Millennials rejoice! An official Neopets tabletop RPG is on the way

An official tabletop role-playing game based on the 1999 Neopets website is on the way. Neopets is a website that allows players to “adopt” and interact with virtual creatures. When the website first launched, players could create their own Neopet, a creature that could be made up of any number of features, such as dragon … Read more

Abzu and Studio Ghibli inspired this solo RPG about diving in spectacular coral reefs.

This new single-player tabletop role-playing game is inspired by the diving video game Abzu and the films of the Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli. Bow is an upcoming RPG in which players become free divers competing in a sandbar festival in a picturesque ocean world. Taking inspiration from the video game Abzu (a 2016 indie … Read more

“You never know when something profound is going to happen”: The designer of Critical Role’s new RPG talks about the therapeutic potential of board games

Although best known within the board game community for creating games such as the Jenga-based role-playing game 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 consulting service. At first, the two career paths may seem very different, but … Read more

This Monty Python-style comedy RPG lets you improvise as a band of incompetent and dangerously powerful wizards.

Hello Wizard, I Have a Problem is a new tabletop role-playing game that allows players to become powerful and incompetent spellcasters. The upcoming RPG lets multiple players collaborate to tell a story about a band of chaotic wizards. Similar to absurdist, fantasy comedies like the works of iconic British group Monty Python, along with The … Read more