Tabletop gaming

‘Starfinder: Afterlight’ Brings Paizo’s TTRPG to Video Games

The first-ever 'Starfinder' video game will have a Kickstarter campaign soon ahead of its Early Access launch on PC in 2026.

Games Justin Carter Aug 3

Bandai Wants Gundam to Take Over Tabletop Wargaming

If you've wanted more Gundam outside the gunpla models, Bandai hopes the Gundam Assemble tabletop game will spark your interests.

Toys & Collectibles Justin Carter Jan 5

It’s Not Fair That Henry Cavill Is This Much of a Nerd

Life is cruel. And unfair. It’s rude. No one man should look this good and be so completely, utterly this much of a dork. Henry Cavill—Man of Steel, Witcher for hire, reloader of arms, and owner of a once truly magnificent piece of facial hair—has been long known as a diehard nerd. He’s openly talked…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook Apr 14

A New Tabletop RPG Lets You Play as Your Friends

Creating a character for a role-playing game is an intense experience. It’s thrilling and intimidating—often at the same time—to invent a fictional version of yourself and send them out on adventures. It’s another thing entirely when the character you’re making is based on the person in front of you. Developer Liam Ginty has released Mirror,…

Toys & Collectibles Beth Elderkin Apr 13

A Neural Network Designs Magic: the Gathering Cards, and It’s Hilarious

What happens when you feed the text of every Magic card ever made to a deep neural network and ask it to design its own cards? Part genius, part gibberish—and maybe a little poetry. But mostly, it just makes you laugh your ass off. The neural network project first came to our attention in early…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 21

Tabletop Gaming Deals: Free RPG Day, Paranoia, 10 Years of DriveThru

This Saturday is Free RPG Day, plus there’s a a Paranoia bundle, charity auctions, and other gaming deals going on right now. Don’t miss these great summer gaming deals. DriveThruRPG is holding their ten-year anniversary sale, with bundles of ten products selling for $10. That’s $1 per product, and there’s some really great stuff in…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jun 20

The coolest things we saw at Gen Con 2013

This year’s Gen Con gaming convention featured a murder mystery, a demonic siege, record attendance and a truckload of exciting new releases that had gamers buzzing. Here are some of the coolest things from Gen Con. Image via Gen Con Facebook Gen Con is North America’s largest tabletop gaming convention, and almost 50,000 unique attendees…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Aug 23

Primeval Thule might be the Conan meets Cthulhu RPG the world needs

It’s a wicked world of desolate wilderness and decadent cities. Thieves and assassins wait around every corner, and worse things — mind-wrecking things — lurk in the shadows of the lost places. In Primeval Thule, a player survives by skill with a sword and a steely will, or doesn’t survive at all. RPG veterans and…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 25

Deluxe D&D Reprint Against the Slavelords Gains a Bonus Adventure

It is a brutal test of your D&D skills, a gauntlet of sudden-death traps and bizarre monsters strewn across countless dungeon levels. The DM will show no mercy. The dice will grant no quarter. It’s just you Against the Slavelords. In the early days of D&D, TSR held huge tournaments at gaming conventions to see…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 17

The Best Digital Tools for Organizing Your RPG Campaign

Plenty of gamemasters still use graph paper and three-ring binders to organize their role-playing campaigns, but there’s an arsenal of tools available to the tech-savvy GM. I talked to a bunch of experienced GMs to find out how they use digital tools to create and track their RPG adventures. Aside from a twisted, devious imagination,…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 9

Magic: the Gathering’s Summer Set Preview — Megantic Sliver

The weird hive-mind creatures known as slivers are returning for Magic: the Gathering’s summer core set, M14. But they seem… different. Slivers first appeared in 1997’s Tempest set, reappearing every few years (in the Legions and Time Spiral sets). They haven’t been around since 2006. Although slivers have gone through some complicated storylines over the…

io9 Ed Grabianowski May 16

Deluxe Reissues Take You Deep into Dungeons & Dragons History

Dungeons & Dragons has numerous editions and hundreds of sourcebooks and adventures — and most of them are out of print. But now, Wizards of the Coast has opened up a treasure trove of classic reprints and digital books. D&D is in a weird place right now — it’s literally in between editions, as Fourth…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Apr 29

The company that created Dungeons & Dragons is back with Gygax magazine (updated)

Wizards of the Coast still owns Dungeons & Dragons – and Hasbro still owns Wizards of the Coast – but the legendary company that created the role-playing game, TSR, has returned to the material plane and summoned its first product, a gaming magazine appropriately named Gygax. Gygax Gaming Content Editor James Carpio described the magazine…

io9 Rob Bricken Dec 4

Gen Con: The epic tabletop gaming convention invades the midwest

Gen Con Indy is just two days away, and soon downtown Indianapolis will be swarming with over 28,000 gamers. Here’s why tabletop gamers, LARPers and scifi fans plan all year for this massive event. Just in case it’s been a while since you grabbed your dice bag, Gen Con is the springboard for the RPG…

io9 Terry Hope Romero Aug 3

Wild Talents Second Edition Brings a Superpowered World to Life

Arc Dreams’ Wild Talents Second Edition dropped last week, and it’s ten times as awesome as I’d hoped it would be. This book contains what is probably the most thorough and fascinating treatise on superhero worldbuilding I’ve ever read. Wild Talents is a superhero RPG based on a game called Godlike, in which superpowered humans…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Apr 6

Mechwarriors, Starships, Martians and More at the Origins Game Fair

The Origins Game Fair, devoted to tabletop gaming, was held in Columbus, OH this past weekend. Along with all the dragons and elves, there were a lot of sci-fi themed games. I’ve got the lowdown for you. Virtual Worlds was on hand with a dozen MechWarrior simulator pods. These surprisingly sophisticated sims let players climb…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 2

Mini Vodo Inspires Jedi From Beyond the Grave

If you can’t wait to expand your Star Wars Miniatures game into new territory, we’ve got a treat for you. It’s a sneak peek at one of the characters in the upcoming Jedi Academy expansion, who will quickly become your favorite tentacled pal. Of course, you can see the full story over at Robot Viking,…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 28

Post-Apocalyptic Cannibal Hobbits For Your Next Game

A new post-apocalyptic creature catalog has arrived to mutate your Alpha Omega games. Called The Encountered, the book features everything from super-zombies to cannibal hobbits. And it’s packed with gorgeous, monstery goodness. io9 pal Ed Grabianowski gushes about the book, and the dystopian scenario it supports: It’s a few hundred years in the future, humankind…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 7

Post-Apocalyptic Settings for Games Are Cool Urban Wastelands

WorldWorks Games has a set of tabletop gaming sets that would make the perfect setting for a mutant raid on a gas station, or for an I Am Legend scenario. io9 pal Ed Grabianowski explains it all over at Robot Viking: Part of what makes these sets so cool is how rare it is to…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 30

Tabletop gaming

‘Starfinder: Afterlight’ Brings Paizo’s TTRPG to Video Games

Bandai Wants Gundam to Take Over Tabletop Wargaming

It’s Not Fair That Henry Cavill Is This Much of a Nerd

A New Tabletop RPG Lets You Play as Your Friends

A Neural Network Designs Magic: the Gathering Cards, and It’s Hilarious

Tabletop Gaming Deals: Free RPG Day, Paranoia, 10 Years of DriveThru

The coolest things we saw at Gen Con 2013

Primeval Thule might be the Conan meets Cthulhu RPG the world needs

Deluxe D&D Reprint Against the Slavelords Gains a Bonus Adventure

The Best Digital Tools for Organizing Your RPG Campaign

Magic: the Gathering’s Summer Set Preview — Megantic Sliver

Deluxe Reissues Take You Deep into Dungeons & Dragons History

The company that created Dungeons & Dragons is back with Gygax magazine (updated)

Gen Con: The epic tabletop gaming convention invades the midwest

Wild Talents Second Edition Brings a Superpowered World to Life

Mechwarriors, Starships, Martians and More at the Origins Game Fair

Mini Vodo Inspires Jedi From Beyond the Grave

Post-Apocalyptic Cannibal Hobbits For Your Next Game

Post-Apocalyptic Settings for Games Are Cool Urban Wastelands

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