The best Tabletop Roleplaying Games newsletters

Setting First is a blog and video series by an experienced tabletop GM exploring verisimilitude in roleplaying games, especially in-person campaign play. Readers get reflections on why D&D dominates, convention reports, and practical notes on running and reviving long campaigns.

A personal newsletter from TTRPG author Monte Cook-adjacent writer (author of The Monsters Know What They're Doing) covering his book releases, design commentary, and reviews of tabletop roleplaying games. Readers get insider updates on publishing and candid, opinionated analysis of game design choices.

A personal blog by an experienced tabletop gamer covering traditional and old-school roleplaying games, with con reports, house-rule ideas and close readings of older rulebooks. Readers get practical rule analysis and thoughtful design commentary on classic RPGs.

Short, personal essays on worldbuilding, tabletop roleplaying games, fantasy storytelling and media like anime and video games. Readers get a writer's critical reflections plus occasional news about his own fiction and interviews.

A father writes with his daughters about tabletop games, especially Warhammer and D&D, covering new releases, retro collecting and family gaming outings. The newsletter offers personal, anecdotal commentary and news reactions rather than detailed guides.

A long-running blog series tracking the 'PHB +1' character creation rule in Dungeons & Dragons Adventurers League organized play, covering sourcebook exceptions, season changes and certificate rules. Readers get precise, dated rule updates for building legal characters in each season.

Tome Raider is the update newsletter of Knight Vision Creative, a publisher of 5E and 5.5E supplements, previewing Kickstarter campaigns, layout and stat block design choices, free feat PDFs and a prototype D&D video game. It suits readers following specific Creed's Codex products and tabletop rules development.

Delta Green is a newsletter from the publisher of the Delta Green tabletop roleplaying game, announcing new releases, podcast episodes of declassified adventure material, and previews of upcoming campaigns. Readers get horror-themed scenario hooks, release updates and promotional links to subscriber content.

A personal creator newsletter from an author-artist working on post-human erotic figurative art, long-form fiction and the Techno'Magi RPG. Issues are short diary-style notes on the struggle between creative bursts and revising existing chapters, plus art drops of portraits and figurative works.

Montford Tales promotes Asher's Ridge, a no-GM tabletop roleplaying game for one to four players set in a fictional Lake District town, along with its Kickstarter campaign and add-on decks. The newsletter mainly announces sales, crowdfunding updates and product details rather than offering broader play advice.