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
Take the evolving monsters of Pokémon, cross them with the fast-playing chaos of party game hit Exploding Kittens and you end up with something that looks a lot like Freak War, a new party-game TCG that wants to offer the fun battles of trading card games without the effort of learning lots of rules or building a deck. Freak War is the creation of Nate Galbraith, aka cartoonist sketchnate, who was inspired after watching kids trying to have Pokémon battles using Uno cards, before suggesting...| 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
Upcoming board game City of Six Moons is taking difficulty-to-decipher rulebooks to a whole new level by writing all of its rules in an alien language that you’ll have to translate in order to play. The kicker? You’ll never know if you’ve done so correctly. The single-player title is described by designer Amabel Holland as being both a game about guiding the fortunes of an alien civilisation, and a game designed as if it actually were made by an alien civilisation in real life. As such,...| 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
A new edition of Talisman, the classic adventure board game, is coming from the publisher behind Betrayal at House on the Hill. Originally released in 1983, Talisman is a board game wherein two to six players compete to acquire the Crown of Command, which is held directly in the centre of the board. The original edition of the title was published by Games Workshop - the company behind the Warhammer and Warhammer 40K series of miniatures games - and designed by Robert Harris. In the game, play...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
This article is sponsored by Phalanx. Find out more about Hannibal & Hamilcar and back it on Gamefound until May 24th. Two classic historical board games retelling the clash between Rome and Carthage during the Punic Wars have returned to crowdfunding, giving you another chance to pick up the out-of-print pair of card-driven strategy titles. The latest Gamefound campaign for Hannibal & Hamilcar brings together designer Mark Simonitch’s acclaimed nineties wargame Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage,...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Speaking from experience, buying and selling rare Pokémon cards on the internet can be a bit of a nightmare. Outside of the cards pricey enough to be officially graded and sealed inside a fancy case by the likes of PSA, looking for less top-dollar cards (look, I’m not Post Malone) comes with the constant risk of stumping up the cash for something that either doesn’t arrive at all, arrives in a condition different to what you were expecting or turns out to be a complete fake. I’m theref...| 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
Frostpunk in all its forms is known for being a deliberately unforgiving and gruelling experience, pitting players against the threat of freezing to death in its post-apocalyptic tundra, starving to death as they struggle to maintain their city’s vital supplies or being torn to bits by the disgruntled populace of the steam-powered metropolis as the result of your political decisions. (Hard to argue against not thinking child labour is a great idea, in fairness.) The brutal difficulty of the...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Experience The Walking Dead franchise, perhaps the most popular Zombie series ever, through a tiny new card game. The Walking Dead started out as a series of comic books created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore beginning in 2003. Set in a post-apocalyptic world in which an outbreak of the undead causes the entire USA to shut down, becoming a chaotic and bloody battlefield of zombies and survivors. The comic book series has since been adapted into a television series by AMC that began airing i...| 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
The tabletop adaptation of video game Terraria is headed to crowdfunding at the end of this month, turning the immensely popular 2D miney-crafty hit into a co-op board game. Terraria: The Board Game was revealed last summer as tabletop studio Paper Fort Games’ take on original developer Re-Logic’s multi-million-selling indie phenomenon. The upcoming board game stays faithful to the broad strokes of Terraria by generating a 2D world across different biomes from a layout of gridded cards. P...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Western Legends is one of my favourite open-world board games, throwing players into a Wild West sandbox where they’re free to explore and earn fame - or infamy - however they like. You could become a revered bounty hunter, a feared cattle-rustling outlaw, a money-making gold prospector or even a poker star - or a mix of all of these and more. The freedom and variety of Western Legends makes it the closest thing I’ve ever played to a Red Dead Redemption board game, with a simple yet enter...| 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
Games Workshop will offer up another look at its incoming line-up of Warhammer video games next Thursday, as Warhammer Skulls returns for fresh peeks at the likes of Space Marine 2, Boltgun and Total War: Warhammer. Warhammer Skulls has been running for a good few years now, serving as a showcase of video games based on Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar and other Games Workshop tabletop titles. This year, it’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 leading the way, with the long-awaited sequel to t...| 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
An upcoming card game looks to mix the cyberpunk strategy of tabletop all-timer Android: Netrunner with the cooperative narratives told in Arkham Horror: The Card Game, wrapped up in a more optimistic vision of the future. Neon Hope tasks up to four players - or just a single player in a solo mode - with averting the impending dystopia caused by behemothic technology companies. Rather than the hacker-versus-megacorp competition of Netrunner, here the players are on the same side, working toge...| 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
Magic: The Gathering cards that use the sticker or Attraction mechanic from the 2022 Unfinity set have been banned in the Legacy, Vintage and Pauper formats. Publisher Wizards of the Coast outlined their reasoning in the most recent Banned and Restricted List update, citing a failed experiment on the part of partially legal sets. The ban centres primarily on the use of “_____ Goblin” (which players colloquially call Mind Goblin for, uh… reasons) in Vintage and Legacy, necessitating all ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Warhammer fans and AEW wrestling fans will soon be doing the Predator hand-shaking meme thanks to an upcoming exhibition match where Claudio Castagnoli and Kip Sabian will compete using Age of Sigmar’s new Spearhead mode. The bout is one part of the miniature wargame’s big preview of Age of Sigmar’s upcoming 4th Edition - Mortal Realms Reforged during the Dallas Open at the Arlington eSports Stadium on May 16th and 17th. Castagnoli and Sabian will take control of a Skaven and Stormcast ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
GameStop plans to purchase single Pokémon Trading Card Game cards from individuals, as long as they’re graded by Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), extending the video game and pop culture retail chain’s trade-in model into another secondary market. According to Polygon, GameStop will soon accept single cards graded PSA 8 or higher on the popular collectible grading company’s 10-point rubric. After speaking to several locations in different states, Polygon reported that stores wi...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
The board game based on cult eighties fantasy flick Jim Henson’s Labyrinth is returning with a 40th Anniversary Collection, adding a new expansion and miniatures - plus another chance to grab a tiny codpiece-sporting David Bowie - ahead of the movie’s big 4-0 in 2026. Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: The Board Game - which will become even wordier and headache-inducing for grammar pedants as Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Board Game - 40th Anniversary Collection - first released back in 2016, aroun...| 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
Dune: War for Arrakis, the board game based on the science fiction franchise, will be available for players to get once again via a new crowdfunding campaign. Originally crowdfunded via a campaign that closed on Kickstarter in September 2022, Dune: War for Arrakis is a board game that has players competing against each other as two warring houses. War for Arrakis is based on the fictional world created by Frank Herbert in the author’s series of sci-fi books, before being adapted multiple ti...| 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
It’s almost summer, which means half the planet is entering into the part of the year that makes the rest of it worth it. But since so many of us have a very short window in which to fit in our outdoor fun, it does make it a touch harder to justify spending your time indoors. Not every board game on the market is a beefy Twilight Imperium or Star Wars: Imperial Assault with a million pieces that can get blown away or lost in an airport. If you are travelling or enjoying the spring weather a...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
A new cooperative card game pits a group of players against a series of increasingly difficult enemies in a Dark Souls-like test of survival. Regicide Legacy is an upcoming board game that has players working together as a band of adventurers embarking on a series of missions that will take them throughout the unforgiving land of Deccaria. The original Regicide is a fantasy game contained entirely within a deck of playing cards, in which players must combine their hands of cards in order to d...| 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
Ever feel trapped between the gradually closing walls of a trash compactor? Four new miniatures for Star Wars: Shatterpoint sure do - the main cast of A New Hope are coming to the miniature skirmish wargame as a four-figure squad next month, according to publisher Atomic Mass Games. Princess Leia Organa leads Chewbacca and both Han and Luke in their Stormtrooper disguises through the guts of the Death Star in the initial episode of the Star Wars franchise. Atomic Mass Games’ sculptors have ...| 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
The cultural consultant behind 2022’s anti-colonialised remake of board game Puerto Rico has rejected the title as “not real inclusion”. The original Puerto Rico was released in 2002 and has players taking up the roles of Spanish colonial governors who make a profit from selling the crops grown on the plantations they run. From the 15th to the 19th century, Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony, with the arrival of Christopher Columbus leading to the country falling under the colonialist rul...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Magic: The Gathering’s Universes Beyond crossovers have been a far bigger success than anyone was really expecting. For players, they’re a fun chance to play the game we love with a nice mix of TV shows, movies and video games represented. For the card game’s maker Wizards of the Coast, it’s been money constantly, and has helped prop up some of the other Hasbro-owned companies that haven’t been doing so well. Even though there are some legitimate criticisms of Universes Beyond - suc...| 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
Two new board games from storied designer Reiner Knizia will launch a collection of two-player titles inspired by classic mythological tales. Ichor and Iliad will lead off the releases with a pair of sub 40-minute board games exploring battles between humans and gods. The Mythos Collection is the brainchild of Bitewing Games, the tabletop publisher who most previously worked with Knizia on the upcoming Euro board game duo Cascadero and bite-sized Cascadito. If you’re not familiar with Knizi...| 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
Combining the fast, frantic space dogfights in a game like X-Wing with the creative and simple building of a toy like Lego, Snap Ships Tactics is a miniatures game you really need to get on the table. We first came across it at Pax Unplugged two years ago, but with the game fully out and a few sessions under the belt, I've got a list of reasons it's a game you should really consider checking out. Read more| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
A new Disney Lorcana enchanted rare Cinderella card will enable players to sing songs that cost up to nine ink to play, for free. Set to be released as part of the upcoming fourth set for trading card game Disney Lorcana, Ursula’s Return, Cinderella, Melody Weaver is an enchanted rare card: making it one of the rarest cards featured in the newest set. The card, which Dicebreaker can exclusively reveal, will feature artwork of the iconic Disney princess by artist noc4urne, with the character...| 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
Oath: Chronicles of Empire & Exile, a board game designed by the creator behind Root, will be getting its first expansion. Released in 2021, Oath is a board game for one to six players that has the group attempting to seize, or even share, control of a fictional land. Whilst one player takes the role of the Chancellor, the others become other agents operating within different regions of the country, with the goal of either taking the role of Chancellor themselves or allying themselves with th...| 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
Alien vs Predator. Freddy vs Jason. Dracula vs Frankenstein. Almost as long as horror movie monsters have been gracing our screens, the battle to decide which monster is the spookiest, scariest or downright deadliest has been hotly contested. In upcoming board game Spooktacular, it falls on you and your fellow players to become the beasties, bursting out of the screen and into the cinema itself to terrify and gobble up humans to prove you’re the meanest monster on the silver screen. Spookta...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
You’ve probably noticed the cost of groceries, home goods and just about everything else rising over the past couple of years, with a decidedly sharp upturn throughout the last six months. Surely boxes of plastic and resin Warhammer miniatures are immune to this trend, right? Unfortunately, Games Workshop has announced another price increase to its wargame lines effective in June. The UK-based producer of Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar outlined the incremental price increase in a recent...| 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
A new board game based on The Lord of the Rings series will basically be a reskin of the two-player title 7 Wonders Duel. Teased in a Facebook post made by the Asmodee France account earlier last week, it has been revealed that the upcoming board game from co-designers Antoine Bauza and Bruno Cathala will be based on gameplay mechanics from the 7 Wonders series. In an Instagram post by the official Asmodee USA account - Asmodee being a huge tabletop company that distributes board games across...| 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
Leading a city is hard work, and that job apparently becomes even more perilous when you must deal with the machinations of your fellow rulers alongside shadowy cults and threats from outside the walls. This is your lot in Kinfire Council, a new asymmetrical board game from Incredible Dream, the same studio behind both Kinfire Chronicles and Kinfire Delve. Kinfire Council was designed by Kevin Wilson, a veteran tabletop creator responsible for both Arkham Horror and Descent: Journeys in the D...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Fans who have been clamoring for an English release of the Japanese-exclusive manga "Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering Manga", rejoice. Viz Media just announced that an official translation will reach Western shores in Fall 2024 and will come with an exclusive card in the first volume. First released in Kadokawa’s Monthly Shonen Ace magazine as a single issue in mid-2018, the manga picked up a serialized run in November of the same year and found a ferven...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Welcome back, Black Lotus. Magic: The Gathering’s single most famous card has returned to the top of the expensive cardboard pile thanks to a private auction where someone paid a soul-squeezing $3 million for a copy considered to be in perfect condition. The news comes from CGC Cards, a grading company that examined the Black Lotus in a crossover submission from Adam Cai of valuables sourcing outfit Pristine Collectibles. Cai’s seven-figure transaction with an online collector who goes by...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Lovers of the current booktok trend can now indulge their interests in the tabletop gaming world, via a new card game based on The Cruel Prince. The Folk of Air series is a franchise of young adult fantasy books written by author Holly Black and set in a fantasy world populated by faerie royalty, whose court is a place of intense political games and hedonistic cruelty. Beginning with The Cruel Prince in 2018 - which follows a human named Jude Duarte who is pulled into the faerie court’s mac...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Did you know that Magic: The Gathering maintains a digital client where you can play online (two of them, actually)? Sure, Magic Arena is a known entity within the hobby, but publisher Wizards of the Coast barely promotes its existence to anyone slinging cardboard in the real world. That will change in May thanks to a promotion that rewards Arena goodies when you show up to drafts at your local hobby shop. Outlined in a recent post to MTG’s mothership website, the popular trading card game ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
There’s a substantial cross-section of video games that intentionally draw on the mechanics of board games, lending them a tactical and engine-focused edge - deckbuilders, turn-based tactical games and anything that uses cards as resources fits this bill. It makes sense, then, that veteran designer Alexander Pfister is helping to create a new video game, Demon Loop, that wears its tabletop inspirations on its sleeve. Demon Loop is an upcoming tactics video game from a new Austrian outfit ca...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Magic: The Gathering’s month-late April Fool’s joke has landed with a dull thud thanks to the poisonous combination of Comic Sans font and the Mocking Spongebob meme’s jeering capitalisation style. Five alternate art card reprints in a new Secret Lair will sport the text and font combination on name, rules and flavour text, resulting in a hard-to-read and hard-to-swallow experience. The sAnS mERcy Secret Lair was revealed on Magic: The Gathering’s YouTube page on May 1st. It includes ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
My initial reaction to the announcement of a Betrayal at House on the Hill card game was that of confusion - the narrative-focused series doesn’t seem like an obvious fit for a card game - but minor interest: this could be good! However, I’m disappointed to say that Betrayal: Deck of Lost Souls is not good. Rather than being a fun little diversion from the classic horror-adventure board game, Deck of Lost Souls feels like a poorly executed cash-in on the Betrayal name. At its core, a Betr...| 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
Everybody’s caught Fallout Fever following the success of the first season of the Amazon-produced series adapting Bethesda’s beloved RPG video game series. The adventures of Lucy, Maximus and Walton Goggin’s slick cowboy Ghoul has sent people clamouring for more post-apocalyptic stories, and that includes Modiphius’ several Fallout tabletop games. As reported by BoardGameWire, the UK-based publisher is enjoying a spike of interest and sales riding off the back of Fallout’s initial 8...| 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
We are fast approaching another big Magic: The Gathering set after leaving behind the yeehaw deserts of Thunder Junction, which invariably means the return of spoiler season. But this time, enterprising leakers beat Wizards of the Coast to the punch by releasing heaps of images from the upcoming Modern Horizon 3 set online, so much so that the publisher responded with their own, better quality spoilers. Leaks are a fact of life when dealing with a trading card game on MTG’s size and popular...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
There is a global collective image of Brazil that imagines the nation in stereotypical ways - from a constellation of dilapidated favelas in its cities or the starkly contrasted verdant bounty of the Indigenous-inhabited Amazon rainforest to the glory of its five-time FIFA World Cup-winning national football team. Yet Brazil is more than these things. While it is easy to evoke the sensory experiences of its world-famous carnival parties, the sounds of samba and bossa nova music, or the street...| 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
Warlord: Saga of the Storm is reappearing from the mists of memory thanks to a new edition called Into the Accordlands. The collectible card game will launch a Kickstarter campaign next month with new publisher Kingswood Games at the helm and a dedication to refining and mastering the old titles’ most beloved bits. Originally designed by Oliver Schaaf and Dave Williams, Warlord: Saga of the Storm is a competitive CCG that originally advertised itself as “the game you already know how to p...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Yu-Gi-Oh! is one of the world’s biggest trading card games, but did you know it held Guinness World Records for tournament participation size? Chalk one more medal (or trophy? What does Guinness hand out?) for publisher Konami, who managed to break their previous record and set another at Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series Japan TOKYO 2024. Held at the Tokyo Big Sight (aka the Tokyo International Exhibition Center) on April 28th and 29th, the event marked the first time in the YCSJ’s ten-year ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Hatsune Miku and Magic: The Gathering are teaming up to release four separate Secret Lair series featuring the world-renowned digital pop star with the trading card game’s art. The first of these include six alternately illustrated cards from different artists, each depicting Miku in a slightly different fashion. The four Secret Lair drops, which reprint existing MTG cards in limited quantities, will correspond to the four seasons starting with spring. Appropriately, the Hatsune Miku: Sakur...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
A new board game featuring a bug-based theme could do for insects what Wingspan did for birds. Insectarium is an upcoming board game that sees players creating their own board of insect species to display within the display hall of the grand Insectarium, or a zoo that features a collection of insects. Similarly to 2019’s Wingspan, Insectarium features various illustrations of the natural world - in this case, of specimens that players have gathered during their bug-hunts - created by artist...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
A new Disney Lorcana mechanic called Sing Together will allow players to work together to play powerful songs in the trading card game’s upcoming Ursula’s Return expansion. Sing Together, revealed by TheGamer, functions very similarly to the singing mechanic that has been present in Lorcana since its launch, but with one crucial twist - a player’s teammates can exhaust their own characters to help pay for the steep cost on these six massive cards. In an expansion with a bunch of The Lit...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
An upcoming board game based on 1980s classic Tales of the Arabian Nights takes that title’s adventure structure to a time of round tables and legendary kings. Tales of the Arthurian Knights is a standalone sequel launching towards the end of 2024 that lets players build their own legends, whether they be noble or notorious. Players can either traipse across mythic Britain competitive or collaboratively using the Book of Takes and its accompanying cards. Just like in Tales of the Arabian Ni...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
One of Japan’s largest board game publishers, Arclight, has been purchased by the same entertainment company that owns the maker of Elden Ring, Bloodborne and the Dark Souls video game series. Arclight announced its purchase by Kadokawa Group in an April 26th press release (thanks, BoardGameWire) for an undisclosed amount, and a separate press release from Kadokawa Group simply mentions the purchase of stocks in the board game publisher with a long and storied history within Japan’s table...| 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
The success of 2020’s indie video game Hades owes a lot to the horniness of its fanbase. Hades’ intense and fast gameplay, which challenges players to complete several levels of monster-packed rooms and dangerous bosses in a single life, certainly played a part in the game’s popularity and critical acclaim. Nevertheless, the reason the title has endured within the cultural landscape for so long is because we can’t get enough of its tastefully sexy characters. It looks like Hades 2, wh...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
A new board game based on The Lord of the Rings series has been teased by the co-designers and publisher of 7 Wonders: Duel. In a post made via the official Facebook account for the French arm of Asmodee - a tabletop gaming giant that owns several publishers like Fantasy Flight Games - an upcoming board game inspired by The Lord of the Rings franchise has been teased. The teaser features an image of some artwork showing the character of Smeagol/Gollum holding something glowing in his hand, wh...| 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
Board game boxes have trended toward massive sizes in the last few years. Gloomhaven, Frosthaven and Descent exist on the ludicrous end of the bell curve, but many of the projects funding on Gamefound don’t fall too far from their measure. That’s why a project like Gamelib Pocket is so intriguing - it apparently packs enough components to play dozens of games into a rucksack-compatible cube. Billed as a board game library, Gamelib Pocket is the brainchild of Léandre Proust and Grammes Ed...| 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
Dipping into other worlds beyond Magic: The Gathering’s core multiverse has paid dividends for the trading card game, according to Hasbro’s CEO Chris Cocks. During a recent investor call, Cocks praised MTG’s continued financial muscle and tied it, in part, to the early success of the recent Fallout Commander crossover. “I would say Fallout has been a great set,” Cocks told investors. “I’m a little bit of a fanboy, so I’ll try not to preen a little bit too much - I’ve been pl...| 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
Dance of Muses is an upcoming board game whose theme and artwork should scratch the itch players have for the yet-to-be-released video game Hades 2. A board game for two to four players that takes around 20 minutes to play, Dance of Muses takes inspiration from the myths of Ancient Greece: similarly to the Hades video game series. Also like Hades and Hades 2, Dance of Muses features a cast of characters taken straight out of Greek mythology - in this case the famous Muses. Muses in Greek myth...| 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
Stonemaier Games’ newest project will be a cooperative, roguelike board game with a heck of a hook: the box will contain more than 1,700 cards with unique illustrations. Vantage draws inspiration from Breath of the Wild’s exploratory freedom and will publicly launch sometime in 2025. The maker of Wingspan, Scythe and Libertalia recently supplied the first details about Vantage, calling it an “open-world, cooperative, roguelike adventure game” from studio co-founder Jamey Stegmaier. Be...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
The designer behind Star Wars board games Imperial Assault and Rebellion is returning to the galaxy far, far away with a new co-op game based on spin-off series The Mandalorian. The Mandalorian: Adventures marks the first time since 2019’s open-galaxy exploration game Star Wars: Outer Rim that Corey Konieczka has worked in the enduring sci-fi universe, having departed publisher Fantasy Flight Games after 14 years to open experimental studio Unexpected Games that same year. Unexpected will b...| 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
A co-founder of Stonemaier Games, the publisher responsible for releasing board games like Wingspan and Scythe, has confirmed that the company will not be using AI in the creation of its titles. AI has become a more prevalent talking point in the tabletop gaming industry and community, with several companies discussing its use or already implementing it in its releases. For example, Stronghold Games - one of the publishers behind the Terraforming Mars series of games - recently came under fir...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Earth’s mightiest heroes travelled through time and space to stop Thanos in Avengers: Endgame, but they couldn’t actually save the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Just as the Mad Titan predicted, its rapid expansion turned out to be unsustainable. After years of big spending on TV shows and films yielded only shrinking audiences and mediocre reviews, the franchise effectively collapsed under its own weight. Now Marvel Studios is scrapping and delaying projects as it puzzles out the best way to...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Magic: The Gathering’s corporate parent sang its praises to investors during a recent quarterly earnings call, once again heaping accolades on the trading card game’s strong performance as Hasbro attempts to pull out of its year-long nosedive. CEO Chris Cocks assured investors that MTG’s future remains strong, but the same couldn’t be said for Magic Arena’s digital app. Outlaws of Thunder Junction has only been on shelves for about a week, but the company is already seeing what Cock...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
The next set for Disney Lorcana will introduce cards that enable players to use the Shift keyword without paying the ink cost. Disney Lorcana is a trading card game published by Ravensburger that has players building and using decks featuring cards based on characters, songs and references from throughout the studio’s animated history. Each player will have to build or use a pre-built deck of 60 cards against one or more opponents, with the goal of being the first to gather 20 lore. Playing...| 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
Warhammer’s militarised science fiction and fantasy worlds have been outsourced to dozens of different video games over the past decade, resulting in both dubious stinkers but also smash hits such as Total War: Warhammer and the Vermintide series. But it’s exceedingly rare that the video games filter back to the tabletop, which makes Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s upcoming miniatures skirmish box that much more surprising. Announced on the Warhammer Community page on April 22nd, Darktide:...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Eighteen months after the initial announcement that Swedish tabletop RPG Mutant Year Zero would be translated into a miniature skirmish game, Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars has opened pre-orders ahead of a June 4th release date. Zone Wars takes the post-apocalyptic world and characters of the Mutant RPG, which was most recently revamped as Mutant year Zero by tabletop publisher Free League Publishing, and pits them against each other in small-scale battles. Each player will control a band of Sta...| 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
