For those who prefer "realistic" numbers in RPGs: Inflated numbers of combatants for battles litter history books, derived from wildly inaccurate contemporary histories. We can do much better in...
Eldritch horror finds chickens (I have been a Game Mother but never a Chicken Master. Yet). Dungeons & Dragons gets two new rule softcovers and lots of dragons. I don’t know why it took this long...
Dragon Publishing released Dragon issue 61 in May 1982. It is 84 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. In this issue, we have new cantrips, new weapons, and a new D&D adventure!
Dungeons & Dragons gets a dragon turtle adventure along with two adventures from publishers new to this column. There is a weird MMO RPG for the table top, a DCC RPG The Empire of the East...
Welcome to the Bundles, Freebies, and Sales News, the weekly column at EN World that helps make sure you don’t miss out on big tabletop RPG bundles, charity fundraisers, and sales from around the...
A book of adventures for Call of Cthulhu including Down Darker Trails and Cthulhu Invictus. Dungeons & Dragons and OSR RPGs get crab miniatures, a leprechaun class, and adventures including a...
This week’s article looks at RPG crowdfunding projects that end between October 27 to November 6. This list includes lots of projects that run on RPG engines with “dungeon” in the title as well as...
Dungeons & Dragons gets a city crawl and a vampire cruise. There are also adventures for D&D and OSR including Mutant Crawl Classics as well as an atlas of Hyperboria. Lex Arcana gets two world...
This week’s article offers reviews of RPG crowdfunding projects that end between October 25 to November 2. From 5e and Mörk Borg to DCC, MCC, A5E, and original systems, this sampling of what’s out...
Dungeons & Dragons gets an urbancrawl set in Oz and another city of shotguns and wands set in Dragon City. 13th Age also gets a city, a city of monsters. And then comes the Halloween horror...
A few years ago for an online course about strategic wargame design I devised a list of about a dozen dichotomies between warfare and games. The paradox of wargames is that warfare and games are...
This week I look at projects that end between October 13 to 20. Some original systems, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Powered by the Apocalypse, OSR Powered by Polymorph, 5e, and more. If you’re looking...
This week brings 14 adventures to Dungeons & Dragons all set in the Shadow Realm. Pathfinder 2nd Edition gets a special edition hardcover, Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG gets an adventure for DCC...
Dragon Publishing released Dragon issue 60 in April 1982. It is 87 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. In this issue, we have D&D firearms, lots of lore about elves, and The Spawn of Fashan!
Welcome to the Bundles, Freebies, and Sales News, the weekly column at EN World that helps make sure you don’t miss out on big tabletop RPG bundles, charity fundraisers, and sales from around the...
Moderns are accustomed to cheap and readily available maps that show distance as well as road connectivity. That kind of map is rarely going to exist in a low technology/Medieval setting.
This week is fantasy, mutants, and coasters. Pathfinder 1st Edition gets a new tropical setting, The Dark Eye gets an adventure and conflict between the gods and their servants, and the Soulbound...
This week’s article looks at RPG crowdfunding projects that end between October 3rd to 12th. This sampling includes projects from Monte Cook Games, Evil Hat Productions, Kobold Press, Coyote &...
Dark Places & Demogorgons is a great RPG of 80s kids fighting horrors in their hometown. Currently it uses Survive This!!, an old school game engine, but the next version is for Old-School...