Gen Con, the nation’s largest tabletop gaming convention, has moved online this year because of the global pandemic. But that hasn’t stopped the industry’s annual awards, like the Ennie awards, from being handed out. On Wednesday, the hobby games industry announced the winners of one of its most coveted prizes, the Diana Jones Award. This […]
2020’s best tabletop RPGs (so far), as chosen by fans
Many people think of tabletop role-playing games as a monolith, a space occupied solely by heavyweights like Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, and a handful of other AAA titles. Of course, that’s the same as saying that the only two video games are Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto Online. In truth there is a glorious spectrum […]
Playing tabletop games from home? This free app is perfect for maps
Every tabletop gaming group has their own preferred set of tools and rules for role-playing, but most groups tend to use maps. If you’re playing a game like Dungeons & Dragons, where your character’s position and the terrain around them matters, having a map on hand, so everyone easily understands the area in which a […]
Lawyer Up, The Tabletop Game That Encourages Arguing With Friends
If you ever wanted to play a tabletop version of Law and Order, Lawyer Up seems to be pretty much it. Say what you will about the litigiousness nature of Americans, but you gotta admit that it has created some pretty great television drama. It’s also created this neat looking asymmetrical card game called Lawyer […]