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Paranormal Freelancing: Sprint Projects in a Co-op

Posted on November 5, 2024 by

Paranormal Freelancing is an action-oriented urban fantasy game by the Far Horizons Co-op that is currently on Kickstarter. Players take on the role of assistants to supernatural creatures, letting you play the renfield, a witch’s acolyte, a shapeshifter’s family, and more.

This guest blog is by Chris Falco, the lead writer and project developer for the book.

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Ars Magica TTRPG Crowdfunding to Become Open License

Posted on October 2, 2024 by

Atlas Games, the stewards of the award-winning tabletop roleplaying game Ars Magica, announced earlier this year the upcoming launch of Ars Magica Definitive Edition. This deluxe version of the 5th Edition marks an epic return for the game, not only with an expanded rulebook weighing in at over 600 full-color pages, but also by embracing an open license for third-party creators.

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Take Tarot for Storytellers at Clarion West Online This Sunday!

Posted on September 24, 2024 by

Love tarot? Want to get ready for Halloween? Take my writing-centric Clarion West workshop titled “How to Use Tarot for Storytellers.” This two-hour workshop will be conducted online on Sunday, September 29th and will have a seasonal theme. Unlike my other tarot workshops, this experience will also include small group exercises to help nurture collaborative […]

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Celebrate DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Golden Anniversary at Gen Con 2024

Posted on July 18, 2024 by

It’s a banner year for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS! Coming off the acclaimed film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and the smash hit video game Baldur’s Gate 3, D&D is celebrating 50 years of the WORLD’S GREATEST ROLEPLAYING GAME. More than 64 million D&D fans love rolling dice, slaying monsters, and envisioning themselves as the amazing heroes they all are inside. This year at Gen Con 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS will be debuting the 2024 Player’s Handbook making D&D more accessible than ever before. Wizards is bringing 3,000 copies of the 2024 Player’s Handbook hot off the presses to Gen Con 2024 – each of which features the 50th anniversary logo in gold foil, along with a commemorative “Gen Con 2024” bookplate making it even more exclusive and distinguishing it from other first-run copies.

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Try Pathfinder 2nd Edition During Beginner Box Days

Posted on April 15, 2024 by

If you’ve ever wanted to try Pathfinder Second Edition but had trouble finding a game, there is hope. Beginner Box Days is a week of gaming using Paizo’s Beginner Box for Pathfinder Second Edition. Starting on April 13, 2024, new players can try out Pathfinder Remastered for free as experienced gamemasters guide them through two […]

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Come to Gen Con. Stay for the Writer’s Symposium!

Posted on February 8, 2024 by

Mark your calendars! Gen Con 2024 will take place from Thursday, August 1st through Sunday, August 4th in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Writer’s Symposium, now in its 28th year, is a celebration of speculative fiction for new and experienced writers and will be on the 2nd floor of the Indianapolis Downtown Marriott. “The Gen Con Writers’ […]

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D&D Heads Back to School!

Posted on October 2, 2023 by

The world’s greatest role-playing game is heading back to school! Wizards of the Coast in partnership with AdoptAClassroom.org, today announced an initiative to bring Dungeons & Dragons to 200 classrooms across the country. Through the partnership, selected teachers will receive a Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) library along with much needed funding to support their classrooms. Beginning today, teachers supporting grades 4-12 at high-needs schools with an active AdoptAClassroom.org classroom page can fill out an online application to enter for a chance to win the adventure of a lifetime for their students.

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Paizo Unveils Playtest for Two New Classes

Posted on September 1, 2023 by

With a multi-product line event coming in 2024, Paizo is preparing for the new rulebook release with a playtest of two new classes: the animist and the exemplar.

A war is brewing and all of existence will be drawn into the conflict! As gods die, new gods arise, and Golarion itself bucks and twists under the pressure of immortal powers vying for dominance, Pathfinder introduces two new classes with their own particular roles to play in these colossal battles.

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Renegade Announces Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game!

Posted on August 3, 2023 by

“Renegade to bring Welcome to Night Vale to the world of RPGs!” Renegade Game Studios is excited to announce that they will produce and publish a Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game, which will land on players’ tables in 2024. “Joseph and Jeffrey have created a fantastic world full of vibrant characters, mystery, and rich […]

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Battle Endless Waves of the Undead in Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors

Posted on July 26, 2023 by

PC Game Features: • Choose your class: the Fighter, Wizard, or Rogue — each featuring unique talents, powers, and playstyles. • Select a second hero to fight alongside you as a companion character. • Run the gauntlet of Gallowspire! Overcome all four sections and their bosses to mark a successful run. • Defeat enemies and […]

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New! Kickstarter to Support Pathfinder & Starfinder Rules with Ultimate Screen

Posted on June 21, 2023 by

Forged Gaming, the company behind the Ultimate Game Master Screen Kickstarter, announced today that the project will support the Pathfinder and Starfinder RPGs with official rulesets and content. These products will be included in the ongoing Kickstarter as add-ons to the Ultimate Game Master Screen campaign. The addition of these iconic RPGs to the Ultimate […]

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Catalyst Game Labs Launches New Division and Kickstarts Overlords Board Game

Posted on May 8, 2023 by

In addition to their seminal BattleTech and Shadowrun games–along with Leviathans: The Great War–Catalyst has published several great board games over the years, such as The Duke, Crossfire and Dragonfire. To expand upon those successes Catalyst is forming a dedicated board game division. Those games will be joined by other best-selling, previously acquired games, including […]

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Privateer Press Announces New Brineblood Marauders Army for WARMACHINE: MKIV

Posted on April 4, 2023 by

The new WARMACHINE: MKIV rolls everything from WARMACHINE’s parallel brand, HORDES, into a single rules set. While HORDES is no longer maintained as a separate brand, warbeasts and warlocks are still battling over the Iron Kingdoms, and the Brineblood Marauders marks the first all-new warlock-led army to storm the tabletop.

From their hidden fortress seaport, the Brineblood Marauders hound the coast of Immoren, from the Gulf of Cygnar to the Windless Wastes. As merciless as they are merry, these Trollkin pirates reave in equal parts, riches and revenge, reparations for the injustices the nations of men have inflicted on troll-kind. But there are worse horrors than pirates claiming dominance of the high seas, and the Brineblood Marauders have found their kind once again caught between the Iron Kingdoms and the terrifying forces that seek their annihilation.

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Hellboy: The Roleplaying Game is now available from Nightfall Games

Posted on December 22, 2022 by

Get ready to become a member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.) and begin investigating occult perils that threaten the world’s very existence. Your team will explore gothic locations, hunt clues, discover artifacts, and face off against terrifying foes.

The Hellboy universe is vast. Absolutely vast. It spans, well, a whole universe. From the icy depths of dimensionless space where the ancient elder beings, the Ogdru Jahad, wait eager to return, to the wintry tracts of a Russia preserved in Baba Yaga’s dream. It contains an entirely new and secret history of the world, preserved in a lost language. It’s a universe filled with magic, with arcane science, with Nazis who need punching, and with characters who are always that little bit more than you expect them to be. It’s a universe of stories. And with this RPG, you get to tell your own.

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Onyx Path Publishing Announces Realms of Pugmire, a new edition of the tabletop RPG

Posted on December 15, 2022 by

Eddy Webb, founder of Pugsteady and creator of Pugmire, announced today that Onyx Path Publishing will launch a Kickstarter to fund printing for Realms of Pugmire, a second edition of the popular and acclaimed Pugmire roleplaying game. Realms of Pugmire will be a complete, family-friendly tabletop roleplaying game, produced as a collaboration between Onyx Path […]

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Pathfinder & Starfinder Community Content Coming to the Roll20 Virtual Tabletop

Posted on December 15, 2022 by

Roll20 and Paizo Inc. are excited to announce they’ve reached an agreement to support Pathfinder Infinite community content officially on the Roll20 virtual tabletop.

Pathfinder Infinite launched in 2021, allowing fans of the Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games to publish their own adventures and game supplements for other fans of the games.

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Paizo and TYPE40 Announce Partnership

Posted on November 29, 2022 by

Paizo, publisher of the Pathfinder and Starfinder Roleplaying games, has announced a new partnership with multi-award-winning studio, TYPE40. Known for their work across multiple genres, TYPE40 have brought joy to gamers and collectors for over a decade.

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Available Now! Tales of the RED: Street Stories for Cyberpunk RED

Posted on August 4, 2022 by

Night City is a big place, full of wild parties, dead bodies, and neon lights. Beneath the thin layer of advertising and grime, it’s got some tales to tell. Stories of vicious gangs, hellbent artificial intelligence, and love. You’ll get to meet suave mercenaries and movie stars, and even take a ride in a submarine. […]

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First Hybrid PaizoCon Celebrates Pathfinder and Starfinder RPGs

Posted on May 27, 2022 by

Today Paizo Publisher Erik Mona opened PaizoCon 2022 with an energetic, one-hour Keynote Address on the state of the Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games. Highlighting the convention are the Starfinder Drift Crisis Meta-Event and upcoming Pathfinder Dark Archive hardcover rulebook. PaizoCon 2022 runs today through May 29 at the DoubleTree Hotel, and through May 30 on @OfficialPaizo on Twitch and on Discord.

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Jim Butler Named Paizo President

Posted on May 17, 2022 by

Jeff Alvarez has stepped down as president due to health reasons. Paizo has named Vice President of Marketing and Licensing, Jim Butler, as its new president.

“I have had the pleasure of working closely with Jim from his days at TSR through his time working on Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition at Wizards of the Coast, and now working with me at Paizo,” Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens said. Jim is a hardworking visionary whose almost three decades of game experience makes him the perfect person to guide Paizo into its third decade.”

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