Roleplaying Game (Page 11)
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The Bard Chronicles is a Dungeons & Dragons rap album you’ll actually want to listen to
With a Kickstarter promo rap, naturally.
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Feature: Roleplaying games were around hundreds of years before Dungeons & Dragons
The seminal tabletop RPG drew from generations of wargaming, storytelling and parlour games.
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Vampire: The Masquerade 5E welcomes followers of the Dark Father in an upcoming supplement
A new storyteller’s screen and toolkit is also on offer.
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Mörk Borg supplement Fisk Borg introduces fishing mechanics to the doom metal RPG
Bait your hook with blood and misery.
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New Agon supplement Realms of Khaos is less The Odyssey and more Thor: Ragnarok
Adventure beyond the Vault of Heaven.
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Start playing RPGs Tales from the Loop and Symbaroum for under £1
Free League Publishing Humble Bundle offers starter sets for a steal.
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Pandemic, Catan and Pathfinder RPG publishers pull out of physical Gen Con return
Asmodee and Paizo to focus on digital offering Gen Con Online.
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Shawn Tomkin has reached the stars with Ironsworn: Starforged, but he couldn't do it alone
The designer talks influences, making a good thing even better and the importance of community feedback.
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Pick up Pathfinder 2E for under $5, plus adventures, sourcebooks and accessories for the fantasy RPG
Humble Bundle benefitting Stop AAPI Hate runs until June 10th.
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Tabletop RPG Into the Mother Lands is crowdfunding stories about “a brighter, blacker future”
Home is where the dice roll.
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Dungeons & Dragons reported a record year of sales and viewership in 2020
Imagine all those new brooding, edgy rogues.
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We invent the greatest board games that don’t exist in the first live Dicebreaker Podcast!
New time, new format, same old nonsense.
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Life After Dungeon creators hope to let you play as your dead RPG characters
“It’s a big if. I don’t know if it has ever been done before.”
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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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Nowhereville is a horror RPG inspired by Stephen King novels and Twin Peaks
You can roll anytime you like, but you can never leave.
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Galactic 2E is a Star Wars inspired tabletop game that puts the focus on relationships
No Dice, No Midi-chlorians.
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Treasures of the Troll King is an excellent example of the Mörk Borg indie design space
Abandon all hope (and a tenner), ye who enter.
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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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Bundle of Holding’s starter packs introduce ready-to-play RPG deals won’t expire
Roleplay without the rush.
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Keepsake game The Shape of Shadows transforms a day planner into a magician’s grimoire
A date with divination.
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Lines and veils, and other RPG safety tools, open up tabletop roleplaying for everyone
Ensuring comfortable, collaborative creativity around the table.
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Call of Cthulhu’s epic Masks of Nyarlathotep shows the perfect way to run a RPG campaign over years
Into the Months of Madness.
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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.
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft included in sale on D&D Beyond
Alongside newest adventure book Candlekeep Mysteries.
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Ruins of Symbaroum blazes a trail for 5th Edition players to explore its cursed forests
The R in RPG stands for arboreal.
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New Cthulhu mythos RPG Against The Gods Themselves will span both time and several media formats
Wibbly wobbly, Cthulhu fhtagny.
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Designer of subverted fantasy RPG Wicked Ones explains decision to offer core book for free
Being evil never cost so little.
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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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10 best tabletop fantasy RPGs that aren’t Dungeons & Dragons
The finest fantasy tabletop RPG games out there right now.
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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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We Die Young takes supernatural RPGs back to the counterculture Seattle of the 1990s
Smells like Teen Wolf.
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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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TroikaFest! is the perfect event for those who have never played the whimsical tabletop RPG
A wonderfully weird week.
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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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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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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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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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