Traditional tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons build adventures around “encounters.” Bet it a combat encounter, a trap, or even a 4th edition ...

Define your tabletop RPG campaign in one word. Go ahead; I’ll wait. If an answer came to mind immediately, odds are that word ...

Tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder have robust rules to govern the progression of a character as she becomes more powerful ...

Many Dungeon Masters have house rules for giving out bonus rewards. Be it for good roleplaying, coming up with a clever plan, or ...

“I wish my group roleplayed more.” Wishing that players engaged in certain behaviors is the lament of many a Dungeon Master. Whether it’s ...

We’ve had our hands on the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set for a few days now, and while that hasn’t been enough time ...

The Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set hits shelves July 15th, but Wizards of the Coast today released a free PDF containing the Basic ...

Yawn… Can I press the “skip” button on this quest giver’s spiel? Too often in tabletop RPGs, conversations between NPCs and the the ...

For thousands of years, storytelling in Western culture has followed a time-tested formula called the Three-Act Structure. Originally analyzed by Aristotle over two ...

Games have changed a lot over the years, and fiction about games has changed with them. Going all the way back to H. ...

In the last installment we explored the “living gods” of Dungeon World, and although we touched on the importance of their followers, we ...

If you stumble into the fantasy and science-fiction section of any well-stocked bookstore these days, you’ll notice right away that there’s a section ...