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Overnight success takes time. Regular viewers may notice our posts area little out of order - you can check all the episodes in the correct order on the website https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/when-dice-were-made-of-flint/when-dice-were-made-of-flint-10

The Great Glacier - A solo ice-climbing game of Destiny and Glory, where you are an 11th century Norse voyager. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/rpg-pdf-spotlight/the-great-glacier-a-solo-ice-climbing-game-of-destiny-and-glory

They Come at Night. A system-agnostic horror module for low to mid level characters https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/rpg-pdf-spotlight/they-come-at-night

Open Ended Games has announced the upcoming launch of space opera tabletop RPG Against the Starmaster, coming to Kickstarter this autumn, with a free-to-download playtest packet now available. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/u/scott-malthouse/post/space-opera-ttrpg-against-the-starmaster-coming-to-kickstarter-this-autumn

Adventures in Lancre and Uberwald will explore Lancre, the Ramtops, Uberwald, and the Chalk, drawing heavily on Terry Pratchett’s witches and supernatural inhabitants of the Disc. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/fantasy/modiphius-takes-discworld-beyond-ankh-morpork-with-new-gamefound-campaign

Gripping Beast Seeks Buyer as 30-Year Old Miniatures Business Prepares to Close. No date has been decided to close as yet, but production is already being kept to a minimum. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/historical/gripping-beast-seeks-buyer-as-30-year-old-miniatures-business-prepares-to-close

The core rules needed to play in the Mistborn Campaign Setting for the Cosmere RPG. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/rpg-pdf-spotlight/cosmere-rpg-mistborn-handbook

Why streamlining is just good rules design https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/critical-hits-a-designer-s-perspective/kiss-is-the-best

Welcome to our latest Crowdfund Quest Weekly round-up for the tabletop campaigns launched in the last seven days! https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/crowdfund-quest/crowdfund-quest-weekly-12-09-26-new-project-launches-over-the-last-week

Steve Jackson has been running Steve Jackson Games for 46 years, but is passing the baton and intends to spend more time designing games. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/hobby/steve-jackson-steps-back-from-ceo-role-at-steve-jackson-games

Wyld Holdings, the parent company of Wayland Games, has added the popular wargames magazine to their portfolio ahead of its 40th anniversary. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/historical/wargames-illustrated-finds-a-new-home-with-wyld-holdings

If you're into board and video games, TTRPGs or novels, you'll eventually stumble over Francesca's incredible maps, now collected in a book. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/fantasy/dd-diablo-warhammer-and-beyond-the-fantasy-cartography-of-francesca-baerald

Questiny, a fantasy dungeon crawler inspired by nearly 40 year old tabletop adventures and featuring a moving labyrinth and swinging axe traps. Like every proper dungeon should. BoardGames https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/u/junae-benne/post/questiny-brings-old-school-fantasy-and-moving-labyrinths-to-kickstarter

Underground adventure for all! https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/events/cavecon-one-7-8-november-2026-nottingham

From board gaming in Welsh fields and RPGs around woodland campfires to fantasy markets in pubs and trading cards in Bermondsey market, Britian’s tabletop event scene is getting considerably more varied and harder to define. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/hobby/is-tabletop-gaming-escaping-the-tradition-convention-hall

Fresh from winning herself an ENNIE Award for Best Online Content with the Solo RPG List website, Sero joins our team of columnists with her monthly look at Solo RPGs. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/solo-ttrpgs-with-sero/solo-ttrpgs-time-to-shine-at-the-ennie-awards

Plunge the heroes of your Swords of the Serpentine game into an epic campaign of mystery, intrigue, and swashbuckling action with Pillars Built on Sand. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/critical-hits-a-designer-s-perspective/pillars-built-on-sand

Nearly 40 years after its debut, Ars Magica is back in print with a crowdfunded Definitive Edition and much of its rules and setting legacy now opened under Creative Commons. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/fantasy/ars-magica-definitive-edition-hits-the-shelves-and-opens-up-nearly-40-years-of-rpg-history

Nocturnal: A Modern Ghost-Hunting RPG is a modern investigative horror tabletop roleplaying game. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/rpg-pdf-spotlight/rpg-pdf-spotlight-nocturnal-a-modern-ghost-hunting-rpg

Seeing Clash of the Titans with my grandparents at age eight sparked my love for Greek mythology. This week, I look back at how the 1981 film's stop-motion monsters and meddlesome gods influenced my early days running TTRPGs. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/tabletop-inspiration-celluloid-memories/unpublic/06e47c44-823a-4d19-af4e-1a0e31e1505b

Twenty Five years of Hellana history celebrated with a "special edition" next April. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/events/hellana-games-agliana-italy-april-11-2027

Steve Jackson Games and Lynnvander Studios team-up to bring the Munchkin Card Game to Roleplaying Game Nights with a new Munchkin 5.5e RPG. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/fantasy/munchkin-returns-to-its-roots-with-new-5-5e-roleplaying-game

Black Scorpion Miniatures is heading back to the Old West with three recent additions to its Tombstone range: the O’Hara Posse, Apaches 1 and Apaches 2. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/historical/black-scorpion-rides-again-with-new-tombstone-miniatures

A minimalist RPG where you play a gossipy fairy. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/rpg-pdf-spotlight/gossipixie

Have you tried buying board games, RPGs and Warhammer on Vinted? Is it worth the hassle? I spent one week shopping pre-loved on Vinted and I'm ready to report back. https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/second-hand-shelf/one-week-shopping-in-the-wild-west-of-vinted