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Ruins of Symbaroum [5E] - The Promised Land: An Interview With Free League Publishing

Sep 17

Free League is converting their award-winning dark fantasy tabletop RPG, Symbaroum, to use the Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition system. To start a conversation about the conversion, they’re...

RPG Superstar -- Public Voting Round!

Sep 17

RPG Superstar, the annual Pathfinder design competition once run by Paizo and now by Roll For Combat, has narrowed down the entries to a final 101 contestants. It's now time for the public to...

We Are All Mad Here: 28-Page Preview of MCG's Fairytale Game

Sep 17

Monte Cook Games has released a free preview of We Are All Mad Here, a Cypher-system game based on fairy tales. "Jack climbing the beanstalk. The little mermaid finding her voice. Alice...

RPG Crowdfunding News – Scion: Demigod, Into the Fey, Laser Ponies, and more

Sep 16

This week’s RPG crowdfunding projects through Kickstarter and IndieGoGo end by October 1st. These project include new rules, settings, and expansions to Scion, D&D, Monster of the Week, Delve...

A First Look at Tasha’s Lineage System In AL Player’s Guide - Customizing Your Origin In D&D

Sep 15

The new player’s guide for the D&D Adventurers League has been released. Appendix 1 includes the new info from Tasha’s Cauldron on customizing your origin. It‘s a one-page appendix. The D&D...

Two Subclasses from Tasha for Barbarian and Warlock

Sep 15

WotC has posted two previews from the upcoming Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything — the barbarian’s Path of Wild Magic and the warlock’s Genie patron. You can download them both as PDFs...

Lords of the Middle Sea: An Interview

Sep 15

I spoke with Jason Durall about Chaosium’s upcoming Lords of the Middle Sea Roleplaying Game for Basic Roleplaying. Based on Chaosium’s second board game of the same name, published in 1978, the...

EN5ider #351 - Enchanted Trinkets: Scraps of Knowledge

Sep 14

EN5ider's 351st article brings us a set of 10 unique academic items! As enchanted trinkets these are fun and low impact magic items that can be destroyed for a more potent effect, but unlike the others a few have a more insidious and subtle cost...

Epic Monsters: Bunyip

Sep 14

Oi Epic Monsters is headed back down under to take a gander at a mythological creature from the Outback, a mysterious beast of which little is definitively known: the bunyip!

Pathfinder 2E's African-inspired Sourcebook

Sep 14

Paizo has announced Lost Omens: Mwangi Expanse for June 2021, a setting sourcebook which delves into an African-themed area of Golarion. At over 300 pages, the book also includes six new...

Meet the Daughter of Hideous Laughter

Sep 14

The upcoming Tasha's Cauldron of Everything supplement for Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons promises to reveal many secrets, but perhaps the most tantalizing is a picture of her sitting in front...

How To Promote Your RPG Kickstarter

Sep 13

I've run over a dozen Kickstarters, some big, some small, over a period of several years, and along the way I learned a few things about the process. I thought I'd share what I'd found out so far...

Podcast #117 More Exploring Eberron with Keith Baker

Sep 12

This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by Keith Baker to talk more about Exploring Eberron plus announce the winners of last month’s contest! In the news, Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden...

Lessons Learned from Virtual Gaming

Sep 11

I wasn't completely new to online gaming before Covid-19, but recent events have given me a crash course, as it has for most of us. It's made me change my gaming habits, but also taught me a few...

News Digest for the Week of September 11

Sep 11

Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! Huge Level Up 5e playtest, playtests for Pathfinder 2nd Edition and Starfinder, Avalon Hill leaving Wizards of the Coast, Peter Pan RPG...

Introduce Yourself to Judge Dredd with These Comic/RPG Bundles!

Sep 11

DriveThruComics has put together a sale on some special bundles for those new to Judge Dredd or the worlds of 2000AD. The bundles contain both the tabletop RPG and the comic books which inspired...

GMing: What Keeps Long Running Campaigns Exciting?

Sep 10

You have a new campaign to start. You need a starting location, NPCs, and an adventure. Months later, you need to make an adventure for a 14th level party who need strong NPCs and monsters to...

DriveThruRPG Is Having A Facelift

Sep 10

If you head over to DTRPG, you'll see a link at the top to a 'sneak preview' of a new site redesign. For certain values of 'sneak'.

Class Balance In A5E: How Much Damage Should A Damage Dealer Deal?

Sep 09

In Level Up: Advanced Fifth Edition, we’re creating new incarnations of the 5e character classes. Before we build our new classes from the ground up, we need… a teardown of the originals to see...

RPG Crowdfunding News – Legends of Avallen, Arium, 65 Enchanted Trinkets, and more

Sep 09

This week’s RPG crowdfunding review looks at projects that end by September 24th. Featuring sourcebooks, RPG zines, and more, this article shares some innovative options to bring to your RPG...