Curated playlist
ENnies winners
- Dungeons & Dragons Starter SetThe 1994 Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set came with a CD of a real play session.
- Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Wizards of the Coast)A Star Wars tabletop game once split your damage into two separate meters. The Saga Edition dropped that system in 2007.
- Green Ronin PublishingGreen Ronin released Death in Freeport on the same day as the D&D third edition Player's Handbook.
- Monster ManualGary Gygax wrote every entry in the 1977 Monster Manual, a 108-page book of more than 350 monsters.
- Roll20Roll20 asked Kickstarter backers for $5,000 and got almost $40,000. It began as a roommates' project.
- Dungeon (magazine)Dungeon magazine put an adventure on every page. It had no reviews, editorials or letters when it began in 1986.
- Goodman GamesGoodman Games had its best sales month ever during a rival's crisis. January 2023 topped all its earlier records.
- Wizards of the CoastA lawsuit pushed Wizards of the Coast to create a separate company for Magic: The Gathering.
- White Wolf PublishingWhat if the monsters were living among us right now? White Wolf built the World of Darkness on that idea.
- ChaosiumChaosium got its name from a messy apartment near the Oakland Coliseum.
- Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)Call of Cthulhu is a tabletop game where the characters are doomed. Sandy Petersen made sanity a resource players spend.
- Player's HandbookDungeons & Dragons' Player's Handbook was rewritten five times, yet its 2024 version set a sales record.