The NPD Group, Inc. is an American market research company and their expert industry analysis and advisory services help retailers and manufacturers identify market trends to make smarter business decisions. According to ICV2, the NPD Group reported an increase in tabletop gaming sales over 2020 totaling 29% over sales in 2019 using POS data from chain and online retailers.
Along with the overall increase, NPD reported that the sales spiked in May and October.
Check out our most anticipated tabletop games for Spring 2021 below! For a full list of tabletop games releasing between January and April 2021, click here.
BOOK OF FIENDS 5E
GREEN RONIN – 9781949160017
On Sale: March 30, 2021
Devils, demons, and daemons—these are the ultimate servants of evil. Learn all their foul secrets in the Book of the Fiends, the definitive Fifth Edition sourcebook on these fell creatures. This tome presents over 130 of horrific fiends hailing from Hell, the Abyss, and Gehenna, with Challenge Ratings ranging from 0 to 31. The original edition of the Book of Fiends was one of the most critically acclaimed books of the d20 era. Now Dungeons & Dragons designer Robert J. Schwalb has reimaged all the creatures, character options, and more for Fifth Edition. It builds on the information found in the core rulebooks, expanding and revealing all you could ever want to know about these evil planes and their inhabitants. The Book of Fiends provides profoundly wicked foes your players will never forget.
PATHFINDERS ADVANCED PLAYER'S GUIDE POCKET EDITION (P2)
PAIZO INC. – 9781640783232
On Sale: March 9, 2021
Ready to go beyond the basics? Expand the limits of what’s possible with the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide Pocket Edition! This 272-page Pathfinder Second Edition rulebook contains exciting new rules options for player characters, adding even more depth of choice to your Pathfinder game! Inside you will find brand new ancestries, heritages, and four new classes: the shrewd investigator, the mysterious oracle, the daring swashbuckler, and the hex-slinging witch! The must-have Advanced Player’s Guide also includes exciting new options for all your favorite Core Rulebook classes and tons of new backgrounds, general feats, spells, items, and 40 flexible archetypes to customize your play experience even further!
STARFINDER RGP: ALIEN ARCHIVE 4
PAIZO INC. – 9781640782815
On Sale: January 12, 2021
Battle, befriend, or become more than 100 bizarre alien life forms in this all-new creature collection for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! On countless worlds orbiting countless stars, strange and wonderful creatures await discovery. In this book, you’ll find rules and background information about creatures ranging from undead androids and robot dragons to deadly laser-spined flowers and mysterious sea skeletons. Many species include rules for making your own playable alien character, from beings made of coral to animals uplifted by sapient fungus to creatures truly bizarre to behold. You’ll also find plenty of new equipment and player options, including a new set of augmentations that allows your character to adopt the strange features of dozens of existing playable alien species. Explore the extraordinary with Starfinder Alien Archive 4!