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 scenes infused by the strange and unexpected. Unlike many other tabletop RPGs, Hello Wizard sees its pla ..read more

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 2017 by Netflix. The upcoming roleplaying game will see players’ characters grow up together from chi ..read more

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 they play classic playing card game War (which you might also know as Battle) instead. The result was a ..read more

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, Holland has written the entire rulebook in a language composed of icons, glyphs and symbols, setting a chal ..read more

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 preparing to fight against a horde of Kobolds, a classic Dungeons & Dragons enemy, with a fri ..read more

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, players choose from a selection of characters inspired by classic fantasy roleplaying game archetypes, bef ..read more

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, in its new streamlined and revised Classic Edition, with Hamilcar: Silver Edition, designed by ..read more

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 making games because it’s fun but it’s taught me how to play close attention and listen to people.” For the Quee ..read more

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 a pristine ocean, swimming around colourful coral reefs and coming across all sorts of strange and be ..read more

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 original city-management video game was brought over to the tabletop in an official board game adaptati ..read more