Are you ready to run a Moonited Kingdom? Leave the barnyard in your past, because there is nothing that an…|
Wolves and Werewolves are popular in media, popular culture, and gaming. The problem is, they are almost always in a villainous role. Whether you are playing a fantasy RPG, a horror game, or even a survival game, a distant howl is rarely a good thing. Even in games that have Shapeshifter player characters, like White Wolf, the expectation is that there will be hunting, combat, and blood. But people who have visited a wild animal sanctuary, and those who have owned a Husky or Malamute, can tel...| therathole.ca
Streets of Jade: the Green Bone Saga RPG is a tabletop roleplaying game about martial and political battles between gangster clans wielding supernatural prowess from wŭxiá legend. The post Streets of Jade appeared first on Evil Hat Productions.| Evil Hat Productions
When a game has a lot of rules, very detailed character creation, and a generous helping of math, it is usually referred to as being “crunchy”. If that is true, then the horror RPG Dread is an adventure trope quicksand pit disguised as a bowl of pudding. When I arrived at RPG-A-THON on Saturday afternoon, I stopped at the Extra Life table. I had just missed their morning block of play-anything drop-in sessions, but I was intrigued by what they were setting up. The table had “character s...| therathole.ca
Published in 1987, Warhammer City started life as a background section in Carl Sargent’s manuscript for Power Behind the Throne. Unlike the town section in Shadows over Bögenhafen, though, it…| Graeme Davis
An excellent module haunted by some unfortunate flaws.Review Originally Published May 22nd, 2001The Forge of Fury is the second in WotC’s Adventure Path series of modules for D&D – d| thealexandrian.net
If you’re a nerd, you almost certainly know Terry Pratchett. You may have read his work when you were younger,…|
It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned this, but I’m not a great GM. It never has been my passion and recent real world challenges have made it nearly impossible for me. As a result, I try to avoid a lot of the more open world games, in favour of prewritten adventures that might be derogatorily referred to as railroad adventures. But that doesn’t mean I don’t love throwing a curveball at players. Enter Jason Anachy’s recent Ridiculous Loot Deck.| therathole.ca
DISCUSSINGIn the Shadow of the Spire – Session 46A: Among MadmenAt the last possible moment, Zairic twisted aside so that the arrow lodged in his shoulder instead of his heart. Letting his b| thealexandrian.net
First Colony is a supplement which every Blue Planet GM should want to own.Review Originally Published May 21st, 2001First Colony is the sourcebook for the city of Haven, the surging metro| thealexandrian.net
Fluid Mechanics sets itself a goal and then goes and seals the deal.Review Originally Published May 21st, 2001I’m sure I wasn’t the only one surprised when Fantasy Flight Games started rel| thealexandrian.net
The year is 2199. From its scientific foundations and technological detail to a beautifully developed future history, this game never stops delivering on the promises of its rich, evocative sett| thealexandrian.net
Welcome to the world Blue Planet – one of the smartest games you’ll ever come across.Review Originally Published in Games Unplugged (February 2001)Republished on RPGNet May 22nd, 2001T| thealexandrian.net
Hello Wizard I Have a Problem is a new tabletop roleplaying game that allows players to become powerful and incompetent spellcasters. The upcoming roleplaying game sees any number of players collaborating together to tell a story about a band of chaotic wizards. Similarly to the likes of absurdist, fantastical comedy such as the works of iconic British group Monty Python, alongside the likes of The Mighty Boosh and What We Do in the Shadows, Hello Wizard I have a Problem is all about rapid sc...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
New tabletop roleplaying game, Castles in the Air, will enable players to re-enact their favourite coming-of-age stories. Castles in the Air was inspired by the likes of classic coming-of-age period dramas such as Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - which was adapted into a 2019 film directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern and Timothee Chalamet - and Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, which was adapted into a televisions series in...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
A new expansion for the official Blade Runner tabletop roleplaying game invites you to join the Replicant Rebellion. Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game is based on the series of films based on Phillip K Dick’s sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Blade Runner, the first of these films, was released in 1982 and directed by Ridley Scott. The film sees Harrison Ford play Deckard, a Blade Runner - an officer whose sole purpose is to hunt and eliminate Replicants, or human-looking a...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
The front cover for the alternate version of the next Dungeons & Dragons Player Handbook has been revealed. Last week saw the unveiling of the artwork for the front cover of the Player’s Handbook, for the next version of tabletop roleplaying game - Dungeons & Dragons. Featuring depictions of classic characters from the history of the RPG - such as Strongheart the Knight, Elkhorn the Dwarf Warrior and Yolande the Elven Queen - the front cover shows a party of D&D adventurers and heroes prepa...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Though best known within the tabletop community for creating games such as Jenga-powered RPG Star Crossed and For the Queen - the second edition of which was just published by Critical Role studio Darrington Press - Alex Roberts also runs a counselling service. The two career paths may initially seem very different, but for Roberts designing games and helping people to heal are irrefutably connected. “Playing story games made me a better counsellor,” she says. “I obviously got into maki...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
This new solo tabletop roleplaying game takes inspiration from diving video game Abzu and the films of Japanese animation company, Studio Ghibli. Bow is an upcoming roleplaying game in which players become freedivers competing in a Shoaling Festival on a world of picturesque oceans. Taking inspiration from the video game Abzu - a 2016 indie title in which players explore an ocean populated by various sea life and filled with secrets - Bow has players imagine they are diving into the depths of...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Vecna, the iconic Dungeons & Dragons villain who has also appeared in Stranger Things and Critical Role, will be joining the rogue’s gallery of Dead by Daylight’s killers. Dead by Daylight is a horror-themed multiplayer video game in which players take the role of either a killer or a survivor. As a killer, players will be hunting for the other players in the map in order to sacrifice or kill all of them before they’re able to escape. Each killer character has a unique set of abilities ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
An official tabletop roleplaying game based on the 1999 website Neopets is on its way. Neopets is a website that enables players to ‘adopt’ and interact with virtual creatures. When the website first launched, players were able to create their own Neopet, a creature that could be comprised of any number of characteristics like dragon wings, bird beaks and fur. Players could then care for their digital pets within the world of Neotopia: including ensuring they were fed, treating any sickne...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, Tabletop Creators Summit London 2024 has been cancelled. If you were registered to attend the summit, you will have been issued a pass for MCM Comic Con for Friday, May 24th. These passes remain valid should you still wish to attend MCM Comic Con itself. They can be collected from the Industry Desk at the West Entrance of the ExCeL. We apologise for any inconvenience caused as a result of the short notice. Read more| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
The books for the newest edition of Dungeons & Dragons will directly reference classic heroes and villains from the tabletop roleplaying game’s past. Artwork for the Player’s Handbook and Dungeon Master’s Guide for the next edition of D&D have been revealed. (Thanks GameInformer.) Illustrations featured in both the Player’s Handbook and Dungeon Master’s Guide will include modern depictions of characters from across the roleplaying game’s 50 year history, such as the characters fou...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
The cover of Dungeons & Dragons’ next Player’s Handbook has been revealed, ahead of the follow-up to Fifth Edition arriving later this year. The Player’s Handbook will be the first book released for Dungeons & Dragons 2024 - as the new ‘not an edition’ edition is being called, having dropped the One D&D moniker last year - when it arrives on September 19th. The Dungeon Master’s Guide will then drop on November 12th, with a supersized Monster Manual following on February 18th of ne...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
The artist behind the illustration for Dungeons & Dragons’ iconic Red Box has responded to the recent reveal of the anonymous warrior on the cover as female - first by rejecting the claim entirely, then by accepting that it’s in the spirit of both art and D&D to allow for interpretation. Larry Elmore is one of D&D’s best-known artists, having worked for the RPG’s original publisher TSR as its first in-house illustrator from 1981 to 1987, contributing artwork to pillars of D&D from Dra...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
The Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG, based on the beloved (and critically acclaimed) MMO in the long-running series of video game RPGs, is still yet to be released after being revealed last autumn. Even so, it’s already proven popular enough that Final Fantasy maker Square Enix is planning a second printing of the tabletop RPG later this year. The Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG was announced last September, the first official adaptation of the franchise into a pen-and-paper RPG. (There have been a number ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
One More Multiverse, the ambitious virtual tabletop app for playing RPGs online using fetching pixel-art sprites and a flexible, user-friendly interface akin to a video game, is closing down. One More Multiverse started life four years ago, launching into a beta in 2021 before seeing a full release last summer. Since then, the impressively polished app added official digital adaptations of moody heist RPG Blades in the Dark and cosy Ghibli-esque game Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast to its existi...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
A new horror tabletop roleplaying game that takes inspiration from the likes of Five Nights at Freddy’s features its own soundtrack. The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio is an upcoming roleplaying game that sees players chronicling their experiences of witnessing a radio show host becoming a terrifying, otherworldly being. Taking inspiration from horror movies such as In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Pontypool (2008), Color Out of Space (2019) and Altered States (1980), as well as the popular v...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
A sci-fi tabletop RPG inspired by the retro-futuristic stories of the seventies has been given an English-language release. The Breach melds together the punishing run-based feel of Returnal, the mysterious corporate conspiracy of Control and the unforgiving space-horror of Mothership. The Breach throws its players’ Watchers - interdimensional researchers tasked with gathering data - through portals to different worlds known as Paradoxes, where they must survive long enough (helped by their...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Two years after funding, cosy and inviting tabletop RPG Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast has announced a May 22nd street date for physical books. Designed by Possum Creek Games, the slice-of-life title takes its well-established aesthetic in a more chill, chapter-based direction that doesn’t skimp on interesting mechanics. Possum Creek Games crowdfunded Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast in August 2022 on the odd-duck-out platform IndieGoGo during the height of the tabletop industry’s turn away from Kickst...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
The next chapter for popular asymmetrical horror video game Dead By Daylight will include some Dungeons & Dragons flavour. Developer Behaviour Interactive and D&D’s publisher, Wizards of the Coast, teased a crossover containing at least one very angry Beholder. Posted to social media on May 9th, the short video shows the iconic monster locked in a dungeon cell and obviously pissed about it. After smashing against the bars of its cage and casting a massive, glowering eye around the room, the...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Tucked inside a fairly glowing profile in the Washington Post of Critical Role’s growing Dungeons & Dragons actual play empire was a morsel of new information regarding The Legend of Vox Machina. Fans of the animated series will only need to wait until this fall for more rowdy adventures from Critical Role’s first adventuring crew. We knew The Legend of Vox Machina was set for a third season back in 2022, when Amazon MGM Studios (sigh, corporate mergers) greenlit more adaptation of Critic...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Critical Role has launched its own membership service that will house all existing shows - and a few new ones - under the same umbrella, while offering additional perks and access to paying subscribers. Longtime cast member and the Dungeon & Dragon actual play series’ CEO Travis Willingham said Beacon “just really allows us the flexibility to create fun additional perks, stay connected to all of [the fans] and offer a more unfiltered experience.” Current Twitch and YouTube subscribers w...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
One of Dungeons & Dragons’ oldest promotional figures will enjoy a toy treatment that shows fans more than just a chainmail and fur armour-covered butt. The warrior fighting the dragon on the cover of D&D’s 1983 Red Box set now has a face, and WizKids has interpreted the dragon fighter as a big, buff lady. As revealed by ComicBook.com earlier this week, the figurine can be found in WizKids's D&D Icons of the Realms: 50th Anniversary set as one of 10 “secret rare” toys packed inside ra...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Nearly three years after it was first announced, Kids in Capes will launch a crowdfunding campaign aiming to publish a superhero-themed version of their popular investigative tabletop RPG. Coming later this year, it will trade bikes, flashlights, wands and pointy hats for a whole new genre of storytelling from the perspective of unassuming kids. Kids in Capes is the third such tabletop game from publishers Hunters Entertainment, following up on the small-town gumshoe adventures in Kids on Bik...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Dark Souls-meets-tabletop is an already rich vein of experiences, from the official board game and troubled RPG adaptation to its inspiration on a plethora of indie creations. Well, chalk one more intriguing experiment on the board because Ashes is approaching the acclaimed video game series as a solo RPG as a dungeon delve. Ashes comes from Crossed Paths Press, the designer of Brambletrek and Covens of Midnight, and will be funding on Backerkit in June. It bills itself as a “Souls-like GM-...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
While Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red might be done with the video game after last year’s massive expansion Phantom Liberty, the maker of the tabletop RPG that inspired the game still has plans to delve deeper into its lore and world. Cyberpunk Red is the latest edition of the tabletop RPG created by Mike Pondsmith in the late 1980s, which would later evolve into its seminal nineties edition Cyberpunk 2020 and Red (fittingly released in 2020, after a Jumpstart Kit the previous year)...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Cyberpunk Red’s bridge between the celebrated tabletop RPG and smash hit Netflix anime Edgerunners finally gets a release date. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit, first announced in 2022, will land in June of this year and send players deep into a Night City changed in small but meaningful ways by Lucy, Rebecca and the rest of the crew. Developed by R. Talsorian Games in coordination with Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red, this box set will give anime fans a comprehensive and easy ac...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
More than a year since Dungeons & Dragons’ publisher relinquished its publicly maligned fight to change the popular tabletop RPG’s Open Gaming License, Wizards of the Coast has announced that its upcoming rulebooks will release their material under a Creative Commons licence. A new System Reference Document, called SRD 5.2 by Wizards, will collect all of the new and updated core material printed in the 2024 editions of the Players’ Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide and Monster Manual. ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Over the past two years, Wizards of the Coast has faced a growing number of allegations that AI tools (large language models, generative tools such as Midjourney, etc.) were used to create official artwork and marketing for both Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. Today, the publisher released an FAQ that attempts an explanation of their rationale and process, but leaves just as many questions unanswered. The support webpage (which will be periodically revised in the future) claims t...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Hasbro, the company that owns and runs the creators of Dungeons & Dragons - Wizards of the Coast - has already invested over $1 billion (£799 million) in order to create new video games based on the tabletop roleplaying game. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Dan Ayoub - head of digital product development at Wizards of the Coast - discussed Hasbro’s plans for developing and publishing new titles based on the company’s various properties, including Dungeons & Dragons. Ayoub confirm...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Action figures and tabletop RPGs seem an odd pairing, but that hasn’t stopped the creators of gnarly artpunk sensation Mörk Borg from announcing an official action figure created in collaboration with Severed Toys. Currently funding on Kickstarter, the skeletal Dread Risen comes with an accompanying zine adventure. The action figure, Dread Risen, is modelled after the previously unnamed monster gracing the front cover of Mörk Borg’s iconic core rulebook and was sculpted by Argentinian a...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Step your games of D&D up to the next level with this collection of original fantasy maps. A follow-up to the original A Collection of Fantasy Maps, A Collection of Fantasy Maps II introduces over 100 new maps for players to utilise in their tabletop roleplaying games. Available in both physical and digital versions, this 200+ page book contains artwork, cartography and worldbuilding elements for game masters to implement into their playthroughs of fantasy TRPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, Pathf...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Cyberpunk Red’s crossover with animated Netflix series Cyberpunk Edgerunners will expand on the lore of characters seen in the anime, as well as introducing brand new characters to the sci-fi universe. The ties between tabletop RPG and television show will be drawn tighter by the involvement of the anime’s writer and director alongside Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith, Dicebreaker can exclusively reveal. The Cyberpunk Edgerunners Mission Kit was revealed back in 2022 as a standalone start...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Critical Role’s Campaign 3 is remarkable in many ways. Tying in various characters, plot points and villains from across the previous two campaigns, it feels like the end to a mighty (and unexpected) trilogy, with the pressures, possibilities and narrative restrictions that can entail. But for the 92nd episode, which aired on April 18th, it’s clear that something went a little wrong. Warning: Spoilers ahead for the events of Critical Role: Campaign 3, specifically episodes 91 and 92. Part...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
If running a voice call and opening a browser window at the same time sounds like too much work to play your weekly RPG game, you’re in luck - Roll20 has announced the launch of a beta app that will run its popular virtual tabletop within Discord’s dedicated platform. Roll20 will be listed among the Activities section of Discord, joining the likes of Watch Together, Catan clone Colonist and a host of lightweight multiplayer games as software users can launch while on a voice or video call...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Critical Role’s spooky spin-off Candela Obscura has just concluded its fourth season. If you’re getting ready to sit down and see how Circle of the Crimson Mirror wraps up this weekend, prepare to put some time aside: its third and final part comes in at just shy of six hours long. (Don’t worry, no spoilers here!) This week’s Into the Abyss follows February’s premiere Seeking Serenity and last month’s middle instalment The Gilded Graveyard in completing the fourth chapter of Cande...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
TTRPGs for Trans Rights’ charity bundle has returned for a third year to offer another massive collection of digital tabletop RPGs, zines, supplements, adventures and other creations in order to raise money to support Project Rainbow, the only LGBTQ+ shelter and advocacy center in the entire state of West Virginia. You might recall this particular bundle initiative for its efforts in past states, including Texas and Florida, and the organisers have raised a cumulative $800,000 in proceeds a...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
It’s a season of actual play live show announcements, and Critical Role’s spooky sibling Candela Obscura has just joined the action. Managing company Darrington Press revealed that the investigative horror RPG will take the stage of The United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles on May 25th with plenty of familiar faces sitting around the table. Designer Spenser Starke (currently developing the anticipated fantasy RPG Daggerheart) will act as Game Master for a new Circle composed of Matthe...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Work continues on the 2024 edition of the Player’s Handbook, one of three tomes that will comprise the foundation of Dungeons & Dragons’ future, and the team behind it says they are actively reviewing the printed version. During a recent “fireside chat” with Todd Kenreck, the popular tabletop RPG’s guiding designers slipped details that psionics fans will be happy to hear. Kenreck joined Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford, two lead designers on the D&D 2024 project, and checked in on...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
It takes a special something to capture the whimsical, cosy essence of a Studio Ghibli movie, but there are plenty of Ghibli-inspired D&D 5E supplements out there doing just that - and doing so with the grace of a most helpful forest spirit. If upcoming Ghibli-flavoured RPG Break!! is something you and your D&D party are keeping an eye out for, then this is the list for you. I've gathered together some of the best Ghibli-inspired 5E supplements, from all-new settings, minigames, items, crafti...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Hasbro checked in with its investors on April 24th, advising them on how the US-based company and steward of both Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons has positioned itself in the first quarter of a year marked by “turnaround efforts.” Hasbro’s toy division limped through most of 2023, while MTG topped every financial chart thanks to the release of the Lord of the Rings-themed Tales of Middle-earth set and D&D posted wins only thanks to the explosive popularity of Baldur’s Gate...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
With Dungeons & Dragons marking its 50th year in 2024, the anniversary celebrations for the storied roleplaying game are well underway. Among the many birthday presents on their way for fans of the fantasy RPG is a set of figures from miniatures maker WizKids that bring to life some of the icons from across D&D’s universe - and Dicebreaker has an exclusive look at two of the most iconic. The D&D Icons of the Realms: 50th Anniversary set spans - you guessed it - 50 pre-painted miniatures. Th...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
In the wake of the loss of Fallout’s initially steadfast and undiluted creative vision, Deadlands provides a roleplaying experience that scratches that itch.| Dicebreaker
The greatest tabletop RPGs that probably don't have dungeons or dragons in them.| Dicebreaker
One of the absolute joys of doing these interviews is the chance to speak with folks within the TTRPG space who are simply impressive. Eli Hauschel is so much so, I’m skipping my usual introduction so we can get right to it. Enjoy!| therathole.ca
This is the most challenging review I’ve written to date,| POCGamer
