Chaosium Kickstarting a classic reissue for 40th anniversary
https://www.enworld.org/threads/classic-comic-elfquest-returning-to-tabletop-rpgs.706787/
Statement comes on the heels of Hasbro CEO comments on D&D and AI
Alright, adventurers and dungeon masters alike, let’s talk about a creature that’s not only terrifying but also ridiculously thematic: Necrotherian Were-Vultures. Just think about it—vultur...
Frontiers of Eberron is available now on the DM’s Guild, in PDF and print on demand! Frontiers focused on the region that lies between the heart of Droaam and Breland, and one aspect of this is...
Starting game masters often build too much of their world before their campaign starts. Too much world building can produce a lot of stuff that players never engage with in play. It can make it h...
https://grumpywizard.home.blog/2024/09/19/how-i-do-worldbuilding-for-my-sandbox-campaigns/
Dungeons & Dragons’ new Player's Handbook arrived on Tuesday. This first of three cannon salvos aims itself at Wizards of the Coast’s old model of editions that release every decade(ish) and ...
https://www.rascal.news/i-cant-recommend-purchasing-the-d-d-2024-players-handbook/
The Worm Jam has crossed the halfway point (and then some)! Even now, before the desperate last sprint towards the finish line, we have some incredible entries. I’m thrilled with the initiativ...
http://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2024/09/focusing-your-time-creatively.html
Vindicated! According to Morte’s Planar Parade, baernaloths are ancient ancestral yugoloths that demonstrate, in its purest form, their order’s proclivity for stirring up strife and taking ad...
https://www.themonstersknow.com/yugoloth-tactics-baernaloths/
d66 Rural Encounters – SWAG is now available to buy on DriveThruRPG. Published by Sad Fishe Games through the Savage Worlds CCP, this is a collection of 36 rural encounters to which a number of...
https://azukailgames.com/d66-rural-encounters-swag-now-available/
Publisher of tabletop RPGs, wargames and board games, Modiphius Entertainment Ltd. has today announced that its Kickstarter campaign for the TTRPG Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork will lau...
Kobold Press CEO and Kobold-in-Chief, Wolfgang Baur, is here to give you some insight on the state of the industry! Both as the Kobold Press CEO and as a game designer, I’m pleased to say that ...
https://koboldpress.com/state-of-play-kobold-press-issues-the-no-ai-pledge/
A Victorian 1920s game of horror, intrigue and mystery set in the Edwardian era.
This Week’s post is… well, it’s here. First I want to talk about some videogames.ADOM does this cool thing where the overworld is (mostly) set in stone, but all of the dungeon levels below ...
https://bastionland.substack.com/p/what-if-you-could-go-back
This will be roughed out more in Vol3im also open to suggestions and left some blank spotsVOL3 production starts in earnest now This is a rough guide and might changeIts a skeleton to build from...
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2024/09/rough-levels-in-chagrinspire.html
Today’s tips are outside my normal lane of RPGs. I prefer Roleplaying Tips leave the real world behind so we all can get together and help each other have more fun at every game. But in my GM c...
https://www.roleplayingtips.com/running-games/how-to-banish-negative-self-talk/
Temple Basements (Level 2) (300 dpi promo) Today we descend deeper under the Temple of the Worm. The small temple in the city is less than half of the total space of the temple. When the cult of ...
https://dysonlogos.blog/2024/09/18/beneath-the-temple-of-the-worm-basements-level-2/
Bookends, of all things, feature the newly redesigned dragons.
Ann Arbor, MI — Chaosium congratulates everyone who made the shortlist for our $10,000 Basic Roleplaying Design Challenge!This is Chaosium's TTRPG design competition which financially assist...
https://www.rascal.news/shortlist-for-the-10000-brp-design-challenge-announced/
New monsters for your 5th Edition 2014, 2024, & Level Up A5E games plus new horde monsters and heroic monsters which level up with you!
https://www.enworld.org/threads/monstrous-menagerie-ii-hordes-heroes-coming-soon.706768/
That's the title of a little journaling game a friend of mine got off of itch.io, created by Emily Jankowski. You can get it here as a PWYW, although I've also included the game in its entirety b...
https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-response-to-esteemed-dr-crackpot.html
This is a community submitted press release.Roller-blading to school with a piece of toast in your mouth was hard enough, but the dumpster mech wrecking the front gates pretty much guarantees tha...
https://www.rascal.news/trash-goblins-have-never-looked-better-than-this-magical-girl-ttrpg/
One of the universal truths of roleplaying games is that players outnumber gamemasters by a significant margin. And one of the universal problems of RPGs is that players outnumber GMs by a signif...
https://missivesfrommooncastle.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-gamemaster-pipeline.html
Alright, folks, let’s talk about something truly bizarre and terrifying: Necrotherians. These creatures are an unholy combination of lycanthropes and undead, the worst of both worlds wrapped up...
https://nerdarchy.com/necrotherians-the-twisted-hybrid-of-lycanthrope-and-undead/
This is a community submitted press release.All September long, No Quest for the Wicked regulars Ryan Dwyer, Dain Miller, and Niall Spain are joined by Omega Jones aka Qrown (Critical Role, Oops ...
https://www.rascal.news/no-quest-for-the-wicked-gets-fantastical-with-all-star-cast-kobold-creates/
As detailed in the Guide to the Labyrinth, the Labyrinth is the “space between worlds.” Though most of the Labyrinth consists of tunnels, bridges, and stranger passageways, bottled cities and...
https://koboldpress.com/planar-boutiques-part-5-buy-a-trip-into-the-void/
A quick 15 minute 5E compatible scenario intended for experienced DMs to run for brand new players. Goblin on the Road is designed to be a scenario to show people new to Dungeons & Dragons how it...
https://pointsofinspiration.com/2024/09/18/goblin-on-the-road-free-dnd-5e-adventure/
In the wee hours of the morning of September 17th, the Limithron team launched the follow-up campaign to PIRATE BORG, a rules-light, art-heavy, d20-based brutal TTRPG. Two minutes later, they wer...
https://www.rascal.news/pirate-borg-expansion-funds-over-250k-on-day-1/
A collection of core rules and supplements that work well together for this week.
The subject this week is adventure writing and structure. I have evolved a fairly functional process to translating ideas into ready-to-run plots over the years, and today I’m going to share it...
https://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/dominoes-and-daisy-chains-writing-adventures/
I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis! Today, I've looking at the comics released the week of September 15, 1983. Batman #366: Great cover here by Simonson. Mo...
http://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2024/09/wednesday-comics-dc-december-1983-week-2.html