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Ultra PRO will release two D&D - Vecna: Eve of Ruin playmats into retail in Q2 2024. These two playmats…
‘Carcassonne’, the Gold Standard For Board Games, is Nearly 50% Off!
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Cyberpunk Red RPG serves up a free crossover expansion with sci-fi bartending video game VA-11 Hall-A
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Dive into this weekend’s hottest news: how the Black Legion came to be, new movie trailers, and how to take…
Warhammer Next Week: Kill Team Nightmare and Warcry Pyre
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Last weekend at GaryCon, many of us raised a glass to the memory of Jim Ward, who passed away just…
D&D: The Five Best Ways to Tank Some Damage
Taking a hit in D&D is about more than just wearing the best armor or having the best hit points.…
‘RuneScape’ Board Game Has The Open World Feel Without Being Overwhelming
RuneScape Kingdoms: Shadow of Elvarg is filled with everything you know from the record-breaking video game but keeps it light…
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The Marauder might have been destined for a “Bad Batch” but it was one of the best Omicron-class attack shuttles…
D&D Accessories: Owlbear Stuff (and Stuffed Owlbears)
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There are many gods of the sun in D&D. And Amaunator has been at least two of them. Here’s what…
Games Workshop Pre-Orders: ‘Pricing & Links’ – Wintermaw Weekend
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Horror On The Orient Express: The Board Game Announced
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The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Guide Has Been Released
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The Thunderbolts – Marvel’s Super Team of Bad Guys That Aren’t Really Bad Explained
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Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – Solar Auxilia Reinforcements Up Close And Personal
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Warhammer 40K Lore: The Great Companies of the Space Wolves
These vikings share a bit more with King Arthur than you might expect – check out the Great Companies of…
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From Pennywise to the Joker, to the Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the scary clown trope has been the architect…
Search For ‘Alien’s Missing Plot Points With This Ripley Cosplay
Whether you’re excited about Alien: Covenant or disappointed there’s no prequel continuity, this Ripley cosplayer will light your fire! In…
WotC and Hasbro to Invest $1 Billion in “Gaming Ecosystem”
After Baldur’s Gate 3 and Monopoly Go were standout successes, Hasbro and WotC plan to invest a billion dollars into…
MTG: Lore of the Multiverse – Kellan’s Odyssey
A young man following his father across the Multiverse, Kellan has finally found his place in the dusty realm of…
D&D Tops The 2023 Sales Charts, Despite 30% Decline
2023 was a tough year for RPGs, but they managed to come out on top, with D&D still leading the…
GW, Warhammer, 40K & Fantasy Minis Trivia Challenge – March 29th
It’s Friday! Kick-off your weekend with this retro challenge for the old-schoolers out there. What ancient Games Workshop, 40K, and…
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Introduce some Psychic Terror to Your 5E Campaign With ‘Beyond the Gate’, ‘The Missing Mead Mystery’, and More
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A Fated Encounter With Dragons!
Salutations! It’s me, Luis Loza! I am saddened to say that we are at the end of our draconic journey.…
Graphix to Publish 'The Deep Dark' by Molly Knox Ostertag
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Marvel: Crisis Protocol – The Horsemen of the Apocalypse We Want
With Apocalypse coming to Marvel: Crisis Protocol it’s only fitting if we get some variants of his Horsemen in the…
Outside the Box – March 29th: Mantic’s ‘HALO Flashpoints’ and More!
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Games Workshop has updated the Priority Roll and the impact on the Double Turn. It’s here to stay but it…
Age of Sigmar: The Modular Rules Format – Less ‘Upfront Rules’ And More Options Later
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar is getting a massive rules re-write but are the Modular Rules innovative or unnecessary? Yesterday Games…
Dryad lineage and heritages for the Tales of the Valiant RPG
When the Tales of the Valiant Player’s Guide debuts in just a few months, it will contain the classic fantasy…
Magpie Games Will Release New 'Avatar Legends RPG' Book
Magpie Games will release Uncle Iroh's Adventure Guide, a new book for Avatar Legends RPG, which will head to stores…
Let’s Get Weird and Combine All of Our Favorites With These Anime Crossover Accessories
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Miniatures the Strongest Hobby Games Category in 2023
Based on growth rate, non-collectible miniatures and miniatures games were the strongest hobby games category in 2023, up around 9%,…
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The Black Legion can trace their roots back to The Warmaster Horus, but they do not hold him as dear…
Your Whole Life Can Be a Dark Room in This Lydia Deetz Closet Cosplay
It’s showtime once again in Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! And you yourself can be strange and unusual in this Lydia Deetz closet…
‘Fiasco Classic’, The Coen Brothers-esque RPG of Bad Decisions Available In New Bundle Of Holding
The Fiasco Classic Bundle of Holding is absolutely legendary. Get Fiasco, as well as several expansions all for just $10.…
D&D: Five Spells for Channeling Your Character’s Inner Professor X
Unleash the unlimited power of your mind, or at least the hard-to-resist power of psychic damage with these psychic spells…
The Bad Batch S3 E9 Breakdown: “The Harbinger” Brings Back a Character We Haven’t Seen n a Bit
One of our favorite characters made an appearance… to tell us something we already knew this week on The Bad…
Pathfinder 2E’s ‘Seven Dooms for Sandpoint’ Invites You Back to the Town that Started It All
Pathfinder’s most infamous starting town, Sandpoint, has been through a lot over the years. Now it faces Seven Dooms. The…
WizKids Will Release New 'Dungeons & Dragons Onslaught' Scenario Kit
WizKids will release Grasp of the Mind Flayer, a new scenario kit for Dungeons & Dragons Onslaught, which will hit…
Explore ‘Fallout RPG’ Wasteland With New Weapons, Monsters, and More RPG Releases
Arcane Arsenal From my homebrew to yours, an illustrated catalog of over 1000 magical items, armors, tools, armaments, and trinkets…
Dare the Lair of the Horned Giant, and Enter the First Fantasy AGE Dungeon
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MTG: Put on your Game Face – Top Five Shapeshifter Commanders
Normally, saying someone is two-faced is an insult. For these Commanders, they’re insulted you think they only have two faces.…
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Before Larian Studios moves on to their next project, there’s a bit more work left for Baldur’s Gate 3, including…
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Hello, Pathfinders! You know, I genuinely thought that this column would be much quieter than the delicious solstice report from…
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Horus Heresy: GW Says Command Squads Kit On the Way
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It feels like Magic: The Gathering character Oko was created specifically for me. A planeswalker originally introduced in 2019’s Throne…
In Memory of Kenneth Patrick “Kenny” Webb (1988–2024)
It is with great sadness that Kobold Press must announce the loss of a member of our extended Warrens, Kenneth…
Greater Than Games Unleashes 'Sentinel Comics RPG 2E Starter Kit'
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Hobby Game Sales Eke Out a Tough Win in 2023
Hobby game sales eked out a nominal 1% increase in 2023, against the tough comparison to a third great year…
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Sci-fi RPG Substratum Protocol channels the “deep delving mystery” of Subnautica and In Other Waters
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Custom Soul Moon Artwork by J Edward Neill – Get Yours Tonight!
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Award-Winning Video Game ‘Don’t Starve’ is Making Its Way to the Tabletop World
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern Cast Revealed
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Join ‘The Adventure’ From MyMiniFactory For Exclusive STLs and Big Savings
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Wizards of the Coast Updates Deets on 'Magic: The Gathering – Outlaws of Thunder Junction'
Wizards of the Coast updated details on Magic: The Gathering - Outlaws of Thunder Junction, the next Premier booster set,…
Does the world need Critical Role's new RPG Daggerheart?
Critical Role's game studio Darington Press has been making their first forray into TTRPGs over the last year or so,…
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In D&D, spellcasters wield unimaginable power. But you don’t have to play a spellcaster to cast spells, just grab one…
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WizKids previewed Star Trek: Into the Unknown at AdeptiCon 2024. This new game was revealed in September 2023 (see "'Star…
MTG Commander of the Week: Eladamri, Lord of Leaves
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Find Your Path — March 2024
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Out with the old, and in with the new for Age of Sigmar means saying goodbye to your battletomes. Here’s…
D&D 5E shrinks down to a Borrowers and Arrietty-like world in Adventures in the Household RPG
Fantasy stories have long been obsessed with the worldbuilding premise of “What if normal-sized things were instead very small?” Gulliver’s…
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Para Bellum Games unveiled Conquest: Chronicles and Legends, a new TTRPG, which will launch in Q4 2024. Para Bellum is…
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Arcadia was incredible, Flee, Mortals! a masterpiece… so where does Where Evil Lives, the companion product to the monster book…
Feel Like You’re in ‘The Matrix 2’ Highway Scene With ‘Gun It’ and More Kickstarter Highlights
WE DIE YOUNG – Supernatural Retro Roleplaying in the 1990s A spiritual sequel to Bloat Game’s 1980s-based RPG, DARK…
GameStop Sales Down Nearly 20% in Holiday Quarter
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Takenoko and Mind MGMT maker’s new board game follows tiny cats in a bustling Japanese city
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Preview videos are always a good time, but what do these cryptic rules previews mean for the game? Welcome in,…
Infinite Top Performers—Feb ‘24
Welcome back to another exciting collection of Pathfinder Infinite & Starfinder Infinite Top Performers! What is Infinite? Pathfinder and Starfinder…
New Release: Astonishing Adventures: The Lost Library for Mutants & Masterminds!
You can pick up this all-new Astonishing Adventure for $5.99 at the Green Ronin Online Store and DrivethruRPG! “The Library…
Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth: Claim Your Free Copy Today!
Claim your free copy of Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth today and embark on a dungeon-delving adventure! This one-shot…
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One of the more recent trends in the games business has been the emergence of RPG encounter miniatures boxed sets…
Avatar, Root, And More In Magpie Games RPG Humble Bundle
Whether you’re interested in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender or the woodlands of Root, some of Magpie Games’…
‘Monsters of Drakkenheim’ Kickstarter Includes D&D Beyond Support – A First for WotC’s VTT
A new Kickstarter Monsters of Drakkenheim launched today with a nod from WotC in the form of official support for…
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Preview season has begun, and it would be a crime for you to miss it… or target your opponents. Welcome…
D&D: Descend into the ‘Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth’ For Free, Today, on D&D Beyond
D&D Beyond has a free preview of one of the Quests from the Infinite Staircase. Check out Descent into the…