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ALIEN RPG: Evolved Edition, Rapture Protocol Cinematic Adventure, and Evolved Edition Starter Set Out Now

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

This week, Free League Publishing released the updated and expanded ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition, a modern take on the award-winning sci-fi horror TTRPG, in partnership with 20th Century Studios. Joining it at launch are Rapture Protocol, the first chapter of a new cinematic trilogy, a redesigned Starter Set, a deluxe Game Mother’s Screen, and a high-quality Rapture Protocol Miniatures Set that puts the ALIEN universe’s most iconic threats on the tabletop for fans old and new.

The ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Core Rulebook ($57.99), Starter Set ($39.99), Rapture Protocol Cinematic Adventure Set expansion ($39.99), Rapture Protocol Miniatures Set ($59.99), Game Mother’s “MU/TH/UR” Screen ($24.99), and related accessories are now available through the Free League webshop, hobby stores worldwide, and in PDF format at DriveThroughRPG. Virtual Tabletop Modules are available on Roll20 and Demiplane today, with Foundry and Alchemy versions to follow later.

About ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Core Rulebook

ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition builds on the beloved sci-fi horror TTRPG with a fully updated and refined ruleset that offers a modern, streamlined experience for both new and veteran players. The expanded core rulebook features refreshed artwork, added content, and a range of enhanced tools for players and Game Mothers, all fully compatible with previous releases and game material.

A striking redesign of the Core Rulebook with updated layouts by Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG), fresh interior maps and artwork, and a new cover by Colm Geoghegan (Creepy Duck Design)
Life path character generation for richer and more varied backstories
Revised and expanded core rules for talents, stress and panic, and stealth
Reworked combat rules covering armor, ammo, grenades, stuns, and spaceship engagements
Iconic weapons, items, ships, and locations drawn from the hit film Alien: Romulus
Additional rules and tools requested by players, including zero-gravity hazards, miniatures support, and expanded campaign play
The Tartarus Sector, a fully realized campaign setting that expands the frontier of the ALIEN universe
Last Survivor, an immersive solo mode crafted by veteran solo game designers Shawn Tomkin and Matt Click

About ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Starter Set

Redesigned as the ideal entry point to the ALIEN universe, the Evolved Edition Starter Set includes everything needed for game night. Inside are abridged rules, character sheets, custom dice, large miniature-ready maps, initiative and reference cards, handouts, tokens, and an expanded Evolved Edition of the fan-favorite Hope’s Last Day scenario, set on the terraforming colony Hadley’s Hope before the events of the 1986 sci-fi horror classic ALIENS.

The set includes:

Abridged Evolved Edition rules featured in the included rules booklet
A huge double-sided map (864×558 mm) featuring chartered space in 2183 on one side and Hadley’s Hope on the other
Five pre-generated characters ready for immediate play
Playing cards that streamline gear management, combat initiative, personal agendas, and panic responses
Durable cardboard tokens representing characters and creatures
Rules reference sheets for quick lookup
A supply dial that tracks essential resources such as air, ammunition, and power
Ten engraved base dice and ten engraved stress dice crafted for the ALIEN The Roleplaying Game
A high-quality plastic miniature of the iconic Xenomorph

About Rapture Protocol

Rapture Protocol is a complete cinematic adventure for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition and the first chapter of the Jeremiah Saga trilogy. Built for three to five players and a Game Mother, the adventure brings the franchise back to its iconic blend of tension and isolation. Players follow the crew of a modest starfreighter on a routine resupply run to the remote Jeremiah VI industrial colony, unaware that something far more dangerous is waiting for them there.

This set contains:

The main Rapture Protocol scenario book, full of story details, locations, and guidance for running the adventure
A huge double-sided map (864×558 mm) showing the starfreighter USS Fidanza on one side and the industrial colony of Jeremiah VI on the other
Five pre-generated characters with unique roles and motivations
Playing cards that support personal agendas and NPC interactions
High-quality cardboard tokens for characters and creatures
Maps and handouts to assist players during the scenario

To accompany the adventure, a new Miniatures Set introduces 20 finely crafted 28mm figures of soldiers, space truckers, Xenomorphs, and other threats. These miniatures are perfectly scaled for the large battle maps featured in Rapture Protocol, Hope’s Last Day, and other cinematic scenarios across the ALIEN RPG line. The set also includes a booklet of simplified skirmish rules that enables fast, tactical encounters using the included miniatures.

Free League also offers a deluxe landscape Game Mother’s Screen, styled after a MU/TH/UR ship-intelligence interface. The inward-facing panels compile essential tables and quick references to streamline play, while keeping the Game Mother’s notes and secrets concealed from curious eyes.

Modiphius Announces New Terry Pratchett Discworld Games Coming in 2026

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Publisher of tabletop RPGs, wargames, and board games, Modiphius Entertainment Ltd. has announced that it is developing new games for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, set to be launched in 2026.

Most notably, Modiphius will be launching a new Discworld board game as a pre-order on Gamefound in Q1 of 2026 named Discworld: Readers Digested. Readers Digested will be a licensed edition of Blue Moon City, a game by Reiner Knizia, who is best known for his eurogame titles. Designed for 2-4 players, the game has been carefully reskinned with Discworld theming and features brand-new added expansion content.

Following a successful Kickstarter campaign for Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork which funded with over £2.4m, a retail edition of the core rulebook will be coming to stores in Q2 of 2026. Exclusive to friendly local gaming stores, this will be a digest-sized core rulebook as well as a starter set with an as-yet unpublished adventure for Adventures in Ankh-Morpork.

Modiphius is also planning to bring a Discworld card game to market in Q3 2026, titled Kill Sam Vimes. The card game drops your unlucky assassins into a contract to kill the titular character, as they try not to fall foul of deadly (and hilarious) traps and tricks imagined by the Duke of Ankh.

And that’s not all—coming in Q4 of 2026, building on the success of the first Kickstarter campaign, will be a second Discworld RPG campaign: Discworld: Adventures in Lancre and Uberwald, set to explore Lancre (including its Witches), Uberwald, and the Chalk.

For those looking to get their Discworld fix this year, Modiphius has partnered with AEG on Discworld Live – a TTRPG live show featuring High Rollers and Andy Farrant from Oxventure, at indigo at the O2 later this month. The cast will be playing The Hogswatch adventure, just in time for the festive season.

Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game at PAX Unplugged

Posted on November 15, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Launching next March with a Kickstarter campaign, Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game, reunites three Warhammer gaming legends – Jervis Johnson, Mark A. Latham, and Gav Thorpe for their first co-created tabletop game! Godzilla puts a team of players in the midst of kaiju attacks with character sheets, collaboration, and playing cards as their tools to defend humanity. This unique new game system uses standard 52-card decks, rather than dice. Fans can sign up for more information on IDW Games.

IDW Games will host Playtests at PAX Unplugged (November 21-23, 2025) in Philadelphia. Players who participate will receive exclusive player previews and merchandise. IDW Games will also have a selection of the Godzilla RPG merchandise exclusively available at PAX, including Beanies, Playmats, Notebooks, Pins, Koozies, Playing Cards, Totes, and more. Attendees are invited to sign up to play the game during the convention! Sessions last approximately 1.5 to 2 hours.

The Godzilla RPG Kickstarter campaign will be a 30-day pledge launching early 2026, and will feature limited edition tiers with expected fulfillment by fall 2026.

Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game is the first new release from IDW Games in more than 5 years with plans for other licensed properties to expand their game line. Recently Hunters Entertainment announced the Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees – A Storytelling Game Kickstarter campaign meeting their initial goal in less than 72 hours. Backers can still sign up for the campaign and its exclusive products. IDW Games plan to continue future game development via Kickstarter giving brand-devoted fans an opportunity to have something exclusive.

Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game PAX Unplugged

IDW Games announces Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game by Warhammer legends Jervis Johnson, Mark A. Latham, and Gav Thorpe

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Join G-Force to fight the greatest kaiju of all time when IDW Games releases the first-ever Godzilla Tabletop Roleplaying Game! Launching next March with a Kickstarter campaign, Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game, reunites three Warhammer aming legends – Jervis Johnson, Mark A. Latham, and Gav Thorpe for their first co-created tabletop game! Godzilla puts a team of players in the midst of kaiju attacks with character sheets, collaboration, and playing cards as their tools to defend humanity. This unique new game system uses standard 52-card decks, rather than dice.

The Godzilla RPG Kickstarter campaign will be a 30-day pledge launching early 2026, and will feature limited edition tiers with expected fulfillment by fall 2026.

IDW Games will host Playtests at PAX Unplugged (November 21-23, 2025) in Philadelphia. Players who participate will receive exclusive player previews and merchandise. IDW Games will also have a selection of the Godzilla RPG merchandise exclusively available at PAX, including Beanies, Playmats, Notebooks, Pins, Koozies, Playing Cards, Totes, and more.

Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game is the first new release from IDW Games in more than 5 years with plans for other licensed properties to expand their game line. Recently Hunters Entertainment announced the Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees – A Storytelling Game Kickstarter campaign meeting their initial goal in less than 72 hours. Backers can still sign up for the campaign and its exclusive products. IDW Games plan to continue future game development via Kickstarter giving brand-devoted fans an opportunity to have something exclusive.

Free League Publishing and Skybound launch Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying

Posted on September 23, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying, the tabletop roleplaying game by Free League Publishing and Skybound Entertainment, is now live on Kickstarter.

This latest RPG from fan-favorite and multiple award-winning publisher Free League is based on Skybound’s groundbreaking comic book series Invincible by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, which is also a hit animated series on Prime Video.

Early backers who make a pledge for a physical reward within the first 48 hours of the Kickstarter launch will receive an exclusive cloth patch bearing their choice of the Invincible suit design or the symbol of the Viltrum Empire, home of Omni-Man, at no additional cost.

Backers can also download a completely free Quickstart PDF to get a taste of the game right away. This Quickstart will also be launched as a free content module on the Foundry virtual tabletop during the course of the campaign.

The Kickstarter will include a comprehensive Core Rulebook – in a standard and an exclusive Collector’s Edition – and a boxed Starter Set, both with illustrations by Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley and graphic design by Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG).

If unlocked as a stretch goal in this campaign, Skybound will print a limited run of Invincible #1 with a brand-new variant cover drawn and inked by Todd Nauck and colored by Matt Herms. If unlocked, all physical pledge backers will receive one copy of this unique item, which is exclusive to this Kickstarter campaign and will never be printed again.

The Invincible universe is filled with everything we love about superhero stories – costumes and capes, epic brawls across cityscapes, sidekicks, team-ups, alien invasions, witty banter, alternate dimensions, and much more – though these familiar elements are often subverted in surprising ways. Any trope can exist, and any trope can be turned on its head.

In this action-packed storytelling experience, players take on the role of superheroes in their own corners of the Invincible universe. Whether you choose to play an established character from the comic or create your own, this game is the story of what happens to your superheroes – the protagonists of your own saga.

You might be a wisecracking speedster, a super-genius inventor, a grizzled vigilante, a shape-shifting alien, or a high-flying symbol of hope. Whatever you play and wherever you go, you’ll have to juggle relationships with patrols, face tough challenges and choices, and learn how to use your powers… and learn more about yourself in the process.

Who knows? You might be INVINCIBLE.

Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying Core Rulebook Key Features:

Your Superhero: Instructions for how to create your very own hero.
Powers & Talents: Details on superpowers, talents, and drawbacks that signify what kind of hero you’re playing.
Action & Combat: Rules for combat, damage, recovery, adversaries, and challenges.
The Invincible Universe: A primer providing guidance on how to capture the feel of the setting, and descriptions of key locations and organizations.
Running the Game: Guidance intended for the GM about how to prepare and run a game session.
Campaign Play: Tools to help set up campaigns, events and encounters, and non-player characters.
Dramatis Personae: Descriptions and statistics for dozens of key characters from the Invincible universe.

Avengers Assemble! The Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game Avengers Expansion is packed with info

Posted on September 20, 2025 by Brett

Earth’s mightiest super heroes – the Avengers – finally get the big-book treatment that fans have been waiting for! AVENGERS EXPANSION features many of Marvel’s most popular super heroes – like Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Hulk and Thor – plus countless others Avengers and their most villainous foes. It also includes rules for how to craft iconic weapons (like Cap’s shield or Thor’s hammer), build your own headquarters (like Avengers Tower), and handle battles between large groups of foes. Get your players together. It’s time for your Avengers to assemble!

Written by: Matt Forbeck, Marty Forbeck, Pat Forbeck, Alex Irvine
Lead Designer: Mike Capps, Matt Fobeck
Producer and Project Lead: Carlos Cerantes Jr.
Editor: Brian Overton
Assistant Producer: Amir Osman

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Amazon

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Chaosium announces Call of Cthulhu in a Castle, coming to Philadelphia January 2026

Posted on August 30, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

In collaboration with The Game Theatre, Chaoisum presents Cthulhu in a Castle, a brand-new three-day Call of Cthulhu RPG vacation event—set within the eerily atmospheric halls of Cairnwood Estate in Philadelphia, PA. Tickets are available now.

From January 23–25, 2026, Call of Cthulhu afficionados can step into a cinematic weekend of cosmic dread, dark mysteries, and unparalleled roleplay—crafted specially for longtime Chaosium fans.

What Makes This Event Unmissable:

An epic Call of Cthulhu scenario inside a real Gilded Age mansion, replete with candlelit chambers, ancient lore, and lingering shadows.
A fully inclusive horror getaway—two nights luxury hotel stay, six themed meals, endless snacks, and Bundled hospitality.
A chance to connect with fellow explorers of the Mythos, forging unforgettable memories in a storybook setting.
A rare opportunity in our company’s historic 50th year to experience tabletop horror as you’ve never before.

Tickets are extremely limited, and this unique fusion of Chaosium’s Mythos and immersive environment won’t come again.

Coriolis: The Great Dark, the New Edition of Free League’s Original Sci-Fi RPG, Released Today

Posted on August 14, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Free League Publishing has officially released Coriolis: The Great Dark, the new edition of their original sci-fi RPG. The core rulebook, alongside a GM screen and custom dice set, is now officially available via the Free League webshop, in digital format via DrivethruRPG and the Foundry virtual tabletop, and soon if not already in hobby stores worldwide.

Inspired by 19th century expeditions, deep sea diving and pulp archaeology, Coriolis: The Great Dark is a roleplaying game about exploration and intrigue. Join dangerous expeditions, navigate the Byzantine schemes of Ship City, and hunt for the keys that unlock the mystery of this Lost Horizon. The core rulebook features:

Rules for creating your crew of Explorers, with upgrades such as talents, vehicles, and crew maneuvers to enhance campaign play.
Rules for delving into the unknown, traveling on Greatships through the dangerous Slipstream, and trekking across wild planets.
A detailed gazetteer of the Lost Horizon, the eleven systems of the Charted Sphere and the asteroid-metropolis of Ship City.
The Black Ziggurat, an introductory adventure that will take you deep into an ancient ruin on a distant moon.
Tools and rules for solo play, making it possible to explore the Lost Horizon all by yourself.

Coriolis: The Great Dark Coming August 12 – Now On Pre-Order

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

After the buzzing pre-release at Gen Con, Coriolis the Great Dark, the new edition of Free League’s original sci-fi RPG, will be officially released everywhere on August 12 – that’s this coming Tuesday!

The new core book, alongside a GM screen and dice set, are already available for pre-order in the Free League webshop, with immediate access to a complete PDF.

Inspired by 19th century expeditions, deep sea diving and pulp archaeology, Coriolis: The Great Dark is a roleplaying game about exploration and intrigue. Join dangerous expeditions, navigate the Byzantine schemes of Ship City, and hunt for the keys that unlock the mystery of this Lost Horizon. The core rulebook features:

Rules for creating your crew of Explorers, with upgrades such as talents, vehicles, and crew maneuvers to enhance campaign play.
Rules for delving into the unknown, traveling on Greatships through the dangerous Slipstream, and trekking across wild planets.
A detailed gazetteer of the Lost Horizon, the eleven systems of the Charted Sphere and the asteroid-metropolis of Ship City.
The Black Ziggurat, an introductory adventure that will take you deep into an ancient ruin on a distant moon.
Tools and rules for solo play, making it possible to explore the Lost Horizon all by yourself.

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