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Tabletop RPG
Hits and hazards
Probably since the first player character was crushed by a troll in one strike, ...
GMuary: Session Zero is Important.
Talking about what not to discuss at the gaming table can be just as important a...
Taking a Step Back Today.
It’s been a week of sad news, tabletop roleplaying controversies on social media...
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[Glimmermark] Learning Magic in the Glimmermark
Learning Magic in the GlimmermarkWhen I started to plan for the Glimmermark one ...
[Labyrinth Lord] Goblin (Character Class)
Goblin (Character Class)Req.: DEX 9 and CON 9Prime Reqs: STR and DEXHD: 1d8 (as ...
[Glimmermark] …but what about helmets?
As we all know Shields Shall be Splintered! Shields For our Glimmermark game we ...
[Traveller] Conceits less spoken
I am preparing for a Traveller game, and so here are a few conceits that bear re...
Rethinking variable damage
So Cauldron gave me the opportunity to actually play a lot of ODnD for once, and...
Arcade goes to a game store and finds instead… A Dragon...
It wasn’t all doom and gloom and Satanic panicking in the 80s about rolepaying g...
Terry Pratchett interview in Adventurer 11 (June/July 1...
Adventurer was a rather short running UK RPG magazine. In the last issue, Advent...
[Art and Inspiration] Marvel Star Wars 1-6 (1977)
I was just thinking how people completely miss out on one of the most interestin...
A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XX
Ho humm… these link collections are getting a bit long sometimes, especially if ...
[Art and Inspiration] Rick Guidice’s NASA illustrations
You have seen his works before if you ever looked at anything regarding space co...
My Hobby Year 2024
It’s the first time I actually feel the amount of times I played in a year worth...
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[Traveller] Reworking the Classic Traveller Rumor Matrix
During my excursions into reaction rolls for Traveller lately I realized that th...
[Traveller] The Lord Weird Slough Feg – Traveller
In 2003 The Lord Weird Slough Feg (they later shortened the name to just Slough ...
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[Glimmermark] The Wild Hunt
There are no Glimmermark games for the next two weeks. Which means there also ar...
[Traveller] Drinax pt.1: Where does King Oleb keep his ...
So as I mentioned I am preparing to run a Pirates of Drinax campaign and as I ta...
A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XXI
The last few weeks I have been posting pretty often, daily even, which is intere...
Colostle – A Review and a Solo Play Session
Review in Summary Published by Nich Angell after a successful Kickstarter campai...
The 2025 D&D Release Schedule
Looking Back at 2024 The 2024 release schedule was a little odd. With the impend...
New Feat Guide for the 2024 Dual Wielder
Two-weapon fighting in the 2014 rules was bad. There’s really no way around that...
Good-Faith Rules Interpretations Don’t Fix Poorly-Writt...
Introduction The 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide changed a lot from the 2014 version...
DnD 5e to 2024 DnD Transition Guide and Change Log: Eve...
Introductions A lot has changed in the DnD 2024 rules. In this horrendously long...
New Spell Guide for the 2024 Eldritch Knight
The 2024 Eldritch Knight Fighter is no longer restricted to specific schools of ...
2024 DnD’s New Backgrounds Encourage Builds With Weird ...
What’s Different With Backgrounds? In the 2024 Player’s Handbook, backgrounds ha...
Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – The Electric State Part...
Read the previous chapter here One Year AgoStella Shaw lays on her back, combat ...
31 Days of Character Creation 2025 #1 – Dungeons & Drag...
I’ll be participating in this challenge which gets a good explanation at this bl...
Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – Starforged: Messiahs Pa...
Read Part One here [Begin a Session: Important character is put in danger or suf...
Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – The Electric State Part...
Read part four here Two Months Ago Crystal stumbled out of the barn and braced h...
Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – Starforged: Messiahs Pa...
Read the previous chapter here [Begin a Session: Seemingly unrelated situations ...
Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – Starforged: Messiahs Pa...
The Starforged story being told here is the culmination of over a year of playin...
My Favorite Solo Tabletop RPGs of 2024
Becoming the Villain by There’s A Way StudiosYou can purchase this game hereRead...
31 Days of Character Creation 2025 #2 – Outgunned
Today’s character comes from Outgunned, a cinematic action tabletop roleplaying ...
31 Days of Character Creation #3 – Cyberpunk Red
Today we create a character in the game of Cyberpunk Red which has a neat lifepa...
092: Finding a team for your gaming project
In today’s episode, we continue the discussion on starting with your own TTRPG...
093: Bringing historical magic to game development with...
Introduction In this episode of Roll Play Grow, Courtney chats with Andrew Grono...
094: Why picking a theme word for 2025 will help you fo...
Picking a theme word is an important step in helping you shape your year to co...
095: Celebrating 4 years of RPG & exploring the intrica...
Introduction It’s the four-year anniversary of Roll Play Grow! Thank y’all so ...
RPG Print News – RPGs I’ve Run Through The End of 2024
This week I cover several RPGs I’ve run over the last few years as a great wrap ...
RPG Crowdfunding News – Corpus Arcana, Korg, Charlie Fo...
This week’s TTRPG crowdfunding review includes a sampling of projects that end i...
Worlds of Design: How Powerful Are Your Gods?
Are your fantasy role-playing game-gods all-powerful, and are they omniscient?
Vac Suits and Duct Tape: An Interview with Fenris-77
The author, Fenris-77, was kind enough to talk about his upcoming RPG.
Treatment and Rehabilitation For Magical Ailments
But how much of the staff are running a side racket?
2025 Monster Manual Will Contain Over 85 New Monsters
More monsters than expected will be in the new rulebook.
Home Builds A Haunted House Card By Card
Tell some spooky haunted house stories with friends without any dice.
Peregrine's Nest: Four More Game Design Tips
Picking up where we left off, here's four more tips for game design.
Mainstream News Discovers D&D's Species Terminology Change
The New York Times sparked a wave of culture war outrage over Dungeons & Dragons.
RPG Crowdfunding News – Wild Magic, Back to BasiX, The ...
Happy New Years! This week’s article kicks off the new year with TTRPG crowdfund...
RPG Print News – RPG Boxed Starter Sets to Try for the ...
Happy New Year! The holiday season continues with no time for a weekly update. I...
Strange Tales of New England: An Interview with Brendan...
Brendan was kind enough to give me some background on his upcoming newest RPG an...
Dragon Reflections #87
This issue features sub-zero espionage, the dryad, and wilderness adventures!
2024 Retrospective – Five of the Best
Readers, 2024 has been a good year for the blog – both in terms of me keeping to...
You Don’t Have to Like Everything
I’ve been sick this past week. Nothing too major, just ongoing stuff that I shou...
No Such Thing As An Overshare – Breaking down Player an...
We can play TTRPG games better now. We don’t need to take a player aside into an...
Humble Book Bundle – Free League RPG Mega Bundle
Don’t you just love mega bundles? Wanna try a new RPG but can’t decide where to ...
DMs Guild Review: To Drown a Fish
To Drown a Fish is a one-shot comedic adventure by Simon Rosner – to be more acc...
DMs Guild Review – ‘Unstuck’ Encounters
‘Unstuck’ Encounters by Jean Lorben is a 9-page supplement aimed at dungeon mast...
Random Ramblings: A Quick Look at 2024
It has been one hell of a year. Only a couple of hours are left before we say go...
Review: Hellborn Descended Quickstart
Hellbord Descended is a TTRPG system by Studio Hex where you play as demonic mer...
Dude, where’s my mana: The Commander 32 Deck Challenge
Or how to build too many decks because you gave in to your brain’s OCD tendencie...
The Portal is Yawning – Sunless Citadel Session 2
How many level 2 players does it take to ridicule a troll? I wrote 95% of it abo...
Don’t Blink When Checking Out These ‘Doctor Who’ Games
Don your fez and bowtie, and get your sonic screwdriver ready to go. We’re...
D&D: Five Mimic Disguises to Melt Your Players’ Minds
In 2024, when anything can be a mimic, here are some of the worst things y...
Best Old World Units, Star Wars LEGO, Doctor Who Games,...
Check out this weekend’s top news: mimics, abominable intelligences, and D...
World-Building Games to Build a New Year With
New year, new you, new world. Or, at least you’ll be building a new world ...
How To Get Started With Chaosium’s ‘Call of Cthulhu’
Curious about investigating eldritch truths and confronting cosmic horrors...
Pathfinder: ‘Guns & Gears Remastered’ And ‘Spore Wars’ ...
Paizo is kicking off 2025 with a bang – add new tech, abilities, and class...
D&D: How To Build a Small Party With Three or Fewer Pla...
What do you do when adventure calls but your party only has a handful of a...
‘Art & Arcana’ Anniversary Edition – 50 Years Of D&D Ar...
Art and Arcana collects artwork from across D&D’s 50+ year history – but t...
Save Up To 45% On Books During D&D Beyond’s Winter Sale
Make 2025 an exciting year of Dungeons & Dragons! D&D Beyond’s winter sale...
‘Manual of the Planes,’ ‘Godly Grimoire,’ and More
This week we’re getting to the bottom of a haunt, studying the planes, and...
No Post Today 3 dec 2024
I almost got there, but the next part of Trade In Fantasy is 25-40 paragraphs sh...
Trade In Fantasy Ch. 3: Routine Personnel Pt 2
The 2nd of likely four posts looking at everyday personnel in Trade. In this par...
The Bounds Of Invention Let Loose
It’s my contention that with every encounter, the canny GM will expand on the lo...
Trade In Fantasy Ch. 3: Routine Personnel, Pt 3
The 3rd of 4 posts looking at everyday personnel in Trade focuses on the Labor U...
How does a Roleplaying game work and what can you expect?
So what's a Roleplaying game anyway? For players new to the hobby or if you’re t...
What to Expect with Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in Singa...
What’s Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (WFRP)? For many, Warhammer evokes images of s...
What to expect with Blades in the Dark (BITD) in Singap...
Blades in the Dark (BITD): What to Expect in Singapore and Beyond Blades in the ...
Botany Comes to D&D 5e
Have you ever felt that your D&D games were lacking in fantastical plants, herbs...
Ongoing Legal Battle between Wizards of the Coast, and ...
In the wake of numerous, and more recent controversies, such as the racist and t...
Former Wizards of the Coast VP thinks he knows why OGL ...
Former VP in charge of Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast was asked why ...
Cyberpunk 5e? Carbon 2185 comes to Kickstarter!
Dead Channel Studios launches Kickstarter for Carbon 2185 | Legacy Rising. Table...
MythCraft roleplaying game blows away Kickstarter
Coming hot in a wave of magic from Grant Mielke, CEO of Quasireal Publishing and...
Creator Spotlight: Darren W. Pearce
If you have an eye on the RPG industry, you might have grabbed a few books in th...
Dungeons & Dragons Movie Passes its skill check.
As I sat in the cinema to watch the new Dungeons & Dragons movie, I can’t help b...
Matt Mercer appears in “Drag is not a crime” t-shirt in...
Arguably the star of Critical Role, and the man at the heart of the storm that i...
Green Ronin to Release Valiant Adventures RPG
Green Ronin Publishing announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement ...
Twitter Blue Subscriber Launches D&D Kickstarter
Cawood Publishing, who pay $8 a month for Twitter Blue, have launched their new ...
Board Game Review: Dungeon Mayhem
I’ve talked quite a bit on here about my love for tabletop roleplaying, and old ...
TTRPG Review: Goblin Quest (2015)
I’ve been fascinated with tabletop RPGs since the early 80s, as I’ve previously ...
Corpus Malicious – The Codex of Evil (D&D 5e)
Official Website/Available to back here via Kickstarter Despite not having a cha...
Review: Dungeon Adventure
Price: Free – Available via Amazon Alexa-enabled devices – Website Though there’...
Review: Bronze Hollow Dragon Dice
Available From: Dice Dragons All tabletop gamers know that you can never have to...
TTRPG Review: Tiny Dungeon (1st Edition)
A few years ago, fuelled by passionate creators on Kickstarter, I backed a numbe...