Tabletop RPG

I love playing tabletop role-playing games like D&D or Pathfinder 2e.

Earlier this year, Matthew Mercer and Mica Burton announced a portfolio of gaming projects designed and developed by Darrington Press, Critical Role's gaming arm.

Growing up, the term "board game" conjured images ranging from Stratego to (The Game of) Life to Monopoly.

One of the reasons I can't quit tabletop role-playing games, even with all the video games I play, is because I can't get past the human factor that occurs in said tabletop games.

Today I did something I've literally never even thought about doing — I skipped the campaign in Diablo 4 on a Seasonal character so I could just jump them straight into Season 1.

For a while now, the main disadvantage that Paizo's Pathfinder 2e has had competing with its more popular sibling, the fifth edition of Dungeons and Dragons, has been the lack of digital creator tools as broad and useful as D&D Beyond.

The monumental playtest of One D&D has made major changes to the game and almost every single one of its intended starting classes just ahead of the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons.

Actual play podcasts and streams are a great way for newcomers to tabletop role playing games to get a taste of how these games play, and Pathfinder has a few we'd recommend you check out if you're looking to branch out.

The latest One D&D playtest introduced a new Weapon Mastery system, which allows characters with the Weapon Mastery feature -- currently Fighters and Barbarians -- to do a host of cool special attacks with all kinds of different weapons.

Back in January when Wizards of the Coast backed off of Open Gaming License (OGL) updates to go with their new edition of Dungeons & Dragons, they also made a second decision that -- while popular -- hadn't seen as much fanfare as of yet: they released the current D&D rules as a System Reference Document, or SRD under a Creative Commons license.