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The logo of RPG Trader, featuring a dragon against a notebook, a dice and a coin bag.
an ominous house with a figure in white outside, the picture is in red and black, faded like an old photo
Illustration of a curled spine, all bones, in faded yellow. Set against the aged and worn leather of what looks like an old book cover.
Wooden shelf full of board games in a brightly lit room. Only one, Cascadia, has its title legible.
The promotional image for Between Two Cons, featuring two megaliths and a sacrificial altar wedged between them.
Four softcover RPG books and dice for a Finnish tabletop game called ANKH. Two blond adventurers in leather armor and weapons of a 1980s pulp style against a dark, gothic background.
White game tiles featuring red, blue, and black snake illustrations on a red background. A hand reaches down from the top-left to place a tile.
Unlike your typical sci-fi game, McDowall didn’t want this one to only focus on zipping (or careening) from planet to planet, adventure-of-the-week style. That had been done before too many times. So, in Intergalactic Bastionland, you’re not an intrepid gang of swashbucklers in a debt-financed rustbucket held together by the power of friendship. You’re instead members of a massive starship, home to a thousand crew members, each with their own job that keeps the machine working. As players, you’ll be managers in a specific division with specific areas of oversight. You’ll have subordinates, bosses, and colleagues with the potential for promotion, demotion, and general commotion. The ship’s code asks you three things: enterprise, “to seize the prize”; excellence, “to raise the standard”; and exploration, “to brave the dark”. Oh yes, you’re not just employees, you’re supposed to be good ones.
Image of the International Space Station, white on dark blue, with a white text box bearing black text: Aliens are here/ From beneath the Living Stars
Illustration of Rae Nedjadi (name spelled to right) in a striped pattern blouse and glasses with flowers behind. A mosaic of RPG covers fill the majority of the space.
a picture of the two Stonetop books - big grey, chunky, texts and the words "Rascal Reading Club"
A photo of a stack of dry erase markers with "RPGs!" written on it in bright pink. Badly.
Sneak Peek: Shawn Tomkin is reimagining Ironsworn for a new “alternate edition”
Radio Hour: You Game of Thrones'd Yourself
Bump In The Dark is a deeply American tale of survival and the supernatural
A still from a CGI animation of a big bipedal walker crudely constructed from scrap metal.
United WOTC officially elected in a NLRB vote count
a colorful image of a goblin and fish person riding a green turtle and escaping lava monsters
Reading Club: Stonetop
A woodcut engraving of two giant fairies; King Oberon and Queen Titania, draped in Roman togas, carried on a cloud, surrounded by smaller fairies, and led by flying crickets.
Designers support BackerKit's collab-funding, say there's no crowdfunding fatigue
A man in a black sweater and blue cap stands in the middle of a multicolored map spread across the floor of a gymnasium.
Twelve grey toy soldiers on a hexagon map, weapons raised at eye level. Other minis in the top right are out of focus.
Three fantasy adventurers, a yelling barbarian with a sword, a spellcaster with upraised arm, and a bald martial artist, fend off two creatures composed of sharp shadows.
a colorful panel of repeating quotes stuck on a wall
First ever Jubenshacon scripts a murderously successful and sold out debut
Frenetic fantasy battle scene with a red-haired dwarft swinging an axe in the middle foreground. Several figures, including an orc general and a red-fringed legionnaire, surround them.
Talkback: Burning Wheel
The cover art from Heroes of Horror showing several adventurers making their way through a creepy forest.
Concrete wall mural of a scowling wizard (black and white) casting a bright yellow spell with downturned hand. Stylized letters read: Tabletop Bookshelf.
With the release of Umdaar, we might be at the end of Fate
Left to right, Spaceboy, Stig Asmussen, and John Hight stand in front of a white ice cream truck. All are wearing casual clothes, while Stig and John wear black ballcaps with company logos.
Text: United Wizards of the Coast-CWA. Logo is a purple fist gripping a white starburst, ringed in gold yellow. Backgroup is a two-tone purple slash.
For some publishers, the cost of missing Gen Con outweighs mounting risks
Logo for the Micronesia Climate Change Alliance in green, blue, orange, and beige, over an oil painting of Typhoon Sinlaku. It's a whorl of whites and blues and greys.
IGDN logo, yellow and black, of a fist holding a six-sided die with a black sunburst behind it. Text reads: 2025 Indie Groundbreaker Awards.
the cover of Burning Wheel RPG which is red and gold with a wheel in the centre
Series Seeker logo, a blue 20-sided die on a yellow background, positioned in front of a photo of an archive room full of books.
Rascal Crossword 4: Getting Generic
In the forground an anthropomorphic monkey and bearded warrior fight a massive, fiery monster. In the background, a group of cartoon-styled players pose dramatically.
a colorful frame in pink and white with the cover of DETECT OR DIE inside
Talkback: Draw Steel
First Dungeon Crawler Carl, now D&D Beyond: the time of the Drop has come
Gradient Descent, Psi*Run, and what it means to be human in the age of AI
Gamefound wants to throw another successful RPG Party after learning hard lessons
Why Did Dan Frazier Get A Pass For Plagiarism When Other Magic: The Gathering Artists Don't?
Radio Hour: Scouting Days
United WotC workers prepare to defend Wizards of the Coast’s first ever union
Adepticon in Four Gifts
The inaugural Canada Roles Awards celebrates Canadian RPGs
PSI*RUN catches its second wind
Magic: The Gathering Arena developers unionize, alleging forced AI use and return-to-office mandates
The Gang Offers a Discounted Subscription Bundle
Inscryption’s bespoke, two-player board game is a fusion of aesthetics and adaptation
Reading Club: Draw Steel
Alien RPG starter set Hope’s Last Day might be too good of an introduction