• The VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX is LIVE! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!

Reviews

Remove ads

Recent & Upcoming Releases

Remove ads
Reviews 
Band of Blades: A Tightly-Woven Military Fantasy
For all the swords, magic and monsters that run through the pages of Band of Blades it stands utterly distinct from traditional fantasy RPGs. Where others dream of shelf-spanning sagas, it instead captures the compact, carefully-plotted feel of a modern TV series – one soaked in all the darkness, blood and death that viewers could wish for.
Dungeons & Dragons  Reviews 
Deep Dive into Descent Into Avernus
The seeds for Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus were planted in last year's release, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (MToF). At the time, D&D Lead Designer Jeremy Crawford described the theme of that book as “conflict” and the chapter on the Blood Wars between devils and demons in the D&D multiverse is the foundation for Descent Into Avernus.
Reviews 
Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus First Impressions
In Dungeons & Dragons lore and games, jokes are frequently made about Baldur's Gate going to hell or being hell. With the newest adventure book, Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus that's a real (so to speak) and distinct possibility.
Dungeons & Dragons  Reviews 
Dungeons, Mayhem, and Dice Accessories: A Review
To go with the official release of Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (my review will be released shortly), Wizards of the Coast is releasing a few accessories. As with some other recent books, like Tomb of Annihilation and Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica, a dice set is one of them, but Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus Dice and Miscellany is more than a few polyhedrals.
Reviews  Shadowrun 
Shadowrun Sixth World Core Rulebook Review
Shadowrun was my first real roleplaying game. While I’d played BattleTech before and I knew about Dungeons & Dragons growing up, Shadowrun was my real first introduction to tabletop roleplaying. So you can imagine that I have high expectations for a new edition of the game of cyberpunk and urban fantasy. The good news is the rules for this edition are probably the most streamlined with all the...
Dungeons & Dragons  Reviews 
Explore Magic and Socio-Political Tension in the Entromancy RPG
The Entromancy RPG is a Cyberpunk-Fantasy hybrid from designer M.S. Farzan. It is built on a 5E structure, but with additions to the system and the occasional nod to the D20 days. The design team kickstarted the game in 2018 and Entromancy became available in late spring of 2019. Like many games and settings it was inspired by a desire to write a book and so this world of late 21st century San...
Dungeons & Dragons  Reviews 
Change the World as a Fate-Chosen in the Fateforge Core Rulebook
Fate-chosen undertake great adventures, fight dangerous monsters, resist protean corruption, and overcome insidious threats in Fateforge, a quintessential D&D experience. Fateforge consists of five books with this core book as book one.

Kobold Guide To Combat: Get All Meta-Combat with Leading RPG Game Designers!

This fall, Kobold Press has gathered essays from some of the brightest Game designers and theory-crafters into a new anthology. The Kobold Guide To Combat takes a look at the why’s and the how’s of Combat in Role-Playing Games from the authors of some favorite RPG systems!

This Week in TTRPG

Reviews

Reviews  Year Zero Engine 
Build Better Worlds To Die Upon
For a campaign built on investigation and exploration rather than blasting through an Alien hive.
Dungeons & Dragons  Reviews 
A Preview of The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977
With The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977, Wizards is going back to the roots of the game, presenting material other histories have not.
2d20  Reviews 
Witness The Fall Of Dune’s Imperium First Hand
Put the players within spitting distance of the fall of House Atreides and the rise of Muad’Dib.
Dungeons & Dragons  Reviews 
Wizards Goes Big with Vecna: Eve of Ruin
For its first book of D&D's 50th anniversary year, Wizards is going big with a multiverse-spanning, multiverse-threatening adventure where players will face off against one of the game’s most legendary villains.

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons 
Check Out The 2025 Monster Manual Alternate Cover!
A mind flayer adorns the Monster Manual alternate cover!
Dungeons & Dragons 
Finally An Organization Obsessed With Lights
Bathe in the brilliance of the Morning Star—if you're brave enough.
Dungeons & Dragons 
New Monster Manual Cover
The 2025 Monster Manual cover has been unveiled!
Dungeons & Dragons  Film & TV 
Paramount+ Will Not Proceed with Dungeons & Dragons Live-Action TV Show
Hasbro will update the project and pitch to other networks and streamers
Dungeons & Dragons  Reviews 
A Preview of The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977
With The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977, Wizards is going back to the roots of the game, presenting material other histories have not.
Dungeons & Dragons 
New Dungeon Master's Guide Cover Features Venger (From the D&D Cartoons)
The 2024 DMG cover has been revealed by the UK's Mirror newspaper.

Industry News

Industry 
SFWA Posthumously Presents Jennell Jaquays with the 2024 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award
The award is given for “significant contributions to the science fiction, fantasy, and related genres community”
Industry 
2024 Diana Jones Award Finalists Announced
Finalists include one game designer, two conventions, a charity bundle, and a labor union
Apps & Tools  Industry 
Roll20 Purchases Demiplane
More industry consolidation as VTT combines with tools platform!
Industry 
5E-Powered Adventure Time Joins Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Club
D&D-powered cartoon fun from Cryptozoic Entertainment.

Voidrunner's Codex

Remove ads

Remove ads

Latest Posts

Help

Contact us
Terms and rules
Privacy policy
Help
RSS feed

Press Releases

Top