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D&D Beyond will stop selling two Dungeons & Dragons books ahead of Monsters of the Multiverse’s release
A disappointing reminder that digital licences do not equal ownership
Chase Carter (Page 9)
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Magic: The Gathering hands down the first two Explorer bans, and it’s exactly the two you’re imagining
Winota’s second no-go, and strike three for Tibalt’s Trickery.
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MTG’s Starter Decks provide beginners a snapshot of the past year in cardboard, warts and all
Vampires and werewolves and… cyberninjas, oh my?
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RPGs for Reproductive Justice Bundle collects nearly 60 tabletop games to fundraise abortion access
All proceeds of the bundle will benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds
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Robert Pattinson’s emo Bat headlines Batman Miniature Game’s new two-player starter box
Vengeance for two, please.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel updates the digital TCG’s Forbidden and Limited list, teases Fusion Festival
Have fun exploring the Shadow Realm, conquistador.
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PBS science staple NOVA inspired this board game designed (in part) by an astronaut
Alexa devices can play the parts of mission control and announcer
Deals
Snag Concordia, Charterstone and other digital board games during Acram’s spring sale
Trading, trains and trying to find a word for cute mountainside villages
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Primal Quest travels back to the Stone Age for an RPG full of dinosaurs, magic and myths
D&D, but both letters stand for dinos.
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MTG’s Pride Secret Lair is region-locked throughout LATAM, and players want to know why
Webpage of Denial.
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We Deal in Lead is a Cairn-based RPG take on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
Aim with your eye; roll with your mind.
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Children of Uma puts RPG players in the driver’s seat of the post-apocalypse
We’re not in Kansas any– what? We *are* in Kansas?
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New card-based RPG from Fiasco creator tells folk horror stories about dying badly
The Quiet Year and For the Queen meets “a dark and unmerciful heart”.
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Use gifts, force or guile to control the throne in board game Catherine: The Cities of Tsarina
Russian to victory.
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MTG’s Pride Month Secret Lair celebrates LGBTQIA2S+ players and characters
Half of each sale will be donated to The Trevor Project.
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Pokémon GO-themed TCG expansion’s card art will portray the critters in the real world
From concrete to cardboard.
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Runescape board game Shadow of Elvarg announces date for Kickstarter campaign
Dust off those old partyhats.
Best Games
Take a break from Twitter and send letters to friends with these epistolary RPGs
Give your thumbs a break and patron your local postal service.
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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Employees at MTG retailer Card Kingdom unionise for better pay and company transparency
"Management openly admits that our current system is broken, and yet there are no offers for solutions."
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Sleeping Gods’ sequel board game Distant Skies will build on the success of the original
Gamefound crowdfunding campaign has already surpassed $1,000,000
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Magic Arena’s new Explorer format will eventually evolve into Pioneer
Hear that? It’s the sound of pitchforks and torches being lowered.
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DIE the RPG announces return to Kickstarter for comic’s tabletop adaptation
DIE-ing from anticipation.
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Passover RPG Ma Nishtana lets players tell a collaborative Exodus ritual
“This is a story for all of us: Jews, non-Jews, and the Jew-’ish’ alike.”
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Dungeons & Dragons may see future crossovers with other brands through D&D Beyond
The “E” in 5E stands for everything.
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Magic: The Gathering increases booster prices, points blame at rising industry costs
All three boosters, plus Commander decks, will increase in price by "around 11%" by September.
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Old Gods of Appalachia RPG contends with dark powers in the mountain region’s alternate past
Gather ‘round for a story, family.
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Lost Ruins of Arnak and Cascadia clinch wins at 2022 American Tabletop Awards
Dicebreaker editorial revolts over Oath snubbing.
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Blades in the Dark publisher crowdfunds Improv for Gamers 2E on Gamefound
Learn to "yes, and" your dungeon delving.
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Grannies versus cosmic horror RPG Brindlewood Bay crowdfunds two physical books
Cthulhu fht–agh! My back!
Opinion
Magic: The Gathering Arena is great for Wizards of the Coast, bad for players
Counting cards, counting dollars.
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Fall of Magic publisher teases Bad Baby Lich Lords, a competitive card game about futzing with necromancy
Don’t wake bone daddy.
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Cyanide & Happiness left Kickstarter for Gamefound, but don’t call it a breakup
"It's amazing competitors are finally emerging because Kickstarter is not perfect."
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Bleak and lonely tabletop RPG Death in Space now available through Free League Workshop
Hard work in the hard vacuum.
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Magic: The Gathering just returned Pro Tour from the graveyard
The Pioneer format will be highlighted at the first regional championship round.
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The Dragon Prince’s new TRPG Tales of Xadia bridges the animated show’s third and fourth season
Roleplay on the Wyrm-Wide Web.
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Cortex Prime’s second pass at a community licence directly addresses public criticism
The new document explicitly states who does - and does not - own fan-created content.
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MTG previews first cards for D&D-themed set Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Dungeon, part deux.
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Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan steps down after three years
Chief Operating Officer Sean Leow has been named interim CEO.
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Magic: The Gathering is testing booster pack recycling in some US game stores
A new bin in town.
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Magic: The Gathering Arena addresses economy complaints with $50 wildcard bundle
The short, and constant, answer was technology.
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Tales From the Loop, Alien RPG publisher will donate half of all web sales as Ukrainian relief aid
Digital do-goodery.
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Commander decks for MTG Streets of New Capenna will be in short supply at launch
All five crime family-themed decks have suffered setbacks “due to supply chain issues.”
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Games Workshop ends sales of Warhammer 40k and Age of Sigmar to Russia
“We are terribly saddened by the horrific events taking place in Ukraine.”
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Kickstarter opens applications for paid positions on a community advisory council
Members will help the crowdfunding company make decisions regarding blockchain tech, among other user-focused issues.
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Revenge TRPG The Slow Knife is Count of Monte Cristo with a red-string conspiracy board
Prepare those villainous monologues.
Interview
Disney Villainous, Horrified and Jaws studio Prospero Hall talks legacy games and creative freedom at Funko
“The Jurassic World board game is a really great representation of how far we can chase our dreams.”
Feature
Jurassic World board game The Legacy of Isla Nublar is more than prehistoric gimmicks - hands-on preview
Prospero Hall’s dino-centric legacy game doesn’t make players dig deep to find fun.
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Sleepaway, Ultraviolet Grasslands and Bloodstone among tabletop games in $5 bundle providing aid to Ukraine
The bundle of 100+ tabletop game will be available to purchase through March 17th.
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Crime syndicates and skyscrapers dominate first peek at upcoming MTG set Streets of New Capenna
Family comes in three colours.
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Creators bundle nearly 500 tabletop RPGs for $5 to support trans rights in Texas
The Itch.io hosted bundle has already raised over double its initial goal for two Texas organisations.
Interview
Keepsake game designer Jeeyon Shim branches out with chess-based RPG The Snow Queen
The award-winning artist has left Kickstarter behind to build a two-player tragedy focusing on community.
Best Games
3 tabletop RPGs to play after catching ‘em all in Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Guaranteed to be aggro Paras-free.
News
Betrayal at House on the Hill teases upcoming third edition in brief video
Third haunts the charm.
Interview
Swedish kid melange: how Martin Takaichi designed Tales from the Loop’s board game from his own childhood
Deep in the Swedes.
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Tales of Xadia announces a release date for The Dragon Prince’s official roleplaying game
Primed for flight.
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Campy RPG Himbos of Myth & Mettle stars heroes with more brawn than brains
Golden-hearted goobers.
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New two-player version of trading board game Sobek boasts team-up of famous designers
Creators of 7 Wonders Duel and Jaipur have put their crocodile heads together.
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Kickstarter won’t allow NFTs on its blockchain protocol but asks creators and backers to help build it
The crowdfunding platform will establish an advisory council to keep the project focused and free of crypto pitfalls.
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Chaosium scraps future NFT drops for Call of Cthulhu after fan backlash
“We want to make sure you are comfortable with the way we do business.”
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9 Zine Month RPGs that let you explore sunken submarines, wait for the train and be a hungry seagull
This second batch of RPG zines will send you to the furthest depths of the ocean or just into your backyard.
Video
We pick our favourite Valentine's Day board games for two - or one - in the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Plus Cthulhu crossovers, NFTs in tabletop and everything we've been playing.
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After dropping Call of Cthulhu NFTs last summer, Chaosium is planning for more
The publisher of Pendragon and Runequest RPGs believes environmentally sustainable NFTs are possible.
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Magic: The Gathering admits Arena needs a “true-to-tabletop” format
Players amused and frustrated by Wizards’ inability to type the word ‘pioneer’.
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Frostgrave publisher announces three new TRPGs, including one set da Vinci’s clockpunk Italy
Who doesn’t want to paraglide over the Vatican?
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“Doubling down on collectibility” of MTG helped Hasbro bank over $1 billion revenue in 2021
Magic: The Gathering’s biggest year to date likely means intensification rather than change.
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City of Mist designers announce new tabletop RPG set in dystopian future Japan
Son of Oak’s COM:Reloaded system updates City of Mist’s rules, adapting them to a cyberpunk setting.
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Mobile users can now join 10 million other Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel players
Duels in the decamillions.
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DriveThruRPG is the latest in a growing number of digital storefronts to denounce NFTs
No NFTs in DTRPG.
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Summer Pokémon TCG expansion will feature designs from Pokémon Go mobile game
The other digital monsters.
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The One Ring RPG announces a release date for anticipated second edition
Forget Isengard, they’re taking the Hobbits to retail.
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.
Best Games
9 Zine Month RPGs you should check out (and where to crowdfund them)
Stapled and saddle-stitched gems.
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Legend Has It uses a deck of cards to transform a bookshelf into a myth-making engine
Rank and bibliophile.
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.