TTRPG

The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Adapts Tolkien for Dungeons & Dragons Players The success of The One Ring created an opportunity. Many tabletop groups wanted to explore Middle-earth while continuing to use the fifth edition rules system familiar from Dungeons & Dragons. The result was The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying, a complete adaptation […]

Do not dig too deep. Do not disturb the ruins. Do not trust the forest. Published by Free League Publishing and originally created by Järnringen, Symbaroum has become one of the most distinctive fantasy roleplaying games of the past decade. The game first appeared in Sweden in 2014. An English-language edition followed through a successful

In our previous profile on Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying game, we discovered a rich folklore to explore in an alternate nineteenth-century Scandinavia known as the Mythic North. After finding the edges of the Vaesen Starter Set adventure we were ready to jump deeper into this world and find three new books to lead our journey

Tabletop roleplaying games have always depended on one scarce resource: someone willing to run the game, a challenge that platforms like StartPlaying games are trying to solve. Players can buy books, paint miniatures, and create characters. Campaigns still need a Game Master to prepare adventures, learn rules, schedule sessions, and guide the experience. Finding that

When Folklore Fights Back What happens when the monster has a reason for what it is doing? That idea sits at the heart of Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying, the award-winning tabletop RPG from Free League Publishing. Written by Nils Hintze and based on the artwork and folklore research of Johan Egerkrans, Vaesen draws from

Most tabletop RPG campaigns arrive as a book. Sometimes they arrive with a map folded into the back cover. Flowers of Algorab, the first major campaign expansion for Coriolis: The Great Dark, arrives as something much larger. Open the box and the table starts filling quickly. Large maps, ship blueprints, cards, dice, expedition materials, handouts,

Index Card RPG started as a table habit that turned into a ruleset. Hankerin Ferinale built it around what he already used to run sessions fast. He told one interviewer that he “lived and died by index cards,” using them for notes and even terrain, then wrote a system that “celebrated the cards.” The game

In the smoke-filled, mahogany-paneled corridors of the tabletop role-playing world, the “mini-campaign” has become a vital currency for adults who don’t have consecutive weekends to adventure. Chaosium’s latest entry into this middle ground, The Order of the Stone, combines three parts to create 144-pages of transatlantic horror. Released in September 2024, The Order of the

Free League Publishing continues to prove that in the ALIEN universe, the greatest horror is the lengths that humans will go to survive. Following the launch of the Evolved Edition (2nd Edition) in late 2025, the publisher has doubled down on the “Cinematic” format that made the original system a hit. The spearhead of this

Old-School Essentials sits near the center of today’s Old School Renaissance: a modern rules presentation that closely resembles the 1981 Dungeons & Dragons Basic and Expert boxed sets (often shortened to B/X.) The series comes from Gavin Norman and his publisher Necrotic Gnome, updating those classic rules for modern tabletops. The Old-School Essentials Classic Game

In the cold vacuum of space, it’s not just the Xenomorphs that evolve. Five years after the original 2019 release of ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game redefined tabletop horror, Free League Publishing has returned to the frontier with the Evolved Edition. Released in November 2025, this updated line brings new design, updated mechanics, and an overall

In a traditional tabletop role-playing game, the narrative cannot hold without a Game Master. Someone has to prep the maps, memorize the stat blocks, and play the part of every shopkeeper and villain in town. But in Oh Captain, My Captain!, released in late 2024 by Adams Media, the center is intentionally left hollow—a silhouette

Mothership is a tabletop roleplaying game about blue-collar survival in deep space. Crews take jobs, push their luck, and try to survive the rigors of deep space. Designer and illustrator Sean McCoy launched the game as a small zine at Origins Game Fair in 2018. Tuesday Knight Games publishes it, with the original release now

The Caribbean of the eighteenth century has long been sanitized by cinema, reduced to a theater of swashbuckling heroics and predictable triumphs. Pirate Borg, a tabletop role-playing game conceived by Luke Stratton (known professionally as Limithron), serves as a violent corrective to that mythology. It is a work of “art-punk” nihilism that reimagines the Age

In the landscape of tabletop roleplaying, few settings carry as much cultural weight—and as much potential for terror—as Lewis Carroll’s Victorian dreamscape.Wonderland A Fantasy Role Playing Setting, released on November 12, 2024, bypasses childhood fables entirely. This 224-page tome reimagines the Rabbit Hole as a fractured, lethal megadungeon where logic serves as a weapon and

In the rigid social ecosystem of 1813 England, a single misplaced word at a ball can be more socially fatal than a duel at dawn. It is this tension—the juxtaposition of polite society against the primal, cosmic indifference of the Great Old Ones—that forms the backbone of Regency Cthulhu: Dark Designs in Jane Austen’s England.

Colostle – A Solo Tabletop Role Playing Experience Nich Angell’s Colostle begins with an architectural impossibility and treats it not as allegory but as environment. The game’s world exists entirely inside a single structure: a castle of such scale that seas, cities, plains, and ruins occupy its interior. There is no exterior geography, no sky

A Dialogue With Its Own Future The Cyberpunk role-playing game has always existed in dialogue with its own future. Mike Pondsmith’s original tabletop designs imagined a world of privatized violence and personal augmentation decades before those ideas became fixtures of popular science fiction. What began in the late 1980s as a tabletop role-playing game became