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July 16 2024

Quests From The Infinite Staircase

(Dungeons & Dragons)
Adventure anthology for character levels 1 to 13.
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September 17 2024

D&D Player’s Handbook (2024)

(Dungeons & Dragons)
Revised 2024 Player's Handbook.
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September 26 2024

Dungeon Master's Screen (2024)

(Dungeons & Dragons)
4-panel screen revised for the 2024 rules.
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October 1 2024

Monstrous Menagerie II

(Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition)
The sequel to the acclaimed monster book!
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November 12 2024

D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)

(Dungeons & Dragons)
Revised 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide.
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February 18 2025

D&D Monster Manual (2025)

(Dungeons & Dragons)
Revised 2025 Monster Manual.
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New Releases In Stores This Week : 10th April 2017

A rundown of the New Releases that should be hitting games stores this coming week! Board games, card games, RPGs, Wargames, Miniatures and collectible games... hopefully something for everyone! For more information about any of the products please contact your local games store.

Apr 12, 2017

Champions Fourth Edition Returns In PDF Form

I don't often plug the Bundle of Holding in this column, but I think that today's release of two bundles of Champions/Hero System 4E material deserves a mention. As someone who is a big fan of comic books (moreso than I am a gamer, which is really saying something), super-hero role-playing games have always drawn my attention. I had played earlier editions of Champions, but they never really grabbed my attention. I think that it was because of the cover art by comics artist George Perez (a man who has drawn just about every major character from both DC Comics and Marvel Comics at some point) across the Hero System 4E line that drew my attention back to the game.

Apr 11, 2017 11

Kickstarter (KS) D.W.A.R.Vs Military Sci-Fi in a Fantasy World RPG on Kickstarter!

D.W.A.R.Vs : Military Sci-Fi in a Fantasy World RPG sees you playing super-woldiers who awaken in a post-post-post apocalypse fantasy world and have to fight to survive, learn the past and rebuilt civilization!

Apr 11, 2017

Unearthed Arcana Unearthed Arcana Explores Downtime Activities

This is EXACTLY what I wanted and EXACTLY what the game needed. Then there's this: "For more information, see “Brewing Potions of Healing” in this section on crafting and “Scribing a Spell Scroll” on page Error! Bookmark not defined." (p. 7) :erm:

Apr 10, 2017 116

(KS) Fight off an alien invasion in the Champion of Earth Card Game!

Shades of Vengeance are better known as a RPG publisher but they have their fingers in a few different pies…. Including comics and now, with Champion of Earth, card games. Champion of Earth is a fast paced card game with a simple concept: defend the Earth from the invaders using various (and hilarious) pieces of equipment. All you have to do to win is to kill more monsters than the other players. What could be so hard about that?

Apr 10, 2017

Introducing TURN ORDER: WARPED - The Official W.O.I.N. Livestream!

It's my great pleasure to introduce Turn Order: Warped, the now official weekly livestream of the What's OLD is NEW roleplaying game system. In Turn Order: Warped, a motley crew of sci-fi adventurers engage in hijinks in the far future! The show goes out every Saturday live on Twitch, and will appear in YouTube and podcast form every Monday, so you can catch up in whichever way suits you best (for me it's the audio version while walking my dog!) The show is hosted by GM of Doom "wacksteven", who has been hosting live Twitch streams for RPGs for ages, and features the crew of the Black Fang - Felix (Felan Pilot), Lunk (Ogron Chef), Glix (Venetian Science Officer), H.A.W.K. (Android Security), and Arthur (Borian Engineer).

Apr 10, 2017 10

We're Finally Mainstream! Now What?

ICv2's recent announcement that hobby games have become "mainstream" heralds a new age for role-playing games. How did this happen and why should gamers care?

Apr 10, 2017 95

Get Your Copy Of OLD For Just $10!

O.L.D., the fantasy heroic roleplaying game, was sent to Kickstarter backers over the weekend. Now that they have their copies (if you haven't yet, check your email!), the 350-page full-colour book is available in PDF for $10 (the same price as the fully-compatible N.E.W. science fiction game, already available). The hardcover version will be available soon, but not until the books have finished shipping to Kickstarter backers around the world.

Apr 9, 2017 12

Robin Laws' Tribal Approach With The Hillfolk RPG

Despite being a run-away Kickstarter success back in 2012 that was delivered in a timely fashion, Hillfolk is a game that has made less of a splash than it probably deserves. The product of RPG industry titan, Robin Laws, this is a game that straddles the story game/trad RPG divide more successfully than most of its company in that niche.

Apr 9, 2017 8

THE CROWN COMMANDS - Carefully Designed Battle Scenes For 13th Age

Iconic set-piece battles have always been a staple of fantasy roleplaying games. Tactically interesting foes in carefully selected environments can make for the most memorable encounters in a gamers roleplaying career. I dare say we all have that one awesome encounter we all remember - mine was inside a giant clock as the cogs individually rotated. For 13th Age, Pelgrane Press has produces a book containing 40 carefully crafted "battle scenes", including maps, news monsters, story ideas, traps terrain, and scaling options. They've kindly sent along a preview of The Crown Commands - The Lich's King's Spire. Check it out below, find the book here.

Apr 7, 2017 4

Sean's Picks of the Week (0403-0407) - SUPERS WEEK!

For the first time in a while, I dove into a week with a theme in mind. Welcome to the results of Supers Week from the Pick of the Day site - a collection of superhero gaming Picks across the spectrum. We've got some Champions, some Savage Worlds Supers, Mutants & Masterminds, and more! So make your choice - Capes! No Capes!

Apr 7, 2017

Joe Manganelio is Writing the D&D Movie? And Is it DRAGONLANCE?

Actor Joe Manganelio (from True Blood, Magic Mike, and more) appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, and reported that he is co-writing a movie script. While he doesn't namecheck D&D, his description sounds a lot like it, and he did recently meet up with WotC. "Last year with a playwright I went to Carnegie Mellon with, I actually made a draft of a film, and now we're talking to all the right parties. I had a two-day creative summit with the Wizards of the Coast...we had like a two-day summit about where the movie could go or TV series, products, synergy, the whole deal… Obviously, there's a spectacle. There's dragons breathing fire and lightning. But what makes a great superhero or fantasy movie is the human aspect. It's got to be about something. We root for those characters in Game of Thrones. Fellowship of the Ring was about friendship, this undying love for your friends. That's something everyone can identify with. When a movie is about something human and real emotionally people are going to want to see. Then you get some dragons breathing fire, and hey, I'm in." And to add fuel to the fire, he even tweets a photo of a DRAGONLANCE script! (thanks to darjr for the scoop)

Apr 7, 2017 171

(KS) Esper Genesis Heroic Sci-Fi RPG moves into it's final weekend...

The Esper Genesis Heroic Sci-Fi Role-playing Game moved into its final weekend of funding, adding new stretch goals and add-ons, including hardcovers for all three books (nearly reached as of this press release), custom dice, and ways for backers to personalize the setting and organized play campaign for themselves.

Apr 6, 2017

(KS) 5e Gamemaster Toolkit from Rogue Comet

Rogue Comet returns to Kickstarter with their latest range of tabletop game aids with the 5e Gaemaster Toolkit.

Apr 6, 2017

New RuneQuest is Named: "RUNEQUEST: ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA"

Chaosium has just announced the name of the upcoming edition of RuneQuest, due for a Christmas 2017 release. This edition will not be called RuneQuest 4, or RuneQuest 7 (depending how you choose to count them), but will be called "RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha" (or RQG). This edition is descended from the 2nd Edition ruleset, and is compatible with the RuneQuest Classic reprints which Chaosium recently Kickstarted.

Apr 6, 2017 22

O.L.D. Is Here -- And Here's The Table of Contents!

For WOIN fans, the hardcover version of O.L.D. has been completed. It's going out to Kickstarter backers, and will be available later, once all the backers have their copies. The book came in at 350 pages, full-colour. Here's a quick peek at the Table of Contents. O.L.D. is, of course, fully compatible with N.E.W., its companion science-fiction game, so you can play a medieval fantasy game, a far future science-fiction game, or mix them to introduce magic to your sci-fi. O.L.D., like N.E.W., uses a life path system for character creation and a d6 dice pool system for task resolution.