D&D’s Also-Rans – The Other Fantasy Games At The Dawn Of RPGs
Dungeons & Dragons may have been the first roleplaying game, but it inspired a whole industry full of Things &…
Management of Avalon Hill Board Game Brand Will Move From Wizards of the Coast to Hasbro
Wizards of the Coast announced that the management of the Avalon Hill board game brand will move from their company…
Free Short Story – Piece By Piece
From the world of The Dark That Follows comes a short story featuring the main character, Jason Mills. For those…
New Cinematic Scenario and Starter Set for the ALIEN RPG Officially Launched
Destroyer of Worlds is Here New Cinematic Scenario and Starter Set for the ALIEN RPG We have officially released the Destroyer…
Neverland: A Fantasy Role-Playing Setting (5e) from Andrew Kolb and Andrews McMeel Publishing
[embedded content]TEXT REPRINT: Explore the Isle of Mischief & Mystery Many have heard of the island of Neverland. Stories of…
The Red Opera: An epic D&D campaign and setting accompanied by a full Symphonic Orchestra
If you had searched for Red Opera before this week, you would have found an album by a band called…
Warhammer 40K: What T’au Need – Battlesuits & Markerlights
Today I’m going to talk a little more about the difficulties that the T’au faction has at the moment, and…
Lost Tomb of the Bitchin’ Chimera: Dead Milkmen’s D&D module is an instant success
Within an hour of punk band the Dead Milkmen’s 5e D&D adventure going live on Kickstarter it had funded. It’s…
RPG Accessories: Get Official With This Licensed D&D Swag
There’s so much quality D&D fan-made merch out there that sometimes it can be easy to forget that there is…
Secrets of Magic Playtest!
You’ve found the not-so-secret playtest for Pathfinder Secrets of Magic! This upcoming sourcebook, scheduled for July 2021, brings you loads…
D&D: My Three Aurils
How is a goddess only CR 9? Come and take a look at Auril, the Frostmaiden, as she appears in…
Free to Download: Wrath & Glory’s Rain of Mercy
Cubicle 7 have made their Free RPG Day adventure Rain of Mercy free to download. Rain of Mercy is an…
The Giant Art Print Coupon
Art print lovers! Until midnight on Sunday, September 20th, when you use this coupon, get 30% off any 3 or……
Creating an Organization of Evil
So you have your big bad evil guy, right? You’ve developed their motivations, their world view and have given them…
Starfinder: Time To Run A Blockade
The Starstone Blockade is the next part of the Devastation Ark’s adventure path. Be watchful friends, chaos is coming to…
High-speed, dual-deck anime card game Gun and Gun is getting an English release
Jump into a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world filled with weapon-toting anime characters in Gun and Gun, a Japanese card game that’s…
The fatigue and loneliness of playing tabletop RPGs online in a pandemic
The odds of getting a natural 20 - that is, rolling a 20 on a 20-sided die - in a…
The Monster Depot: Lepidura
I had so much fun creating a monster the other week that I’ve decided to start a new series called…
D&D: Do Frostmaiden’s Spoilers Reveal An Upcoming Metaplot?
In Rime of the Frostmaidens, WotC finally sheds light on what’s up with those black obelisks, but raise more questions…
Level Up Surveys #2.1 & #2.2 – Dragonborn & Dwarf
A couple of days ago we sent out the survey on the playtest document for our Origins system for Level…
Indie RPG bundle includes Thousand Year Old Vampire, Troika and games from Spire and Wanderhome creators for under a tenner
A collection of indie tabletop RPGs on Itch.io is currently offering a selection of acclaimed games for a fraction of…
Wizards of the Coast To Offer Double The Product Ordered On Select 'Magic: The Gathering' 'Secret Lair' Drops For WPN Premium Stores
Wizards of the Coast is offering double the product on select Magic the Gathering: Secret Lair drops to WPN Premium…
Rolling for Initiative — Your Customers Are Not Rational (But Then, Neither Are You)
Rolling for Initiative is a weekly column by Scott Thorne, PhD, owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books in Carbondale,…
Tabletop Gallery: Necr-enemies, or Baal-bros?
Some days, it’s confusing out there in the grimdark. Enjoy. If You Have An Awesome Tabletop or RPG Shot You…
New Bristol offers up a cosmically unique super RPG setting
Game designer Andrew J Lucas has a unique superhero RPG setting called New Bristol up on Kickstarter. Never heard of…
Starfinder Tech Revolution Playtest Closes Soon!
There are just 11 days (including one weekend) left in the open playtest period for Starfinder’s upcoming nanocyte class and…
Adamant Entertainment launches sci-fantasy Star System with Every Star A Destination
Adamant Entertainment has launched Star System: Every Star A Destination which marks the return of several prominent writers to the…
Brand new FUDGE RPGs come to the Bundle of Holding
Unusually, this bundle includes FUDGE-based RPGs that are not yet on sale anywhere else.
This Week on Twitch, Sep 07 – Sep 13
Check out what we have in store this week on Twitch! Also if you’re interested in running your own Pathfinder…
.dungeon is a tabletop RPG love letter to making friends online
Inspired by MMORPGs and isekai manga.
Force Wizard – Jerserra’s Influence Force Power
“Force Wizard” is my series on the Force powers in Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars RPG lines. It is primarily…
Oh my goodness! Pick up an exclusive Tim the Goblin Dungeonbreaker T-shirt during EGX Digital
Dungeonbreaker fans can now adorn themselves with a T-shirt depicting its smallest and smelliest cast member, Tim the Goblin. Sporting…
Virtual Tabletop Gaming Live announced
Virtual Tabletop Gaming Live has been announced. It'll run from September 26th to the 28th, and will be composed of…
D&D: Rime Of The Frostmaiden Spoilers Show A Wintry World Waiting
Want to know a little more about what’s in Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden before it’s out? Check out…
Trapmaster: Finding Your Purpose
Been thinking a lot about the Exploration pillar in 5th Edition lately—and traps in particular. When you are adding combat…
Warhammer 40K: Necromunda Underhive Wars – Gameplay Overview
With the official release date for Necromunda Underhive wars right around the corner, we’re taking one last look at some…
Genre Police: One More Time
This RPG tips article is part of a series about the dials. Find the first dials article here, the first…
Free to Download: Official Adult Swim Tigtone D&D adventure
Adult Swim is gearing up for the second season of Tigtone. To get you interested, they’ve competition and a free…
2020 Tabletop RPG Itch.io bundle: Save 89% and spend $9
There are only a couple of days to pounce on the 2020 Tabletop Itch.io bundle. A small but perfectly formed…
The Churn merges D&D fantasy, science and modernity into one cold war setting
The Churn RPG is set on a fantasy world in which, 100 years after a cataclysm wove people, machines and…
D&D: Common Magic Items, Uncommonly Good Powers
What do you hand your players when a +1 sword just won’t cut it anymore? These Common Magic Items will…
Level Up Survey #2 – Origins Overview
A couple of days ago we released our first playtest packet, which included the proposed details of our ‘Origins’ system…
Free Fighting Fantasy dice with Crystal of Storms pre-orders
There’s a new Fighting Fantasy book coming. Crystal of Storms is written by Rhianna Pratchett, and that’ll make her the…
Into the Dungeon picked up by Andrews McMeel
You have heard tales of a place…a passage hidden away in the ruins of a forgotten castle, full of terrible…
Strata Miniatures’ competition reveals Wave 2 of combat wheelchair minis
The first prize is a full set of wave 1 wheelchair minis and each of the first two Epic Encounter…
Level Up: EN Publishing to bring Heritage and Culture to D&D in place of fantasy races
The first step in the origin creation process is deciding on a heritage.
D&D: Check Out The First Playtest Document For Advanced 5th Edition
The first playtest document for Level Up, the “Advanced 5th Edition” ruleset being developed by EN world is here. Take…
Silver Vine Publishing launches: Publishing indie Japanese TTRPGs in English
Silver Vine Publishing announced their launch today. The company, founded by Ben Gessel and Zack Wells, will specialise in bringing…
Cyberpunk & Sorcery: Lowlife 2090
There are six races; Human, Elf, Dwarf, Spriggan, Skorn and Minotaur, which is an unusual mix
Lightning Fast Light Elf Infantry Invade Oathmark – Quick Review
Let’s look at the Elf: Light Infantry miniatures for Oathmark by North Star Military Figures. There are some really nice…
Join us for PAX Online September 12-17
PAX Online runs September 12–20. Don’t miss our Pathfinder Lost Omens Announcement Panel on Saturday, September 12 at 2:15 p.m.…
RPG Spotlight: Head Back To (Magic) School With Kids On Brooms
Find your quills and ready your wands, it’s back to school time. No, not that school, this week we’re heading…
Star Wars: The Five Best Rebel Starfighters
Let’s take a look at the best fighters flown by the Rebel Alliance. Starfighters, or snubfighters, are a huge part…
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #64
September 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a CommentAds: Sales from links may earn us money For many of us,…
Grand Designs
The Day the Law Died Since the cover reveal, we have hinted at delving into the forthcoming The Day the…
Playtest Document #1: Origins
What this is This is a playtest document. We’d love you to try out the rules presented here, and then…
Bound By Gold: NetherWar part 4, Available Now!
In the latest installment of the NetherWar, Bound By Gold, the heroes efforts to stop Toy Boy’s rampage have inadvertently…
The Almost Autumn Art Sale
Art lovers!! From Thursday, Sept 3rd through Labor Day, get a discount off ALL my original canvas paintings. Just click…
The Dicebreaker Podcast returns to talk Detective, Alien RPG, Blood Rage 2 and the hottest board game of 1970
Hot releases, hot takes and hot gammon - we’ve got it all.
The Red Opera is a heavy metal-inspired Dungeons & Dragons 5E campaign with its own orchestral soundtrack
An upcoming Dungeons & Dragons 5E campaign and setting inspired by a heavy metal album is swapping shredding for strings…
Finder’s Archives – Dat Phat Loot
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Finder’s Archives.Today we’re taking a break from the Magic the Gathering landscapes, and…
D&D Celebration 2020 to address recent controversies
In September, D&D will hold a multi-day event, attempt to hold the world’s largest virtual tabletop. Wizards of the Coast…
You can now buy a ‘life-size’ figure of Magic: The Gathering planeswalker Chandra Nalaar for $1,200
One of Magic: The Gathering’s most beloved planeswalkers, Chandra Nalaar, has been made into a ‘life-size’ figurine for fans of…
The Art of Skirmishing: Why We Fight
The first step of creating any successful skirmish is to set compelling stakes and objectives for that skirmish and to…
OSR Humble Bundle includes RPGs and adventures inspired by old-school Dungeons & Dragons
A new Humble Bundle includes OSR roleplaying games, adventures and more inspired by the earliest editions of Dungeons & Dragons.…
Dive Deeper Into Nordic Horror With 'Vaesen: Wicked Secret & Other Mysteries'
Free League Publishing announced several new products for the Vaesen Nordic Horror: Roleplaying Game, including Vaesen: Wicked Secret & Other…
Warhammer Silver Tower – Out Now On Mobile
Warhammer Silver Tower brings the power of Tzeentch to the palm of your hand. Check out the newest mobile game,…
Thursday Art Assault – Living Death
‘Living Death’ – J Edward Neill – 2020 Find more paintings like this at Share this: Like this: Like Loading...
September Update— Volunteering, Stars, Spotlights and Conventions!
OPM Musings I joined Paizo’s Organized Play team in September 2015. Looking back over the past 5 years, I’ve collected…
The future of the hex crawl? 50+ Free and procedurally generated battle maps
There has never been a better time to be a tabletop gamer in search of battle maps. There are Patreons…
Changes
Meleeka drops into a ready stance. Legs spread slightly more than shoulder-width apart, left knee touching the ground, the ball…
Competition: Win 6 Nimmt!
Would you like to win one of the best card games in the world? Wolfgang Kramer’s 6 Nimmt is really…
The Paragon Blade is a head-to-head fantasy RPG for just two people from Trail of Cthulhu maker
Powered by One-2-One version of GUMSHOE system.
Vaesen Brings Nordic Flavor To RPG Horror
Step into a world steeped in Scandinavian myths and Nordic Folklore mixed with a dash of blood curdling horror in…
New Bristol: A Campaign Setting for your Supers – An Interview with Andrew J Lucas
I met Andrew J Lucas through discussions about Kirsty Garbe’s Endless Realms, a project he was freelancing on. I interviewed…
How to play Pathfinder RPG: A beginner’s guide to 2E
Pathfinder is a rich and complex fantasy RPG that uses the same d20 ruleset at the core of Dungeons &…
Free to Download: The Wagadu Chronicles’ Afropunk D&D
Remember the impressive and ambitious The Wagadu Chronicles from near the start of the year? Developer Twin Drums launched a…
Watch us play Cyberpunk Red with co-designer Cody Pondsmith next week at PAX Online!
PAX Online is now fewer than 10 days away, and we’re excited to announce where you can catch the Dicebreaker…
Pandemonium Noir: Weird Tales Magazine, where Cthulhu and Conan were born, now has an RPG
Weird Tales Magazine was founded in 1922 and published the early work of H.P. Lovecraft – including Call of Cthulhu…
Perfectly balanced noir under the wing of the dragon emperor: A review of Shotguns and Sorcery RPG
Shotguns and Sorcery is a series of novels by Matt Forbeck, which I have not read, and then thanks to…
RPG or interactive comic? Lovecraft World
There are audio games like Pazio’s impressive Starfinder for Alexa that features Nathan Fillion and Critical Role’s Laura Bailey or…
Tabletop Kickstarter Round-Up: September 2, 2020
Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding highlights! Raygun Raptors – 3D Printable Files The Raygun Raptors are an original…
Indie RPG designer publishes an entire post-hookup game on a coffee mug
Nathan Black is, among other things, an indie RPG designer. You can find his Search and Destroy and Sigil Seekers…
Tales of Lost Omens: The Jungle Claims Everything
“This may be it,” Aliyama stated carefully, consulting her wayfinder. The jungle was oppressively hot and humid, yet the elf…
$644 OSR RPG collection up on Humble Bundle
Frog God Games has an extensive collection of Old School Revival (definition pending) RPGs up at Humble Bundle. How large?…
Spell Spotlight: Polymorph
Spell Spotlight puts D&D’s most turbulent spells under a microscope. This time, we take a look at a spell that’s…
Adept Icarus’ Arium RPG building RPG is going strong on Kickstarter
Geek Native was lucky enough to have a chat with Will Munn of Adept Icarus about Arium last month. It’s…
Even The Dead Milkmen Are Making D&D Modules Now
Even punk bands are getting in on that 5th Edition action these days–the Dead Milkmen are putting out an RPG…
Monthly Encounter #13: The Corrupted Underwater Dragon (lvls 1-4)
Thumbnail art from Josh Benson Here at Tribality, we’ve decided to provide our readers with Encounters ready to be added…
The Magic Aquatic: Five Spells
Over in Harbinger of Doom, I wrote a collection of six spells developed by underwater peoples, intended for Under the…
Rogue Squadron- Silver Squadron
Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy…
D&D Gets Its Own Magic: The Gathering Set – Zendikar Rising Reveals
After two years of Magic: the Gathering getting all over D&D, it’s time to reverse the polarity. Check out MtG’s…
Delta Green Role-Playing Game with Dennis Detwiller
Writer, game designer, and illustrator, Dennis Detwiller, joins me on the podcast today. Dennis is known for his work on…
D&D: The Adventure Zone McElroy’s respond to artist accusations
The McEloys responded to growing concerns on Twitter this week on how artists contributing to the best selling The Adventure…
Raiders of the North Sea studios' next board game, Embarcadero, is coming to Kickstarter ‘soon’
Travel back in time to the height of the The Gold Rush in Embarcadero, an upcoming board game from Raiders…
Like chess? Here's why you’ll love its Japanese cousin, shogi
Board games have always been popular, but over the last decade, they have exploded. There has never been a better…
Midgard Icons: The Exarch of the Wastes
In this post, we’ll get an in-depth look at another of the 13 Midgard icons: Vermes II, Exarch of the…
WizKids Unveils Full-Size 'Magic: The Gathering' Planeswalker Figure
WizKids unveiled a Magic: the Gathering: Chandra Nalaar Full-Size Foam Figure for release into retail shops this December. Who better…