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New Hobby Releases In Stores & PDF Spotlight: 21st May 2018

This week will see copies of Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes start appearing in stores. The week will also bring stores the new Genesys setting, Realms of Terrinoth, which has already been a best seller in electronic format.

Gaming at the Kids' Table with Playground Adventures' A Friend In Need

Here at EN World, I'm looking at all-ages tabletop role-playing games, board games, and card games. Do they engage the players at the kids' gaming table? Would they cut it at the adults' table? Are they genuinely fun for every age? A Friend In Need by Jenny Jarzabski from Playground Adventures is a 26-page "stand-alone mini-adventure for […] 1st level characters. Recommended for ages six and up, this module includes adventure content as well as advice for gaming with children." While this review covers the Pathfinder version of the adventure, there is also a 5e version available.

May DMs Guild Roundup

Summer is almost here and that means the campaign season is among us. It is a time to prepare yourself for the coming trials that warm weather brings. In the pile of moldy tomes we have wrested from the hoards of dragons and eldritch fiends are three in particular that you may find of interest.

Let's Look At Some Monster Stat Blocks For Pathfinder 2

The Monday update to the Pathfinder 2 development blog took a look at building monsters under the new rules. Today, with the Friday update we're getting a look at a couple of stat blocks. They look at an ogre and a redcap (pictured below).
The iconic bike of the Judges, the Lawmaster motorbike is a formidable piece of equipment. Armed with the Cyclops Laser and bike cannon it provides a Judge with enough firepower to deal with almost any situation. The bike’s computer allows it to run independently, so it can be used as a decoy or even to tackle perps head on while its rider can concentrate on other tasks. Check out this preview from the upcoming Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD tabletop roleplaying game.

Critical Role EN World's Critical Role Roundup 013: Wrapping Up The Round Up

The Mighty Nein take the Gentleman's offer to get the heck out of Dodge. There's a classic D&D skirmish with goblins, wolves, and ogres, and more character background details are shared as the Critical Role Roundup wraps up.

PAX Unplugged Ticket Sales Announced

The latest contender in the area of tabletop gaming conventions have announced that tickets have gone on sale for the second PAX Unplugged. The event will be at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Convention Center from November 30th to December 2nd.
Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! Announcements for the Origins Game Fair including Origins Award nominees and a controversy over Guests of Honor, the first Spiel des Jahres nominees announced, big Warhammer news, and more!

RPG Crowdfunding News 096: Arcane Scrollworks 2,Savage Worlds Sovereign Stone, HeroBook, Archives of

In this weeks crowdfunding round-up we take a look at a couple of interesting accessory products, with the HeroBook and the second installment of the Arcane Scrollworks series, as well as four brand new RPGs, a Savage Worlds version of Larry Elmore's Sovereign Stone, and a couple of adventures for 5th Edition and OSR.

From Board Game to RPG… The North Sea Epilogues RPG Announced!

Shipwrights of the North Sea was the first game in the North Sea Trilogy by New Zealand designer Shem Phillips and his company Garphill Games. The second game in the series, Raiders of the North Sea, was nominated for the Kennerspiel des Jahres (the German ‘Enthusiast Game of the Year’ which is chosen at the same time as the coveted Spiel des Jahres) in 2017. Now Garphill Games, in partnership with Dice Up Games, are returning to the Sagas with The North Sea Epilogues – A Roleplaying Game.

Same As It Never Was: 80s Music Inspired Adventures For Tales From The Loop

If you want to experience mysteries in Tales from the Loop, Our Friends the Machines is for you. This full color 104 page hardcover includes three complete adventures, eight short adventure locations based on classic 80s songs, four iconic machines from the world of the Loop including blueprints, and a guide to creating your own setting for the game, complete with the Norfolk Broads, a...

Starfinder Unboxing The Munchkin Starfinder Box

I came home from running some errands recently, and I was greeted at my doorstep by a door stop of a box, the recently Kickstarted game of Munchkin Starfinder from Steve Jackson Games. There was a lot to see in the box, so let's take a look.
Over the weekend, Paizo posted two new Pathfinder 2nd Edition blogs. The first looks at backgrounds, with three examples (Blacksmith, Street Urchin, Pathfinder Hopeful); and the second looks at monsters and the way they are built in the new edition of the game.
Earlier today I answered ten questions about Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. I have some spare time right now -- so I'll answer another ten questions. First ten questions, one question each, don't ask me to list reams of content or locate a single keyword in a 250-page book I just got, and remember this isn't an essay assignment. Below is a handy-dandy summary of the answers to the previous set of ten questions. For the next ten questions - ask away! Time, as before, is limited.

Unearthed Arcana Unearthed Arcana: Centaurs and Minotaurs

As a Dragonlance junkie, it’s interesting to see how they’ve pulled back the damage on the minotaur to make it more workable as a player race (I imagine that working with the Volo races gave them a better baseline). The Hybrid Nature mechanic is interesting here, especially given the number of Fey Ancestry races that we’ve seen so far (who aren’t both Humanoid and Fey), as well as the...

Talking About An Apocalypse: Looking At Apocalypse World 2E

Apocalypse World is the first game to use what we now call the Apocalypse World Engine, published in 2010. It's an innovative system that builds the world as part of character creation, and where the GM (here called the MC) has essentially the same rules as every other player. The second edition of the game was Kickstarted in 2016, and brought the game a bit more in line with the dozens of games that came after.

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Reviews

Play a vampire and kill nazis in WW2!
You won't survive this tragedy of doomed heroes!
A new spin on a retro form of text adventure games.
A one-shot adventure which evokes the generational horror of Stephen King.

Dungeons & Dragons

Alternate Player's Handbook cover art by Wylie Beckert.
Get in, nerds—we’re going to Curdello.
Here are a few more tidbits from Game Informer's magazine coverage of the new edition's rulebooks.
Art by Dmitry Burmak.
Dungeon Master’s Guide contains a sample setting—and that setting is, indeed, Greyhawk.
Game Informer has revealed the cover to the 2024 Player’s Handbook.

Industry News

D&D-powered cartoon fun from Cryptozoic Entertainment.
Developer tool released under Open RPG Creator (ORC) License.
SRD 5.2 will be released under Creative Commons next year.
One of only two TTRPG creators with four separate million dollar Kickstarters!
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