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I've played my fair share of RPGs in my life and even I forgot this game existed as I've only seen it once or twice But Superhero 2044 was a table top RPG that came out in 1977, using some of the same mechanics as D&D to create a superhero adventure where you and your friends[...]

Game Freak, or as you may better know them, the developer of Pokémon, are currently in search of a new team member to help develop a 3DS RPG game According to the Japanese version of eCareer, this listing says they're looking for a 3D-focused programmer to work on an RPG, with no further details added. Obviously one[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Expeditions: Viking is a historically-themed RPG that starts you off as the leader of a bunch of Viking in the early 8th Century You're playing at a point in time before the Vikings really started spreading out by using the sea and riverways of Europe, but they currently still reside in what is known[...]

credit//Deck13 The Surge is an upcoming action RPG from Deck13 that makes the Caterpillar P-5000 look weak by comparison A lot of the game is set in space with you and your enemies in somewhat mechanized suits, duking it out as you make your way to each objective The game itself looks pretty awesome and we're down[...]

So I was particularly interested to see a new RPG come around when the trailer for Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom come out a couple months ago Today we make our way through this adventure on the PS4. credit//Focus Home Interactive The game starts by telling the tale of the Planet, which is held together by the four[...]

The news was confirmed both via Twitter and with an official trailer. Based on the Fate/Stay Night visual novel, the game's popularity stemmed from the interactive RPG elements where you're basically summoning powerful creature known as Servants to do battle against other players for control and power, while exploring the storylines within the game itself[...]

During the discussion, two more con-goers came up and he took their ideas down too. Travis Hanson is an Eisner nominated illustrator and is the creator behind Life of the Party: The Realities of a RPG'er The book is comprised of every comic from Hanson's daily online strip It's softbound and has 90 pages of comics[...]

Those type of RPG's are a rare find these days when everyone is trying to outdo each other int he graphics department and keep forgetting that a single cohesive story can do wonders Enter Andrew Brophy, who is currently working on a similar looking game called Knuckle Sandwich. The description for the game is basic but mirrors[...]

You'll end up doing a lot of resource management and get into the occasional battle that handles like a tactical RPG, which you'll have to do in order to keep your family's honor The resource management end makes sense, but can be difficult to follow what exactly your needs are and what the best choices[...]

It was an RPG for quirky RPG fans that didn't shy away from making you think outside the box And it all came from a title made on the old-school RPG Maker But one of the gripes people had about a game that was very meta was the ending, which in itself was super meta[...]

One of the most recent titles I had fun with in this area was Aveyond 4: Shadow Of The Mist, where you're basically playing a dethroned villain at the end of an RPG and must rebuild your life Not all of these titles work, though, as it's far too easy to make your villain be[...]

Fans of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe are about to jump for joy as the network officially announced that the game would be coming to consoles as an RPG this year The game will be called Save The Light, a sequel to their hit mobile game Attack The Light, featuring a story and content[...]

Back in those days, Wizards Of The Coast could do no wrong (aside from making older MTG cards useless) and people were kind of stoked to see the company put their name on an RPG The game was great, even if your tower ran like a slug It received a lot of acclaim over the[...]

[rwp-review id="0"] CI Games and Deck 13's Lords of the Fallen was recently optimized for mobile by Octopus Games and it is a rather fun rpg It's got a relatively intuitive UI that allows you to hack and slash your way through the main storyline, with six different directional attacks you control by swiping[...]

Even World of Warcraft has used the stories to fuel a new area of their latest expansion, Stormheim, and if you play a warrior your new class hall includes Valkyries and Odyn. So it makes sense that the most popular RPG system in the world would tap into that same feel D&D's latest expansion is Storm[...]

White Wolf Publishing's Vampire: The Masquerade is widely held to be responsible for the largest influx of new gamers into tabletop RPGs outside of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise over the years They are also widely held to be responsible for the largest influx of new women gamers into tabletop RPGs. White Wolf Publishing was acquired[...]

This year's Gen Con is going to be exploding with games, old and new, that will appeal to someone out there in the world of gaming. Feng Shui 2 is a game from one of the great thinkers of tabletop RPGs, Robin D Laws This second edition of the Feng Shui game was successfully crowdfunded by Laws and publisher Atlas[...]

I also met a kindred spirit in Markus Plotz who truly loves and appreciates what a turning point TORG marked in RPG development, so I just couldn't say no." The new game is entitled TORG: Eternity, and is a new and updated take on the original game and its setting The design team includes many who[...]

Using a variant of Green Ronin's Fantasy AGE RPG (based off of their successful tabletop Dragon Age roleplaying game), the game itself is simple to use and easy to play Where the first edition used a 20-sided die to do all the work, in the new Fantasy AGE rules, the commonplace six-sider is used instead[...]

These classic planetary-romance stories took me on a fantastic journey, and it's been a dream to see Barsoom come to life through a series of games and miniatures." Modiphius Entertainment is up for multiple ENnie Award nominations this year, for their Mutant Zero, Mindjammer and Achtung! Cthulhu games. Christopher Helton is a blogger, podcaster and tabletop RPG publisher who talks about[...]

The participants played juniors, sophomores, and seniors, as well as teachers, ghosts, and a wide variety of magical creatures for three days at the start of the school year." Designers & Dragons (2nd Edition). Designers & Dragons is a multivolume history of the tabletop RPG industry and hobby, from its origins in the 1970s up through the[...]

By Christopher Helton On a rainy afternoon in Florida, I braved the thunder and lightning to check out the Free RPG Day festivities at Serenity Games here in "sunny" St Petersburg, FL While Free RPG Day  doesn't have the size or impact of Free Comic Day or Geek & Sundry's Tabletop Day, it is still an event with meaning to local retailers[...]

By Madeline Ricchiuto Magic: Duels Origins is the latest attempt by Wizards of the Coast to give you the Magic: The Gathering experience from the comfort

By Christopher Helton Saturday, June 20th is the eighth annual Free RPG Day, and where will you be? Much like the bigger, and better known, Free Comic Book Day, Free RPG Day is when retailers and publishers come together to spread the good word of tabletop roleplaying and hopefully bring in a new player or two while doing so. This[...]

Pre-generated character folios include the rules to keep the game flowing and it includes custom dice and a narrative gameplay system that advances the story with each roll. This seems like a really good way to jump in for Star Wars and RPG fans as well as introducing new players to a game system you already[...]

Pinnacle Entertainment Group, creators of the award-winning, best-selling Savage Worlds roleplaying game system, is partnering with Oni Press to develop a tabletop RPG based on the critically acclaimed ongoing series The game will be incredibly interactive, and will allow fans to create their own adventures inside The Sixth Gun universe Writer Cullen Bunn shared his[...]

Descending into the depths won't exactly be easy for him, and D&D fans will get their mettle tested just like Drizzt when they come face-to-face with all the demon lords." An expansion for the Neverwinter MMORPG will feature quests written by R.A Salvatore, the creator of Drizzt. Considering that it wasn't that long ago that TSR, the spiritual predecessor of Wizards[...]

Something very interesting has been happening for tabletop roleplaying games in Los Angles for the past week. Wil Wheaton's Tabletop web show started filming the new season of its RPG show One of the stretch goals of the highly successful IndieGoGo campaign was to fund a season where Wheaton and others would play a roleplaying campaign[...]

Tabletop roleplaying games deal heavily in clichés or rehashing old tropes or adapting other people's ideas to the RPG format Flashes of originality are few and far between, and when they happen they stand out because they stand so far apart from everything else that you see in the gaming market. On the surface, Zak Smith's[...]

This would have added to audience engagement and made everyone feel an even greater part of the action, yet D&D Live provided an entertaining two hours in the company of people who obviously enjoyed sharing their pastimes and allowed all to unleash their inner hero. Phil Harris (@PhilipGHarris) is a games developer and writer currently working[...]