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Pandemic: Hot Zone - Europe gets a release date and free print-and-play you can try right now
Can be combined with North America spin-off using new Hemispheres rules.
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What should hobby newcomers play after gateway games? Professor Meg joins us on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Plus this week's must-know news, what we've been playing and your questions answered.
Interview
One More Multiverse co-founder on helping give tabletop RPGs a ‘good nudge into the mainstream’
Sara Alfageeh talks focusing on indies first, helping designers make a living and giving players customisability.
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Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider and Uncharted-inspired RPG Broken Compass returns to Kickstarter next week
With new adventures exploring the golden age of piracy and Jules Verne-style expeditions.
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Tabletop RPG Inspirisles will teach you sign language as you play
Players use ASL and BSL to cast spells in a Celtic-inspired world.
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Deep Sea Adventure studio Oink is bringing its delightful board games to Nintendo Switch
Nintend-to back the Kickstarter?
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Stardew Valley: The Board Game impressions, board game storage tips and our favourite legacy games - it’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
We talk Stardew Valley: The Board Game, MTG Arena, Gloomhaven Digital, Unmatched and more.
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Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone turns the tabletop RPG into a beginner-friendly miniatures game
First game built on [RE]action system.
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20 Questions-meets-Mastermind party game Master Word gets free two-player rules and family-friendly mode
Available to download now, with inclusion in future printings.
Deals
Catan is under £23 on Amazon UK, the lowest price it’s ever been
With the 25th Anniversary Edition cheaper than ever on Amazon US.
News
‘Incredibly rare’ Pokémon card signed by studio founder sells for almost $250,000
Ishihara GX sets a new record for most valuable Pokémon card from 2017.
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Sea of Thieves RPG’s first big expansion adds ghost ships, ashen lords, vaults and emissaries
A Tale of Two Captains out in digital now, with a print release in August.
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Do we need a Metacritic for board game reviews? We discuss on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast!
And choose our favourite meeple shapes.
Deals
Win a Commander deck and set boosters for Magic: The Gathering - Strixhaven
It’s Magic, you know.
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Social deduction classic Werewolf gets a live-action movie adaptation - of sorts - in upcoming horror-comedy Werewolves Within
Based on VR game reimagining of tabletop hidden role gem.
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Boy Problems creator Colin Cummings joins the Dicebreaker Podcast to chat beginner RPGs, cat-proofing board games and Carly Rae Jepsen
Alongside the success of Wingspan and the jankiness of Betrayal at House on the Hill.
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Empyreal: Spells & Steam is Ticket to Ride in a fantasy world, back on Kickstarter with a reprint and expansion
After selling out last year.
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Board Game Atlas wants to be a Metacritic for board games, review aggregator launching next month
Feature will include scores from “hand-selected” critics alongside existing user ratings.
Feature
Monster Hunter World: The Board Game shows the right way to adapt a video game for the tabletop
It stands heads, shoulders and horns above the disastrous Dark Souls.
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Exit: The Game designer teases Lord of the Rings entry in escape room board game series
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
Video
What are the best parts of bad board games? We discuss in the 50th Dicebreaker Podcast!
Along with our biggest Kickstarter disappointments.
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What’s the most underrated class in tabletop RPGs? The answer to this and more on the latest Dicebreaker Podcast
Plus, the birth of a must-have piece of cutlery.
News
Monster Hunter World: The Board Game gets a Kickstarter launch date and gameplay teaser trailer
Rathalos for words.
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Want to be part of Dicebreaker? We’re hiring a junior video producer!
Join Wheels, Lolies and the rest of the team to help spread the good word of tabletop.
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As d’Or winners 2021: Where’s Wally-meets-murder mystery puzzler MicroMacro: Crime City named Game of the Year
The Crew scoops prize for best ‘Expert’ board game.
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How can you defuse player conflict at the table? We discuss in this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast
Plus tips on roleplaying in familiar worlds and making the leap from board games to RPGs.
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A Skyrim board game is on the way from makers of the Elder Scrolls miniatures game
See that mountain of cardboard? You can climb it.
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Magic: The Gathering is reportedly getting a Warhammer 40,000 crossover and Lord of the Rings expansion
Alongside wider restructure of Hasbro to capitalise on success of D&D.
Video
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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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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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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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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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.
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.
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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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Free time during lockdown helped board game sales to jump in 2020 - report
Games and Puzzles market exceeded $11bn last year, with $12bn predicted in 2021, according to Euromonitor International.
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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar RPG Soulbound will let you play as the undead later this year
Reap what you roll.
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Tabletop games raised $236m on Kickstarter in 2020, another record-breaking year
Accounting for nearly a third of all money raised on the crowdfunding site.
Video
What would make a good Monopoly? We answer the impossible question on this week's Dicebreaker Podcast
Plus: the least foot-friendly gaming components to step on.
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Magic: The Gathering is getting a new comic book series later this year
First issue of Magic arriving in April.
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John Wick writer developing live-action Dungeons & Dragons TV series
Hasbro previously said it was considering "a couple of different approaches” to adapting RPG for small screen.
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Autographed Black Lotus looks set to become Magic: The Gathering’s most valuable card
Mint-condition 1993 Alpha card autographed by artist and designer Christopher Rush up for auction on eBay.
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Carly Rae Jepsen RPG Boy Problems is getting its own Side-B expansion
You roll and I'll say stop.
Deals
Keyforge’s Age of Ascension starter set is under £10 right now
Pick up the ‘unique deck game’ for better than half price.
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Terraforming Mars is getting a card game spin-off, Ares Expedition
Featuring new artwork and ‘faster gameplay’.
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Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast sued by Dragonlance authors
Upcoming trilogy cancelled following alleged breach of contract.
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7 Wonders Duel has sold 1 million copies, in half the time of the original
Two-player spin-off shifts impressive number in just five years.
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Primal: The Awakening is Kingdom Death meets Monster Hunter, coming to Kickstarter next week
‘Boss-battler’ board game can be played in legacy campaign or standalone scenarios.
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Fort designer’s next game is another inventive deckbuilder, Nine Ravens
Remake of 2017's Five Ravens.
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World of Darkness and D&D RPG writer and designer Jackie Cassada dies of COVID-19
Fundraising efforts launched to support collaborator and widow Nicky Rea.
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Mansions of Madness and Star Wars: Rebellion designer drops teaser for next board game The Initiative
Debut release from studio Unexpected Games delayed from 2020 release due to COVID-19.
Video
What are the best board games and RPGs of 2020? The team decides in a special GOTY Dicebreaker Podcast!
2020: good for games, bad for just about everything else.
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We cast the D&D movie, remix Scrabble and pour one out for Catan beer in the (almost) last Dicebreaker Podcast of 2020!
Having our Christmas cake and eating it.
News
World of Chaldea is a YouTube series based on Wizards of the Coast founder’s eighties D&D campaign
Includes animated videos and live-action short films.
News
Gen Con plans to return with a physical convention next summer
“A variety of factors need to come together for a physical convention to be feasible.”
Deals
Star Wars: The RPG’s 30th anniversary edition is almost half price right now
Includes core rulebook and sourcebook as you remember them from the eighties.
News
PAX Unplugged dated for December 2021
Tabletop convention set to return next year after cancellation due to coronavirus.
Video
Emma Partlow joins us to talk Magic: The Gathering, D&D and the best Trivial Pursuit replacements on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast
Plus Uri Geller’s 20-year Pokémon beef, overlooked board game themes and how to kill Hitler.
News
Catan: Starfarers’ first rebooted expansion is out today, adds more players and faster turns
Wood for electric sheep?
News
Catan: First Adventure is a free spin-off from the classic board game you can print and play at home
No need to pirate it.
Deals
Pick up Warhammer 40,000 RPGs Black Crusade and Only War with all their expansions for under £14
Includes core rulebooks and all supplements for Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay’s Chaos and Imperial Guard titles.
News
War of the Ring card game releasing in 2021 - first gameplay details revealed
Created with focus on multiplayer in mind.
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The Queen’s Gambit has caused a massive spike in chess sales
On top of a resurgence during lockdown.
News
Unmatched’s latest pop culture showdown pits Little Red Riding Hood against Beowulf
All the better to beat you with.
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The Crew 2, Uno on TV and the worst (and best) board game cash-ins: it’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
This week's board game news and tabletop talk, straight to your ears.
Deals
Alien: The RPG, Tales from the Loop and Mutant: Year Zero are half price for Black Friday
Core rulebooks, starter sets and supplements discounted as part of Free League Publishing’s sale.
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Dungeonbreaker merchandise is here! Plus, a sale!
Grab Dicebreaker merch for 30% off during Black Friday.
Deals
Catan is the cheapest it’s ever been on Amazon US for Black Friday
With a number of expansions and Game of Thrones spin-off also on sale.
News
Social RPG app Role is opening up early access and adding custom game support this week
Ahead of full launch next spring.
News
Pokémon card game booster box from 1999 sells for record-breaking £269,000
Sealed first-edition box breaks previous record by over $150,000.
Video
We create the Love Letter expanded universe and pick our real-life RPG classes on the latest Dicebreaker Podcast
Plus lots of roleplaying advice.
Deals
Cyberpunk Red’s starter set and Cyberpunk 2020 are just £6 in the latest RPG Humble Bundle
Along with a lot of sourcebooks for the seminal tabletop game.
Feature
Board games are expensive, so we tried to make our own for a tenner
It went about as well as you’d expect.
News
Battle royale board game Reload sounds like a tabletop Fortnite
Parachuting onto Kickstarter next January.
News
Video chat app Backyard comes with clones of Codenames, Cards Against Humanity and other board games
With games inspired by Secret Hitler, One Night Werewolf and Fish Bowl on the way.
Deals
Gloomhaven is currently the cheapest it’s ever been on Amazon US
Machi Koro, Kingdomino, Forbidden Island and the Exit series also on sale.