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Cowboy Bebop RPG will let you play as the anime’s characters, won’t touch the movie or Netflix series
Players will be able to take control of the Bebop crew or create their own interplanetary bounty hunters.
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King of Tokyo and King of New York are getting a new sequel next year
Third in Richard Garfield’s monster rumble dice game series teased at Essen Spiel 2021.
Feature
Azul: Queen’s Garden sprouts fresh ideas whilst sticking to its roots
Wake up and play the roses.
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Workers at Pathfinder publisher Paizo have announced the formation of the United Paizo Workers union
Staff say they are “underpaid for their labor, required to live in one of the most expensive cities in the United States, and subjected to untenable crunch conditions on a regular basis”.
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Heroes of Might and Magic III gets the board game treatment from Wolfenstein studio
Why do we keep letting Ubisoft on Kickstarter?
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Resident Evil’s new co-op card game is designed to feel like passing the controller as kids
Up to four players control either Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield together.
Feature
The history and culture of Historica Arcanum, the D&D 5E book reclaiming the Near East in roleplaying
“We took the mystery of Istanbul and dialled that up to 1000%.”
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Slayers expands its monster-infested city with a new setting book for the asymmetric RPG
Rock the monstrous blocks
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Brian Goldner, CEO of Monopoly, Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons maker Hasbro, has passed away
Following cancer diagnosis in 2014.
How To
How to run a Dungeons & Dragons 5E horror campaign for Halloween
From choosing a sourcebook to picking enemies.
News
UBOOT creators’ Purple Haze is a co-op board game set during the Vietnam War with a branching story campaign
Latest ‘immersive simulation’ from publisher behind World War II submarine game.
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Critical Role announces its first Dungeons & Dragons campaign book with Call of the Netherdeep
Way beyond Wildemount.
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Cowboy Bebop RPG studio’s Knights of the Round: Academy blends My Hero Academia, Gundam and King Arthur
Anime-inspired RPG from design team Fumble GDR draws from shonen, mecha and school drama - plus Arthurian fantasy.
Opinion
New to Warhammer? Now’s the best time to get into Age of Sigmar's fantasy universe
A Slaanesh start.
Video
What are the board games we’re most excited to play at Essen Spiel 2021? It’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Looking ahead to Root creator’s Arcs: Collapse and Conflict in the Void and back on Mysterium, Insider, Monikers and more.
Feature
Indie RPGs are telling some of the greatest mystery stories on - and off - the tabletop
Hercule Poiroll.
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Official Cowboy Bebop tabletop RPG drops out of hyperspace and onto Kickstarter in 2022
The adaptation of Watanabe’s popular anime comes by way of Don’t Panic Games and Mana Project Studio.
Deals
Digital board game charity bundle offers Game of Thrones, Scythe, Terraforming Mars, Arkham Horror and more on PC for under £10
Play Pink Humble Bundle includes Asmodee Digital’s most popular digital board games in aid of Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
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Apawthecaria mixes two tabletop RPGs in its Scottish critter cauldron to produce a new solo game
The designers behind Apothecaria and Scurry! join forces on a solo journaling adventure.
Deals
DriveThru’s Small Press Spotlight offers discount on Masks, Brancalonia and more tabletop RPGs
Discounted dungeons until October 13th.
News
Pokémon TCG Celebrations is out today, featuring remakes of 25 classic cards - including Base Set Charizard
25th anniversary collection brings back familiar favourites alongside brand new additions.
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‘Controversial party game’ Awkward is the first tabletop release from Buzz! and Family Feud developers
Cards handpicked from “most divisive” questions in 2018 video game.
Deals
Indie horror RPG bundle gathers haunted cabins, vampires next door and trans necromancers for a Halloween game night
Includes games inspired by Scooby Doo, House of Leaves and the nightmare of the NHS waitlist.
Interview
‘It was important that the characters feel like real people’: Nikki Valens on representation and storytelling in Artisans of Splendent Vale
“We hope players will be able to see themselves in each of the characters in one way or another.”
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Cybernoir RPG Ecopunk 2044 wants to inspire action through its stories of environmental resistance
The government-funded tabletop RPG imagines a world uncomfortably close to our own likely future.
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Tranquillity, a card game like The Mind but with sailing, is coming to retail this month
Sail the sea in silence.
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Vampire: The Masquerade V5 - War of Ages is the game's first official LARP book
Live-action roleplaying with the living dead.
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Watch a community blossom into a fully fledged town in competitive board game Hamlet
It takes a village... of meeples.
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Gastronomic detective comic Chew plates up a Forged in the Dark-style RPG adaptation
Grab your dice and a fork.
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Call of Cthulhu: Terror Paths adapts the horror RPG into a co-op board game
Don’t let the doom rise.
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PAX Unplugged makes full vaccination and masks mandatory for December return of board game convention
Following 2020 cancellation due to COVID-19.
Feature
Old stories, new forms: Rewriting folklore as RPGs brings fresh perspectives and cultures to the table
“What is an RPG, but a seed of imagination designers give to players and game masters so they can grow gardens of their own?”
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Join team Dicebreaker at EGX 2021 with live stage shows and online streams
Join Wheels, Liv, Lolies and some special guests at EGX 2021!
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Jamaica announces a new edition of the family board game, but the art remains disappointingly whitewashed
Yo ho, and a crumb of representation.
News
Tales from the Red Dragon Inn opens the tavern door to a co-op dungeon-crawl game
From drinking to dungeoneering.
News
Marvel Dice Throne board game is coming from Brass: Birmingham studio
Are you a Daredevil with dice?
News
Root and Oath creator announces story-driven sci-fi board game Arcs: Collapse and Conflict in the Void
Designer Cole Wehrle, artist Kyle Ferrin and publisher Leder Games plan Kickstarter for 2022.
Deals
TRPG Bundle for Afghan Support offers dozens of indie RPGs for $20 to aid those targeted by the Taliban
Turn books into poetry, rob the British Museum and steam hams for charity.
Video
What board game would you stake your life on? We imagine our tabletop Squid Game on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
We discuss what's next for D&D, look ahead to Essen Spiel and choose our favourite video games that deserve to come to the tabletop.
Interview
“Why do we play games?”: DIE’s creators and Grant Howitt discuss adapting the comic into a tabletop RPG
The tabletop team-up have planned more than a simple almanac for Gillen and Han’s twisted polyhedral world.
Feature
Pokémon TCG had a Game Boy sequel that never released outside Japan - and we’ve played it
Prepare for trouble.
News
Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game brings the hit co-op video game to the tabletop next year
From Champions of Midgard designer.
News
Steam’s Digital Tabletop Fest returns to celebrate RPGs later this month
And Dicebreaker’s part of it!
How To
Which edition of Dungeons & Dragons is best? D&D edition differences from OG to 5E
From the 1974 original to the RPG's latest Fifth Edition, we run through what makes each D&D edition worth playing (or not).
News
Mothership to bring its Alien-esque, sci-fi horror RPG to a boxed set
Zero gravity, zero chance of survival.
Opinion
Why the Blade Runner RPG will stand apart from the cyberpunk crowd
It might not last - but then again, what does?
News
Gen Con 2022 dates confirm return of US board game convention next summer
After this year’s in-person event sees 50% of 2019 attendance.
News
Zombie RPG Survival of the Able is about being disabled in an undead apocalypse
From the founder of Accessible Games.
News
Magic: The Gathering announces three January releases for Commander and limited play
The preeminent trading card game hits the ground running in 2022 ahead of four planned core sets.
Opinion
Netflix’s latest hit series Squid Game is bloody, brutal - and perfect viewing for board game fans
Playing with lives.
News
Heart and Spire creators to help bring TRPG based on Kieron Gillen’s comic DIE into reality
Rowan, Rook and Deckard will be handling publishing and production duties on Gillen’s design.
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Dungeons & Dragons supplement, Just Dessert, has gumdrop mountains and pastry bears
Death by chocolate.
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Western Legends studio’s next game is like a tabletop version of Starcraft
Wrestle for the wormgate.
News
A Goonies escape room game is coming from the creators of Junk Art
Find One-Eyed Willy’s hidden treasure.
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Dungeons & Dragons’ “next evolution” will release in 2024
Wizards of the Coast confirms return to three classic D&D settings in 2022 and 2023.
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Brazilian TRPG designer calls attention to the relative invisibility of games from the Global South
“Here we are, writing games in a second language, swimming against the tide, in the hopes of reaching a larger audience and making ends meet.”
News
Clever Girl is an RPG about surviving the fallout of a failed dinosaur theme park
Licence-free games find a way.
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Zombicide publisher acquires RPG studio behind Broken Compass series
“Top-secret narrative-orientated projects” coming.
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D&D book Monsters of the Multiverse will miss its holiday launch due to shipping delays
The three-book gift set includes reprints of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything and Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything.
Video
We write the greatest Dungeons & Dragons musical you've never heard on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Critical one-hit-wonder.
News
Ticket to Ride gets a set of pink trains to benefit breast cancer research charity
On railways we wear pink.
Video
We made our own Taskmaster Tasks! Dicebreaker does Taskmaster
We've all wanted to have a go being in our favourite TV shows, right?
News
Anime Free and cult classic film Bring it On inspired this sports drama RPG
It’s time to Fight with Spirit.
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Catan, Pandemic and Ticket to Ride owner set to be sold for €2 billion
Following previous acquisition by investment company in 2018.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links adds ARC-V characters and Pendulum Summons to digital card game
Swing and a hit for fans of even more math in their matches.
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GAMA has expelled Jeff Bergren and TGG Games from attending Origins Game Fair 2021
Several recent controversies and “numerous instances” of the CEO’s history of harassment led to the organisation’s decision.
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Tales from the Loop publisher releasing remaster of industrial RPG Into the Odd
Back to the Bastion.
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Munchkin studio creates games collection that requires just a handful of d6s to play
Absolutely rolling in entertainment.
News
Critical Care simulates the stressors and collaboration of the hospital ICU in a board game
Treat ailing patients while dealing with midnight shifts and surprise infections with a practicing physician’s first title.
Feature
10 board games to look for at Essen Spiel 2021 - preview
The biggest board games at the biggest show.
News
Use tarot cards to unravel a mystery in narrative puzzle game The Light in the Mist
Major Arcana for major trouble.
News
Gloomhaven digital edition has a final release date, campaign mode included
After two years in early access.
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Paizo president Jeff Alvarez releases second statement following firing of customer service manager
“No employee will ever be fired for whistleblowing or advocating for employee safety and wellbeing, and we have never fired an employee for doing so.”
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Arkham Horror and Elder Sign co-creator behind The Stuff of Legend board game
Beware the Boogeyman.
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Blade Runner is getting a TRPG from the studio behind the Alien RPG and Tales From the Loop
Roleplaying replicants.
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Dominion’s 14th board game expansion, Allies, is all about making friends
No red weddings here.
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Ticket to Ride style board game, Let’s Make a Bus Route, is getting an English version
From the studio behind King of Tokyo.
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New Undaunted board game coming next year, with a fourth entry in the works
“It is the project that almost killed us.”
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon booster case sells for $584,000, setting a new record for the TCG
Sealed boxes of first-edition packs for 2002 US release potentially include some of the game's rarest cards.
News
Pokémon TCG teases a new cross-platform digital application and mobile support for next year
Cards from Pokémon TCG Online can be transferred over, spelling the end for the old app.
Video
Which board games do you house-rule? It's the Dicebreaker Podcast!
We talk our favourite mystery RPGs, the latest news from Gen Con and more.
News
Unmatched studio releases sci-fi themed card game Fate of Fantos: The Iridium Wars
Itching for that Iridium.