which took more than €10,000…
Atlas Games signs on to fulfil Fandom’s Cortex Prime orders
Atlas Games are Fandom’s fulfilment partners. This means the Feng Shui publishers are helping put Cortex Prime in friendly local…
Innovative RPG app YARPS goes into hibernation
YARPS' Kickstarter backers are being offered their money back.
Dungeon Crawl Classics Humble Bundle
For the next 20 days, or so, there's some $400 worth of Dungeon Crawl Classics available across three tiers. The…
Cthulhu as Judgement: Cthulhu Dark Arts Tarot
The rigid corpse of the dead bird blocked my usual view of the coastline. Feathers tugged as the chill wind…
Liars Night 2020 | Wave 03
The nights grow longer, and the chill in the air, more biting. Settlements increase activity in preparation for the sun’s…
This Week on Twitch, Oct 26 – Nov 1
This Week on Twitch, Oct 26 - Nov 1 Monday, October 26, 2020 Check out what we have in store…
Kickstarter Korner – An Interview with Ed Jowett on Era: The Forbidden RPG
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of chatting with Ed Jowett, the lead creator and writer of “Era:…
Trapmaster: The Soft Touch
In a previous post, I brought up focusing your traps with purpose and mentioned nonlethal traps. These types of traps…
School’s Haunted! Expanding Bite Club for your Halloween campaign!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Halloween! And once again, we here in the Mutants & Masterminds office…
RPG: Klingons Come To Star Trek Adventures And It Is A Good Day To Die
Qa’pla friends, make sure your bat’leth is sharp, and that you’re ready to make your family proud, the Klingon sourcebook…
Select all the images with elven rangers
Running a RPG with lycanthropes? Perhaps you want silver to be the element that can harm werewolves. That would make…
Warhammer Retro: Gods of Law & Chaos GW Forgot
From the Old World to the Grimdark, the Chaos Gods are not alone – come see those who are committed…
Astral Projections – Golgotham Familiars (Mutants & Masterminds 3e)
Astral Projections presents A Literary Halloween! For October, I am providing stats inspired by tales from some of my favorite…
10 best anime board games, from Dragon Ball Super to My Hero Academia
From live-action Netflix remakes to multi-million-dollar video games, anime has never been bigger. Anime board games are no exception -…
New Roll20 mobile app is getting a closed beta “soon”
The new mobile app for tabletop roleplaying platform Roll20 looks to be launching in a closed beta, after the original…
Next 40K Codexes, Necromunda, Warcry, D&D Virtual Weekends, and a Working Lightsaber
Two 40K codexes are imminent. Necromunda & Warcry arrive, then we see WotC’s new way to play D&D, who is…
Geek Retreat Plans 100 Stores in the Next Two Years
A fast-growing UK chain of comic and game stores plans rapid expansion, opening 100 new stores over the next two…
Save Your Campaign from the Holidays
It’s Halloween this week! My campaign is taking a week off from our main campaign and we’re planning to play…
Paizo and Giochi Uniti to make Pathfinder Arena
Heroes can try and survive the increasingly tricky encounters by levelling up, gathering new skills, spells, equipment and even the…
Astral Tabletop confirm no personal data lost in database security lapse
The virtual tabletop Astral confirmed in an email to all users this week that a security incident had happened. Astral…
Wizards of the Coast strikes a deal to pay (some) DMs
A "Learn to Play Adventure" costs $4 per ticket and at the top of the list are a "Standard 4…
Pathfinder: Troubles In Otari Due Out In Late November
A new standalone adventure from Pathfinder wants you to step beyond the beginning town. Come check out the Troubles in…
All the announcements from Roll20Con 2020
Roll20Con 2020 wraps at the end of the weekend and there's already been a ton of announcements.
Family RPG adventures with WanderSquares: The Underwood Tunnels
The print-and-play option for WanderSquares takes a pledge of $24 and has an expected delivery date of February 2021. Sadly,…
MÖRK BORG CULT Expansion By Free League Publishing Out Now
Yesterday, we covered a piece of tabletop gaming news revolving around Free League Publishing's newest expansion book for Vaesen, their Nordic…
Unboxing Warcry: Catacombs
Warcry: Catacombs is up for pre-order and we got a look inside the new boxed set – plus a ton…
D&D’s New Virtual Play Weekends Add More Games
Looking for an escape from, y’know, everything? Baldman Games and WotC are working to let you to play more D&D…
PACG Cutting Room Floor: Wondrous Rod
Today’s Pathfinder Adventure Card Game blog is brought to you by Keith Richmond (text in blue) and Chad Brown (text…
Subclasses, Part 5
Empowered by dragons, two subclasses land in today’s Unearthed Arcana: the Way of the Ascendant Dragon for monks and the…
RPG Spotlight: Fate of Cthulhu
Grab your leather jacket, this week we’re traveling back in time to save the world from the great old ones…
Vaesen: A Wicked Secret By Free League Publishing Out Now
Free League Publishing, a publisher of role-playing games best known for ALIEN: the Roleplaying Game, has released a supplemental book…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #71
Routinely Itemised is Geek Native's weekly RPG news summary, complete with a roundup of new releases, freebies, interviews and reviews.
Bite Club – When High School Really Sucks
Astonishing Adventures: Bite Club, is available now! High school – so many of us couldn’t wait to escape it, and…
Roll Up, Roll Up!
The Return of Cal Get ready, citizens of Mega-City One. It’s time to prepare for the return of everyone’s least…
Secrets of the Emerald Order: Emerald Order Initiate
The Emerald Order is one of the few organizations in Demon Cults & Secret Societies that is not actively malicious.…
RPG: Cyberpunk Red Has Lifepaths, And Here’s A Preview
Want to take a peek at the upcoming rules in Cyberpunk Red, due to release in November? Well you’re in…
We pick our ultimate Christmas board games and prove bigger isn’t always better on the Dicebreaker Podcast
This week’s Dicebreaker Podcast sees Matt, Lolies and Meehan hop back in the booth for another hour-and-a-bit of nattering about…
Outside the Box – October 23rd
Hello again, this week we have news from Fantasy Flight Games, Osprey Publishing, Artel W Miniatures, Victrix, Archon Studio, Mierce…
10 best zombie board games
'Tis the season for wandering hordes of undead descending on unsuspecting small towns. It didn't take long for the modern…
Finder’s Archives – Halloween Special Part 4 (of 5)
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.Today we continue the Halloween Mini-series. Like last time, we’ll be looking…
Roll Up Fortunes With 'The Zodiac Dice'
Steve Jackson Games will release The Zodiac Dice, a set of 12-sided dice with the zodiac symbols on them, in…
12 Masks of Halloween: #5 Anubis
Okay, even if you’re worried you’ve left it too late to order a mask for Halloween this Anubis is perfect…
Pathfinder Arena Board Game, Coming 2021
Giochi Uniti has announced it will release Pathfinder Arena, a new board game set in the Pathfinder roleplaying game’s fantasy…
Free League Publishing release new horror scenarios at Spiel.Digital
At the online version of Essen, Spiel.Digital, the award-winning Free League Publishing, announced Vaesen: A Wicked Secret & Mörk Borg…
Pathfinder Society October Previews
We’ve got another full month of PFS adventures, so let’s take a closer look at what the Society is getting…
Safe In Our World: 1st Anniversary Charity Bundle
The video games mental health charity Safe in Our World is celebrating its first anniversary with a charity bundle. The…
Loke launches laminated battle board at Spiel.Digital
The big book of battle maps company Loke today launched a brand new product at Spiel.Digital. Spiel.Digital is the online…
Warhammer audiobooks in Humble Bundle
Parts of the Black Library can be found in Humble Bundle as $748 worth of Warhammer audiobooks are available across…
Play D&D For A Good Cause This Weekend At Roll 20 Con
October 23rd through 25th Roll20 will be hosting 3 days of games and panels for charity with their 100% virtual…
October 2020 Starfinder Society Releases
“Lights! Camera! Extreme Adventure!!!” The flashing header of the incoming message stole whatever attention Venture-Captain Naiaj had for her other…
Giochi Uniti Announces a New Board Game Set in Paizo's 'Pathfinder: Lost Omens'
Giochi Uniti, alongside Paizo, Inc., has announced that they will publish Pathfinder Arena, a new board game set in Pathfinder:…
15% Off Curse of Strahd AND New Strahd Miniatures!
In honor of the release of Curse of Strahd Revamped, use the code strahd15 to get 15% off when you…
‘Dungeon-scrawler’ Paper Dungeons has players adventuring in a roll-and-write
Search for magic items and battle fearsome monsters by drawing a path through each room in the upcoming English-language version…
Death Divers: A Heroic Dark Setting Interview With Dustin DePenning (Will Power Games)
I’ve mentioned Dustin DePenning’s work on the Synthicide RPG and Heroic Dark in passing (here and here). His RPG creations…
D&D: Looking For Love In Baldur’s Gate 3?
Baldur’s Gate 3 contains some hidden and not-so-hidden romance. Want to know who’s into you? Check out our guide to…
Thursday Art Assault – King of Carpathia
‘King of Carpathia’ – J Edward Neill – 2020 Find more insane art at:
STA Dev Blog 003: A Guide to Star Trek Adventures
By Nathan Dowdell, 2d20 System Developer At the heart of the gameplay of Star Trek Adventures are two resources which…
Steamforged Games Announces 'Pac-Man: The Card Game'
Steamforged Games announced Pac-Man: The Card Game, a family game featuring the classic arcade game, which will launch on November…
ICv2 Insider Talks Livestream – Games Track
An ICv2 Release. The sessions for the hobby games track of the ICv2 Insider Talks Livestream, planned for 2 p.m.…