Designer of subverted fantasy RPG Wicked Ones explains decision to offer core book for free
Being evil never cost so little.
Roleplaying Game Archive
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Disability representation in tabletop gaming matters - here are the games doing it right
Recent years have seen stories and characters that avoid ableist tropes, though there’s still work to be done.
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Magical Kitties Save the Day RPG is scampering back to Kickstarter next month
For when you knead some escapism.
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Recenter common fantasy assumptions with Southeast Asian zine project A Thousand Thousand Islands
Back in print and shipping worldwide.
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Create and play RPGs online using the video game inspired platform One More Multiverse
A free-to-play service with tools to make homebrew content.
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Partners is a roleplaying game for two players inspired by ‘80s detective dramas
Police procedural for pairs.
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Polish both a sword and a pint in solo journaling game The Broken Cask Inn
There's probably rats in the basement.
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Take revenge on an evil celestial body in “hyper-TTRPG” Ten Million HP Planet
Attack and dethrone… Earth?
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Laser-toting orcas fighting industrial overlords.
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We Die Young takes supernatural RPGs back to the counterculture Seattle of the 1990s
Smells like Teen Wolf.
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Reveal a randomised, scratch-off character sheet in radical RPG Scratch & Claw
Move over, Turtles.
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Cosy critter RPG Wanderhome and its pastoral adventures are now available
Preorders on physical books also available.
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Indie RPG bundle packages dozens of games to pay for designer’s COVID-19 hospital treatment
100% of proceeds go to designer Tiago Rolim.
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Feature: Weekend Play Report - Ex Novo, and the joy of mapmaking games
Routing to recreation.
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TroikaFest! is the perfect event for those who have never played the whimsical tabletop RPG
A wonderfully weird week.
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Alongside Horror on the Orient Express.
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Kickstarter’s Head of Community and The Perfect RPG campaign creator leaves company
The “mutual decision” follows Luke Crane’s public apology.
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The Tales from the Loop RPG is currently featured in two different deals
As well as sci-fi roleplaying game Coriolis.
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The official Fallout tabletop RPG launches tomorrow
Totally rad.
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Spiritual successor to espionage RPG Spycraft gets a full retail release
Sneak into The Spy Game.
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Along with other tools to create a campaign.
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“Frankly, this isn’t how this had to go down.”
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Inferno is a sourcebook for D&D 5E based on the works of Dante
One hell of an opening.
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Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent is the first RPG from former Blizzard execs’ new tabletop studio
Laying down the Lawbrand.
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Use bants and your noggin to survive an apocalyptic London in “post-Brexit RPG” Shadow of Mogg
You can’t spell Pyrrhic victory without Tory.
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Exploring one of the titles in Jewish roleplaying anthology Doikayt.
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Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam prioritises pocket-sized play
Let’s see Paul Allen’s RPG.
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D&D meets Cards Against Humanity in Deck of Many Quests’ fill-the-blank adventures
Mission + monster + magical item = adventure.
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The bacon bites back in Forged in the Dark RPG one-shot Teeth: Night of the Hogmen
Oink for your lives.
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Feature: Cancelled Warframe-inspired RPG highlights the destructive toxicity of online fandom
“This is a demonstration of a vocal minority of angry trolls getting what they wanted.”
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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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RPG publisher Legendary Games apologises for racist Pathfinder and D&D 5E supplement
“Horrifically tone-deaf, but timing was just one part of the problem.”
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7 best Dungeons & Dragons settings for your next campaign
Dive into a fiery plane of demons or sail across dark stormy waters in these exciting D&D locales.
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Battle Skynet and the machine uprising across time in upcoming The Terminator RPG
Arnold will not be donating his likeness.
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Deals good through March 15th.
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Plus, the birth of a must-have piece of cutlery.
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Strive for improvement under the thumb of far-future capitalism in RPG Tomorrow on Revelation III
Anticapitalism - in spaaaaace!
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Tidal Blades’ upcoming RPG has announced a publisher, new details
Ahead of a sequel board game Kickstarter planned for later this year.
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Become a detective through time and fantasy with a bundle of Gumshoe RPGs
Deduction at a discount.
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Hold back an impending disaster in Hellboy-inspired RPG Apocalypse Keys
From the designer of Balikbayan: Returning Home.
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Feature: Queer players find more than a game in Dungeons & Dragons - they find a safe space
“We are here to play whoever we want to.”
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“If a GM only gives their players nails, they're all going to equip themselves with hammers.”
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Our God is Dead is a comedy RPG about fooling religious followers
Sacred shenanigans.
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Struggle against the breakdown of reality in psychedelic poster-sized RPG Aether Operations
Watch your dice decay alongside the universe.
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The One Ring 2E becomes highest-funded tabletop RPG on Kickstarter
Raising nearly £1.5 million.
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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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Roll20’s annual Orr report shows D&D remains biggest draw, but smaller RPGs thrived in 2020
Uncategorized but not unappreciated.
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Speak for the trees in collaborative map-making game A Wood Heart
Deciduous decisions.
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Sew a map to a distant friend in keepsake storytelling game A Mending
Narrative thread.
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‘Hearth fantasy’ RPG Stonetop brings adventurers home to protect a simple village
Dice rolls and doormats.
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Keepsake game The Last Will and Testament of Gideon Blythe unpacks the burden, and joy, of family
The ties (and washi tape) that bind.
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How Dungeons & Dragons helped me discover my gender identity
I was playing a man in real life - why not a woman in my escapist hobbies?
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Hugh Grant will play the villain in the Dungeons & Dragons film
It star Sophia Lillis also cast.
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The Darkest House is an online-only RPG from the studio behind Numenera
App-t for horror fans.
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Small figures, big stories.
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Other collaborators reportedly weren’t told of Adam Koebel’s contribution.
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Feature: Good Old Plays: The throwback RPGs giving modern roleplaying “a breath of fresh air”
OSR designers are reviving the genre’s roots with compact rules, player-led storytelling and creativity in abundance.
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Possible Worlds is a subscription service that gives you a new micro-RPG to play every month
From Beak, Feather & Bone creator.
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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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Indigenous-owned FLGS Pe Metawe Games wants to build an inclusive hobby community, both near and far
“Gaming is for you, too.”
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Alongside wider restructure of Hasbro to capitalise on success of D&D.
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Dungeons & Dragons returns to an iconic setting with Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Strahd is bat it again.
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Create a child’s imaginary friend in RPG Little Katy’s Tea Party
Drinking in the atmosphere.
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Apocalypse World designer releases asymmetric RPG about foolishly unlocking powerful magic
The first in a series of connected zines.
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Quest: Cosmic Fantasy Edition transports players to a sci-fi version of the RPG
Adventuring alien style.
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Ghibli-inspired Our Traveling Home is a tabletop RPG about finding family and love
My Neighbour Toto-roll.
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Public libraries are using D&D to forge friendships and build community
No Knowledge (Arcana) check required.
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Bridgerton star Rege-Jean Page waltzes into the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons film
Joining Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Justice Smith.
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Roman Empire RPG Lex Arcana visits Dacia and Thrace in new sourcebooks
More like Pecks Romana
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Feature: Indie RPGs show roleplaying can - and should - be far more than Dungeons & Dragons
The tabletop games and designers taking players from fantasy stories to real-world change.
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Thousand Year Old Vampire creator announces companion book and an autobiographical game
Called A Fantastic Longing for Adventure, or Young Tim Hutchings Tells You How to Live.
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The Door Locks Behind You is a roleplaying game inspired by The Legend of Zelda
A Link Between Worlds.
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5 best solo RPGs you can play by yourself
Introspective retrospective.
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Trudvang RPG book Seed of Vanirs unlocks the history of the elves
Venture into Valkalainen.
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Jane Austen RPG Good Society comes to Kickstarter with a new reprint
Regency roleplaying.
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With apologies to CMON and Leonard Nimoy.
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Precious Little Animal's RPG critters help you foster mindfulness through once-a-day reflection
From Star Crossed creator.
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Murder your way to a mansion deed in this Cluedo-inspired tabletop RPG
Candlestick it to ‘em.
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“If that’s what the character needs for their everyday adventuring life, they’ll have that.”
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