The 1990s were a decade of cultural highs. In music, they brought us Nirvana, the Wu-Tang Clan and the Spice Girls. On cinema screens, we were gifted Babe, Starship Troopers and The Nightmare Before ...
Taking on the mantle of dungeon master can be highly intimidating for D&D beginners and first-time roleplayers. Creating a world, filling it with interesting characters and providing an engaging story ...
Sometimes we want to escape into a world filled with ancient mysteries, incredible magic and extravagant headgear - and that’s exactly what the best fantasy board games provide. Whenever reality seems ...
It seemed that, for a long, long time, the RPG boxed set was dead. Game makers moved to a big core book format, presumably to be a better fit for primary sales channels such as book stores. You can ...
Only one roleplaying game has a note on the cover declaring it "The book that was seized by the US Secret Service!" That RPG is GURPS Cyberpunk, a 1990 supplement for the Generic Universal Roleplaying ...
Risk is one of the most famous board games of all time. Invented in the late 1950s by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse, the strategy game of battling armies and global domination has become a true ...
Wholesome RPGs offer something without the intense combat from your weekly D&D game, without the darker themes of a horror title, or evil monsters lurking around every corner. This doesn’t mean the ...
Pathfinder is a rich and complex fantasy RPG that uses the same d20 ruleset at the core of Dungeons & Dragons. Players take on the role of heroic adventurers, often explorers and scholars employed by ...
Upcoming board game City of Six Moons is taking difficulty-to-decipher rulebooks to a whole new level by writing all of its rules in an alien language that you’ll have to translate in order to play.
It’s very likely that you’ve heard about the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, a movement driven by the fear that ordinary people were being lured into devil-worshipping cults. However, you may not have ...
After playing your first or your fiftieth session of a tabletop RPG, it isn’t uncommon to dream about becoming the next big game designer. However, while themes may flow abundantly, one of the biggest ...
Zine Month is back! The month-long celebration of indie RPGs and their creators has returned, combining with Zine Quest for a February full of weird, wild and wonderful roleplaying games. If you’re ...