Roleplaying Games (Page 15)
Deals
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.
News
Tabletop RPG Into the Mother Lands is crowdfunding stories about “a brighter, blacker future”
Home is where the dice roll.
News
Dungeons & Dragons reported a record year of sales and viewership in 2020
Imagine all those new brooding, edgy rogues.
News
You Are the Dungeon is a journaling game that flips the RPG formula on its head
Put up your walls.
Video
We invent the greatest board games that don’t exist in the first live Dicebreaker Podcast!
New time, new format, same old nonsense.
News
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.”
News
Indie platform Itch.io’s inaugural Creator Day eschews revenue cuts for 24 hours
The first of many?
Deals
Vampire: The Masquerade’s Summer of Blood bundles bite up to $150 off the gothic RPG
A bloody good deal.
Video
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.
News
Investigate a world of fallen heroes and dark fairy tales in the horror RPG, Broken Tales
Storybook slayings.
News
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.
Review
Dune: Adventures in the Imperium RPG review - as dense and complex as the sci-fi classic
The dice must flow.
News
Nowhereville is a horror RPG inspired by Stephen King novels and Twin Peaks
You can roll anytime you like, but you can never leave.
News
Galactic 2E is a Star Wars inspired tabletop game that puts the focus on relationships
No Dice, No Midi-chlorians.
News
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.
News
Tabletop RPG Inspirisles will teach you sign language as you play
Players use ASL and BSL to cast spells in a Celtic-inspired world.
News
Bundle of Holding’s starter packs introduce ready-to-play RPG deals won’t expire
Roleplay without the rush.
Video
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.
News
Ironsworn: Starforged spin-off RPG swaps dark fantasy for a sci-fi setting inspired by The Mandalorian
Making vows in the vastness of space.
News
Keepsake game The Shape of Shadows transforms a day planner into a magician’s grimoire
A date with divination.
News
Teeth: Blood Cotillion is an RPG one shot about hunting occult horrors at a high-society ball
Belle of the battle.
Opinion
Lines and veils, and other RPG safety tools, open up tabletop roleplaying for everyone
Ensuring comfortable, collaborative creativity around the table.
Opinion
Call of Cthulhu’s epic Masks of Nyarlathotep shows the perfect way to run a RPG campaign over years
Into the Months of Madness.
News
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.
Video
Do we need a Metacritic for board game reviews? We discuss on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast!
And choose our favourite meeple shapes.
Feature
Tabletop roleplaying has given players comfort, connection and control in a world that’s taken them away
“A really big thing is having an arena where you feel like you have some control over the stories that are told.”
Deals
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft included in sale on D&D Beyond
Alongside newest adventure book Candlekeep Mysteries.
News
Ruins of Symbaroum blazes a trail for 5th Edition players to explore its cursed forests
The R in RPG stands for arboreal.
News
Into The Black is a lightweight RPG love letter to Mass Effect without the military trappings
Space sans Shepard.
News
New Cthulhu mythos RPG Against The Gods Themselves will span both time and several media formats
Wibbly wobbly, Cthulhu fhtagny.
News
Designer of subverted fantasy RPG Wicked Ones explains decision to offer core book for free
Being evil never cost so little.
Opinion
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.
News
Magical Kitties Save the Day RPG is scampering back to Kickstarter next month
For when you knead some escapism.
News
Read an illustrated playthrough of solo RPG Thousand Year Old Vampire via Twitter
Bloody good story.
Best Games
10 best tabletop fantasy RPGs that aren’t Dungeons & Dragons
The finest fantasy tabletop RPG games out there right now.
News
Recenter common fantasy assumptions with Southeast Asian zine project A Thousand Thousand Islands
Back in print and shipping worldwide.
News
Disability-focused Dungeons & Dragons supplements raise funds for Bristol Children's Hospital Play Team
Holy wheels and words.
News
New RPG Orbital Blues brings sad space Westerns to the tabletop, along with a cassette tape soundtrack
Easy come, easy go...
News
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.
News
Partners is a roleplaying game for two players inspired by ‘80s detective dramas
Police procedural for pairs.
News
Polish both a sword and a pint in solo journaling game The Broken Cask Inn
There's probably rats in the basement.
News
Take revenge on an evil celestial body in “hyper-TTRPG” Ten Million HP Planet
Attack and dethrone… Earth?
News
First They Came is an RPG where players are blindfolded and listen to immersive audio
The darkest hour.
News
Eco-science fiction RPG Blue Planet: Recontact is crowdfunding a revised third edition that maintains its anticolonial themes
Laser-toting orcas fighting industrial overlords.
News
We Die Young takes supernatural RPGs back to the counterculture Seattle of the 1990s
Smells like Teen Wolf.
News
Reveal a randomised, scratch-off character sheet in radical RPG Scratch & Claw
Move over, Turtles.
News
Cosy critter RPG Wanderhome and its pastoral adventures are now available
Preorders on physical books also available.
News
Indie RPG bundle packages dozens of games to pay for designer’s COVID-19 hospital treatment
100% of proceeds go to designer Tiago Rolim.
News
TroikaFest! is the perfect event for those who have never played the whimsical tabletop RPG
A wonderfully weird week.
News
Beyond the Mountains of Madness campaign for Call of Cthulhu RPG has been reprinted after over 20 years
Alongside Horror on the Orient Express.
News
Kickstarter’s Head of Community and The Perfect RPG campaign creator leaves company
The “mutual decision” follows Luke Crane’s public apology.
Deals
The Tales from the Loop RPG is currently featured in two different deals
As well as sci-fi roleplaying game Coriolis.
Feature
Solo RPG The Wretched is a fantastic, if unintentional, pandemic anniversary game
All systems go kaput.
News
Spiritual successor to espionage RPG Spycraft gets a full retail release
Sneak into The Spy Game.
News
D&D 5E book Encyclopedia steps away from fantasy tropes to present orc cultures that aren’t “inherently evil”
Along with other tools to create a campaign.
News
An author is questioning Wizards of the Coast’s “problematic” changes to his adventure in the newest D&D 5E sourcebook
“Frankly, this isn’t how this had to go down.”
Interview
Former Overwatch, Warcraft and Diablo devs on their debut D&D 5E book Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent
Auroboros chorus.
News
Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent is the first RPG from former Blizzard execs’ new tabletop studio
Laying down the Lawbrand.
News
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.
Feature
Tabletop RPG Emet captures the powerful shared experience of being Jewish with humour and tragedy
Exploring one of the titles in Jewish roleplaying anthology Doikayt.
News
D&D meets Cards Against Humanity in Deck of Many Quests’ fill-the-blank adventures
Mission + monster + magical item = adventure.
News
The bacon bites back in Forged in the Dark RPG one-shot Teeth: Night of the Hogmen
Oink for your lives.
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.”
Video
What are the best parts of bad board games? We discuss in the 50th Dicebreaker Podcast!
Along with our biggest Kickstarter disappointments.
News
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.”
Best Games
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.
News
Battle Skynet and the machine uprising across time in upcoming The Terminator RPG
Arnold will not be donating his likeness.
Feature
Animon Story is shaping up to be the perfect tabletop RPG for Pokémon and Digimon fans
Roll for PokéDEX.
Deals
GM’s Day Sale cuts the price of Cyberpunk Red, Alien RPG, Age of Sigmar - Soulbound and more on DriveThruRPG
Deals good through March 15th.
Video
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
Strive for improvement under the thumb of far-future capitalism in RPG Tomorrow on Revelation III
Anticapitalism - in spaaaaace!
News
Tidal Blades’ upcoming RPG has announced a publisher, new details
Ahead of a sequel board game Kickstarter planned for later this year.
Deals
Become a detective through time and fantasy with a bundle of Gumshoe RPGs
Deduction at a discount.
News
Hacks of popular one-page RPG Lasers & Feelings can now be sold after designer opens up licence
Stacks for your hacks.
News
Hold back an impending disaster in Hellboy-inspired RPG Apocalypse Keys
From the designer of Balikbayan: Returning Home.
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.”
News
RPG Coyote and Crow’s indigenous-led design team has created a tabletop world beyond the colonised mindset
“If a GM only gives their players nails, they're all going to equip themselves with hammers.”
News
Struggle against the breakdown of reality in psychedelic poster-sized RPG Aether Operations
Watch your dice decay alongside the universe.
News
The One Ring 2E becomes highest-funded tabletop RPG on Kickstarter
Raising nearly £1.5 million.
News
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.
News
Roll20’s annual Orr report shows D&D remains biggest draw, but smaller RPGs thrived in 2020
Uncategorized but not unappreciated.
