News Roll20’s beta app will allow you to play Dungeons & Dragons and other RPGs within Discord calls Everyone’s favourite community server platform just built a digital gaming den for users. April 27, 2024 Chase Carter
News Critical Role’s latest Candela Obscura finale is almost as long as marathoning the original Star Wars trilogy It doesn’t quite top the Mighty Nein’s farewell, though. April 26, 2024 Matt Jarvis
Deals Celebrate Alien Day with a bargain by getting the official RPG at half-price The perfect sale. April 26, 2024 Alex Meehan
News TTRPGs For Trans Rights bundle sells over 500 works for $5 to support LGBTQ+ advocacy in West Virginia Proceeds benefit Project Rainbow, the only shelter of its kind in the entire state. April 26, 2024 Chase Carter
News Critical Role’s investigative horror RPG Candela Obscura will perform live on stage for the first time in LA VIP ticket holders will watch the crew create characters and for their occult Circle. April 25, 2024 Chase Carter
News Dungeons & Dragons’ new Player’s Handbook is nearing completion, will contain four psionic subclasses Mind bullets, that’s telekinesis! April 25, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
Best Games The best Ghibli-inspired D&D 5E adventures and settings for fans of Spirited Away, Totoro and more Get into some Miyazaki-style Dungeons & Dragons shenanigans. April 25, 2024 Katie Wickens
News D&D maker continues to lean on MTG and Baldur’s Gate 3 during 2024's “turnaround” phase Monopoly Go! surpassing $2 billion in revenue doesn’t hurt, either. April 24, 2024 Chase Carter
News These official D&D cartoon miniatures let you relive the ‘80s classic in your own campaign - now with its iconic DM and villain A whole new dimension. April 24, 2024 Matt Jarvis
Opinion Miss the dark, brutal atmosphere of old-school Fallout? Weird-West tabletop RPG Deadlands is its ideal successor Different eras, same darkness. April 23, 2024 Alex Meehan 2 comments
News Snag hundreds of tabletop RPGs from these two bundle raising money for Palestine Children’s Relief Funds All proceeds will benefit a humanitarian program offering medical aid, food and water in the midst of a genocide. April 23, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News This gorgeous Japanese tabletop RPG lets the characters’ scars do the talking Aionia: Without Mercy wants its dark, high fantasy world to be eminently approachable. April 20, 2024 Chase Carter
News Helldivers 2 doesn’t have an official tabletop RPG, but free fan-made tribute Helldroppers may as well be it How about a cup of Liber-TRPG? April 19, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News MÖRK BORG meets church orthodoxy wars in folk horror RPG Black Powder and Brimstone Those Puritans are armed and dangerous. April 19, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News D&D’s massive Vecna adventure gets a new trailer voiced by Astarion’s actor in Baldur’s Gate 3 Neil Newbon really lays on the evil pedal. April 18, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Critical Role's official Vox Machina-inspired whiskey will let you turn D&D into Drinking & Drunkenness Get a taste of the Sandkheg’s Hide. April 18, 2024 Alex Meehan
Best Games The best Fallout games to stash in your tabletop vault after finishing the Fallout TV show That SPECIAL something. April 18, 2024 Matt Jarvis
Best Games 10 best spells in D&D 5E These spells are invaluable to any party. April 18, 2024 Katie Wickens
News Pathfinder plans to kill its god of war in a major upcoming tabletop RPG sourcebook Gorum? More like gottem. April 18, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Wizards of the Coast president Cynthia Williams departs D&D and Magic: The Gathering's maker An SEC filing confirms that Hasbro is searching “both internal and external” for her replacement April 17, 2024 Chase Carter 10 comments
Video The One Ring RPG is the best Lord of the Rings experience you can have on tabletop Outside of telling someone Aragorn broke his toe April 17, 2024 Maddie Cullen
News Dungeons & Dragons publisher plans to make Baldur’s Gate 4, once it finds the right developer for the job “We certainly hope it’s not another 25 years.” April 17, 2024 Alex Meehan
News Turn your game into a hit with advice from makers of the Warhammer and Fallout RPGs, games lawyers, distributors and more at the Tabletop Creators Summit next month A day of free talks and networking opportunities for anyone in the tabletop industry. April 17, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Stewpot’s melancholy RPG about finding calm after a life of adventure gets a hardcover book Swords to plowshares…and ladles, mugs and brooms. April 17, 2024 Chase Carter
News Adventure Time RPG’s original ‘Yes And’ system still in the works, will be released after D&D 5E version Cryptozoic claims the new system “needed more development time and licensor approvals.” April 17, 2024 Chase Carter 2 comments
News Dimension 20 addresses Madison Square Garden “nonsense”, won’t use dynamic pricing at future live shows One plan includes a “Dimensioneer ticket” lottery where select fans can purchase fixed-cost tickets. April 15, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
Opinion The Fallout TV show owes even more to its tabletop RPG than the video games Don’t wander the wasteland alone. April 15, 2024 Hal Hewlett
News The Laundry RPG’s second edition imagines nightmares just slightly more horrific than office work Mondays, am I right? April 15, 2024 Chase Carter
News Frolic and fight with the fae in this celtic-inspired 5th edition RPG book Beware the Faerie Queene. April 15, 2024 Alex Meehan
News Planet of the Apes’ very real tabletop RPG adaptation will stretch across all five monkey movies Apes together strong. April 12, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Dark fantasy book series The Black Company gets its first tabletop RPG in 20 years from Delta Green creators Now we're Cookin'. April 12, 2024 Chase Carter 2 comments
News Critical Role maker’s Daggerheart cuts back on stress and fear in latest RPG playtest update The first prerelease update focuses on “Rulings over Rules”. April 11, 2024 Chase Carter
News Lycanthropic social deduction game Werewolves of Miller's Hollow is being turned into a Netflix series Audience, close your eyes. April 10, 2024 Chase Carter
News Dimension 20 will bring The Unsleeping City’s fantasy NYC to Madison Square Garden Ticket presales for the live one-shot adventure are planned for April 12th. April 8, 2024 Chase Carter
News Old-school RPG adventure The Gardens of Ynn takes a roguelike, Annihilation approach to Alice in Wonderland “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.” April 6, 2024 Chase Carter
News Starfinder makers are selling physical copies of the sci-fi RPG’s April Fools prank The Gap is ostensibly full of material that links Pathfinder to the futuristic setting. In reality, well… April 4, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Dungeons & Dragons’ free LEGO-themed adventure is full of evil wizards and hot wings The perfect combination of goofy and thrilling. April 4, 2024 Chase Carter
Opinion D&D 5E vs Pathfinder 2E: Which RPG should you play? Can there be a winner in the D&D vs Pathfinder debate, or is it more a matter of preference? April 3, 2024 Katie Wickens 8 comments
News Cyberpunk Red RPG serves up a free crossover expansion with sci-fi bartending video game VA-11 Hall-A No, it’s not an April Fool's. April 1, 2024 Matt Jarvis
How To How to play Daggerheart: Where to start with Critical Role’s fantasy RPG A beginner’s guide to the new D&D rival’s playtest rules. March 29, 2024 Aimee Hart
Opinion Trying to get your kids into board games? It's not about what you play, but how you play Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield on how to share grown-up games with younger players. March 28, 2024 Richard Garfield
News Sci-fi RPG Substratum Protocol channels the “deep delving mystery” of Subnautica and In Other Waters Pandion’s latest title supports both subterranean solo play and group delving. March 28, 2024 Chase Carter
Video Does the world need Critical Role's new RPG Daggerheart? Dungeons and dragons and dungeons and dragons and March 27, 2024 Maddie Cullen
News D&D 5E shrinks down to a Borrowers and Arrietty-like world in Adventures in the Household RPG Diminutive & Dangerous. March 27, 2024 Chase Carter
News Mystic Punks RPG’s half weird magic and half grungy counter culture vibes get an official book Gnarly crust. March 26, 2024 Chase Carter
Deals Avatar Legends, Root RPG, Bluebeard’s Bride and more offered cheap in Magpie Games’ charity bundle Proceeds will benefit Child's Play Charity. March 25, 2024 Chase Carter
Feature Critical Role's D&D rival Daggerheart plays tabletop RPGs' greatest hits well, but struggles to be more than a covers band For all the smart evolution it makes from its forebears, the fantasy RPG is still searching for its own identity. March 25, 2024 Hal Hewlett 11 comments
News Rapscallion wants to be One Piece and Our Flag Means Death fans’ favourite tabletop RPG A “strange pirate” RPG five years in the making. March 25, 2024 Chase Carter
News Super-lightweight RPG Cairn dives back into the forest with a more fleshed out second edition Putting the “Oh, sh–” in OSR. March 25, 2024 Chase Carter
Deals Troika! knocks down price of several weird-fantasy RPG books to benefit charity Proceeds from all books will be donated to Doctors Without Borders. March 23, 2024 Chase Carter
Deals Pathfinder’s latest tabletop RPG Humble Bundle is a $5 ticket to the Wild West Rootin’ and tootin’ and rolling dice. March 23, 2024 Chase Carter
News D&D’s Quests from the Infinite Staircase adventure anthology is chockablock with beloved crawls One mustachioed genie, six classic adventures. March 22, 2024 Chase Carter
Opinion The Arkham Horror Files RPG needs to take risks, like the franchise always has Investigators meets innovation. March 21, 2024 Alex Meehan 4 comments
News Get an exclusive early look at the next Critical Role comic, featuring an entirely new Vox Machina adventure Exandria expanded. March 21, 2024 Alex Meehan
News Ghost in the Shell and Fallout New Vegas inspired this sci-fi solo RPG Solo science fiction. March 20, 2024 Alex Meehan
News LEGO’s official Dungeons & Dragons set will launch with an actual play one-shot featuring the designer The fantasy-themed inn will include an adventure booklet starring its heroic patrons. March 19, 2024 Chase Carter
News Early D&D designer and co-author of Deities & Demigods James M. Ward has passed away Ward sat at Gary Gygax’s Greyhawk table and created sci-fi and fantasy tabletop RPGs at TSR for 20 years. March 19, 2024 Chase Carter
News Blade Runner RPG’s first expansion evokes the original film’s ethical dilemmas and empathy for replicants Study up for your Voight-Kampff test. March 19, 2024 Chase Carter
Opinion The Avatar: The Last Airbender roleplaying game succeeds where the live-action series fails Expansion over imitation. March 18, 2024 Alex Meehan
News Beloved Gundam-meets-D&D RPG Wares Blade gets first English translation after nearly 40 years Sword and sorcery and super big mechs. March 16, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News D&D and MTG have "compelling use cases for AI", says Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks envisions “mining” tabletop adventures and TCG cards for the toy company’s AI-powered future. March 15, 2024 Chase Carter 7 comments
News Dungeons & Dragons survival sim video game on the way from studio behind Disney Dreamlight Valley Plowshares to swords. March 14, 2024 Chase Carter 2 comments
Opinion Is the next version of Dungeons & Dragons coming too late? Slow and steady has not won this race. March 14, 2024 Alex Meehan 14 comments
News Shin Megami Tensei tabletop RPG, based on Persona's video game series, gets an English release after 20 years D&D, but it stands for Demons and Demi-fiends March 13, 2024 Chase Carter 5 comments
News Deadpool Role-Plays the Marvel Universe is part comic book, part playable RPG adventure Ahead of new movie Deadpool & Wolverine. March 13, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Critical Role RPG Daggerheart opens its public playtest, giving you the chance to try the D&D rival for free Ahead of the beginner-friendly fantasy game’s release in 2025. March 13, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Almost a fifth of money raised by Kickstarter projects goes to scam campaigns, report alleges Crowdfunding platform denies claim about its own internal figures. March 12, 2024 Matt Jarvis 2 comments
News Battle cosmic horrors as kitties in rules-light RPG Cats of Catthulhu, back with a 10th anniversary edition Dare you read the Nekonomicon? March 11, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News One Piece and Digimon tabletop games are on the way to mark the anime's 25th anniversaries From studio behind Spy x Family card game and Sonic Roll. March 11, 2024 Matt Jarvis
Opinion Can't wait for the Discworld RPG? Become an Auditor of Reality in this free fan-made game A One in a Million Chance at Adventure is a rules-lite narrative delight. March 11, 2024 Katie Wickens
News Monster Hunter World board game maker to publish D&D alternative Tales of the Valiant’s starter set New RPG rules, same ol’ fantasy. March 9, 2024 Chase Carter
Opinion Like everything else, tabletop gaming would look very different without Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama The influential mangaka and iconic designer for Dragon Quest has passed away at age 68. March 8, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Call of Cthulhu maker offers $10,000 worth of cash prizes to aspiring tabletop RPG designer Chaosium’s inaugural BRP Design Challenge will spotlight “new and upcoming” talent. March 7, 2024 Chase Carter
News Arkham Horror RPG will introduce new investigators to a world of miskatonic mysteries this summer Adventures in Rokugan studio translates the popular LCG into dice pool-driven roleplay. March 6, 2024 Chase Carter 2 comments
News NASA (yes, that NASA) has released its first D&D-compatible tabletop RPG adventure Science and magic meet to solve the mystery of the missing Hubble Telescope March 5, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
Deals Dune RPG bundle lets you continue your Adventures in the Imperium for under £15 after you watch Part Two A spicy proposition. March 5, 2024 Chase Carter
News Honey Heist creator’s 2 Rapid 2 Righteous is an RPG about being Fast & Furious - and Family - played with wind-up toy cars Serve with tuna sandwiches. March 1, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News Terry Pratchett’s Discworld gets its first new tabletop RPG in over 25 years, with board games also on the way “Terry had a lifelong affection with roleplaying games.” Feb. 29, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News You'll be able to play Critical Role's D&D rival Daggerheart soon, as the fantasy RPG gets a public playtest Ahead of its full release in 2025. Feb. 29, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News SPONSORED: Our Brilliant Ruin RPG brings the social drama and romance of Downton Abbey to a doomed world with no happy endings Struggle your way up the social ladder - and to survive. Feb. 28, 2024 Matt Jarvis
Best Games The best Dune games to play on the tabletop after you watch Part Two Add some spice to your next game night. Feb. 28, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Star Trek Adventures’ Second Edition adds playable Klingons, Romulans and Strange New Worlds this summer Boldly roll where you’ve gone before. Feb. 26, 2024 Matt Jarvis
Feature “All the benefits of reading also apply to board games”: Why more libraries are adding tabletop classics to their bookshelves From Wingspan to D&D, local libraries are expanding their catalogues of cardboard. Feb. 26, 2024 James Wallis 1 comment
News Satirical fireteam RPG Planet Fist is essentially Helldivers 2 on the tabletop Orbital Strikes: the not-so-silent killer. Feb. 22, 2024 Chase Carter
News Official Lara Croft tabletop RPG Shadows of Truth pits your team against would-be tomb raiders Will directly adapt and expand Crystal Dynamics’ take on the classic video game character. Feb. 22, 2024 Chase Carter
Feature From TCGs to TRPGs, Aotearoa New Zealand’s tabletop creators are finding their spotlight on the global stage “We want to help each other out a lot more because we are so isolated.” Feb. 22, 2024 Tim Ford
News Inject some Elden Ring into your D&D 5E campaigns with Kobold Press’ Soulslike Roleplaying Souls, bonfires, and rude invaders - this book does exactly what it says on the tin. Feb. 22, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News La Desbandá 1937 offers a uniquely human look at war through the lens of a real-life atrocity turned RPG Translated into English ahead of the Málaga-Almería road massacre’s 87th anniversary. Feb. 21, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Blister Critters is a Gamma World-meets-Ren & Stimpy RPG where mutated animals rule the world You can’t spell ‘saturday morning cartoon’ without radiation! Feb. 21, 2024 Chase Carter
News Critical Role celebrates Candela Obscura’s first anniversary with a fourth chapter and three new cast members. Aimee Carrero, Imari Williams and Alexander Ward join the Circle of investigators fighting back a magical blight. Feb. 21, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News The Walking Dead RPG studio’s dark reimagining of Coriolis is “The Terror meets Deadwood in space” They better have deep-space archaeologist Timothy Olyphant. Feb. 20, 2024 Chase Carter
Best Games 10 best feats in Dungeons & Dragons 5E D&D feats that will see your party carving through your enemies. Feb. 20, 2024 Katie Wickens
News Guide a massive sci-fi caravan with a bag of dominoes in artbook-meets-RPG The Details of Our Escape Developed as a digital residency in partnership with artist Linnea Sterte and and author Renee Gladman. Feb. 19, 2024 Chase Carter
News Pathfinder RPG partners with fantasy music studio to publish official adventure path soundtracks Lo-Fi beats to loot to. Feb. 19, 2024 Chase Carter
Opinion Worlds Beyond Number is the slow-burn D&D actual play I didn't know I needed Sometimes, slower is better. Feb. 19, 2024 Henry St Leger
News ARC designer’s hit solo RPG The Magus gets an English print release about power, ambition and sacrifice Momatoes' meditation on "the infinite loneliness of power" comes with a 78-card, fully illustrated Oracle deck. Feb. 16, 2024 Chase Carter
News Revolt against the corrupt Crown - and then be the baddies - in revolutionary RPG Guillotine Heads (and dice) will roll. Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Befriend talking rats to take on monstrous gods using Scrabble tiles in RPG The Far Roofs Attack and dethrone God - or at least nibble at their heels. Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Community megadungeon honouring late D&D designer Jennell Jaquays seeks an expanded physical book Proceeds from Return to Perinthos will first benefit Jaquays family to offset medical bills and funeral costs. Feb. 16, 2024 Chase Carter
News Alien RPG's answer to D&D Beyond gets a full release later this month Nexus exits early access into the cold void of the internet - or just your kitchen table. Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis