Katie Wickens
Katie is a freelance writer with almost 5 years experience in covering everything from tabletop RPGs, to video games and tech. Besides earning a Game Art and Design degree up to Masters level, she is a designer of board games, board game workshop facilitator, and an avid TTRPG Games Master - not to mention a former Hardware Writer over at PC Gamer.
Latest articles by Katie Wickens

Lego Optimus Prime is currently 5 cents off its best price ever
By Katie Wickens published
Deals Lego Optimus Prime is so close ot its cheapest price ever right now

I hope your affairs are in order, because Bandai Namco just dropped Tekken: The Board Game
By Katie Wickens published
News Tekken: The Board Game is coming soon to Gamefound

Fans react to Sigil shutdown with a callback to Gleemax: the Myspace for gamers that never came to be
By Katie Wickens published
News Gleemax was Wizards of the Coast's attempt at a Myspace for gamers

Agricola review: "Accurate representation of the highly competitive and often unstable world of agriculture"
By Katie Wickens published
Review Grind your way through life as a farmer

Embrace your inner bear-lover in a Baldur's Gate 3 sidequest-style tale of social turmoil in this Slavic storytelling board game, now crowdfunding
By Katie Wickens published
News This storytelling card game with six Slavic-inspired folktales to play through is crowdfunding right now

F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act could stand to persecute Texas school D&D and LARP groups, in attempts to weed out "any non-human behavior"
By Katie Wickens published
News F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act might see tabletop and live-action groups, not just furries, persecuted in Texas schools

This gorgeous Ghibli-style Dungeons & Dragons 5e campaign setting just dropped on D&D Beyond
By Katie Wickens published
News Obojima: Tales From The Tall Grass is now on D&D Beyond

Save up to 50% on the Tales from The Loop board game and TTRPG: dive into more strange stories wrought by The Electric State author
By Katie Wickens published
Deals Both board game and TTRPG adaptations of Simon Stålenhag's Tales from The Loop are on offer right now

D&D Beyond's Sigil software isn't the worst VTT around, but it has a long way to go to compete with other 3D map makers
By Katie Wickens published
Feature Comparing some of the best 3D map makers for D&D and other tabletop RPGs

Save up to $55 on these three essential D&D 5e sourcebooks
By Katie Wickens published
Deals You can buy three D&D 5e sourcebooks for just $114.80, with DM screen and slip case included.

Matt Mercer thanks "lifelong threat of imposter syndrome" for keeping him and Brennan Lee Mulligan grounded, despite still thinking "People like it, what the hell?"
By Katie Wickens published
News Matt Mercer and Brennan Lee Mulligan talk about how to stay cool in the limelight

WizKids to bring us D&D Baldur's Gate city builder board game in Summer 2025, and preorders are far cheaper than I expected
By Katie Wickens published
Deals Dungeons & Dragons: Builders of Baldur's Gate is just $55.99 if you preorder now

Helldivers 2 board game inbound from the same studio as the Monster Hunter World adaptation
By Katie Wickens published
News Helldivers 2 is getting a board game adaptation from Steamforged Games

Pathfinder 2E RPG: Claws of the Tyrant Adventure is available to preorder at a discount
By Katie Wickens published
Deals Fight Seldeg Bheldis in the upcoming Pathfinder 2E Claws of the Tyrant adventure, currently $9 off for preorder

The new D&D Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide are still discounted, in case you were thinking of getting into Dungeons & Dragons in 2025
By Katie Wickens published
Deals The new 2024 D&D Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's guide are up to $5.04 off

Buckle up Nerf Herders, the Lego Star Wars Dark Millennium Falcon has only been this cheap twice
By Katie Wickens published
Deals The Lego Dark Falcon Starship Set is currently £40 off at Amazon

RPG board game designer's revelation was searching for a D&D quick start guide to find "You needed to pull together lots of different pieces in order to play"
By Katie Wickens published
News Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread designer talks about his narrative influences for the game

Legendary farming board game Agricola just announced a zombie-fueled horror standalone, but fans seem to think it's an early April Fools joke
By Katie Wickens published
News Agricola: Dead Harvest just announced as a standalone horror take on farming board game Agricola

I wish I'd waited for this discount on Agricola's Limited Edition
By Katie Wickens last updated
Deals Save $35.50 on the 15th Aniversary edition of Agricola

The must-have fishy successor to Wingspan and Wyrmspan is discounted for the first time
By Katie Wickens published
Deals Wingspan successor Finspan is $5 off right now

Hasbro CEO, D&D DM, and self-professed "AI bull" Chris Cocks says AI is "supercharging fandom" which is "just net good for the brand"
By Katie Wickens published
News Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks has a lot to say about the use of AI

This board game TRPG hybrid delivers something D&D hasn't quite managed to capture for me
By Katie Wickens published
Feature Arydia has a lot to offer with GMless play

Hero Forge custom dice Kickstarter is live, and will let you design your own additions to the asset catalog
By Katie Wickens published
News Hero Forge brings us a custom dice maker with its latest Kickstarter campaign
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