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How to make a D&D character for beginners | Dicebreaker
Whilst some classes in Dungeons & Dragons favour characters designed for close-up and personal fighting, others are better suited to staying on the sidelines. Some classes are able to cast spells, ...
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City of Six Moons is a board game written in an alien language you’ll need to translate to play - and you’ll never know if you’ve got it quite right - Dicebreaker
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.
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“You don't know when something profound is going to happen”: Designer behind Critical Role's new RPG on the therapeutic potential of tabletop games - Dicebreaker
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 ...
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How to play Daggerheart: Where to start with Critical Role’s fantasy RPG - Dicebreaker
How to create a Daggerheart character Making a character is always one of the most exciting things about playing a tabletop RPG, and creating a character in Daggerheart is no exception. Characters in ...
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Critical Role's D&D rival Daggerheart plays tabletop RPGs' greatest hits well, but struggles to be more than a covers band - Dicebreaker
The elevator pitch for Daggerheart is pretty exciting. Critical Role, the biggest poster child of the biggest RPG on the market, is taking a shocking turn away from Dungeons & Dragons, the game on ...
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Are we entering a new golden age of trading card games?
It wasn’t too long ago that those looking to pick up the hobby of playing trading card games were essentially faced with three options. The seminal Magic: The Gathering is now, and always has been, ...
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‘The hobby is only just catching up to what Greg did 40 years ago’: Pendragon 6E, ‘ultimate’ edition of an RPG legend’s masterpiece, reclaims its crown - Dicebreaker
The golden age of tabletop roleplaying has seen Dungeons & Dragons go from controversial subject of moral outrage and underground favourite played infamously in basements and back-alley comic shops to ...
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Yu-Gi-Oh!’s Maze of Millennia set makes anime cards real for the first time in 25 years, without being relics - Dicebreaker
It is only the second episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime where Yugi Moto, fresh from his electrifying victory over Seto Kaiba, receives a strange video tape in the post. Putting it into his VCR, he’s ...
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MTG colour combinations explained | Dicebreaker
Two-colour combination names in MTG Two-colour combinations, or pairs, in Magic: The Gathering make up many of the game’s most popular decks. The names of two-colour pairs in MTG are based on one of ...
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Jennell Jaquays, Dungeons & Dragons and video game designer, has passed away - Dicebreaker
Tabletop designer and video game developer Jennell Jaquays, who created Dungeons & Dragons adventures for a leading publisher of its time, has passed away at the age of 67. Jaquays is best known for ...
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D&D and MTG designers, artists and producers lose jobs among over 1,000 Hasbro layoffs, former devs confirm - Dicebreaker
Dozens of former workers for toy giant Hasbro took to social media to announce that they were amongst the 1,100 staff caught in a massive layoff on December 12th. In an internal memo, Hasbro CEO Chris ...
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Tabletop Awards 2023 winners: this year’s best board games, RPGs, designers and publishers - Dicebreaker
Watch this year's Tabletop Awards winners announced live at PAX Unplugged 2023 Watch on YouTube Opening our awards is the first of two Rising Star awards, Rising Star: Publisher. Both Rising Star ...