Roleplaying Games (Page 15)
News
HeroQuest RPG will be discontinued next month due to trademark transfer
Fantasy roleplaying game to be renamed Questworlds.
News
SCP: The TRPG brings the supernatural mysteries that inspired video game Control to the tabletop
From maker of CreepyPasta RPG.
News
Follow the yellow brick road to roleplaying with the Adventures in OZ books for D&D
Somewhere over the ranger’s bow.
News
Jack Black, Kevin Smith and Reggie Watts are playing Dungeons & Dragons for charity
Along with stars of Orange is the New Black and Jay and Silent Bob.
News
Dungeons & Dragons will be venturing even further into the world of video games
“Video games are core to the future of D&D”
Interview
Nova RPG creator on bringing Destiny and Overwatch-inspired 'looter shooter' action to the tabletop
Designer Spencer Campbell talks insights, inspirations and washing his hands of gamers.
Deals
Dark Places & Demogorgons, an RPG with Stranger Things vibes, is featured in Bundle of Holding
Alongside superhero game Vigilante City.
Video
How would Phoebe Bridgers and Insane Clown Posse RPGs play? D&D rapper Dizzy Roseblade joins the Dicebreaker Podcast to find out!
Rock ‘n’ roll for initiative.
News
Return to Dark Tower is being made into a roleplaying game
Following the release of this year’s sequel.
News
The original manuscript for AD&D supplement Deities & Demigods is being auctioned on eBay
For a truly godly sum.
Interview
Once More Into the Void tells emotionally fraught RPG stories in a Mass Effect 2, Picard framework
The duo behind the upcoming game talk translation, betrayal and the joy of being a Renegade.
News
Swoon into a romantic fantasy setting with The Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide for D&D
From the studio behind the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide.
News
Our Minerva is an RPG inspired by legacy games, dating sims and sports
Players can design their own character portrait.
News
Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos will be the next MTG setting for Dungeons & Dragons
A semester of spellslinging.
News
Dungeons & Dragons’ next adventure Wild Beyond the Witchlight sends players into the Fey
It's a circus berserkus.
News
An official Marvel tabletop roleplaying game is coming in 2023
Featuring Spider-Man, Captain America and more favourites.
News
Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid now live, offering over 1,000 games for $5
Proceeds benefit the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
News
Tabletop RPG Charity Bundle for Trans Support packages 75 games for $20
Proceeds benefit both Mermaids and the Transgender Law Centre.
News
Somninauts is a rules-light RPG inspired by Inception and Salvador Dali
Sleepwalking, sleeprunning, sleepfighting.
News
Become a vampire-hunting clown or walk the halls of a forgotten cosmic prison with these new RPG zines.
Pagliacci packing pranks.
News
It’s proletariats versus pale drinkers in alt-history RPG The Hammer and the Stake
Bloody revolution.
Best Games
10 best sci-fi tabletop RPGs
Travel to infinity and beyond with these starfaring roleplaying games.
News
Queer Games Bundle offers over 200 video and tabletop games for $60
It hopes to pay indie artists a living wage for at least one year.
Interview
New RPG book ARCON is ready to leave tired ideas about cyberpunk settings in the past
Building a better dystopian sandbox.
Deals
Get started with the modern reboot of sci-fi RPG Traveller for under $18
Pick up its epic campaign The Pirates of Drinax for a steal, too.
News
The Bard Chronicles is a Dungeons & Dragons rap album you’ll actually want to listen to
With a Kickstarter promo rap, naturally.
Feature
Roleplaying games were around hundreds of years before Dungeons & Dragons
The seminal tabletop RPG drew from generations of wargaming, storytelling and parlour games.
News
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.
News
Mörk Borg supplement Fisk Borg introduces fishing mechanics to the doom metal RPG
Bait your hook with blood and misery.
News
New Agon supplement Realms of Khaos is less The Odyssey and more Thor: Ragnarok
Adventure beyond the Vault of Heaven.
Feature
Dungeons & Disabilities: Can tabletop RPGs redeem their problematic portrayal of disability?
“When including more diverse representation, disabled people continue to be excluded at alarming rates.”
Deals
Start playing RPGs Tales from the Loop and Symbaroum for under £1
Free League Publishing Humble Bundle offers starter sets for a steal.
News
Pandemic, Catan and Pathfinder RPG publishers pull out of physical Gen Con return
Asmodee and Paizo to focus on digital offering Gen Con Online.
Interview
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.
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.
