West End Games Star Wars to D&D to Elder Scrolls Online with Bill Slavicsek
RPG designer and writer, Bill Slavicsek, joins me on the podcast today. Bill is the Lead Writer on the Elder…
‘Pathfinder 2E’ Humble Bundle Committed to Diversity and Social Justice
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Warlock’s Apprentice: Horror in Roleplaying
Chances are you’ll only take a trip to Midgard’s Blood Kingdom if your gaming group enjoys a fair bit of…
Make a Hollywood movie with friends in co-op dice game Roll Camera
Script, shoot and edit the next Hollywood blockbuster - or cult classic - in upcoming filmmaking board game Roll Camera.…
Wingspan designer’s next board game Mariposas has a release date
Butterfly migration board game Mariposas, the latest game designed by Wingspan creator Elizabeth Hargrave, has a release date - and…
Everdell, A War of Whispers and Black Orchestra devs open indie tabletop studio Quillsilver
Former developers behind board games including Everdell, A War of Whispers and Black Orchestra have founded their own independent tabletop…
How To Get Published Panels
I was looking at my list of blogs I’d sketched out back in December. I don’t normally do that, but…
Gen Con 2020: Events Tome of Knowledge
Gen Con Online is coming up soon and runs from July 30 – August 2, 2020. I just received a…
Iconic Encounter: Striking Thirteen
Iconic Encounter: Striking Thirteen Tuesday, July 21, 2020 “Now, mister, why would you bother yourself with questions like those?”…
Dishonored: The RPG review – video game’s world soars while its gameplay sags
The Empire of the Isles - which encapsulates both the known and unknown locales of Dishonored - is a filthy,…
Roleplay in Combat
Of the three pillars of Dungeons & Dragons (or any tabletop roleplaying game for that matter), roleplaying is the glue…
Take the Kobayashi Maru test in the latest free supplement for RPG Star Trek Adventures
Face the seemingly unwinnable Kobayashi Maru test for yourself in a new free supplement for the Star Trek Adventures RPG.…
That’s How I Roll: Dr. Strangedice or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love FFG Star Wars
Image by RPGNet. Copyright West End Games I love Star Wars. I had watched the Original Trilogy as a kid…
Comic book turned Netflix series The Umbrella Academy is now a card game
Face legions of villains as a family of unlikely superheroes in The Umbrella Academy, an upcoming board game adaptation of…
Warhammer Humble Bundle includes Blood Bowl 2, Deathwatch, Battlefleet Gothic and more on PC for £10
Pick up a bevy of Warhammer PC games for just over a tenner as part of the latest Humble Bundle…
Here We Come A’Slithering!
Here We Come A’Slithering! Monday, July 20, 2020 Illustration by David Astruga This month we’re proud to release our newest…
Survey: Feats
Take our latest Unearthed Arcana survey. Last time, Unearthed Arcana presented a selection of new feats for Dungeons & Dragons.…
This Week on Twitch, July 20 – July 26
This Week on Twitch, July 20 - July 26 Monday, July 20, 2020 We’re getting closer and closer to Gen…
Sorcerer 101: Wild Magic
It’s time to go beyond the Basic Rules. In this week’s Class 101, we examine the Wild Magic sorcerer, a…
Spell Spotlight: Healing Word and Spiritual Weapon
Spell Spotlight puts D&D’s most turbulent spells under a microscope. This time, two mighty low-level spells that form the core…
Host Panel for the 2020 ENNIE Awards Announcement
Posted by Stacy Muth on 20 Jul 2020 in RPG | 0 comments THE ENNIE Awards are pleased to announce…
How to play Pokémon TCG Online: Get started on PC and mobile
The Pokémon TCG has been a constant presence in the world of card games for over 20 years, and constant…
Root digital is coming to mobile and PC later this year
Engage in all-out woodland warfare on mobile and PC with a digital version of acclaimed board game Root, set to…
Mythic Odysseys of Theros Breakdown, Part One
Okay, yes, I could have written this way back when its text dropped on D&D Beyond, but as it turns…
The Spice Domain
The Spice Domain is a domain for those non-combat focused clerics who love to cook or want to be able…
Spiel des Jahres 2020 winners: Pictures and The Crew collect ‘Game of the Year’ awards
The winner of the 2020 Spiel des Jahres, Germany’s top prize for the best board game of the year, along…
Super Mario Monopoly and Jenga are being released to celebrate the video games’ 35th anniversary
Buy up locations from across Super Mario Bros. history or scale a tower to challenge Bowser in upcoming versions of…
Expanding Codex: Fulminar
Alternate Traits and Actions The following changes allow GMs to alter a fulminar without modifying its challenge rating: Forked Lightning.…
Pathfinder 2E Humble Bundle includes RPG’s core rulebook, adventures, maps and more from under £5
Get the second edition of fantasy RPG Pathfinder along with hours of adventures, maps, characters, novels and more for under…
Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 was almost a ‘sixties Bond film’ with a working slide projector
Pandemic Legacy: Season 0’s designers toyed with the idea of giving the upcoming board game a “tongue-in-cheek” tone similar to…
New Player’s Guide: Character Relationships
The best characters in fiction form meaningful relationships with each other, allowing these relationships to help them grow. That’s what…
Encounter of the Week: Ambush at Aurilssbarg
Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part three of this mini-series of adventures in Icewind Dale and…
Storm Edge Campaign Setting 7: Kijin (Goliath Variant of The Eight Isles)
Welcome back to the world of STORM EDGE: THE ADVENTURES IN EIGHT ISLES! This week, we are delving into Ryujin…
Tales of Lost Omens: Rebirth
Tales of Lost Omens: Rebirth Friday, July 17, 2020 The fire in the forest clearing flickered merrily without wood…
PRESS RELEASE – Token Terrors: An Uncontainable Gaming Experience
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Token Terrors: An Uncontainable Gaming Experience New game featuring multi-use miniatures to launch on Kickstarter JULY 9,…
Free RPG Day is July 25th, 2020
Free RPG Day is on July 25, 2020 this year. It’s more important than ever to get out to your…
No-Prep Character: Duhgik
No-Prep Character: Duhgik Friday, July 17, 2020 Our series of No-Prep Character blogs, which feature a ready-to-run NPC for busy…
Has Anyone Seen Bucky?
It’s Not All Hell After the Hell of the Dix-I front, it’s time to take a break from the long…
New Player’s Guide: Customizing Spells
Welcome to the latest installment of New Player’s Guide. This week, we’re talking about customizing and reflavoring spells, a skill…
“I feel like we told a good story”: Pandemic Legacy creators Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau on ending the series at its beginning
It’s been three years since the last Pandemic Legacy game, and five years since Season 1 first reinvented the co-op…
Magic: The Gathering’s new Jumpstart format aims to take the effort out of making a deck
Magic: The Gathering has a new format that boils building a deck down to the bare basics. In Jumpstart, players…
Midgard Ley Magic: Expanded Ley Line Effects
Welcome back to Midgard Ley Magic, a series where we explore the mysticism and mechanics of ley lines, the powerful…
Sacred Rites is a new social deduction game inspired by horror film Midsommar
Infiltrate a mysterious cult as an outsider or become a believer in Sacred Rites, a social deduction game that takes…
Dixit and Mysterium studio Libellud has been acquired by Catan, Pandemic and Ticket to Ride owner Asmodee
Libellud, the French board game publisher behind Dixit and Mysterium, has been acquired by tabletop behemoth Asmodee. Libellud was founded…
Magic: The Gathering Core Set 2021 draft guide: How to draft M21
Magic: The Gathering’s Core Set 2021 has been out for a little bit now, and you’ve probably been sinking your…
New Character Options for Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Play
New Character Options for Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Play Thursday, July 16, 2020 A large crowd milled about the…
Silver and Steel Episode 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
With natural disaster looming and the threat of war imminent, can a lucky halfling, a former trickster god, an alchemist…
Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 revealed as Cold War spy thriller set in the 1960s – watch the exclusive cinematic trailer
Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 is a spy thriller set at the peak of the Cold War in the early sixties,…
Returning to Icewind Dale in ‘Rime of the Frostmaiden’
Pre-Order Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden on D&D Beyond to unlock pre-order rewards, including digital dice: https://dndbeyond.link/RIme Chris Perkins…
Thursday Art Assault – The Death of Yestereve
‘The Death of Yestereve’ – J Edward Neill – 2020 Satisfy your art fix at Share this: Like this: Like…
Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall is an RPG about cooking and vampires
Manage a family restaurant by day and battle vampires by night in Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall, a tabletop…
Arthurian legend movie The Green Knight is getting its own tabletop RPG next month
Seek out the formidable Green Knight as a party of adventurers in a new roleplaying game based on the upcoming…
10 best sports board games
High school movies would have you believe that board games and sports belong to two very different worlds. The sports…
Iconic Encounter: A Cold Day In Hell
Iconic Encounter: A Cold Day In Hell Wednesday, July 15, 2020 “COLLISION IN THIRTY SEC...” Keskodai punched a flashing…
Pathfinder Second Edition Humble Bundle
Pathfinder Second Edition Humble Bundle Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Last month, Paizo reiterated its commitment to diversity and racial justice;…
Worldbuilding with Magic
Few D&D adventures end without something magical happening. Whether helpful or harmful, magic appears frequently in the life of an…
Questions with Some Answers
On today’s thoughts & things; I’m going to reach into the old question basket and draw out a few of…
Under the Moonlight is the first expansion for beautiful forest-growing game Photosynthesis
When the sun goes down it’s time to harness the power of the moon in the first expansion for tree-tending…
Role-Playing Game Adventures with Matt Corley
Role-playing game designer and Saturday Morning Scenarios founder Matt Corley joins me on the podcast today. We discuss his career…
Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters lets you battle Dracula, meet Santa and wield Excalibur in Dungeons & Dragons 5E
A new book for Dungeons & Dragons 5E is bringing heroes, villains, creatures and objects from across myth, legend and…
Baby Shark Bowl Ooze
Dr. Megan Connell, the GM for Clinical Roll and a psychologist who uses D&D in her work, sent the Kobolds…
Munchkin Dungeon, a new board game based on the hit party game, is out this week
Chaotic card game Munchkin has a brand new board game, and it's out this week. Munchkin Dungeon takes the dungeon-delving…
Vampire: The Masquerade – Rivals is a new expandable card game based on the RPG
Stalk through the streets of San Francisco to eliminate opposing clans in Rivals, a new expandable card game set in…
Four More Comics You Should be Reading
I recently sent out the call to my mailing list to help me fill in some additional gaps in my…
Iconic Encounter: In The Eye Of The Storm
Iconic Encounter: In The Eye Of The Storm Tuesday, July 14, 2020 Though the night air was still, Korakai’s…
Raid and steal in next month’s Barbarian Hordes expansion for Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North
Prepare to defend against pillaging or rally the party for raiding in the latest expansion for Imperial Settlers: Empires of…
A Steven Universe board game is coming from the co-designer of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle
Coax Steven Universe characters on-stage to perform in an upcoming card game from the co-designer of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle.…
Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters for 5th Edition
A beautiful 5th Edition hardcover tome of legendary figures from Achilles to Robin Hood, Thor to Dracula, King Arthur to…
PRESS RELEASE: Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters (D&D 5e) on Kickstarter
Hardcover D&D 5E book Spiritual successor to Deities & Demigods Foreword by Jim Ward 100 mythological figures, 30 mythical artifacts…
PRESS RELEASE: 9TH Level Games Announces New Hosted Online Play Service 9th Level RPGs run by vetted GMs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9TH Level Games Announces New Hosted Online Play Service 9th Level RPGs run by vetted GMs [PHILADELPHIA,…
This Week on Twitch, July 13 – July 19
This Week on Twitch, July 13 - July 19 Monday, July 13, 2020 Another week full of amazing adventures! Remember…
Unearthed Arcana: Feats
Today’s Unearthed Arcana presents a selection of new feats for Dungeons & Dragons. Each feat offers a way to become…
Encounter of the Week: Evil on the Icy Sea
Are you prepared to journey to Icewind Dale, the frozen north of Faerûn? Times are strange, and countless rumors swirl…
Beginner-friendly RPG Quest is now available to schools, libraries and counsellors for free
Libraries, schools, counsellors and other public educators can now receive a copy of accessible roleplaying game Quest entirely free of…
Ascension Tactics turns the fantasy deckbuilder into a miniatures game
Deckbuilding game Ascension is being spun out into a new miniatures game, Ascension Tactics. Co-created by former Magic: The Gathering…
6–12 July 2020: Wizards & Race; Kickstarter during the Pandemic
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Black board games are key to the future of tabletop
In the first five years I spent enjoying modern board games, I got comfortable playing games that never felt like…
Tome of Beasts: Dogmole Juggernaut
Hide armor and scraps of mail are nailed onto this scarred and tattooed mole-like beast. A ring of tentacles sprouts…
Breakdancing Meeples is a dexterity game dance-off that has you literally throwing shapes
Get ready to get down in upcoming board game Breakdancing Meeples, where players are challenged to perform as many killer…
New Descent board game, Legends of the Dark, leaked by tie-in novel and trademark filing
A new Descent board game, Legends of the Dark, has seemingly been leaked ahead of its official announcement. As spotted…
New Player’s Guide: How to Homebrew on D&D Beyond
For in-depth looks on how to use the D&D Beyond homebrew system, check out the Design Workshop series by master…
No-Prep Character: Pr’rall
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And the 2020 ENnie nominees are…
Community Manager at D&D Adventurers League Amy is an obsessive baker and avid gamer who thrives when herding cats and…
Tales of Lost Omens: Be Kind to Strangers
Tales of Lost Omens: Be Kind to Strangers Friday, July 10, 2020 Patross, the staff lead, was sneering again,…
Return to Hell
Death on Dix-I Day The previous installment of our blog explored the campaigns chapter of the Rogue Trooper supplement, which…
Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles, the next game from the makers of Anachrony, washes players up on a dinosaur island
Anachrony co-designers David Turczi, Richard Amann and Viktor Peter are back with Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles, a board game that sees…
The Dicebreaker Podcast travels to the past, present and future with Pandemic Legacy, 2020’s best RPGs and Star Trek
Where we’re going we don’t need roads - because we’re already off track moments into this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast. Luckily,…
Strontium Dog Pre-orders Shipping Soon!
Strontium Dog pre-orders are shipping soon. Your copy should be with you by August 2020.More
New Dicebreaker merch is on the way – pre-order hoodies, shirts, mugs and more!
You can now pre-order our summer range of official Dicebreaker merchandise, including new clothes, mugs, bottles and more! Joining our…
The Big Dark Art Discount
This weekend… For my social media and website crew only… 25% off almost every original and print in the store.…