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…
Car Shopping Blues
Me learning our SUV had been “Totaled” You think you have so much time. You plan out your trips. You…
Astounding Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian map
Redditor Ish_Joker shared an astounding Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian map to the D&D Maps community. D&D Maps absolutely…
Warhammer 40K: Three Ways to Fix T’au
Today we talk about how to fix the T’au Empire in 9th Edition – for the Greater Good of course!…
Evil Hat announce two new RPGs: Apocalypse Keys and Project: Perseus
Ahead of a website update, Evil Hat’s newsletter announced two new RPGs and invited fans to join playtests for both.…
Pathfinder Adventure Card Society Update
Mark your calendars! As we continue winding down our Pathfinder Adventure Card Game program, we’ve decided to end it with…
Warhammer Quest: Cursed City Tiles Look Fantastic
Modular, stylish, and varied, the Warhammer Quest: Cursed City tiles look great to play on. Games played on a board…
Black Clover and Bananya anime slated for possible board game adaptations
Global anime distributor Crunchyroll earmarked two anime titles for consideration by established board game publishers, according to a recent License…
Defeat occult Nazi fringe science: An interview with Bill Heron on Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20
Modiphius Entertainment has today opened up the pre-order for Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20. The launch has different books. You can pre-order…
How to Quickly Outline a Campaign
Running a whole campaign takes a whole lotta planning. Telling a cohesive story over multiple sessions requires a good amount…
Donate to The Trussell Trust and treat yourself to the handy The Streets Mini Deck and Map Pack
Scott Docherty, aka Vengers Decks, and Handiwork Games have teamed up to support to great efforts of UK charity The…
Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 Launch Day!
By John Houlihan Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 launch day is here and we’re really excited to finally share with you nearly…
Troika! RPG sends players back to school in upcoming Academies of the Arcane setting book
Earn a master’s degree in wandology from a college floating on a river of crabs, or something equally mystical and…
For the Love of Cthulhu, Don’t Kill the Investigators
The band of investigators emerged from the ever-winding corridors beneath the Sphinx to find a chamber longer and wider than…
Queer players find more than a game in Dungeons & Dragons – they find a safe space
Since its launch in 1974, Dungeons & Dragons has garnered the reputation of a tabletop roleplaying game primarily for straight,…
Warhammer reveals a monstrous miniature for the demonic Be’lakor and new Broken Realms book
Games Workshop’s second New Model Monday for the month of March provided the first detailed look at an upcoming model…
Wizards of the Coast Unveils New Deets on 'Modern Horizons 2'
Wizards of the Coast unveiled new details on the Modern Horizons 2 set which will be headed to stores on…
Find The Cat in the Hat's Friends in 'Dr. Seuss Picture Pairing Game'
Funko Games announced Dr. Seuss Picture Pairing Game, a family game, for release in spring 2021. The Cat in the…
WizKids Unveils More 'Pathfinder Battles' Collectible Miniatures
'Pathfinder Battles: Bestiary Unleashed' Booster Set and 'Pathfinder: Treerazer Premium Set' WizKids unveiled Pathfinder Battles: Bestiary Unleashed and Pathfinder: Treerazer…
Dark and Surreal Art Print Bundles by J Edward Neill
Three new art print bundles from Shadow Art Finds! Multiple prints per bundle. Spectral Places Surreal Worlds Dark Skulls Available…
Tabletop Gallery: The Death Heads Walk Unopposed
Where Legio Mortis walks, Chaos follows. Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You Think Would Make…
$128 of Gumshoe RPGs for a fraction of the cost in the Bundle of Holding
Pelgrane Press and Robin D. Laws’ Gumshoe is back in the Bundle of Holding, the last time being in 2018.…
Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life! gets an English sub trailer
Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life! gets an English sub trailer time…
Para Bellum Will Add an Undead Faction to 'Conquest'
Para Bellum Wargames, Ltd. revealed that it will add The Old Dominion, an undead faction, to Conquest: The Last Argument…
D&D: Five Classic Dungeons Worth Delving Again
There’s a trend for making old dungeons new again, and with that in mind, we’re revisiting five dungeons ready for…
Danger Zones: When the Mundane Goes Weird
A lot of our Danger Zones offerings have been the kinds of locations you expect for superhero slugfests: the tottering…
Mage: The Ascension Gets Victorian Supplement
Grab your spats, your tailcoats and your best British accent, Mage: the Ascension, 20th Anniversary Edition is getting Victorian. There’s…
Rogue’s Gallery: Sigrit Brül
Sigrit is a tall, athletic woman who bears the scars on her arms and face with pride. The white in…
RPG Coyote and Crow’s indigenous-led design team has created a tabletop world beyond the colonised mindset
Explore a world reborn from complete ecological collapse and set in a science-fantasy North America never touched by European colonialism…
Astral Projections – Spintiri Glowbats for SWSE
© 2021 Linda Whitson Spintiri glowbats are a small carnivorous species on the cold planet Spintir, once the site of…
Our God is Dead is a comedy RPG about fooling religious followers
Hoodwink believers and hide the truth in Our God is Dead, a rules-light roleplaying game about running a religious organisation…
It’s Johnny’s last week!
Johnny Chiodini departs team Dicebreaker for new shores later this week. Ahead of waving a fond farewell and wishing good…
Lackluster 'Magic: The Gathering' Standard Sales Give 'Pokemon TCG' a Big Win in February
TCGplayer unveiled its February data for sealed product prices which shows developing trends in the TCG collectibles market over the…
TCG Market Analysis: Pikachu VMAX and Tyanitar V Partner Up to Trample the Gods of 'Kaldheim'
Lackluster 'Magic: The Gathering' Standard Format Sealed Sales Allowed 'Pokemon TCG' to Catch All of the Top Five Slots in…
Player memo kits for RPGs
I like these player memo kits from R-N-W. They’re attractive and practical at the same time. You’re getting a digital…
Monster Preview: Green Dragon
The Monstrous Menagerie contains more in-depth treatments of the O5E monsters you already know and love. We include interesting, varied…
Genre Police: Risk assessment
We’ve been discussing safety for a while now, and while it pains me to say it, it is likely that…
Coyote & Crow is a sci-fi RPG set in an America without colonisation
A team of Native American RPG creators have a roaring Kickstarter success on their hands in the shape of Coyote…
Dungeon Con Online announced with groundbreaking new technology
A partnership from Goodman Games and Dungeon Masters Guild will bring a celebration of all things D&D 5e in the…
Sundered Waves: Paizo introduce a new digital one-shot range
At the Gen Con spring showcase, Paizo gave the adventure Sundered Wave its debut. The scenario is part of a…
Introducing Paizo One-Shots!
Today’s debut of Sundered Waves marks the first appearance of a brand new type of Paizo digital adventure--the One-Shot! Written…