As the holiday season approaches, it’s the perfect time to pick out gifts that truly resonate with tabletop RPG players. Whether you're shopping for a casual player, a campaign-running DM, or a collector, here are three carefully chosen gift ideas at three budget levels — all designed to elevate the gaming experience. Many come from small artisans or Etsy makers, so you’re supporting indie creators too.
Read MoreThe 2024 Player's Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons is a solid update, but let’s be real—it’s more of a refresh than a revolution. If you’ve been playing 5th Edition (5E) for years, you’re not going to find a totally new experience here. Instead, this new version gives you refined rules, more clarity, and some fresh ideas. That said, not everyone is jumping up and down with excitement...
Read More“…Enter, Roadwarden, a relatively new title from Moral Anxiety Studios, that’s something of an interactive fiction game. It’s not quite a visual novel, but not quite a full, unbridled RPG either. In it, you take control of the titular Roadwarden whose duties involve keeping the roads safe, brokering trade, and delivering messages, all while managing your dwindling supplies, staving off hungry beasts, and watching the sun set earlier and earlier with every passing day…”
Read MoreFinding your place in the world is a daunting feat — setting aside the things you do and making space for the things you are is a challenge the Skalds have been writing poems about for a thousand years. No more is this exemplified than in Travis Baldree’s book, Legends and Lattes, a “book of high fantasy and low stakes” in which Viv, a powerful Orc warrior, sets aside her life of adventure to open a cafe in a city where no one’s ever heard of coffee…
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