The Tea Dragon Society reunites for Autumn Harvest, the next board game based on the graphic novel series
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Re-Roll: This Week’s Tabletop Game News for the Week Ending July 24, 2020
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Call of Cthulhu studio’s ‘70s board game Lords of the Middle Sea is being revived with an RPG
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Renature is a board game about reversing climate change from the makers of Tikal
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Achievement Points (AcP) and Free RPG Day
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Dark Horse Comics and Studio71 Games Reveal New 'The Umbrella Academy Card Game' Deets
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Magic: The Gathering’s hugely entertaining new format Jumpstart is the perfect introduction to the TCG
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Renegade Calls 'Tea Dragon Society' for 'Autumn Harvest'
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Viking video game Northgard heads to Uncharted Lands in board game spin-off
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Dungeons & Dragons co-op board game Adventure Begins announced, out in October
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Get Root: The RPG’s quickstart rules and a new adventure for free this weekend
Become a band of roaming vagabonds in Root: The Roleplaying Game with a new quickstart book and adventure available as…
Point Salad creators’ next game is like Patchwork but with doughnuts
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Starfinder Battles Launch Today!
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D&D Adventure Begins
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“We're not trying to make fun games. We're trying to make good games”: Root, Pax Pamir and Oath designer Cole Wehrle argues on (and off) the tabletop
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Wavelength and Monikers creators’ next game is a fuzzy spin on Jenga
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Make a Hollywood movie with friends in co-op dice game Roll Camera
Script, shoot and edit the next Hollywood blockbuster - or cult classic - in upcoming filmmaking board game Roll Camera.…
Wingspan designer’s next board game Mariposas has a release date
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Everdell, A War of Whispers and Black Orchestra devs open indie tabletop studio Quillsilver
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Comic book turned Netflix series The Umbrella Academy is now a card game
Face legions of villains as a family of unlikely superheroes in The Umbrella Academy, an upcoming board game adaptation of…
Warhammer Humble Bundle includes Blood Bowl 2, Deathwatch, Battlefleet Gothic and more on PC for £10
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How to play Pokémon TCG Online: Get started on PC and mobile
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Root digital is coming to mobile and PC later this year
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Spiel des Jahres 2020 winners: Pictures and The Crew collect ‘Game of the Year’ awards
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Super Mario Monopoly and Jenga are being released to celebrate the video games’ 35th anniversary
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Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 was almost a ‘sixties Bond film’ with a working slide projector
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PRESS RELEASE – Token Terrors: An Uncontainable Gaming Experience
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Magic: The Gathering’s new Jumpstart format aims to take the effort out of making a deck
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Sacred Rites is a new social deduction game inspired by horror film Midsommar
Infiltrate a mysterious cult as an outsider or become a believer in Sacred Rites, a social deduction game that takes…
Dixit and Mysterium studio Libellud has been acquired by Catan, Pandemic and Ticket to Ride owner Asmodee
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Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 revealed as Cold War spy thriller set in the 1960s – watch the exclusive cinematic trailer
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Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall is an RPG about cooking and vampires
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10 best sports board games
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Under the Moonlight is the first expansion for beautiful forest-growing game Photosynthesis
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Munchkin Dungeon, a new board game based on the hit party game, is out this week
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Vampire: The Masquerade – Rivals is a new expandable card game based on the RPG
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Raid and steal in next month’s Barbarian Hordes expansion for Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North
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A Steven Universe board game is coming from the co-designer of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle
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PRESS RELEASE: 9TH Level Games Announces New Hosted Online Play Service 9th Level RPGs run by vetted GMs
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Ascension Tactics turns the fantasy deckbuilder into a miniatures game
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Black board games are key to the future of tabletop
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Breakdancing Meeples is a dexterity game dance-off that has you literally throwing shapes
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New Descent board game, Legends of the Dark, leaked by tie-in novel and trademark filing
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No-Prep Character: Pr’rall
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Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles, the next game from the makers of Anachrony, washes players up on a dinosaur island
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The Dicebreaker Podcast travels to the past, present and future with Pandemic Legacy, 2020’s best RPGs and Star Trek
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New Dicebreaker merch is on the way – pre-order hoodies, shirts, mugs and more!
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Sanctum solo rules let you face the Demon Lord alone in hack-and-slash dungeon-crawler
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Rare Pokémon card, one of seven in the world, sells for $90,000 at auction
Japanese No. 1 Trainer card given to winners of 1999 regional tournaments.
Leaked Twilight Imperium 4E expansion adds new factions, mechs and even more players
A galaxy-sized add-on.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: A New Dawn is getting its first big expansion, Terra Incognita
Includes support for fifth player and gameplay elements based on Civilization VI.
Tabletop games had a record-breaking start to 2020 on Kickstarter, including their biggest-ever month
Gloomhaven sequel Frosthaven raised more money in May than every April campaign combined.
New Minis for the Big City
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New TRPG series Adventure launches next month with a game by Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor
Adventure Presents: Tartarus Gate is on Kickstarter now
Massive Darkness 2 will include new narrative campaign mode in day one expansion
Rules rebuilt from the ground up.
Scrabble community bans offensive words, including racial slurs, from competitive play
North American Scrabble Players Association removes 200 words from permitted tournament spellings.
Farewell Amanda!
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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar’s 2020 General’s Handbook brings multiplayer team battles to the minis game this week
Alongside aerial combat rules and expanded narrative play.
Darkest Dungeon, the video game about the horrors of adventuring, is getting a board game
From Solomon Kane and Time of Legends: Joan of Arc maker Mythic.
Quest, Alien and Mörk Borg among nominees for best RPGs of the year at 2020 ENnie Awards
Mech RPG Lancer withdrawn from shortlist in opposition to 2017 controversy.
WWE Legends Royal Rumble Card Game sees a cavalcade of classic wrestlers enter the ring
Including ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage and Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts.
Shadowed Paths, Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth’s first expansion, is coming this month
Featuring Gandalf and Arwen as playable characters.
Pandemic Legacy: Season 3 revealed as prequel Season 0 in announcement trailer – exclusive
“Every end has a beginning.”
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First Undaunted expansion adds a solo mode to the two-player board game series
Here comes the cavalry.
An anniversary edition of The Lord of the Rings co-op board game is on its way
The Reiner Knizia classic is revived after 20 years.
Scythe publisher’s next game, Pendulum, sees players literally investing their time
Have you clocked it yet?
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Kult: Divinity Lost RPG gets scenario book featuring Swedish horror writer Anders Fager
Alongside a supplementary sourcebook and a map-making guide.
Sorcerer expansion Endbringer smashes Kickstarter target, introduces co-op play
New sorcerer packs also on offer.
EGX 2020 has been cancelled due to COVID-19 and replaced by online event
EGX Digital to run from 12-20 September
BoardGameGeek Con 2020 cancelled in response to COVID-19 concerns
Another Virtual Gaming Con coming.
Munchkins & Mazes edition doubles-down on the Dungeons & Dragons references
Is this a parody within a parody?
Artificial Intelligence company DeepMind is teaching AI how to play classic board game Diplomacy
How do you backstab a robot, though?
National Parks: Get Wild helps players to have fun supporting local US wildlife
With a portion of the profits going to the National Park Foundation.
Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps gets its third release date and two newly announced expansions
Aliens: Ultimate Badasses and Get Away From Her, You B***h!
Dungeonbreaker returns and we regret to inform you everybody is in hell
But at least they’ve made a friend
Kilmonger and Taskmaster deliver the pain in Marvel Villainous: Infinite Power
They join Thanos, Hela and Ultron.