Tabletop RPG

Stop me if you've heard any of these Tabletop RPG scenarios: You've gathered around your gaming table to play a gang of scrappy, daring scoundrels pulling off a daring heist in a fantastic environment, making a name for yourself in the city's underworld, but your group keeps getting bogged down in the details of planning and never gets around to actually getting themselves into, and hopefully out of, trouble.

The upcoming D&D adventure anthology Quests from the Infinite Staircase does something I absolutely love: it adapts old school Dungeons and Dragons adventures into the current edition of the game, letting players experience these classics for themselves.

We ran an entire adventure, from beginning to end, in one session using the v1.2 open beta playtest rules for Daggerheart, the new TTRPG developed by Darrington Press and the team at Critical Role.

I'm mostly asking this question of people who don't play TTRPGs at all, but even if you do play Dungeons and Dragons, there are other games you may not have tried (or even heard of).

Recently, the Blizzard Watch crew played the public beta playtest of Daggerheart (you can listen to our session zero now)-- the upcoming tabletop role-playing game from Darringon Press, the fine folks who bring you Critical Role.

The Tavern Watch crew are back with another TTRPG podcasting adventure!

Darrington Press has opened up a beta playtest for Daggerheart, its upcoming high-fantasy themed TTRPG, which is now live — this is one of the game's final development stages before a tentative 2025 release.

With news of Elden Ring's DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, finally getting a launch date of June 21, 2024, a lot of fans are once again preparing to venture into the Lands Between once again -- so many, in fact, that Elden Ring shot back into the top 10 bestselling games on Steam after the announcement.

A common joke in tabletop RPG communities is that the true final boss of any campaign is scheduling.

While big-name tabletop RPGs aiming to compete with Dungeons & Dragons (or at least try to fill a similar niche) garner a lot of attention -- for example, Matt Colville's "tactical heroic cinematic fantasy" MCDM RPG, which raised over $4 million dollars --  there are a lot of cool and innovative games offering unique experiences that are also out there competing for your attention (and pledge of support).