Archive (Page 42)
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Tears are shed for the cancelled Metal Gear Solid board game and Danny DeVito returns in the new episode of the Dicebreaker podcast
We also complain about more tabletop television adaptations.
Feature
Magic: The Gathering’s new Strixhaven set enrols in some higher learning and packs a satchel full of historic spells
Less Harry Potter than high school.
News
Latest Arkham Horror board game expansion, Secrets of the Order, is haunted by ghosts
Unlock the Underworld.
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On Mars’ semi-cooperative board game expansion renamed to Alien Invasion
Extra-terrestrial treachery.
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Gloomier: A Night at Hemlock Hall returns to the setting of the original card game
Will the next entry be the gloomiest?
Opinion
Public libraries are using D&D to forge friendships and build community
No Knowledge (Arcana) check required.
News
Subastral, a new card game from the designers of Stellar, is landing this summer
From the publishing studio behind Clank!
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Bridgerton star Rege-Jean Page waltzes into the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons film
Joining Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Justice Smith.
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Create and battle chimeras in the revamped version of dexterity game Beasts of Balance
Warthog + octopus + fire = ???
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Runaway trains and zombie-spawning corpse piles stalk the plains of Zombicide: Undead or Alive
Dessicated desert husks.
Feature
Indie RPGs show roleplaying can - and should - be far more than Dungeons & Dragons
The tabletop games and designers taking players from fantasy stories to real-world change.
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Great Western Trail board game blazes a path toward a second edition and new trilogy
Git along, little dogie.
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Summoner Wars Second Edition fantasy card game coming “soon”
First major entry in the series since 2014.
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Upcoming board game A Noble War orders you to save your kin at any cost
Blood is thicker than victory points.
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Thousand Year Old Vampire creator announces companion book and an autobiographical game
Called A Fantastic Longing for Adventure, or Young Tim Hutchings Tells You How to Live.
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The Door Locks Behind You is a roleplaying game inspired by The Legend of Zelda
A Link Between Worlds.
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Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game has been cancelled
Designer says they have been pursuing “a myriad of options to get the project going.”
Deals
Tabletop Simulator, Wingspan, Root and Pandemic are all discounted in the Steam Sale
Alongside Spirit Island, Sagrada and Cluedo.
Feature
Kaldheim is another excellent Magic: The Gathering set that’s caused more chaos for the card game as a whole
Trickery to untangle.
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Architects and Paladins of the West Kingdom are both getting new expansions
Viscounts is being left out.
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Someone spent £3,500 painstakingly - and authentically - recreating the millennia-old Game of Ur at home
Including making their own bitumen.
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We talk the new Root expansion, the return of The One Ring RPG and D&D film news in this week's Dicebreaker Podcast!
With apologies to CMON and Leonard Nimoy.
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Precious Little Animal's RPG critters help you foster mindfulness through once-a-day reflection
From Star Crossed creator.
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Cluedo, the classic board game, is plotting its own animated television series
Colonel Must-watch.
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Super Fantasy Brawl expansions add nine new characters to the arena-battle board game
Roll into the rumble.
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Pokémon TCG publisher promises improvements in wake of retail shortages and McDonald’s scalpers
No need to Grimace.
Opinion
Root’s show-don’t-tell storytelling makes its world feel alive
Eyrie-lly want to go back there.
News
Board Game Arena has been bought by Catan, Pandemic and Ticket to Ride maker Asmodee
Following the website's boom in popularity last year.
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Parks publisher’s next release is a redesign of two-player heist game Caper: Europe
Steal some time away.
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Upcoming Pathfinder 2E supplement to add assistive items, including a battle wheelchair you can use as a weapon
“If that’s what the character needs for their everyday adventuring life, they’ll have that.”
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Magic: The Gathering announces Valentine-themed Secret Lair drops and an upcoming ban
Heartbreak for Uro-mantics.
Review
Cyberpunk Red RPG review - timeless fashion, thrills and attitude make up for slightly dated gameplay
Scorn in the Eighties.
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Classic board games White Bear & Red Moon and Nomad Gods are getting their first new editions in decades
Set in Glorantha setting of RPG RuneQuest.
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Pokémon TCG World Championships delayed until 2022 in response to COVID-19
After being cancelled for the second year running.
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The One Ring 2E journeys closer to release with a Kickstarter campaign later this week
Arriving precisely when it means to.
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Magic: The Gathering and Monopoly had their “biggest year ever” in 2020, Hasbro says
Dungeons & Dragons retained its growing popularity, as well.
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D&D's answer to American Idol changed the RPG - and its winner's life - forever
You could say it was open to ‘Ebberyone’.
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Clank! studio announces second edition of its sci-fi action board game Gravwell
Race through space.
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Pokémon-themed mod for Wingspan replaces birds with Gengar, Slowpoke and Moltres
Wait, that last one is still a bird.
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Horror RPG Call of Cthulhu is bigger than D&D in Japan
More Japanese-language copies sold than all other languages combined.
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Dungeons & Dragons film summons Fast & Furious star Michelle Rodriguez and Detective Pikachu’s Justice Smith
Joining confirmed lead Chris Pine.
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Gaston flexes his way into Disney Villainous' standalone expansion Despicable Plots
No one graces a box likes Gaston.
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Apothecaria mixes Theme Hospital and Stardew Valley for a potent solo journalling RPG
Hair of the werewolf.
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Let’s Role is a free online platform for playing RPGs that’s launching this autumn
Includes microtransactions for cosmetics.
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The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls reincarnates on Kickstarter with Requiem expansion
Big box of horrors.
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The Grizzled spin-off We Care sees players treating patients on the frontlines of a medical crisis
Donations made to Doctors Without Borders for every copy sold.
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Netflix’s The Dragon Prince adapted as tabletop RPG Tales of Xadia
Public playtest materials available now.
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How do you play D&D over Zoom? We give our tips on this week's Dicebreaker Podcast
And the birth of a Franken-game.
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Catan VR invites Oculus Quest and Quest 2 owners to trade digital wood
Electric sheep are no longer a dream.
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Keyforge and Star Wars Miniatures World Championships delayed until 2022
Organised play set to potentially return later this year.
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Magic: The Gathering’s next Secret Lair features alternate art by Black artists
Proceeds benefit Black Girls Code.
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Pandemic studio announces Cryo, a board game that puts its players on thin ice
A tundra of trouble.
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Trace a magical diagram using ice skates and a dry erase marker in tabletop RPG Summon Skate
Triple axel a demon in the face.
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Indie video game Extreme Meatpunks Forever builds a tabletop RPG out of guts and gumption
Quickstart rules already available.
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Quest publisher plans to support new RPG writers with The Adventure Award
Grant recipients will create short quests for the fantasy game.
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YouTuber Logan Paul will auction first-edition Pokémon card boosters live on stream
A different kind of boxing.
Deals
Grab over a dozen Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar books for £13 in Black Library bundle
Including the first five entries in the Horus Heresy series and two of the Primarchs novels.
News
Here’s our first look at the gameplay of Arkham Horror video game Mother’s Embrace
If I were eldritch man.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra are being adapted into a tabletop RPG
Roll to smash cabbage cart.
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Hibernation Games bundle delivers five journalling RPGs to help weather the cold
Fun for all ice ages.
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CoraQuest is a dungeon-crawling board game that began life as a homework project
Add treasure and subtract monsters.
News
Sink your teeth into What We Do in the Shadows-inspired RPG Low Stakes
Do your dark bidding on the internet.
Opinion
How logging your board game plays can curate your collection - and save you money
Stats the way I like it.
News
Upwind is a roleplaying game inspired by Studio Ghibli and Treasure Planet
Co-created by writers behind D&D 5E and World of Darkness.
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Zinequest 3 delivers a month of indie RPG projects to support on Kickstarter throughout February
Helm a rusted spaceship, fall out of time or solve inter-generational conflict.
Deals
Dragon Age tabletop RPG features in fantasy-themed Bundle of Holding deal
Not a blight on your budget.
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Deep Sea Adventure studio Oink Games debuts on Kickstarter with two new titles and a revisited classic
Time to open the piggy.
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Draw tarot cards to decide your fate in the Silver Anniversary Edition of RPG Everway
A fortunate outcome.
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New edition of World’s Fair 1893 makes space for BIPOC exhibitors and attendees
Eat cotton candy on a ferris wheel as Susan B. Anthony.
Review
Dune: Imperium board game review - a hearty stew of deckbuilding and worker-placement that’s light on spice
He who controls ten victory points, controls the universe.
News
Defend a city in Champions of Midgard creator’s next game, Meeples & Monsters
Rowan in the right direction.
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Cyberpunk Red releases free Cyberchair DLC in collaboration with D&D combat wheelchair designer
Night City’s hottest new ride.
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Tabletop Simulator’s language support update frustrates players by using machine translation
Press Z to bread.