Features
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Feature: How well do you know Dungeons & Dragons? Roll for WIS with our quiz! (Sponsored)
Test your knowledge of D&D lore, rules and history.
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Feature: Role’s co-founder isn’t worried about D&D’s plans for the online RPG space
CEO and co-founder Elle Dwight talks to Dicebreaker about actual play, intimacy in streaming and the dragon-branded elephant in the room.
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Feature: We’ve played the Elden Ring board game - here’s how it works, and what we thought
90 minutes in the Lands Between.
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Feature: Magic: The Gathering’s The Brothers’ War is a set worthy of its history
Marvel could never.
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Feature: In Dungeons & Dragons’ Dragonlance book and board game, war is no joke - preview
First scenario is compared to Dunkirk.
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Feature: 8 tips on how to master Catan from the board game’s World Champion
Quetzal Jiménez reveals his strategies for trading your way to victory in the tabletop classic.
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Feature: Storybreakers characters: Caryaries West, the spoilt bard and wannabe news anchor
A half-elf out of water.
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Feature: News reporters in a fantasy world: The lore behind our new D&D series Storybreakers
Advantage on Investigation.
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Feature: The History of Black Lotus: Magic: The Gathering's legendary Holy Grail card
From forbidden artifact to half-a-million-dollar icon.
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Feature: Wingspan’s two-player version intensifies the original game: Essen Spiel 2022 Preview
And features some fantastic ducks!
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Feature: Frosthaven’s characters feel fresh, but its combat system doesn’t: Essen Spiel 2022 Preview
City building elements remain a mystery.
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Feature: How new tabletop RPG The Zone embraced, and then kicked, AI-generated art
Journeys of self-destruction.
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Feature: RPGs as therapy: How fictional worlds help vulnerable people explore real-life emotions
The support workers using roleplaying to manage trauma, addiction and loss.
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Feature: Dominaria United is a hugely satisfying return to Magic: The Gathering’s founding plane
Story, gameplay, cards - they're all here in abundance.
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Feature: Rivet Wars: Reloaded is like an Advance Wars board game - here's how it plays
RTS and video game influences meet a dieselpunk World War I.
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Feature: Pokémon TCG's thrilling first UK World Championships were well worth the long wait
The first Worlds held outside the US - and since COVID - offered a weekend of climactic battles and unabashed fandom.
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Feature: Arceus and Flying Pikachu soared to victory in Pokémon TCG's 2022 World Championships
We break down the winning deck list from Worlds 2022.
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Feature: Rolling Together: Indie RPG creators joining forces to change the industry for good
“This kind of collective endeavour really helps push people into making something better.”
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Feature: How did McDonald’s, Monopoly and the US Mafia get tangled up in scandal?
Fraud and a McFlurry, please.
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Feature: 10 things you didn't know about the early history of D&D
From the RPG’s turbulent beginnings and the Satanic Panic to the fall of original publisher TSR.
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Feature: These indie RPGs create compelling mysteries by asking players to tack evidence to the wall
This whole box is Pepe Silvia!
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Feature: Digital without losing the physical, Teburu is a promising next step for hybrid board games
The app-powered board has a lot of potential - if it can find the right games.
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Feature: 3D printing is changing tabletop gaming
From custom miniatures for RPGs and wargames to fans resurrecting old favourites and creating brand new worlds.
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Feature: The real-life romance, loss and legacy behind relationship sim board game Fog of Love
Jacob Jaskov’s heartfelt passion project for his partner became a groundbreaking moment for tabletop gaming - but it took a personal toll.
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Feature: Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty avoids cyberpunk-shaped pitfalls and the ghost of its predecessor
The futuristic card set isn’t trouble-free but showcases Wizards' design team operating at its peak.
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Feature: Paranoia RPG stayed hilarious by changing satirical targets
This article is above your security clearance. Report for termination immediately.
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Feature: The dark history of antisemitism in board games
Tabletop games have been used to express hate in ways both explicit and shockingly mundane for centuries.
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Feature: 4 scary movie easter eggs in The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 (Sponsored Content)
From flamethrowers to husky dogs.
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Feature: Experimental lyric RPGs are pushing the poetic power of roleplaying forward
By destroying the boundary between players and characters, lyric games innovate new ways to play - or, sometimes, not play at all.
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Feature: Wonder Book looks the part of an imaginative kids game, but doesn’t play like one
Don’t judge a board game by its cover.
