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Legend Has It uses a deck of cards to transform a bookshelf into a myth-making engine
Rank and bibliophile.
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Deals
Grab a bundle of Blades in the Dark-inspired indie RPG during Con in the Dark
The weekend-long deal contains 30 games for $50 to help support the convention organisers
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Heart and Honey Heist designer teases Mörk Borg RPG full of robots and beefy orcs.
The apocalypse will be green and punchy.
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Magic: the Gathering’s latest standard bans puts time shenanigans in time out
One turn per turn, Wizards says.
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Thunder Road: Vendetta returns to Kickstarter with a full tank of crowdfunding gas
Putting the car in carnage.
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Moxle gathers a little Magic for its card game spin on Wordle
Counterspell? No, count *and* spell.
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Hexcrawl across sand and sea with a pair of bookless RPG settings geared towards exploration
It’s in the bag, literally.
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Wanderhome studio’s next game dumps Kickstarter to crowdfund on Indiegogo
“We’re hoping to forge a new path forward for TTRPG creators so they aren’t depending on a union-busting anti-creator corporation.”
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Green Ronin’s new RPG Cthulhu Awakens will attempt to transcend cosmic horror’s baked-in bigotry
Mythos minus the mess.
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Pandemic's digital board game removed due to old age and declining performance
“The time has come to make way for the digital future of Pandemic.”
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Blaseball, the internet’s favourite gonzo sport, announces a competitive card game
Old gods, peanut storms, rogue umpires and ghost players are presumed included.
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The Wizards and the Wastes’ second edition opens an endless sea of magic - at a cost
Top-shelf thaumaturgy.
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Tabletop Simulator permanently shuts down global chat, donates $10,000 to trans activism non-profit
“We are reforming our moderation policies to ensure that everyone has an inclusive place to enjoy our great hobby.”
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Pandemic’s digital version removed from all stores but publisher won’t say why
“This decision was made with a heavy heart for a multitude of reasons that we cannot disclose.”
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Jack into a dirty and demonic alternate reality in upcoming RPG Cybermetal 2012
Hard wires, heavy metal.
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Tales from the Loop board game brings cooperative sci-fi investigation to retail in February
Don’t Stålenhag all the fun.
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Single-player RPG bundle Solo but Not Alone once again fundraising for suicide prevention
The bundle contains over 100 games and will donate proceeds to Jasper’s Game Day.
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Kickstarter moves annual ZineQuest initiative to August, but indie designers have different plans
ZineQuest is dead; long live ZineQuest.
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Tabletop Simulator removes global chat amid allegations of transphobic, homophobic moderation
One user alleges she was banned multiple times for simply mentioning her gender and sexual identity.
Opinion
Games of the Year 2021: Chase on the charming and challenging Viscounts of the West Kingdom
Viscount me in.
Opinion
For better and worse, Borderlands board game Arena of Badassery wears its setting like an ill-fitting shirt
Tense miniature gameplay feels at odds with half-baked thematic trappings.
News
"A slap in the face": Tabletop creators wrestle with the cost of departing Kickstarter in wake of crowdfunding site’s crypto plans
Planned move to blockchain in 2022 leaves designers and publishers desperately seeking viable alternatives to the industry’s dominant crowdfunding platform.
Interview
‘What pain do we want to experience?’: Fandom Tabletop address community license backlash
Bart Vickers reflects on what went wrong and how the second iteration aims for clearer communication and more transparency.
Interview
Return to Dark Tower studio owner discusses unions, expensive towers and the Heroquest that got away
Restoration Games' Justin Jacobson reflects on six years of pumping new life into old titles.
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Skull Canyon: Ski Fest board game sends players collecting sets and shredding fresh pow
Ride that frigid radgnar.
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Borderlands miniatures game Arena of Badassery brings the series’ humour to tabletop
Mr. Torque and Monster Fight Club raised over $1,000,000 in the first week of crowdfunding.
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Asmodee invests in Exploding Kittens to “more closely collaborate on game design”
Throw Throw Bags of Money.
Interview
The original Orb Ponderer talks sourcing memes from an old Lord of the Rings RPG
Having a crystal ball.
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MTG Arena's digital-only Alchemy format brews up balances and frustration
The addition of a third major Arena format might introduce more issues than it addresses.
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Cortex Prime's new community license sparks criticism among players and RPG designers
The team behind the genre-agnostic RPG plans to address community complaints in a future version of the agreement.
News
This one-of-a-kind chaise lounge is designed for board games and costs £3,000
For those who love relaxing but hate their savings accounts.
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Magic: The Gathering trades silver borders for acorns in next year’s Unfinity gonzo set
Nuts to border treatments.
Deals
Nab Ironsworn Delve, Electric Bastionland and more in Bundle of Holding’s ninth annual Indie Cornucopia
Small press, big bundle.
News
Define the shape and secrets of a generation in For The Queen-inspired RPG For Our Family
The loving, burdensome ties that bind.
News
Nearly eight tons of counterfeit Pokémon cards seized in a Shanghai airport
Chinese news claims it is “one of the biggest fake goods hauls in recent years”.
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Pathfinder board game Arena trades cooperative roleplay for gladiator bloodsport
Tile-based trouble.
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Sci-fi horror tabletop RPG Mothership surpasses $1m on first-edition, boxed set Kickstarter
From indie darling to fourth-most successful tabletop RPG on the platform
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Games Workshop’s new Lord of the Rings board game revisits a desperate battle in the Mines of Moria
This isn't a mine - it's a board game.
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Games Workshop condemns hate groups after Nazi imagery appears at Spanish Warhammer 40,000 tournament
“We will never accept nor condone any form of prejudice, hatred, or abuse in our company, or in the Warhammer hobby.”
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Mafia board game Wise Guys marks the first non-licensed title from Gale Force Nine
Cardboard Capone.
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Magic: The Gathering’s next Secret Lair features characters from League of Legends’ streaming series
In League with legends.
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MTG Crimson Vow’s Arena launch devoured drafts and locked players in match purgatory
Out for blood… or at least premium currency.
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A Thousand Thousand Islands team is creating a RPG campaign book about a roach deity
Reach of the Roach God’s many-legged book was funded on Kickstarter within the first half hour.
News
Five Latin American RPG designers make their mark in LATAM Breakout collection
The five-title bundle wants to prove there’s more to tabletop games than the Global North.
Feature
United Paizo Workers: How the Pathfinder creators organised, and what’s next for tabletop RPGs’ first union
Paizo employees have their recognition, but the hardest fights might still be on the horizon.
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Aabria Iyengar achieves an RPG actual play hat trick by leading The Adventure Zone’s new mini-arc
Zone of Adventure: Imbalance sees the return of the McElroys’ initial cast of characters.
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Pokémon TCG Live delayed until 2022 “to provide Trainers with a more polished experience”
Pokémon TCG Live used Delay. It's skipping its turn!
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Dungeon Bowl’s American football-meets-dungeon crawler returns with a modernised edition
Friday Night Fights.
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Magic: The Gathering Innistrad: Crimson Vow card reveal - Wolfkin Outcast // Wedding Crasher
No shoes, no shirt, no invitation? No problem.
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Exclusive first look at Dracula character Quincey Harker in Magic: The Gathering - Innistrad: Crimson Vow
Alone with my dead friends.
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Museum designers new board game sends players across the globe to research beasts and birds
Darwin some, Dar-lose some.
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Paladins designers announce South Tigris trilogy of board games set in Golden Age Baghdad
Cardinal cardboard.
Video
We turn Where's Wally? into horror, explore Lost Ruins of Arnak and discuss the return of Risk Legacy on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Unleashing the greatest terror this Halloween: the Yahtzee chad.
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Innistrad: Crimson Vow prepares Magic players for a bloody wedding with new mechanics and Dracula variants
You can’t spell “great party” without aorta.
News
Fight bears and steal ancient culture alongside Lara Croft in official Tomb Raider RPG
Spelunking and firearms are fundamental research skill, promise.
Opinion
Games Omnivorous’ adventure books show evocative art thrives under weird constraints
The minimalist RPG publisher sets ten rules for its adventure books with fascinating results.
News
A trio of witches save the world one person at a time in tender healing RPG The Mending Circle
Thaumaturgical therapy.
News
Skyraiders of Abarax lets GMs share secrets and show a changing world via app-assisted Living Tome
Dragonlance author Tracy Hickman’s new tabletop RPG spices its play with technological power.
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Exquisite Crime is equal parts paranormal whodunnit RPG and goofy group doodling
The latest title from Banana Chan and Sen-Foong Lim comes from the publisher of Alice is Missing.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! returns to in-person Championship Series, says pandemic safety guidelines coming “at a later date”
It’s time to d-d-d-d-d-mask up.
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A Fullmetal Alchemist board game based on Brotherhood anime hits Japan in March 2022
Square Enix will release The Promised Day as part of the popular anime’s 20th anniversary celebration.
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DIE RPG designers delay Kickstarter until 2022 to avoid shipping and material shortages
DIE another day.
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Pathfinder company executives have voluntarily recognised United Paizo Union after only eight days
The worker victory skips a lengthy and often nasty voting period, skipping straight to contract negotiation.
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Exit: The Game released a graphic novel at Spiel ‘21, but only in German for now
A crease, fold and cut above the standard graphic novel.
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Relive the holiday hijinks and harm of Home Alone in competitive board game Keep the Change
Play as either Kevin or the unfortunate Wet Bandits invading his house for yuletide loot.
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Essen Spiel 2022 announces early October dates but no safety restrictions, yet
Next year’s tabletop convention will run October 6th through the 9th, but no word on continuing safety restrictions.
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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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Slayers expands its monster-infested city with a new setting book for the asymmetric RPG
Rock the monstrous blocks
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
News
Watch a community blossom into a fully fledged town in competitive board game Hamlet
It takes a village... of meeples.
News
Gastronomic detective comic Chew plates up a Forged in the Dark-style RPG adaptation
Grab your dice and a fork.
News
Jamaica announces a new edition of the family board game, but the art remains disappointingly whitewashed
Yo ho, and a crumb of representation.
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.
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Mothership to bring its Alien-esque, sci-fi horror RPG to a boxed set
Zero gravity, zero chance of survival.
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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.
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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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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.”
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Nigerian board game company Nibcard has won the Diana Jones 2021 award
The committee says it chose Nibcard for its efforts to steward a growing tabletop movement in West Africa.
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Gen Con’s day-one crowd left attendees and online onlookers worried despite safety guidelines
The board game and TTRPG convention proved unable to enforce vaccination cards, relying on masks and best safety practices.