Boy Problems creator’s beginner-friendly RPG Tales’ End sparks memory and conversation
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Publisher Spotlight: November poll opens for Patrons
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'D&D meets Jumanji' comic book Die is under £1 on Humble Bundle
Pick up the first volume of Dungeons & Dragons-inspired comic book Die for under a pound in a new Humble…
PC giant Steam’s Digital Tabletop Festival features Warhammer, Wingspan, Call of Cthulhu and Munchkin creators
PC game marketplace Steam has announced a new online event showcasing digital tabletop games set to take place at the…
Steam hosts a digital tabletop games festival
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Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: September 30, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Creatures: Complete Compendium for 5e Designed by the creators of Shadows…
New Release: The Echo Effect
The Echo Effect is released today! And for this release week, it is only $0.99! In the world before, Aaron…
Looking To Get Into The Star Trek RPG? Now’s Your Chance
Now is the perfect opportunity to explore the final frontier–the Star Trek Adventures core set is part of a special…
Power Ranger D&D 5e RPG confirmed; G.I. Joe, Transformers and My Little Pony games planned
Tabletop & RPGs Power Ranger D&D 5e RPG confirmed; G.I. Joe, Transformers and My Little Pony games planned time to…
10 Encounters for your Tundra Adventures
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Power Rangers is morphin’ into a new RPG and deckbuilding game
A new Power Rangers tabletop RPG is on the way from the studio behind mighty morphin’ board game Heroes of…
D&D: Baldur’s Gate 3 Heats Up With Romance And Sex
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Rogue Review – Stuffed Fables
While searching for some kind of gateway RPG for my son we came across Stuff Fables from Plaid Hat Games.…
Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda with Ethan Maestri and Ryan Mazzocco
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A look inside: Star Wars The Mandalorian – The Art & Imagery Collector’s Edition
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Abrams Books Will Release A New 'Magic: The Gathering' Art Book
'Magic: The Gathering: Legends: A Visual History' by Jay Annelli and Wizards of the Coast Abrams Books will release Magic:…
Renegade Game Studios Licenses More Hasbro Brands For Games
Adds 'G.I. Joe', 'Transformers', and 'My Little Pony'; Announces New 'Power Rangers' Games Renegade Game Studios announced that it has…
Goatboy Interviews Kieron Gillen – Marvel’s Marneus Calgar Comic Writer
Today I sit down and talk to the Marvel writer behind the new Marneus Calgar comic – Kieran Gillen. Some…
Never published before PDF scans of Hero Magazines in the Bundle of Holding
The Bundle of Holding is giving away a host of old Hero Magazines in PDF form, and some of them…
Thunder Rift Setting for D&D 5e
There has been lots of talk about old settings lately. This week, we have a guest post from Mark Compton…
Gaming for the One Percenters
What do you get the person with way too much money and everything but the basic board game collection? Not…
Terrors and Tommyguns merges John Wick, noir and cosmic horror
Drinking Horn Games as a Kickstarter pitch video for Terrors and Tommyguns that doesn’t take itself too seriously but as…
Improvising and Adjusting to Character Decisions
In any campaign that I have DM’d the players came up with some solution or go off toward some blank…
The Batman RPG Cooks Up New Art
Holy Rogues Gallery, Batman! The new Batman RPG has a veritable treasure trove of new bat-artwork on dispaly for the…
The creepy occult horrors of Flames of Freedom
Flames of Freedom is a Powered by Zweihander RPG due for Kickstarter. You can click the notify me on launch…
Para Bellum Wargames Announces New Retailer Promotion
Para Bellum Wargames announced a new retailer promotion for Path of Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings. The new promotion…
Book Club: Aching God (Iconoclasts #1)
I love dungeon crawls. I find the idea of a party of adventurers delving into deep, dark places and searching…
D&D: Make Friends And Influence Social Encounters With These Tricks
Roleplaying should be an important part of any D&D game, but it can be hard to stick the landing. Here are…
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Legendary Games
In a close-run vote, Geek Native’s patrons voted Legendary Games into the RPG Publisher Spotlight. In just about an equally…
Magic the Gathering: WotC To Release A Walking Dead Set
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Tabletop Gallery: Vampiric Temptations
“Aim for the crotch Brother!” Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make A…
Clever spellcasting: A review of Tattered Magicks
Tattered Magicks is an urban fantasy tabletop RPG from Brian Fitzpatrick, Moebius Adventures and Gallant Knight Games. It uses the…
D&D Forgotten Realms Drizzt & Guenhwyvar
Fans and collectors can finally add one of the most popular and recognizable Dungeons & Dragons characters to their action…
This Week on Twitch, Sep 28 – Oct 4
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Monk 101: Way of Shadows
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All New Dark Art Prints by J Edward Neill
Six intense new canvas paintings. Six lustrous new art prints. ‘Eternity’ – J Edward Neill ‘Even Gods Die Alone’ –…
Trapmaster: Enough Rope to Hang Themselves
What is the philosophy of traps in your game? Answering this question helps you design the types of traps that…
WizKids Bares 'Fangs and Talons' for 'Icons of the Realms'
D&D Icons of the Realms: Fangs and Talons will be the fifteenth set in the popular series of pre-painted miniatures…
RPG: Getting Metal With Mork Borg
Are you in the mood for some doom metal fantasy? How about apocalyptic tales of lost souls in a dying…
Abomination: Heir of Frankenstein’s free companion app is given life, stars Borderlands 2 and DBZ actor
Get immersed in the world of Abomination: Heir of Frankenstein with a new companion app featuring voiceover for the horror…
Reasons a site might be abandoned P6
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Free to Download: Ex-Lumine quickstart
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Wizards of the Coast Unveils 'Secret Lair X The Walking Dead'
Wizards of the Coast unveiled Secret Lair X The Walking Dead, a direct sale drop set featuring AMC's The Walking…
Wizards of the Coast Bans A Card Only A Few Days After A Major 'Magic: The Gathering' Set Release
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A Beginner’s Guide to Character Creation in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
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Girl Genius – Adventures in Castle Heterodyne computer game Kickstarter
Norwegian indie computer game developer Rain has teamed up with Phil and Kaja Foglio to begin the madcap world of…
52 free and stunning battle maps from Cze and Peku
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Rolling for Initiative — Package design for Fun and Profit (Mostly Profit)
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Site Update: New Patreon things and a content schedule
Good day, Awesomsticks readers! 2020 has been an utter dumpster fire for pretty much everyone, including yours truly. I wanted…
Early bird deal alert: Broken Compass the adventure RPG
Inspired by the likes of Indiana Jones, Uncharted and the Mummy and boosted by success in Italy, Broken Compass is…
D&D: Check Out This Fully Articulated Drizzt Action Figure
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Free to Download: Fading Embers Setting Primer
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Storm Edge Campaign Setting 16: Gods of Eight Isles ‐ Part 2
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Band of Bravos Podcast!
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Ex-D&D designer Kate Welch’s new job is for a mysterious games company with impressive origins
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RPG Spotlight: Friends Of Wildstone Town
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Hear about the return of HeroQuest, exciting new RPGs and our unfortunate D&D moments on the latest Dicebreaker Podcast
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Twilight Imperium and Android are being turned into graphic novels
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To make a skirmish a skirmish, you will need an objective as well as a condition for ending combat. In…
Ancient Undead Spider Wizard is a vinyl EP sleeved in a playable tabletop RPG adventure
A tabletop RPG supplement that combines a seven-inch vinyl soundtrack with a fully playable dungeon-crawl adventure is launching on Kickstarter…
CMON Announces 'The Last of Us: The Board Game'
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The incredible art of Grim Hollow’s Players Guide
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RPG: Brinkwood Blood Of Tyrants Wants You To Drink The Rich
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Star Trek Adventures 2d20 system bundle on DriveThruRPG
Busy Modiphius have put three Star Trek RPG books in a bundle at DriveThruRPG. The result is a discount from…
D&D series Critical Role has launched a fundraising foundation
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'Holler RPG' To Join the 'Savage Worlds'
PEG Announces Plans To Develop the Indie Appalachian Horror RPG as a New 'Savage Worlds' Setting Pinnacle Entertainment Group announced…
Warhammer 40K: Space Wolf Bundle Comes To PlayStation Store
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Thursday Art Assault – Cauldron of Resurrection
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September 2020 Pathfinder Society Releases
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Rime of the Frostmaiden Review
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Scarlet Citadel Wednesdays on Kobold Press’s Twitch channel!
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September 2020 Starfinder Society Releases
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Wildshape is a free animated map maker and virtual tabletop
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RPG: Devil’s Run Promises Wasteland Wild Times
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Get dozens of D&D books, including R.A. Salvatore’s Legend of Drizzt series, for under £12
Complete your set of Dungeons & Dragons novels or gain an instant collection for a song by picking up dozens…
How to: Time traveling in RPGs – Do Over: The Reset
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Dungeons & Dragons 5E druid class explained
If you’ve ever read an Animorphs book and thought “I wish I could turn into a hamster at will”, druid…
Pelgrane Press announces The Yellow King Bestiary
The Yellow King is an ENnie nominated RPG inspired by the works of Robert W. Chambers. Characters face the reality-altering…
Good Strong Hands: An Interview With Craig Campbell (Nerdburger Games)
Craig Campbell has a new RPG Kickstarter. We’ve attended AndoCon, Conapalooza, Gen Con, and Multiverse Con (and talked about his…
D&D: A Combat-Wheelchair-Inspired Subclass For Matt Mercer’s Blood Hunter
If you liked the Combat Wheelchair, you’re sure to love Sara Thompson’s take on Matt Mercer’s Blood Hunter, inspired by…
Blood Rage studio’s ambitious board game Trudvang Legends delayed for “possibly” a year
CMON has delayed the release of its ambitious Nordic and Celtic-inspired adventure board game Trudvang Legends into 2021. According to…
RPG: Soulbound’s Starter Set Is Coming
The Mortal Realms are beckoning–and soon, with the release of the Soulbound Starter Set, you’ll be able to explore a…
Early Play-by-Post D&D in Britain
Earlier on in our quarantined year, this blog reviewed how some of the earliest adopters played Dungeons & Dragons by…