News
Kickstarter’s Head of Community and The Perfect RPG campaign creator leaves company
The “mutual decision” follows Luke Crane’s public apology.
Roleplaying Games (Page 16)
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.
News
Pixels’ electronic, Bluetooth-enabled dice bring the physical heft back to digital adventures
Be the RGB-lit envy of the table.
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.
News
‘Hearth fantasy’ RPG Stonetop brings adventurers home to protect a simple village
Dice rolls and doormats.
News
Keepsake game The Last Will and Testament of Gideon Blythe unpacks the burden, and joy, of family
The ties (and washi tape) that bind.
Opinion
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?
News
Hugh Grant will play the villain in the Dungeons & Dragons film
It star Sophia Lillis also cast.
News
The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms designer’s new co-op miniatures game lets you use the models you already own
Small figures, big stories.
News
Kickstarter executive cancels The Perfect RPG campaign amid backlash to Dungeon World co-creator’s involvement
Other collaborators reportedly weren’t told of Adam Koebel’s contribution.
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.
News
Possible Worlds is a subscription service that gives you a new micro-RPG to play every month
From Beak, Feather & Bone creator.
Video
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.
News
Stunning story game City of Winter charts a family migration on intricate cloth scroll maps
Unfurl the future.
News
Indigenous-owned FLGS Pe Metawe Games wants to build an inclusive hobby community, both near and far
“Gaming is for you, too.”
Feature
Avatar: The Last Airbender RPG first details: five playable eras, keeping Balance and how bending will work
Flameo, hotpeople!
News
Magic: The Gathering is reportedly getting a Warhammer 40,000 crossover and Lord of the Rings expansion
Alongside wider restructure of Hasbro to capitalise on success of D&D.
News
Dungeons & Dragons returns to an iconic setting with Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Strahd is bat it again.
News
Apocalypse World designer releases asymmetric RPG about foolishly unlocking powerful magic
The first in a series of connected zines.
News
Quest: Cosmic Fantasy Edition transports players to a sci-fi version of the RPG
Adventuring alien style.
Opinion
Tabletop roleplaying taught me that failure is okay - and often more interesting
1 to watch.
News
Ghibli-inspired Our Traveling Home is a tabletop RPG about finding family and love
My Neighbour Toto-roll.
Opinion
Public libraries are using D&D to forge friendships and build community
No Knowledge (Arcana) check required.
News
Bridgerton star Rege-Jean Page waltzes into the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons film
Joining Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Justice Smith.
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.
News
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.
News
The Door Locks Behind You is a roleplaying game inspired by The Legend of Zelda
A Link Between Worlds.
Video
We talk the new Root expansion, the return of The One Ring RPG and D&D film news in this week's Dicebreaker Podcast!
With apologies to CMON and Leonard Nimoy.
News
Precious Little Animal's RPG critters help you foster mindfulness through once-a-day reflection
From Star Crossed creator.
News
Upcoming Pathfinder 2E supplement to add assistive items, including a battle wheelchair you can use as a weapon
“If that’s what the character needs for their everyday adventuring life, they’ll have that.”
Review
Cyberpunk Red RPG review - timeless fashion, thrills and attitude make up for slightly dated gameplay
Scorn in the Eighties.
News
The One Ring 2E journeys closer to release with a Kickstarter campaign later this week
Arriving precisely when it means to.
News
Magic: The Gathering and Monopoly had their “biggest year ever” in 2020, Hasbro says
Dungeons & Dragons retained its growing popularity, as well.
Feature
D&D's answer to American Idol changed the RPG - and its winner's life - forever
You could say it was open to ‘Ebberyone’.
News
Horror RPG Call of Cthulhu is bigger than D&D in Japan
More Japanese-language copies sold than all other languages combined.
News
Dungeons & Dragons film summons Fast & Furious star Michelle Rodriguez and Detective Pikachu’s Justice Smith
Joining confirmed lead Chris Pine.
News
Apothecaria mixes Theme Hospital and Stardew Valley for a potent solo journalling RPG
Hair of the werewolf.
News
Let’s Role is a free online platform for playing RPGs that’s launching this autumn
Includes microtransactions for cosmetics.
News
Netflix’s The Dragon Prince adapted as tabletop RPG Tales of Xadia
Public playtest materials available now.
Video
How do you play D&D over Zoom? We give our tips on this week's Dicebreaker Podcast
And the birth of a Franken-game.
News
Trace a magical diagram using ice skates and a dry erase marker in tabletop RPG Summon Skate
Triple axel a demon in the face.
News
Indie video game Extreme Meatpunks Forever builds a tabletop RPG out of guts and gumption
Quickstart rules already available.
News
Quest publisher plans to support new RPG writers with The Adventure Award
Grant recipients will create short quests for the fantasy game.
News
Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra are being adapted into a tabletop RPG
Roll to smash cabbage cart.
News
Hibernation Games bundle delivers five journalling RPGs to help weather the cold
Fun for all ice ages.
News
Sink your teeth into What We Do in the Shadows-inspired RPG Low Stakes
Do your dark bidding on the internet.
News
Upwind is a roleplaying game inspired by Studio Ghibli and Treasure Planet
Co-created by writers behind D&D 5E and World of Darkness.
Deals
Dragon Age tabletop RPG features in fantasy-themed Bundle of Holding deal
Not a blight on your budget.
News
Draw tarot cards to decide your fate in the Silver Anniversary Edition of RPG Everway
A fortunate outcome.
News
Cyberpunk Red releases free Cyberchair DLC in collaboration with D&D combat wheelchair designer
Night City’s hottest new ride.
News
Itch.io bundle raises relief funds for Croatians affected by recent earthquakes
$25 bundle including RPGs and video games runs through February 22nd.