Roleplaying Game Archive
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Best new board games in November 2021: latest tabletop release dates
New releases are falling off the shelves.
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Be a bat out of hell in this ‘80s hair metal inspired roleplaying game
Biking with Beelzebub.
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The Borrowers and D&D collide in The Gatherers, an RPG that happens in your house
Small adventures in a big world.
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Best Dungeons & Dragons Black Friday 2021 deals
Roll perception to find great D&D bargains.
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And explains how classes work in the Magic: The Gathering inspired book.
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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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Which celebs would make perfect Pokémon cards? We chat 'em all on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
We play the Skyrim board game, Cuphead dice game, sharpen our knowledge for the Trivial Pursuit TV show and look ahead to the return of Atmosfear.
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Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit is currently the cheapest it’s been all year
Content for coppers.
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Explore 7th century Scotland in Pictish RPG Carved in Stone
Heroes in the Highlands.
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Five games by five designers that capture the real Global South, in their own words.
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Vampire: The Masquerade joins D&D 5E and Pathfinder 2E in getting an online RPG platform
Alongside Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Hunter: The Reckoning.
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Don’t forget your Beyblade briefcase.
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D&D 5E players are ignoring one of its central gameplay ideas - and that’s a good thing
The RPG’s growing popularity as a storytelling format has led to a shift away from endless fights.
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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.
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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.
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As Critical Role has grown, my love for the show has died
This actual play is not actually for me.
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Paizo employees have their recognition, but the hardest fights might still be on the horizon.
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Advanced Lovers & Lesbians first expansion for Thirsty Sword Lesbians RPG
Featuring new settings, like Greasy Dock Goblins.
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Blades in the Dark unofficial hack adds Beyblades into the RPG
Beyblades in the dark.
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Red Giant is a brutal but beginner-friendly RPG inspired by Castlevania and Berserk
From creator of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Persona-inspired RPG Over Arms.
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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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The next GM-less storytelling game from Wanderhome and Wickedness creators.
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Quest-powered RPG Salvage Union allows players to pilot mechs with ease
Runs like a well-oiled machine.
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Star Wars Roleplaying reprints and new supplements on the way from Edge of the Empire lead developer
UPDATE: Edge Studio dismisses original indication it is working on brand new Star Wars RPGs.
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7 scariest monsters in Dungeons & Dragons 5E
Frighten your players with these fearsome foes.
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Playing only trans characters in tabletop RPGs helped me understand myself
Cisgender people tend to exclusively play cis characters in games such as D&D, so what’s wrong with me only playing transgender characters?
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Unleashing the greatest terror this Halloween: the Yahtzee chad.
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Fight bears and steal ancient culture alongside Lara Croft in official Tomb Raider RPG
Spelunking and firearms are fundamental research skill, promise.
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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.
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A trio of witches save the world one person at a time in tender healing RPG The Mending Circle
Thaumaturgical therapy.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Moana inspired this tabletop RPG
Attack of the titans.
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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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Pathfinder Nexus, the rival RPG’s equivalent to D&D Beyond, is coming next year
digital dungeon-delving.
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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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Horror board games could be amazing if they took more risks
living and playing dangerously.
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Feature: Experimental lyric RPGs are pushing the poetic power of roleplaying forward
By destroying the boundary between players and characters, lyric games innovate new ways to play - or, sometimes, not play at all.
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Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder designers team-up on RPG book for D&D 5E
Be a mischief-maker with the planebreaker.
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Heavy metal RPG Mörk Borg gets industrial cyberpunk spin-off Cy_Borg
A different kind of borg.
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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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Get started with Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay by grabbing the RPG’s latest starter set for under £1
Net dozens of adventures, sourcebooks and the 4E core rulebook for a bargain.
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Dragon Age and Baldur’s Gate writer behind Norse-inspired D&D 5E RPG book
Grimnir and bear it.
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“Haters gonna hate and we accept that.”
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Players will be able to take control of the Bebop crew or create their own interplanetary bounty hunters.
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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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“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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How to run a Dungeons & Dragons 5E horror campaign for Halloween
From choosing a sourcebook to picking enemies.
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Anime-inspired RPG from design team Fumble GDR draws from shonen, mecha and school drama - plus Arthurian fantasy.
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Looking ahead to Root creator’s Arcs: Collapse and Conflict in the Void and back on Mysterium, Insider, Monikers and more.
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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.
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DriveThru’s Small Press Spotlight offers discount on Masks, Brancalonia and more tabletop RPGs
Discounted dungeons until October 13th.
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Includes games inspired by Scooby Doo, House of Leaves and the nightmare of the NHS waitlist.
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Hook up with ghosts and ghouls in horror romance RPG Motel Spooky-Nine
Dalliances with demons.
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Greek legend RPG Follow Me Down looks ideal for Hades fans
Playing for pomegranates.
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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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Princess Mononoke and The Hobbit inspired this queer fantasy RPG
Go down with your ship.
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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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Gastronomic detective comic Chew plates up a Forged in the Dark-style RPG adaptation
Grab your dice and a fork.
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Following 2020 cancellation due to COVID-19.
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“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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Turn books into poetry, rob the British Museum and steam hams for charity.
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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.
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The tabletop team-up have planned more than a simple almanac for Gillen and Han’s twisted polyhedral world.
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Steam’s Digital Tabletop Fest returns to celebrate RPGs later this month
And Dicebreaker’s part of it!
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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).
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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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Why the Blade Runner RPG will stand apart from the cyberpunk crowd
It might not last - but then again, what does?
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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.
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Zombie RPG Survival of the Able is about being disabled in an undead apocalypse
From the founder of Accessible Games.
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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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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.”
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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.
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We write the greatest Dungeons & Dragons musical you've never heard on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Critical one-hit-wonder.
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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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Tales from the Loop publisher releasing remaster of industrial RPG Into the Odd
Back to the Bastion.
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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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Blade Runner is getting a TRPG from the studio behind the Alien RPG and Tales From the Loop
Roleplaying replicants.
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Dungeon & Dragons campaign Wild Beyond the Witchlight discounted on Roll20
Feywilds for less.
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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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Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp featured in official D&D musical event
Are they all bards?
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ENnie Awards 2021 winners: Alice is Missing and Heart: The City Beneath named best RPGs of the year
Free League continues last year’s success with Vaesen, Alien: The RPG and Mörk Borg.