Roleplaying Game Archive

What’s happening with Dicebreaker?

Things are changing, but staying (mostly) the same.

Feature: The authors of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre were roleplaying long before Dungeons & Dragons

My one dream, my only dungeon master.

Dungeons & Dragons 5E fighter class explained

Give yourself a fighting chance in D&D with our guide to what the fighter class can do, how you can create one and develop it further.

Tales from the Loop studio becomes new publisher for Lord of the Rings RPGs The One Ring and Adventures in Middle-earth

Free League announces new editions of both Middle-earth tabletop RPGs.

Call of Cthulhu studio halts work on upcoming sci-fi RPG, Harlem Unbound creator takes full control

Afro-Judeo setting Kadimah in development for 18 months.

Feature: Dungeons & Dragons 5E: Eberron - Rising From the Last War lead designer takes us on a magic-powered airship ride through divided lands and the remnants of war

Full steam ahead.

D&D series Critical Role is getting its own board games, starting with Munchkin

Mighty Fine.

Feature: From Star Wars to Stranger Things, tabletop RPGs are letting fans explore and expand the pop culture worlds they love

Fan power.

Here’s an exclusive first look at character creation, abilities, Lifepaths and the new Medtech role in the Cyberpunk Red tabletop RPG

Over the edge.

10 best Dungeons & Dragons 5E subclasses you should play in your next campaign

Follow the Path of the Totem Warrior, become an Arcane Trickster and make a pact with The Fiend.

The upcoming Dune RPG gets a name and first gameplay details

The spice of life.

Dungeons & Dragons 5E key terms explained

Learning the lingo.

Fend off zombies as young Scouts in Kids on Bikes-powered tabletop RPG Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse

A breath of flesh air.

Saving Throw: How Dungeons & Dragons helped me combat my social anxiety

Helping handbook.

Stranger Things-ish sci-fi tabletop RPG Tales from the Loop has a new starter set on the way

Strange days.

Exclusive: Cyberpunk Red tabletop RPG core rulebook cover art revealed

Tickled punk.

Dungeons & Dragons 5E rogue class explained

Rogues mean shifty business.

New Dungeons & Dragons campaign book, Mythic Odysseys of Theros, draws from Magic: The Gathering

Centaur of attention.

Watch the Dungeonbreaker party try to escape the arena in episode three of our Dungeons & Dragons 5E actual play series

Prisonbreaker.

Here’s the first trailer for Amazon’s Tales from the Loop series, set in the world of the sci-fi tabletop RPG

Out of the Loop.

Feature: ‘Making Cyberpunk Red almost killed us’: Mike Pondsmith on the return of the tabletop RPG, catching up with 2020’s future and Cyberpunk 2077

From predicting the internet to breaking it.

The next Legend of the Five Rings RPG adventure heads to the Japanese underworld

The one and oni.

Act out a wild telenovela in upcoming tabletop RPG Pasión de las Pasiones

Love, betrayal and jaguars.

Watch the Dungeonbreaker crew attempt a dinosaur heist in episode two of our Dungeons & Dragons 5E actual play series

Dinos, dangers and disguises.

Matt Mercer's Blood Hunter class gets unofficial Dungeons & Dragons 5E one-shot adventure

Vein glorious.

Feature: Mutant Year Zero: How the end of the world created one of the tabletop’s brightest companies

A Ligan of their own.

Feature: Cyberpunk Red lore guide: the world of the tabletop RPG from 2013 to 2077

Welcome to life on the edge.

Why tabletop roleplaying is best when it’s all in your mind

Mind yourself.

Feature: 10 easily forgotten Dungeons & Dragons 5E rules you’re getting wrong - and why you should be using them

Mind Strayer.

Cyberpunk Red RPG rulebook gets a tentative new release date

After being delayed last year.

Introducing Dungeonbreaker, Dicebreaker’s new Dungeons & Dragons 5E actual play series

Featuring dinosaur racing, swamp goblins and one very rich half-elf.

“I won’t rest until Instagram influencers are posing with the game book”: Quest creator TC Sottek on making the world’s friendliest RPG

How podcasts, social media and Adobe InDesign inspired one of the freshest roleplaying games in years.

Feature: The Dungeons & Dragons diet: how to eat like an RPG adventurer

Roll on the side?

10 best tabletop roleplaying games out right now

From the best fantasy tabletop RPG alternatives to Dungeons & Dragons, to the sci-fi worlds of Cyberpunk and Star Wars.

Feature: Vampire: The Masquerade - Chapters bridges the gap between board game and RPG

Once bitten.

Create your own barbarian baker and other Dungeons & Dragons 5E cooks with the Dragon Stew supplement

No roast for the wicked.

Feature: That time the US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook

"It was dumb, not to put a fine point on it.”

Stalk monsters in the World of Darkness with a new edition of tabletop RPG Hunter: The Vigil

A ghoul's errand.

Kids’ miniatures game Wardlings is getting a campaign guide for D&D 5E

Or’Mya goodness.

Feature: 7 incredible pop culture worlds that should be turned into tabletop RPGs, from His Dark Materials to Avatar

Who wouldn’t want to play a Sesame Street TRPG?

Feature: Shedding light on World of Darkness, the gothic-punk universe of RPG Vampire: The Masquerade

A bloody good time.

Dungeons & Dragons 5E is still the most popular RPG to play online by a long way, according to Roll20

Making up nearly half of all online TRPG campaigns.

Ultra grimdark tabletop RPG Mörk Borg comes with its own doom metal playlist

Embrace the darkness.

Get D&D 5E-compatible Lord of the Rings RPG, Adventures in Middle-earth, for under a pound

Now that’s what I’m Tolkien about.

Playing Dungeons & Dragons to win is the most boring way to play

Or; why D&D is like chocolate biscuits and pasta sauce.

Altered Carbon RPG, based on the sci-fi Netflix series, hits Kickstarter

Future perfect.

Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer raising funds for Australian bushfire relief with custom D&D 5E class the Blood Hunter

Just my type.

Feature: Tabletop RPG releases 2020: 10 upcoming roleplaying games you should play this year

From the first Warhammer: Age of Sigmar RPG to Nordic horror and underground cities

The Yellow King RPG, based on the horror stories that inspired Lovecraft, is out next week

Strange is the night where black stars rise.

Dicebreaker Answers: Your top questions about Dungeons & Dragons!

Gain +1 INT.

Dungeons & Dragons 5E adventure book from Baldur’s Gate and Mass Effect creators gets retail release

Satyr your lust for questing.

Play Vampire: the Masquerade 5E with £5 RPG starter set New Blood

The necks generation.

Feature: From Doom to Cthulhu Wars: Sandy Petersen on 35 years of tabletop design, Lovecraft and leaving video games behind

“I got my toys!”

Feature: ‘There are dogs operating blacksmith shops and being apothecaries’: Inside the world of Animal Adventures: Gullet Cove, an RPG for pet lovers

Pawcerers and Barkbarians.

Ask Dicebreaker: Get your questions about Dungeons & Dragons answered!

D&D Q&A FYI.

Why Legend of the Five Rings should be the next fantasy RPG to become a TV show after The Witcher

Toss a koku.

How to play the Cyberpunk Red tabletop RPG: A beginner’s guide

When to roll, what to roll and how to get started with the Cyberpunk Red RPG.

New Dungeons & Dragons co-op board game revealed, due out in 2020

Potential titles Adventurer’s Gate and Adventure Begins spotted in the wild.

Dungeons & Dragons’ new free playtest subclasses let you make a pact with a genie

My wish is your command.

Video game Dishonored is getting a tabletop RPG - and it’s out this year

Corvo blimey.

DC Comics is making a Dungeons & Dragons 5E compatible sourcebook for comic series The Last God

No Wayne.

How to pick your character class in Dungeons & Dragons 5E

Find out what class works best for your D&D character; whether it’s a rogue, ranger or fighter.

Roleplay as a cat or dog in D&D 5E-compatible RPG Animal Adventures: Secrets of Gullet Cove

Roll over, Beethoven.

Critical Role is getting its first official Dungeons & Dragons 5E book, Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount

Vox popular.

Alien RPG and Tales from the Loop publisher acquires space opera RPG Coriolis

Light years ahead.

How to choose the right character race in Dungeons & Dragons 5E

Is your character a dwarf, elf or tiefling at heart? Find out here!

Enjoy hackers, cyborgs and rock-and-rollers in our Cyberpunk Red RPG playthrough

The future is bad.

Keyforge gets its own RPG sourcebook, Secrets of the Crucible

Deckin’ around.

Feature: Meet the Original Dungeons & Dragons diehards still playing by '70s rules

Refusing to roll with the times.

Feature: Five predictions about the future that the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG did - and didn't - get right (so far)

Twenty-twenty vision.

Game of the Year 2019 guest list: Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason

Creative director for Lovecraftian RPG Call of Cthulhu selects his tabletop games of the year.

Celebrate the holidays with Dicebreaker Steals Christmas, a festive playthrough of RPG Blades in the Dark

A criminally good way to spend Christmas.

Watch the Dicebreaker team chat about the best board games of 2019

Johnny, Matt, Lolies, Meehan, Sara and Wheels run through their top tabletop picks of the last 12 months.

You can now play RPG Call of Cthulhu 7E online for free using Roll20

Get R’lyeh to rumble.

Carly Rae Jepsen tabletop RPG creator reveals new title inspired by video game Control

Roll Me Maybe.

The basics of Dungeons & Dragons: Everything you need to know

Where to get started with the fantasy roleplaying game.

How to start a Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying group

From finding players at conventions to playing D&D online, here’s everything you need to get your party started.

Why Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is the best tabletop RPG you aren't playing

A roleplaying game to lose your head over.

Sink your teeth into upcoming tabletop RPG Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5E

Bad moon rising.

Solo Starfinder RPG adventure Scoundrels in the Spike beams onto Alexa

The stars have aligned.

Alien: The Roleplaying Game review - a terrific blast of sci-fi horror that stands apart from the movie

I admire its purity.

What to buy if you want to play Dungeons & Dragons 5E

Everything you need to play D&D, plus some nice extras.

Enjoy a cursed commute with new Call of Cthulhu RPG supplement Dead Light and Other Dark Turns

Highway to Hell.

Adopt your own predatory lair with new Heart: The City Beneath RPG class the witch

Hexcellent times ahead.

Be a mystical cave man in Paleomythic: a Roleplaying Game of Stone and Sorcery

Primal cravings.

New “streamlined” Exalted Essence RPG corebook landing on Kickstarter next year

Pulp fiction.

Summon undead armies with upcoming Pathfinder video game Wrath of the Righteous

Demon cleaner.

Chart the rise and fall of your civilisation with the Icarus RPG

Era today, gone today.

Alien tabletop RPG getting Colonial Marines sourcebook, boxed starter set and new scenario next year

Space is hell.

Dungeon & Dragons meets Cluedo in one-shot RPG adventure Murder on the Eberron Express

Save your ‘elf.

Play iconic D&D monsters in chaotic card game Dungeon Mayhem: Monster Madness

Behold 'er.

Rivers of London, an RPG based on the adventures of a magical policeman, is on its way

Prepare for supernatural mysteries in ol’ London Town.

Watch the Dicebreaker team wreck a zoo in zany RPG Reverse Beastmaster

This iguana commands you to enjoy.

Lord of the Rings RPGs The One Ring and Adventures in Middle-earth to end in 2020

Upcoming second edition of The One Ring also cancelled due to ‘contractual differences’.

Get started with Pathfinder RPG for 78p in the latest Humble Bundle

Orcin' them wares.

I was a bisexual teen bloodsucker: how Vampire: The Masquerade saved me from early-2000s homophobia

A monstrous supernatural hunter gave me the space and security to, in some weird way, be myself.

How to play Dungeons & Dragons: Getting started as a beginner

Everything you need to know to get started with Dungeons & Dragons as a dungeon master or player, including how to play, what to buy and the best adventures.

9 best sourcebooks for Dungeons & Dragons 5E

The finest Dungeons & Dragons 5E sourcebooks.

Dungeons & Dragons 5E wizard class explained

How many spells, and what to cast - we’ve got everything you could ever wand.

Alien is getting a tabletop RPG from the publisher of Tales from the Loop

On the tabletop, no one can hear you scream.