News
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.
News
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.
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.
News
Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder designers team-up on RPG book for D&D 5E
Be a mischief-maker with the planebreaker.
News
DIE RPG designers delay Kickstarter until 2022 to avoid shipping and material shortages
DIE another day.
News
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.
Deals
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.
Interview
Cowboy Bebop RPG lead designer on the anime adaptation’s ‘jazzy’ gameplay and satisfying cynical fans
“Haters gonna hate and we accept that.”
News
Cowboy Bebop RPG will let you play as the anime’s characters, won’t touch the movie or Netflix series
Players will be able to take control of the Bebop crew or create their own interplanetary bounty hunters.
News
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”.
Feature
The history and culture of Historica Arcanum, the D&D 5E book reclaiming the Near East in roleplaying
“We took the mystery of Istanbul and dialled that up to 1000%.”
News
Slayers expands its monster-infested city with a new setting book for the asymmetric RPG
Rock the monstrous blocks
How To
How to run a Dungeons & Dragons 5E horror campaign for Halloween
From choosing a sourcebook to picking enemies.
News
Critical Role announces its first Dungeons & Dragons campaign book with Call of the Netherdeep
Way beyond Wildemount.
News
Cowboy Bebop RPG studio’s Knights of the Round: Academy blends My Hero Academia, Gundam and King Arthur
Anime-inspired RPG from design team Fumble GDR draws from shonen, mecha and school drama - plus Arthurian fantasy.
Video
What are the board games we’re most excited to play at Essen Spiel 2021? It’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Looking ahead to Root creator’s Arcs: Collapse and Conflict in the Void and back on Mysterium, Insider, Monikers and more.
Feature
Indie RPGs are telling some of the greatest mystery stories on - and off - the tabletop
Hercule Poiroll.
News
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.
News
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.
Deals
DriveThru’s Small Press Spotlight offers discount on Masks, Brancalonia and more tabletop RPGs
Discounted dungeons until October 13th.
Deals
Indie horror RPG bundle gathers haunted cabins, vampires next door and trans necromancers for a Halloween game night
Includes games inspired by Scooby Doo, House of Leaves and the nightmare of the NHS waitlist.
News
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.
News
Vampire: The Masquerade V5 - War of Ages is the game's first official LARP book
Live-action roleplaying with the living dead.
News
Gastronomic detective comic Chew plates up a Forged in the Dark-style RPG adaptation
Grab your dice and a fork.
News
PAX Unplugged makes full vaccination and masks mandatory for December return of board game convention
Following 2020 cancellation due to COVID-19.
Feature
Old stories, new forms: Rewriting folklore as RPGs brings fresh perspectives and cultures to the table
“What is an RPG, but a seed of imagination designers give to players and game masters so they can grow gardens of their own?”
Deals
TRPG Bundle for Afghan Support offers dozens of indie RPGs for $20 to aid those targeted by the Taliban
Turn books into poetry, rob the British Museum and steam hams for charity.
Video
What board game would you stake your life on? We imagine our tabletop Squid Game on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
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.
Interview
“Why do we play games?”: DIE’s creators and Grant Howitt discuss adapting the comic into a tabletop RPG
The tabletop team-up have planned more than a simple almanac for Gillen and Han’s twisted polyhedral world.
News
Steam’s Digital Tabletop Fest returns to celebrate RPGs later this month
And Dicebreaker’s part of it!
How To
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).
News
Mothership to bring its Alien-esque, sci-fi horror RPG to a boxed set
Zero gravity, zero chance of survival.
Opinion
Why the Blade Runner RPG will stand apart from the cyberpunk crowd
It might not last - but then again, what does?
News
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.
News
Zombie RPG Survival of the Able is about being disabled in an undead apocalypse
From the founder of Accessible Games.
News
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.
News
Dungeons & Dragons supplement, Just Dessert, has gumdrop mountains and pastry bears
Death by chocolate.
News
Dungeons & Dragons’ “next evolution” will release in 2024
Wizards of the Coast confirms return to three classic D&D settings in 2022 and 2023.
News
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.”
News
Clever Girl is an RPG about surviving the fallout of a failed dinosaur theme park
Licence-free games find a way.
News
Zombicide publisher acquires RPG studio behind Broken Compass series
“Top-secret narrative-orientated projects” coming.
News
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.
Video
We write the greatest Dungeons & Dragons musical you've never heard on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Critical one-hit-wonder.
News
Anime Free and cult classic film Bring it On inspired this sports drama RPG
It’s time to Fight with Spirit.
News
Tales from the Loop publisher releasing remaster of industrial RPG Into the Odd
Back to the Bastion.
News
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.”
News
Blade Runner is getting a TRPG from the studio behind the Alien RPG and Tales From the Loop
Roleplaying replicants.
Video
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.
News
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.
News
Fawlty Towers inspired RPG Flabbergasted invites players into the ridiculous world of high society
Prepared to be Flabbergasted.
News
Chart a magical fishing trip through a bespoke landscape in minimalist RPG Riverbend
Plus, space cat companions that confer fishing bonuses!
News
Awkward small talk is the whole point of Humans, a party game for aliens in disguise
Is this music? I can’t get enough of that sweet music.
News
Mausritter adventure Sanctum of the Ori Magi is genuine, folded-paper magic
A paper cut above the rest.
News
Jiangshi co-creator’s next game is a LARPG anthology inspired by Get Out and Hannibal
“If Jiangshi is PG-13, I’d say this is closer to an R-rating.”
News
Call of Cthulhu marks the horror RPG’s 40th anniversary with a new Keeper Rulebook
Limited-edition tome includes designer commentary and return of classic scenario.
Interview
Design degistif: Apothecaria creator Anna Blackwell discusses creating a commentary for her solo RPG
Potent potables.
Video
Well Hydrated Yellow? Tim's Magical Green? We fix miniatures paint names on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Board games? Never heard of 'em.
News
Make weapons from beast parts in this Monster Hunter-like supplement for D&D 5E and Pathfinder 2E
A day at the Battlezoo Bestiary.
Opinion
Blades in the Dark’s TV series could blow away the D&D film
The cinematic gameplay and dramatic heists of John Harper’s RPG makes it perfect for a small-screen adaptation.
News
Unofficial D&D supplement adds mousefolk and gunslingers to the RPG
Take a visit to Valda’s Spire of Secrets.
News
Indie initiative SideQuest bookends the year with a second zine-focused TRPG event
Like Zinequest, but more collaborative and festive.
Feature
Avatar Legends RPG designers were prepared for success, but nearly $10m on Kickstarter changed things
Magpie Games talks supply chain logistics, shielding design from bloat and contributor pay.
News
Old-school inspired RPG Down We Go wants to make deadly dungeon delving approachable for all
The OSR system is one of the first roleplaying games on Kickstarter alternative, Gamefound.
News
Pathfinder, Warhammer: Soulbound, Root RPG and more feature in this year’s Free RPG Day
Alongside Starfinder, Blue Rose and Zombicide.
Deals
Numenera Discovery Bundle opens up a discounted gateway into the sci-fi RPG
Welcome to the Ninth World.
Video
We cast the upcoming Blades in the Dark TV series on this week's Dicebreaker Podcast!
And pine for the board games we'd love to play right now, but can't.
News
Create cowpeople and fox-characters in The Delver’s Guide to Beast World, a supplement for D&D
From bovines to vulpines.
News
Sci-fi roleplaying game Stars Without Number gets a full hardcover release
An RPG of galactic proportions.
News
Talent-studded D&D 5E setting Tanares earns over $1m in first day of crowdfunding
Publisher Dragori Games boasts Forgotten Realms, Skyrim and Scarred Lands designers on an unfortunately white team.
News
Cyberpunk Red RPG studio R. Talsorian becomes latest publisher to exit Gen Con 2021 over COVID-19 concerns
“We write about Dark Futures for fun, but we also believe we have a responsibility to try and prevent them from happening.”
News
28 tabletop games have made $1m on Kickstarter in 2021 so far
More tabletop RPGs reached impressive figure in first half of year than on crowdfunding site to date.
News
Wanderhome studio’s next RPG is a game about ghost families called Our Haunt
A spirited adventure.
Best Games
10 best sourcebooks for Dungeons & Dragons 5E
The finest Dungeons & Dragons 5E sourcebooks.
News
Lancer designers suspend work on planned sourcebooks, citing life changes and pandemic stressors
Massif Press plans to finish and release the books on their own time, instead.
News
Beat the superpowered streets of neo-noir RPG City of Mist on the cheap with latest Bundle of Holding
Includes everything needed to explore a city full of secrets, magical or otherwise.
Opinion
RPG character backgrounds are rubbish - here’s how to make a good one
Or; why Obi-Wan Kenobi is a terrible RPG character.
News
Power Rangers RPG drops D&D 5E gameplay, will debut new Essence20 system
d20-based gameplay will also power upcoming G.I. Joe and Transformers RPGs.
Video
We talk intriguing indie RPGs, MTG's latest reveals and Netrunner's (possible) return on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Inventing the board game sequels that'd don't exist... but should.
News
Dark Sun spiritual successor Red Dawn presents a new wasteland setting for D&D 5E with old problems
Update: Kickstarter campaign appears to remove references to 'slave races'.
News
The Herbalist’s Primer gives roleplaying groups a crash course in practical and magical botany
Make your party eat its greens.