Kids Playing D&D with Nick Cardarelli
Raised on D&D podcast host, Nick Cardarelli joins me for a discussion of playing D&D with your kids. We talk…
Rogue Squadron – Resistance Heroes
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
Sink your teeth into What We Do in the Shadows-inspired RPG Low Stakes
Share a house with a gang of supernatural weirdos in Low Stakes, an upcoming RPG zine inspired by film and…
Upwind is a roleplaying game inspired by Studio Ghibli and Treasure Planet
Upwind, a roleplaying game inspired by the likes of Studio Ghibli and the Disney film Treasure Planet, has seen a…
Luma Imports Adds Bombyx for English-Language Distribution
Partnership Includes Upcoming 'CODEX Naturalis' Release into the U.S. Hobby Channel Luma Imports and Bombyx have inked a deal giving…
Kickstart the Game – Love’s Labour’s Liabilities
Check out Leland Beauchamp’s, Egg Embry’s, and John McGuire’s 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons Zine! We live, we love, and…
Zinequest 3 delivers a month of indie RPG projects to support on Kickstarter throughout February
Kickstarter’s Zinequest 3 has officially kicked off and will be hosting multiple indie-developed, analogue RPGs, hacks and collections throughout February.…
Survey: Gothic Lineages
Take our latest Unearthed Arcana survey. Last time, Unearthed Arcana presented creatures of the night: the dhampir, hexblood, and reborn. Now…
STA blog Another Roll of the Dice
By Christopher L. Bennett When Star Trek Adventures editor Jim Johnson told me he was looking for time travel pitches (among…
Dragon Age tabletop RPG features in fantasy-themed Bundle of Holding deal
Step into the world of Thedas for a discounted price with a Bundle of Holding that features multiple tabletop roleplaying…
Using Monsters Beyond Their Stat Blocks: Dragons
The titular monsters of Dungeons & Dragons, dragons have a central role as allies and villains in many published adventures…
D&D Played By Puppets For Humans – Stuff Of Legends
They’re adventurous, they’re armed, they’re… made of felt. A new D&D stream launches today, bringing puppets to play. Take a…
Draw tarot cards to decide your fate in the Silver Anniversary Edition of RPG Everway
Everway, the roleplaying game that uses tarot cards to determine characters’ futures, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a special…
Dragon’s Forge offers up tea and D&D
Game stores throughout the country usually offer gaming space to try out new board games or even host a D&D…
DUNE #8 – Puzzles for Players
by Mari Tokuda I love puzzles and riddles and ciphers; I started my career working on the Nancy Drew PC…
Paizo, Inc. Announces a New Standalone 'Starfinder Adventure'
Paizo, Inc. announced Starfinder Adventure: Liberation of Locus-1 for release on September 15. This standalone adventure revolves around a new…
MTG: Check Out Magic: Legends Deckbuilding 101
Magic: Legends blends the deckbuilding action of Magic: the Gathering with the fast-paced gameplay of an action-RPG. Check it out!…
Tabletop Gallery: Against the Silent King
This is why you leave the Imperial Palace alone. Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You…
Set Course For Planets of Peril
Ahoy, Starfinders! Today we’ll take our first look at the premier set of Starfinder Battles prepainted plastic miniatures from our…
Cyberpunk Red releases free Cyberchair DLC in collaboration with D&D combat wheelchair designer
To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsThompson is a staunch advocate for disabled representation in tabletop…
D&D: Make Beautiful 3-D Battle Maps For Free
Looking to level up your encounter maps? Check out this free, in-browser 3-D D&D mapmaker, and get started with gorgeous,…
Tome Unbound: Chamrosh
Fiend Slayer. The chamrosh’s attacks are treated as magical against fiends. Additionally, it has advantage on saving throws against spells…
Astral Projections – “The Mandalorian” Gear: Clan Signet for SWSE
Last month, The Mandalorian Season 2 had an epic climax! In honor of Clan Mudhorn, I have made stats for…
Rolling for Initiative — The Lessons of 'Kaldheim' Prerelease Events
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Immersion and Role Playing in the 1970s
The idea that role playing involved a property called “immersion” occurred to the early adopters of the 1970s fairly…
Paizo Drops Nine New Releases For Pathfinder & Starfinder
Paizo revealed this week that they have released nine new additions to both Pathfinder and Starfinder for you to enjoy.…
D&D: Splitting The Party – Not As Bad As You Think
You should never, ever, under any circumstances split the party. So naturally, we’re gonna talk about how to do exactly…
Level Up Survey: Warlord v2
As always, it’s OK if you don’t like things about this playtest. That’s the reason we have a playtest process,…
Guns & Gear Playtest Ending Soon
Guns & Gear Playtest Ending Soon Friday, January 29, 2021 The Pathfinder Guns and Gears playtest ends on February 5th!…
RPG Spotlight: Deadlands
This week on RPG spotlight we’re combining fantasy, horror, and the wild west into one high octane and ridiculously fun…
Rounding Up the Suspects
Reflections We’ve been producing content for Judge Dredd & the Worlds of 2000 AD for a while now here at…
Itch.io bundle raises relief funds for Croatians affected by recent earthquakes
A bundle of RPGs on Itch.io is raising money as relief for Croatians affected by a string of devastating earthquakes…
Warlord: Saga of the Storm celebrates card game’s 20-year anniversary with limited re-release
Collectible card game Warlord: Saga of the Storm plans to mark its 20th anniversary with a reprinting of old and…
Free time during lockdown helped board game sales to jump in 2020 – report
A combination of extra free time during lockdown, fears over Brexit and nostalgia led to renewed interest in tabletop gaming…
Find out why opening a dreadful circus is not a good idea on this week’s episode of the Dicebreaker Podcast
While Matt is away, the Dicebreaker kids can play. Well, two of them at least. This week’s podcast sees Meehan,…
Almost 40 RPGs Provide Relief For Croation Earthquake Victims
A new bundle is going around on itch.io, offering up 39 different tabletop RPGs, video games, and more as part…
Secrets of the Emerald Order: The Gyrfalcon Repository
This is the final entry of Secrets of the Emerald Order. Past entries provided material for both the player and…
Arcadia Issue 1 Breakdown
Thumbnail Art from Arcadia Issue 1 cover When Arcadia was first announced, I had no doubt it was going to…
Outside the Box – January 29th
Welcome back to another issue of Outside the Box. This week with news from Fantasy Flight Games, Para Bellum Wargames,…
Finder’s Archive – Bonder’s Enclave
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.In this column, we take some of the lands from Magic: The…
Level Up Playtest Document #9: Warlord v2
What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…
MTG Arena – Mobile Early Access Starts Today
Today is the day that MTG Arena Launches their Early Access for Mobile. If you’ve got an Android mobile device…
Pathfinder Society: Digitization Update
Greetings, Pathfinders! As we come to the end of January, we wanted to provide an update on the status of…
Star Trek: The Many Motion Pictures – What to Watch this Week
New streaming originals, movies, and shows to watch; from action to horror to drama. Take a look at what to…
D&D: The Most Useful Feats
The list of feats in D&D is huge, and all of them are pretty good. But which will give you…
Stuff of Legends
Announcing Stuff of Legends Stuff of Legends is a six-episode YouTube series that takes you through a Dungeons & Dragons…
Pathfinder Arena Survey Online
Pathfinder Arena Survey Online Thursday, January 28, 2021 The Pathfinder Arena survey determines which heroes we will include in the…
Dungeons & Dragons’ Gothic Lineages offer an alternative to race, but not yet a replacement
Recently-released playtest material for Dungeons & Dragons offers players character new lineage options and provides a working example of how…
Dungeon Extravaganza bundle opens the door to D&D 5E adventures from under £1
Step into a world of adventure at an affordable price with the 5th Edition Dungeon Extravaganza Humble Bundle, currently offering…
Joan of Arc designer is working on an open-world cyberpunk board game about solving murders
French publisher Red Joker Games and Time of Legends: Joan of Arc designer Pascal Bernard have teamed to create Cyber…
Dangerous Destinations: An Interview With Chris Haskins (Nord Games)
Nord Games created a number of Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition projects, many of them reaching a wide audience via…
Paizo, Inc. Reveals ‘Pathfinder Lost Omens: The Grand Bazaar’
A New Campaign Setting Featuring The Grand Bazaar of Absalom
Populate a Dungeon with an Army of Kobolds
WizKids announced D&D Icons of the Realms: Kobold Warband, a new miniatures set, for release in June. Following up the…
New Releases for January 2021 from Paizo
This month sees the near-completion of the set of Pathfinder rulebooks in popular Pocket Edition. Adventures hooks include favors for…
Kickstarter Round-Up: Gothic Miniatures, Pocket Games, & 5e Adventures
Come check out this week’s batch of Kickstarter and crowdfunding highlights! The Gorgon’s Loch The Gorgon Queen has captured your…
No-Prep Character: Lisavet
No-Prep Character: Lisavet Wednesday, January 27, 2021 This week we send out the final chapter of The Shroud of Four…
To the Moon, Heroes!
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Far Beyond the Stars” there is an imaginary sequence involving science fiction…
Achtung! Cthulhu Gets New 2d20 Rules – Quickstart RPG
Achtung! Cthulhu, the game of chaos, heroes, and eldritch horror in World War II is about to get its RPG…
Play with Class: Be a Brutal Barbarian
Welcome to the Play with Class series where we will give you concrete steps to run each class for the…
Tome of Beasts 2 Review
We all know Kobold Press, creators of many wonderful supplements for the world’s greatest roleplaying game and many other systems…
D&D: How Race Is Changing In Dungeons & Dragons
The latest Unearthed Arcana introduced three new ‘gothic lineage’ options, but more importantly, it outlined how race is changing in…
Year Without a Summer, Castles, and Neverland with Tristan Zimmerman
Two Men by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich (1817)Tristan Zimmerman returns to the podcast to discuss how to use…
Rogue Review – Loot
We’ve had Loot sitting on our shelves for years. I can’t remember when we got it. I know we tried…
Best board games 2021: What to buy and play right now
With the number of quality tabletop tiles increasing year by year, this list will be periodically updated to include newer…
My Life as a College DJ
Image by Michi S from Pixabay Spinning the black circles. Finding those up and coming bands. Flipping through 30+ years…
Tabletop Game Sales Boomed in Chains, Online in 2020
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Unearthed Arcana 2021: Gothic Lineages Breakdown
Oh hey, there’s a new Unearthed Arcana release today, the first of 2021! It’s giving us three new races lineages…
Introducing Jasper’s Game Day
Hi! We’re Jasper’s Game Day and we’re here to change the world, one game at a time! Our journey began…
D&D Toys: Drizzt, Beholder, & Adorable Ponies!
From collectibles to action figures to board games there are a ton of Dungeons and Dragons toys out there for…
SFG Announces 'Animal Adventures' Minis
Steamforged Games will release four boxed sets of Animal Adventures minis on March 22, designed for use with the upcoming…
Using Monsters Beyond Their Stat Blocks: Giants
Today we’ll tackle giants. Giants evoke the mystery, terror, and fantasy that players have come to expect from Dungeons &…
Pathfinder 2E: New Character Options Abound In Abomination Vaults Guide
The Player’s Guide for the upcoming Abomination Vaults Adventure Path is chock full of new options for your favorite characters.…
Alice is Missing Publisher shreds into the apocalypse with new RPG Gods of Metal: Ragnarock
Poseurs need not apply.
The PC Factory: Aedan the Druid (Old School Essentials)
Aedan was born into a circle of druids that lived deep in the forest. Like most Druids, Aedan was quick…
Quest’s first expansion adds a character book, bestiary and treasure book to the RPG
Alongside card decks for characters, beasts and items.
Dead of Winter co-designer launches own studio, announces debut board game and RPG
Plus a deckbuilding video game.
Achtung! Cthulhu Quickstart – Terror in Saint Sulac!
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Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Announce a New 'Classic Dragonlance' Series
Duo Establishes a New Multi-year Licensing Deal with Wizards of the Coast for Three Novels to be Published by Del…
Gothic Lineages
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PRESS RELEASE: Backwater: Southern Gothic Horror Tabletop Roleplaying (TTRPG)
Backwater is a southern-gothic horror tabletop roleplaying game in the style of survival horror. Its Kickstarter campaign launches on January……
Tabletop Gallery: Grimdark Sibling Rivalry
Is Chaos all about mommy issues, or daddy issues? Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You…
New Munchkin: Warhammer Expansions And More Poking Fun At RPGs
Hundreds of new cards, including new armies, new monsters, new weapons, and the same old wackiness and references. Recently we…
D&D BREAKING – Dragonlance Classic Announced
After lawsuits and leaks, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have officially announced a new, three-book series based on Classic Dragonlance.…
Green Ronin Patreon Roundup!
Patreon is an online platform that creators can use to run subscription services for all kinds of content. As a…
Grab 60+ indie RPGs on Itch.io and help designers create better-looking games
Itch.io bundle runs until February 1st.
Trapmaster: What Do I See?
One way to handle this problem is to vary the ways in which your traps are detected, such as using…
Astral Review – Cyberpunk Red RPG
While the Cyberpunk 2077 video game may have had its well-chronicled release woes, the same fate hasn’t befallen the Cyberpunk…
Dune adventure board game trilogy on the way, starting with this year’s House Secrets
Infiltrate the ruling powers on the planet Arrakis as rebels in Dune: House Secrets, an upcoming board game that uses…
Add a Ferocious Udaak to a ‘Critical Role’ RPG Encounter
'Critical Role: Monsters of Wildemount - Udaak Premium Figure' by WizKids