Tabletop Roleplaying Games

High Elves can be Pricks when they want, so what if you had to pass the TOEFL to enter the High Elves city!...

We know who's in the million dollar TTRPG club, but who has grossest the most of all the TTRPG crowdfunders? I decided to find out! The difficulty is separating out boardgame companies who have also made a TTRPG. Boardgames, and indeed miniature creators, are a much bigger market than TTRPGs...

A new issue of The Soloist is out with a dive into Star Trek: Captain's Log, the franchise's first #solo GM-less #TTRPG. I interviewed Jim Johnson who led the project for the piece....

cross-post: lemmy.world/post/2220151...

It seems that just about this time every year, as I gain some personal time away from work, my mind turns once again to the question of which kind of fantastic roleplaying world I would like to exp…

As usual, the first update after the initial release is about adding QOL features

Mentioned in the 2nd millennium BC, Idu iwas a major center and the capital of the central province of Assyria. As located at the gate that leads from the plains of the west to the mountains of the east and northeast, Idu was a significant crossroad of two axes, south-north, and west-east. In the region met many people like...

RPG Print News covers new RPG releases and some classics, reprints, and sales available from retailers. It does not cover products that are only available directly to customers only through kickstarter or as print on demand.

A random discussion on Facebook led me to revisit the languages of Mystara and try to make some sense of its verbal kaleidoscope. I apologize in advance for running roughshod over material already generated (including possibly my own, given how long ago I might have written it). I did peruse and use as a guide much of what I...

In games like DnD, almost anyone can heal themselves, and even NPC could just buy a potion and heal up, but curses are a bit harder to get away from. So here comes the Anti-Curse Hospitals! Helping them with something they cannot just buy their way out!

This week, as we celebrate the triumphant conclusion of our spectacular Savage Worlds 20th Anniversary Celebration Kickstarter, we're bringing you a number of Fast, Furious, and Fun livestreams and interviews over on our official Twitch channel!

Grognardia explores issue #2 of the RPGA newsletter/magazine from 1981.

Adventurer! We've resurrected our March 2021 Index Card RPG Bundle featuring the 2019 Second Edition of Index Card RPG, the fast-playing modular DIY RPG toolset from Runehammer Games. These .PDF ebooks let you construct your own streamlined, fast-playing campaign in almost any genre. You can easily adapt ICRPG's videogame-style...

Building a world for RPGs (Role Playing Games) has several steps to consider and two general approaches for implementing those steps. The general methods are top down and bottom up.

I asked a general question in /r/osr: where was everyone going to go? Were we just going to weather the storm, or did people have another plan?

In 1981, Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR printed an adventure so scandalous that when newly printed copies reached key TSR management, they ordered the entire print run sent to dumpsters rathe…

New School Revolution or NSR is a more recent term that turned into its own thing and has some great support. This was mostly due to the efforts of Yochai Gal. I know for a fact I have not talked about this on my blog and when I do, I want people to know what I am talking about. Defining of terms is always something that is...

This is it folks, the last of the DungeonMorph series drawn and redrawn for the 10th anniversary DungeonMorphs. This is the 8th set in the Lairs series, and the 24th set in total for this edition of the DungeonMorphs.

My Titles are getting long

Another question from the dark forest, which is essentially creaky old people muttering about how much better it was back in the day. I tried to answer the following self-summarized prompt, posted in late 2022

Magid Nuke’s have already been written before, but what if they arrived after it’s explosion, and are in front of it as they understand what it is, a very nice memorable moment in an adventure

For Every Place the Train Went, A wagon is made, so it starts with your players entering a Wagon that looks like their City, Then as they move in it, they discover Fun universe you and your player like, Transforming the Travel episode in a Memorable One-Off where they live new things, and a small DM challenge, and when the...

Walk into any drinking establishment of your choice and there’s probably something magical going on....

It's a new system whose Kickstarter raised $1.3 million since February. I'm curious about it but would like to hear more people's thoughts....

So it seems when I go into an LFGS, the RPG section is always a bit Dungeons and Dragons, maybe some Pathfinder, and the loads of accessories for the two games. And many of the new games I see are offered online as a pdf. So I wanted to see what all people are buying from actual brick and mortar stores. And what do you want to...