The Best Tabletop RPGs Of 2023

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Whether you’re new to the scene or you’ve been rolling dice and crafting adventures for years, 2023 had no shortage of wonderful games to pull you into other worlds. It’s an excellent time to get together with friends, gather around the table, and tell a story together, and each of the games that follow will take your group to surprising new destinations.

1994’s Planescape campaign setting was a refreshing change of pace back in the day, providing a link that connected the various worlds of the D&D multiverse – an early take on the multiverse concept for anyone keeping score. Planescape found increased popularity thanks to the stellar Planescape: Torment video game in 1999. This year’s return to the classic D&D locale does justice to those earlier iterations but isn’t afraid to strike off in new directions.

Released as a three-book set (along with some other goodies), Adventures in the Multiverse introduces several new features to your 5th edition game, including an exploration of the fantastical city called Sigil, as well as a wealth of new creatures and characters that fit the weird destinations of this cross-dimensional meeting place. There’s also a healthy selection of new player options.

However, the included adventure steals the show, catapulting players through an array of outlandish destinations, and pushing forward character death as a way to explore transformation and character development in ways that feel fresh and rewarding to longtime D&D enthusiasts. 

This new English edition is an evolution and adaptation of Scandinavia’s earliest big role-playing game, entitled Drakar och Demoner. The game self-describes as focusing on “mirth and mayhem,” and our playtests find that description apt. Adventures are often