Coriolis: The Great Dark is the latest evolution of Free League Publishing’s celebrated science-fiction tabletop role-playing game lineage, building on the foundation laid by Coriolis: The Third Horizon but charting an entirely new course into the mysterious reaches of space. Officially released in 2025, The Great Dark revitalises the original RPG’s themes of exploration and…
Creating Immersive Floor Layouts for Your RPG Adventures. One of the most satisfying aspects of running tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, or RuneQuest is watching your players explore a world that feels tangible and alive. A critical element of that immersion is the map: the dungeons, towns, forests, and caverns your playersnavigate. While…
by Stephen Gardner In medieval times, leisure took took totally different forms from those that it does today. For the peasants, there were storytelling, dancing and cockfights; for the rulers, the rich and the propertied, there were nobler pursuits, such as falconry, poetry and jousting.Jousting or tilting was an art, It is frequently mentioned in…
The Charge of the Light Brigade – A Story Made for Wargamers No discussion of the Crimean War is complete withoutacknowledging its most legendary—and tragic—moment:The Charge of the Light Brigade, fought during theBattle of Balaclava in 1854.This is the epic that inspired Tennyson’s famous lines: A single misinterpreted order sent the Light Brigade—hussars, dragoons, and…
Adding Richard SharpeTo Your Peninsular Wargames… Now that’s Soldiering! For Napoleonic wargamers, few settings capture the grit, drama, and heroism of the era like the Peninsular War. It’s a campaign filled with daring raids, desperate defences, and the clash of Empires across the sun-baked hills of Spain and Portugal. But among the ranks of redcoats…
Some projects start with a clear plan. Others start with a feeling — an idea that lingers at the back of your mind until the right moment arrives to bring it into the real world. This week in the workshop was very much the latter. The commission was simple in theory: to build a modular…
Konflikt ’47 is the tabletop wargame of heroes, horrors, monsters, and mechs, putting you in command of the nightmarish struggle for supremacy as the old world is torn apart and remade in blood and crackling energy. This is not war. This is the end What is Konflikt ’47? It is 1947. Humanity has breached the…
My introduction to Dragonlance was when I picked up Dragons of Autumn Twilight in a bookstore to take on holiday purely off of Larry Elmore’s incredible cover art and the brief blurb on the back that sounded like the start of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign (spoiler: it was). I loved the Chronicles trilogy that…
‘Canst thou pick that lock, good elf?’ said the young priest to the leather- clad figure who was fiddling with the lock on the stout iron-clad door. ‘Else stand back so Grimfist Fellhand may smite it down with his mighty axe.’ ‘Patience, holy one,’ said the thief testily. ‘Wizardess! Bring the lantern nearer so I…
There’s something deeply satisfying about turning overlooked materials into pieces that feel ancient and purposeful. This week in the workshop, our focus has been on creating standing stones and rock scatter terrain for fantasy wargames and tabletop RPGs — the kind of features that quietly define a battlefield without stealing the spotlight. Rather than starting…