Tabletop Roleplaying Games

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Don't these already sound like much more interesting combat encounters than your typical 5e slugfest? Throwing in a few terrain features helps get players and DMs alike thinking tactically, and creates interesting options that can shake things up.

In this week's ACTUALLY very special detail diatribe, our guest presenter schools us in the beautiful diversity of tabletop role-playing games and broadens o...

Confession time: I am not overly enamored of "rules-lite" RPG systems. As long as the system is coherent and well-thought out, I prefer it when the system has rules for all sorts of things - from tactical combat to running chases to social encounters to falling damage and so forth. I like GURPS, I like D&D5E, I like Pathfinder...

Add more adventure and new monsters to your Forbidden Lands games with two new expansions - The Book of Beasts and The Bloodmarch.

So. I just picked up Harnmaster 3e, and I knew it was a really crunchy system that I knew I'd probably never be able to get my players into, but lo and behold there's a system on Foundry. The combat works great, there's so much detail, and there's modules out already for NPCs, and merchants....

A game jam from 2023-01-01 to 2024-01-01 hosted by Rev Casey. Celebrate Open Gaming! Embrace open source games and true free license systems This jam was created because: open source gaming is amazing whole thing...

Legal scuffling between Wizards of the Coast and TSR hit pause when the smaller tabletop RPG publisher filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Looking for some good, system-agnostic TTRPG resources to help you run your game? Here are some I use all the time:...

Hey all! I'm looking for some new resources -- hopefully system agnostic -- that fall into the categories listed in the title....

Who would read this figure in an academic paper on emotion modeling and immediately start thinking of how to use it for ttrpg social encounters... and has two thumbs?...

It can be official, modified, or entirely homemade. What do you like about it? Is it super organized, simple and easy to use, or does it just look super cool?

Two years ago, I decided to make a list of all the public domain, English-language folk tale collections I could find, and deposited them at Wikisource. If you need to research the folklore of any given region, then I hope that this list has you covered!...

Normally, I run game set in entirely fictional settings, and draw my own maps....

Bundles, Freebies, and Sales News is 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 internet.

What are your favorite Western-themed tabletop roleplaying systems and which aspects do you enjoy about them? Are there aspects of your chosen system that you think could be improved?...

What games are you playing? What's your style?