Category: Action Game

Chaosium pulled off quite the magic trick with the release of Gateways To Terror. The adventure collection contained three short adventures built to be run in an hour or two for new players, such as at a convention or a game store event. The company looks to pull off the […]

Specifically, how an RPG book gets made from initial idea to the printed product being sold to and delivered to customers. And balancing that process with multiple books in flight in various stages. To quote Matt from an earlier interview about Mongoose Publishing (roleplaying games): “…you can explore space and […]

Join us at 8pm GMT (3pm ET) for EN Publishing’s monthly livestreamed update. Today (Thursday November 14th) we’ll be talking about Monstrous Menagerie II: Hordes & Heroes (amongst other things). We hold this livestream on the last Thursday of every month to keep folks update on our product plans, Kickstarter […]

Some of you may have noticed that Darryl’s weekly news digests and freebies/sales columns have been absent for the last three weeks. We wanted to wait until we had his direct consent to share this news, but Darryl Mott, columnist and podcast editor, was suddenly checked into hospital a couple […]

Not DnD is a weekly show discussing tabletop roleplaying games. Each week EN Publishing’s @tabletopjess interviews the creators behind different tabletop roleplaying games that aren’t D&D! You can watch the live recording every Monday at 5pm ET / 10pm BST on YouTube or Twitch, or catch up with the podcast […]

FLAMES & FLAILS: THE FIERY FORGE, a part of the Powered by Perilous Pamphlets co-promotion, is kickstarting now. Want a one-page Old-School Essentials adventure set in a world on fire? Check out Egg’s Kickstarterhere. For another OSE pamphlet adventure by Egg, check out Philip Reed Games’ Perilous Pamphlet Pack, a […]

EN World: In the 2014 book, we had the recommendation of six to eight encounters. There was the Adventuring Day, XP pool, all of that went out the window. Can we talk about the decision that went into that? Why did we get rid of the Adventuring Day and there’s […]

Darryl Mott is a tabletop gaming and media journalist with bylines from outlets including Ain’t It Cool News, EN World, and Zombie Orpheus Entertainment. He also makes videos for YouTube and does live streams on Twitch as well as doing post-production and editing for the Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk […]

When the 2024 versions of the core D&D trilogy were announced, Creative Director Chris Perkins said that he planned to tear apart the Dungeon Master’s Guide and reassemble it in a way that’s more user friendly for both experienced and new DMs. I can’t comment as to whether Perkins succeeded […]

Is there an ideal combat method in an FRPG? “He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.” Sun Tzu RPGs in many cases revolve around combat. Yet the player who understands Sun Tzu’s maxim knows that fighting is merely a means to an end, not […]