Roleplaying Games (Page 7)
Deals
Trans Witches are Witches bundle supports LGBTQ+ indies with a very nice collection of 69 magical school RPGs and more
Get dozens of titles for the same price as a video game.
News
Senior D&D producer says RPG’s execs “lost sight of the impact” OGL debacle would have on community
Wizards of the Coast’s tardy response “was a delay built out of many small, good decisions”, according to Kyle Brink.
Feature
Broken Weave: Inside the D&D 5E tragic fantasy world shaped by Elden Ring, Annihilation and living through a pandemic
“It’s a tale of what comes after everything falls apart.”
News
A solo RPG inspired by Seven, Mind Hunter and Zodiac has players seeking a serial killer
The TRPG for lovers of true crime.
News
Ruins of Symbaroum releases two new 5th Edition compatible adventure collections
So many new ways to die in the woods.
Opinion
Critical Role’s Mighty Nein animated series could be great, if it’s nothing like The Legend of Vox Machina
Pray to the Wildmother.
News
Morrowind-inspired Zine Month RPG Electrum Archive explores a desert city in newest edition
Sniffed any good ink lately?
News
Horse Girl is a Zine Month RPG about utter submission to love and surgical transformation into a horse
Do you love me: yea or neigh?
News
X-Men expansion announced for upcoming Marvel tabletop roleplaying game
An X-tra ordinary addition.
News
Dark Souls and Lord of the Rings were key inspirations for this solo roleplaying game
Wandering Souls.
Feature
What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Let us know what’s on your table lately!
Best Games
New board games for February 2023: latest tabletop release dates
You'll love these new releases!
Deals
Pathfinder humble bundle enables players to begin their fantasy RPG adventures for $5
Top tier includes $400-worth of stuff.
News
Brennan Lee Mulligan and Aabria Iyengar’s new TRPG podcast finds success well before first episode
Worlds Beyond Number’s Patreon page cracked 16,000 paid followers within the first 48 hours.
News
Alice is Missing expansion introduces new locations, suspects and clues to the texting RPG
Silence falls in Silent Falls.
News
Mörk Borg’s next expansion, Ikhon, is a tabletop RPG “mystery box” about profane folk gods
IKHON-not wait to meet these putrid gods.
News
Warhammer RPG maker announces new D&D 5E compatible system alongside “tragic fantasy” setting
Broken Weave will crowdfund in February and offer first hints at Cubicle 7’s upcoming C7d20 system
News
D&D abandons quest to update OGL after massive negative survey response
Publisher Wizards of the Coast instead puts even more content into the Creative Commons.
News
Pathfinder and Call of Cthulhu RPGs sell out months’ worth of books in two weeks after D&D OGL backlash
Paizo and Chaosium announce extra printings following ‘overwhelming surge’ in interest.
Feature
What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Let us know what’s on your table lately!
News
Fifth Season RPG brings NK Jemisin’s fantasy novel trilogy to the tabletop
Start with the end of the world, then tell your own story.
Opinion
I wish the Dungeons & Dragons movie had more sincere fantasy than self-aware cringe
Banter is the Bane of modern blockbusters.
News
Critical Role’s Mighty Nein are coming to Amazon Prime’s television screens
Get ready to shout “fluffernutter!”
News
Solo But Not Alone’s third annual bundle offers nearly 150 single-player tabletop RPGs for suicide prevention
All proceeds will benefit suicide prevention charity Jasper’s Game Day.
Feature
Exploring Sword World, Japan’s answer to Dungeons & Dragons from the studio behind the Elden Ring tabletop RPG
The history of legendary tabletop creator Group SNE.
News
Gen Con 2023 drops COVID-19 vaccine requirement and mask mandate for tabletop RPG convention
Tabletop’s largest US convention relaxes health and safety precautions despite ongoing pandemic.
News
D&D: Honor Among Thieves’ latest trailer runs the risk of choking on all that tongue-in-cheek
Kitchen table hijinks on a Marvel film budget.
News
European RPG Studios Union emerges from dust of D&D’s OGL storm to ‘promote RPGs as art and protect creators’
Effort from French, German and Italian publishers states support of #OpenDND movement as first priority.
Feature
What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been enjoying!
Let us know what’s on your tabletop.
News
Here are the character creation options you’ll have in Warhammer 40k RPG Imperium Maledictum
Start planning your Imperial agent early.
News
Roll20, Deadlands and Numenera RPG makers join Pathfinder studio’s open game licence as D&D OGL rival gathers momentum
Over 1,500 publishers have backed the ORC so far, according to Paizo.
News
D&D’s latest OGL playtest releases core rules to Creative Commons but deauthorizes past version
The first official pass at D&D’s legal future will still likely upset some fans
News
D&D maker apologises for OGL, will publicly playtest future versions of legal document
“Let me start with an apology. We are sorry. We got it wrong.”
News
D&D’s golden age is over due to OGL revolt, says Dark Souls RPG writer
"Once that trust has gone, it's gone forever.”
News
You're In Space And Everything's Fucked in this brutal sci-fi horror RPG inspired by Alien, Dead Space and System Shock
In space, no-one can hear you roll.
Opinion
Critical Role's latest twist could set the stage for Campaign 4 and beyond
Some lunar revelations may hint at what comes next.
Deals
Get Call of Cthulhu and Runequest TRPG starter sets for less than a dollar each
Discount doom.
News
The One Ring studio is the latest RPG publisher to create its own open game licence in wake of D&D OGL turmoil
Free League “intensifies” development of Year Zero Engine and Dragonbane licences in response to Wizards of the Coast’s planned changes.
News
Dungeons & Dragons publisher responds to OGL criticism: “We rolled a 1”
Wizards of the Coast’s first public statement rescinds royalty tiers but leaves many questions unanswered.
News
Warhammer 40,000 RPG Imperium Maledictum reveals its cover art - exclusive
A trip to Persepolis.
News
Award-winning RPG monster series launches werewolf supplement for D&D 5E
You won’t fool the Children of the Moon.
News
Pathfinder maker announces its own Open RPG Creative License in response to controversial D&D OGL changes
System-agnostic ORC will ultimately be controlled by a non-profit in order to “irrevocably and unquestionably keep alive the spirit of the Open Game License”.
News
Tabletop RPG actual play allstars join forces on Worlds Beyond Number podcast
Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Lou Wilson and Erika Ishi form the core of the first campaign
News
D&D maker tightens its grip on third-party RPG books with reported OGL changes
Thousands of creators and fans angered by what’s proposed in the leaked document.
News
Dungeons & Dragons is being made into a TV series by Red Notice filmmaker
On top of the upcoming D&D movie.
Deals
Explore the mythical tabletop RPG worlds of Forbidden Lands and Vaesen for $25 in new Humble Bundle
This latest offering pairs two fantastic Free League series in support of Direct Relief
How To
5 ways to play RPGs without a GM
Ditch the DM screen and run exciting, immersive campaigns as a group - or by yourself.
Feature
What is OSR? A newcomer’s guide to the Old School Renaissance RPGs reviving classic D&D
From retro clones of original D&D to modern successors to ‘70s roleplaying, OSR has never been bigger - or better.
News
Jiangshi designers’ next roleplaying game is like a horror version of Russian Doll
RPGs! What a novel concept!
Video
SPONSORED: Hamilton in D&D? 5E book Nations & Cannons explores American Revolution roleplaying
History has its dice on you.
Best Games
4 D&D actual plays you should watch after Critical Role
Discover your next can’t-miss campaign.
News
Call of Cthulhu studio refuses to use AI art in its future releases
Over ethical and legal concerns.
News
D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast has cancelled at least five video games
15 people will lose their jobs.
News
OneD&D’s open gaming licence will introduce royalties for biggest creators, prevent third-party NFTs
If you make more than $750,000 a year selling D&D creations, Wizards of the Coast wants a piece of that pie.
News
Warhammer 40,000 RPG Imperium Maledictum details Patrons mechanic and reveals exclusive artwork
For the Emperor, maybe?
News
Warhammer 40,000 series set to star Superman actor and miniatures fan Henry Cavill
Produced by Amazon.
Opinion
These tabletop RPGs are impossible to play - and that's what makes them essential
‘Closet games’ push the boundaries of roleplaying and storytelling by redefining how - and why - we play.
News
RPG featuring public domain comic book art was inspired by Star Wars and The Outer Worlds
Old Gods and Young Guns.
News
Workout like a D&D character with the Manual of Gainful Exercise
Increase your strength and dexterity!
Deals
Win a Blade Runner RPG bundle including the core rulebook and starter set!
Dishing out a Deckard.
News
Elden Ring and Bloodborne inspired this dark fantasy RPG about medieval conquest
Grab your Iron and Incense.
Interview
BackerKit discusses challenging the 'big green K' as it moves from crowdfunding tool to competitor
From background support to leading player in crowdsourced financing.
News
Dungeons & Dragons executives think “the brand is really under monetised”
Wizards of the Coast want to create a “recurrent spending environment” around the popular tabletop RPG’s digital front.
Video
What were the best board games at PAX Unplugged 2022? Here’s what we played!
Three days of games from Philadelphia.
News
Show the world how much you love indie RPGs and board games with our new T-shirt designs!
Shipping in time for Christmas!
News
Critical Role cookbook features recipes from throughout Exandria
Fancy some street meat or Slayer’s Cake?
News
Dungeons & Dragons’ digital advent calendar is chock full of Dragonlance monsters
Walrus people are so in right now.
Promotion
Tabletop Awards 2022
Watch the Tabletop Awards 2022 announced live on-stage at PAX Unplugged
News
Gloomhaven announces a tabletop RPG that will adapt the board game’s card-based mechanics
Cephalofair’s tabletop takeover launches on Backerket in 2023.
News
Tabletop Awards 2022 winners: The year’s best board game, RPG, designers and publishers revealed!
Flamecraft, Coyote & Crow, and Flesh and Blood win big at our first annual awards event.
News
Eberron creator returns to the arcanepunk Dungeons & Dragons setting in a new 5E book - and it’s out today
Chronicles of Eberron offers a deeper dive into the science-magic universe.
News
Hexcrawl-curious adventurers should check out this toolbox of tabletop RPG aides
Crawl through the hexes and burn through the witches.
News
Dungeons & Dragons replaces ‘race’ with ‘species’ in latest playtest material
The move is part of the popular RPG’s “next evolution” away from prejudicial material.
Interview
The Adventure Zone’s Griffin and Travis McElroy chat discovering D&D, dream celeb players - and reveal their favourite RPG
“Critical Role would be nowhere without us!”
News
Reggie Watts, Kate Welch and Sauron’s actor among players in upcoming Lord of the Rings RPG charity event
Stupid, charitable Hobbitses!
News
One-page tabletop RPG Cosmic Latte raises funds for Starbucks unions
Stressful time limits and ridiculous mandates echo conditions for underpaid and overworked baristas
Deals
The Dungeons and Dragons Core Rulebook Gift Set is only £82/$86 at Amazon this Black Friday
Such good value a Dragon would hoard it.
Feature
SPONSORED: How well do you know Dungeons & Dragons? Roll for WIS with our quiz!
Test your knowledge of D&D lore, rules and history.
News
We’ll be playing Cyberpunk, watching Clue and announcing the Tabletop Awards at PAX Unplugged 2022 - here’s when and where to join us!
Come and join the Dicebreaker team - plus guests!
News
Take the Dicebreaker readership survey and let us know what you’re interested in
It'll only take 10 minutes.
News
Announcing the finalists for the Tabletop Awards 2022!
The best board games, RPGs, designers and publishers of the year, all in one handy list.
News
These one-page tabletop RPGs lampshade Twitter’s demise and frustrations with Mastodon
Tweeting and tooting at the end of some things.
Feature
Role’s co-founder isn’t worried about D&D’s plans for the online RPG space
CEO and co-founder Elle Dwight talks to Dicebreaker about actual play, intimacy in streaming and the dragon-branded elephant in the room.
News
The Walking Dead roleplaying game on the way from Alien RPG and Tales from the Loop studio
Shambling onto Kickstarter next spring.
News
A Critical Role album based on the adventures of the Mighty Nein is available to stream
Have a hoedown at Hupperdook.
News
Science Fantasy RPG Troika’s new softback reprint is an excellent entry point for new players
This sourcebook is monochrome, but multi-use.
News
Dungeons & Dragons implements new cultural review following Spelljammer’s racist inclusions
Cultural consultants will be offered more active and involved roles throughout development timelines.
News
A roleplaying game inspired by Portal 2 and The Stanley Parable involves unused stickers
Will stick to you like glue.
