Wizards of the Coast announces a crowd-sourced effort for developing the next iteration of its venerable tabletop RPG, but will this be enough to bring back a fractured fan community?

The ENnie award-winning RPG blog Gnome Stew is launching a new side project this year to encourage roleplayers to get out and play some new games: New Year, New Game (NYNG). The event’s goal is for game masters (GMs) around the world is to run a new game this year. The ...

Hot on the heels of announcing that a MMORPG based on their Pathfinder RPG is in development, today Paizo Publishing announced that Dynamite Entertainment will be launching a comic series in 2012 based on Pathfinder‘s Golarion setting. I can’t say I am surprised at this news — the Pathfinder RPG has ...

Another year has drawn to a close and it’s time to reflect back on a great year for RPGs. With all the great releases this year I decided to draw up a short list of my favorite RPGs that were released in 2011. My criteria were pretty simple – what ...

The Mouse Guard RPG is by Luke Crane and David Petersen, and is based upon the award-winning comic book and graphic novel series of the same name. Released originally in 2008 as a hard cover version (a PDF version is also available), it promptly won several design awards and received ...

Paizo Publishing announced yesterday that it has licensed the MMORPG rights to its Pathfinder RPG to Goblinworks, a Redmond, WA, developer and publisher. Goblinworks will be developing the Pathfinder Online game which is planned as a massively multiplayer, sandbox-style fantasy RPG. According to Paizo’s press release, players of Pathfinder Online ...

Trail of Cthulhu is a game written by Kenneth Hite, and published by Pelgrane Press. It uses Robin D. Laws’ GUMSHOE system for its underlying engine (i.e., the mechanics the game is built upon), which had previously been used in Pelgrane Press’s Fear Itself and The Esoterrorists RPGs. The GUMSHOE ...

From my mid-twenties all the way up to my mid-thirties, I was in good shape. I loved going to the gym, I loved rock climbing (both indoor and outdoor), and hiking was something I did every summer in the horrid heat of the west Texas hill country. I never really ...

Paizo has previewed the contents of the highly anticipated starter set for their Pathfinder RPG in this 10-minute long YouTube video, and it’s very impressive: You can read more about the Beginners Box set on the Paizo blog. Also check out Michael Harrison’s information about Paizo Publishing and WizKid Games’s collaboration ...

Back in April Michael Harrison brought us news about an ongoing Kickstarter campgain for Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple. At the time, the game’s creator, Daniel Solis, was hoping to raise $4,000 to help fund the cost of printing the book. Owing to the openness in which the game ...