Archive (Page 12)
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Elden Ring tabletop RPG gets a release date, but…
Out in Japan later this month, with no sign of an English-language edition yet.
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UK Games Expo 2023 apologises after rejecting RPG over queer content
Avery Alder’s Dream Askew was blocked from appearing due to “themes of sexuality or orientation", while Jay Dragon’s Sleepaway reportedly saw its event description changed to remove references to queerness.
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Can it go the distance?
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Battletech community ousts Reddit mods after Pride Month zine bigotry
Catalyst Game Labs steps in to create a new, official subreddit.
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A Smurfs tabletop game is on the way from 7 Wonders and Dead Cells designers
In time for the blue pop icons' 65th anniversary.
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Terraria: The Board Game digs up a co-op tabletop adaptation for the 2D Minecraft-a-like
Mined for inspiration.
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Pathfinder maker’s Open RPG Creative Licence enters final draft and feedback period
This is your last chance to submit corrections and comments before the licence heads to the US Library of Congress.
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Feature: Candela Obscura’s first mystery will be solving the horror RPG’s identity crisis
The first new tabletop RPG from Critical Role feels more like Diet Blades with a splash of Vaesen.
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Second annual event kicks off this weekend.
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Part game, part art project.
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Warhammer 40,000’s streamlined 10th Edition rules drops as a free download
The 60-page document covers new datasheet layout, universal stratagems and building an army
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Masks, magic, marines and music.
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Gloomhaven: Second Edition will feature revised classes, scenarios, story and miniatures
“Gloomhaven is well-loved, I’m not sure anyone would call it perfect.”
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Monster Care Squad, Glitter Hearts, Cantrip and more are combined with a heap of video games, comics and zines.
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“Codexes will offer a breadth of different ways to field an army.”
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Pathfinder ejects Drow from official lore, says too “deeply enmeshed” in D&D identity
Golarion’s Darklands will trade spider-worshipping elves for snake people.
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10 board games and tabletop RPGs to check out at UK Games Expo 2023
It's time to take a trip to Birmingham.
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Wizards of the Coast admits error on Battle of the Pelennor Fields card.
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Here’s a look at the (Sol) Rings of Power in MTG’s Tales of Middle-earth
Four rings for commanders in their “totally power level 7” pods
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PaizoCon announces post-Remaster Pathfinder books, mech and kaiju adventures for Starfinder
The tabletop RPG’s formal split from OGL begins with Rage of Elements in August
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Standalone game will also work as an expansion for the original, with over 70 new characters.
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MTG’s four Lord of the Rings Commander decks pits Elven politics against a very chunky Sauron
And to the Command Zone, exile them.
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Nine cards for Mortal Men, doomed to die.
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Magic: The Gathering answers one of Lord of the Rings’ biggest mysteries in Tales of Middle-earth
Just what is Tom Bombadil, anyway?
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MTG’s Lord of the Rings cards let you lead an army with the ultimate commander: Bill the Pony
Perfect for horsing around.
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Lord of the Rings’ 1970s animated movie is getting its own Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair cards
Embark on More Adventures in Middle-earth next month.
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Ticket to Ride legacy board game features a western-themed campaign from Pandemic Legacy co-creators
The good, the bad and the business-minded.
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Warhammer 40k’s chaotic racing game Speed Freeks is coming to PC - and you can play it now
Ork your marks, get ready, go!
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Includes single-player campaign co-written by Black Library veteran Gav Thorpe.
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Martin Wallace’s Fighting Fantasy Adventures will adapt four of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s choose-your-own-path books.
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Warhammer 40,000 video game Space Marine is getting a board game
Board game adaptation of the video game adaptation of the sci-fi miniatures game spin-off of the fantasy wargame.
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Commander is the best way to play Magic: The Gathering
Bigger is better.
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Ameritrash is dead - long live Ameritrash
How two opposing styles of board game found harmony.
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Board game executive apologises for sexist reply to Wingspan creator’s criticism of industry sexism
AEG’s Ryan Dancey tells tabletop players to “hold me accountable” for publishing projects from underrepresented groups.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Suffragettes, legends, Romans and mice.
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Play the RPG behind Critical Role’s newest show with a free quickstart for Candela Obscura
The quickstart contains an introductory assignment and five pregenerated characters.
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Scarlet & Violet - Obsidian Flames expansion brings Dark-type Charizard to the Pokémon TCG
Tera Pokémon ex will sport different types and weaknesses along with their crystalline crowns
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Dungeons & Dragons tosses out One D&D label but struggles to define next chapter.
Just don't call it 6th Edition.
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We’ve got $800 worth of accessories to give away thanks to Misty Mountain Gaming.
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Mirrorscape’s open-licence rival to D&D’s virtual tabletop wants to be “the Apple of VTTs”
Launching into open beta next month.
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Poll: Do you prefer playing with miniatures or meeples?
Counter-attack.
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6 best Cyberstorm Access cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!’s latest set
Unleash the set's evolutionary new cards.
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Pathfinder Nexus’ open beta brings the RPG that much closer to digital D&D parity
Free accounts can create and save up to seven discrete characters.
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All books will be published under the previously announced higher price tag.
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Tales of the Valiant reimagines 5E roleplay with “cooler spellcasting” and less burden on GMs
Kobold Press’ Project Black Flag sets sail as a fully fledged RPG ruleset.
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How to play Go: rules, setup and scoring explained
Slowly build your frontiers and dominate the board on Go.
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Sailor Moon meets Blades in the Dark in magical girl RPG Girl by Moonlight
In the name of the Moon, I’ll punish your dice!
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It looks like a Ticket to Ride legacy game is on the way
Pandemic Legacy designers Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau are teaming up with the venerated train game’s creator Alan R. Moon on a mysterious new project.
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Dungeons & Dragons increases price of printed books despite continuous financial success
Higher physical book prices begin later in 2023 while digital editions remain solid, for now.
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Battletech, Shadowrun maker spins up a dedicated board game division for future projects
The first title will be a personal project from the son of a veteran employee.
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Cardboard Edison 2023 winner is a puzzly board game about microscopes, mosaics and algae
Plankton can be beautiful, too.
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Livestreamed roleplaying sessions will fundraise for ILGA World.
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Win a copy of the real-life Orlog dice game from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla!
Got my Eivor on that.
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With a ‘Special Prize’ for puzzle series Unlock!
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An unproven deck faced near-unbeaten consistency amidst the first mid-season rotation in over a decade.
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Dungeon-delving deckbuilder Clank! is headed to PC and mobile
Make some noise.
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Critical Role are playing a Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom RPG one-shot next week
Don’t worry: DM (and voice of Ganondorf) Matthew Mercer will steer clear of story spoilers.
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Poll: How important is a board game's artwork to you?
Different strokes for different folks.
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“Adaptations have no business being half as good as they are.”
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Playing games Till the Last Gasp.
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The most valuable Pokémon card ever made is back under the hammer for a paltry $200,000 (for now)
Pikachu Illustrator promo card previously sold for a record $5m in 2021.
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A third of Monopoly players in the UK have argued over the board game classic, survey finds
YouGov survey also crowns Brits’ favourite playing piece.
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Feature: Dead Cells’ board game nails the roguelike genre - and I’m finally hooked
Hands-on with the latest video game adaptation.
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As well as Terra Mystica, Anachrony and Trickerion.
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Hear from BackerKit, Panda Game Manufacturing, Osprey Games and more at the free London event.
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Newest Netrunner ECG set focuses on a robotic uprising in futuristic Brazil
Part of the Liberation cycle.
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Watch us rank everything in Honor Among Thieves and play D&D live at MCM Comic Con London next week!
Catch our actual play series Storybreakers live for the first time.
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Poll: What's your favourite setting for board games?
Let's do the time warp again.
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1978: The Night THEY Came Home pits one player’s supernatural killer against the other’s everyday survivor.
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7 tabletop RPGs like Zelda to play when you’ve finished Tears of the Kingdom
Take the hero of time into your roleplaying games
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Fantasy Flight reveals organised play plans for major tournaments.
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War of the Ring: The Card Game adds co-op and solo modes in its first expansion
Against the Shadow introduces an AI opponent to the Lord of the Rings title.
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Dungeons & Dragons players torn on playtest Druid and Wild Shape because history is cyclical
Unclear if these are the same players who don’t want paladins smiting from across the room.
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Pre-order today so that your package arrives precisely when it means to.
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Industry event on May 26th will be free to attend in London’s ExCeL.
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How to play Dungeons & Dragons 5E for beginners
Everything you need to know to get started with the world's biggest tabletop RPG.
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Dark Souls, Elden Ring board game maker cut one-third of employees in recent “restructure”
Nearly 20 workers at Steamforged Games were hit with redundancies and left shocked.
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Dead Cells board game started as an ‘awkward’ clone of the video game
“The game we wanted to make was so closely inspired by Dead Cells that it would have been awkward not to call it that way,” admits Scorpion Masqué studio head.
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Here’s an exclusive first look at the Dead Cells board game in action
Ahead of its Kickstarter campaign tomorrow.
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Here’s how the Dead Cells board game’s roguelike and Metroidvania gameplay works
Live, die, live again.
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D&D’s free, 24-hour streaming channel will feature improv, cooking shows and independent creators
Dungeons & Dragons Adventures gives classic cartoons and RPG creators a home on television
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Feature: Warhammer 40k’s 10th Edition has turned me around from the missteps of 9E
Consumed by the Leviathan.
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Feature: March of the Machine: Aftermath is a Magic: The Gathering oddity in every possible way
Picking up the pieces.
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Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
From real history to great fiction.
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How Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom channel the spirit of D&D and tabletop RPGs
Freedom is the number one Hy-rule.
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Play Pathfinder’s sci-fi sibling RPG, Starfinder, for less than $5
Blast off with this bundle.
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Wilderfeast is like Monster Hunter as a tabletop RPG, and it looks very tasty indeed
Big weapons, big foes and bigger appetites.