Gobgob hopped on a sandworm. Steering is optional.Dune: Imperium – Uprising is a standalone follow-up to Dune: Imperium from Dire Wolf, so no base game needed. It builds on the same mix of deck-building and worker placement in the world of Frank Herbert's Dune. Balance military might with political intrigue as you send out spies, take on contracts to grow your resources, and learn the ways of the Fremen to ride sandworms into battle. It also adds a six-player mode where two teams face off. Most Dune: Imperium cards, plus the Rise of Ix and Immortality expansions, work with it.Gobgob's favourite bit: The six-player team mode. Three against three, full of shared plans and secret glances. Gobgob's team lost, but it was very dramatic.👥 1–4 players, or 6 in teams  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob picked the beholder. Gobgob regrets nothing.Dungeon Mayhem: Monster Madness is a fast, chaotic card game from Wizards of the Coast where you play as one of six classic Dungeons & Dragons monsters. Each monster has its own 28-card deck and its own way to charm, crush, disintegrate or devour the competition. Play cards to attack, shield yourself and pull off mighty powers, and be the last one standing. It works with the original Dungeon Mayhem and Battle for Baldur's Gate, and the monster-sized box holds all twelve decks, with rules for up to six players.Gobgob's favourite bit: The monsters have huge personalities. Where else can you play a beholder princess or a mimic disguised as a chair? Gobgob sat on the chair. The chair bit back.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 10–15 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob rolled three dragons. Gobgob would like to go home now.Dungeon Roll is a quick push-your-luck dice game from Tasty Minstrel Games, designed by Chris Darden. Pick a hero with special powers, then take turns as the Adventurer, rolling party dice to recruit fighters, clerics, mages and thieves, while another player rolls the dungeon dice full of monsters, treasure and potions. Beat the monsters, grab the loot and delve deeper, or retire safely with your experience. After three rounds, the player with the most experience points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The dragon. Roll three or more dragon faces on the dungeon dice and the dragon wakes up, and you need three different companion types to beat it. Also, the box is a treasure chest you draw loot from. Gobgob loves the box.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob checked under the bed. Then under 500 more.Monster Manual is the core bestiary for the revised (2024) Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, from Wizards of the Coast. It holds more than 500 creature stat blocks, including 75+ brand-new monsters and 40+ ready-to-use NPCs, with redesigned stat blocks and fresh art for almost every creature. A must for any DM filling a dungeon.Gobgob's favourite bit: The newcomers. Gobgob's pick is the blob of annihilation, closely followed by the primeval owlbear. The redesigned chromatic and metallic dragons look fantastic too.📖 Hardcover core rulebook  |  D&D 2024 rules📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob read the whole thing. Gobgob is now in charge.Dungeon Master's Guide is one of the three core rulebooks for the revised (2024) Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, from Wizards of the Coast. It's packed with advice for running games, from your very first session to a long campaign, plus the Greyhawk setting ready to use, more than 300 treasures and magic items, bastion rules for player strongholds, a lore glossary and 15 ready-to-use maps. Handy for brand-new and veteran DMs alike.Gobgob's favourite bit: Bastions. Your players get their own stronghold to build up between adventures, complete with workshops and hirelings. Gobgob has already designed the moat.📖 Hardcover core rulebook  |  D&D 2024 rules📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob rolled up a character. Then another. Then eleven more.Player's Handbook is the core rulebook for players in the revised (2024) Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, from Wizards of the Coast. It has everything you need to build a hero and play: twelve classes with 48 subclasses, 10 species, 16 backgrounds and 75 feats, plus nearly 400 spells, weapon mastery and rules for crafting. It's designed to work with your existing fifth edition books and adventures.Gobgob's favourite bit: Weapon mastery. Every weapon now has its own special trick, so choosing a warhammer over a rapier really changes how you fight. Gobgob asked for a frying pan. Request denied.📖 Hardcover core rulebook  |  D&D 2024 rules📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob's first quest. Gobgob packed seven snacks. Just in case.Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure Begins is a co-op fantasy board game from Hasbro, made as a quick, friendly way into the world of D&D. Choose your heroes and journey through the lands of Neverwinter together, overcoming obstacles, battling monsters and taking on the Boss monster terrorising the realm. Great for families and anyone curious about Dungeons & Dragons.Gobgob's favourite bit: Everyone gets a go at being the Dungeon Master. The role passes around the table each turn, so everyone gets to help tell the story. Gobgob's stories all end with snacks.👥 2–4 players  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob got a dinner invitation from a vampire. Gobgob brought garlic bread.Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft is a co-op dungeon crawl board game from Wizards of the Coast, designed by Rob Heinsoo, Peter Lee, Mike Mearls and Bill Slavicsek. Choose a hero, such as a ranger, rogue, fighter, cleric or wizard, and explore the dark halls of Castle Ravenloft together. Flip new dungeon tiles, face monsters and nasty surprises, earn treasure and experience to level up, and complete each scenario's quest, from recovering a relic to taking on the vampire lord himself. You can even play it solo.Gobgob's favourite bit: The dungeon builds itself as you go. Step to the edge of a tile, flip a new one and see what's waiting. Usually it's something with teeth. Gobgob keeps flipping anyway.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob cast Magic Missile with a finger gun. It counted.Dungeons & Dragons: Rock Paper Wizard is a silly party game from WizKids. The dragon has been slain and its treasure is up for grabs, so every player is a wizard racing to grab the most gold. Everyone shares a spellbook of famous D&D spells, and each spell has its own hand gesture. All players cast at the same time by making the gesture and pointing at a target, pushing wizards towards or away from the hoard. First to 25 gold wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The hand gestures. Everyone throws their spell at once, pointing across the table, so every round is a burst of flailing wizards and loud reactions. Gobgob's gestures are very dramatic.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob squinted at the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa squinted back.Escape Room: The Game – Da Vinci's Telescope is a co-op escape room expansion from Identity Games. A collector has found clues to a secret telescope hidden in Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, sketches and notes, and your team has one hour to crack them before the solar eclipse. Work together to solve puzzles, then slide your answer keys into the Chrono Decoder to see if you got it right.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every clue is hiding in Leonardo's own art, so you end up staring at famous paintings like a very confused detective. Stuck? The hint cards are there, and Gobgob will not judge.🔑 Heads up: this is an expansion. You'll need the Chrono Decoder and keys from the Escape Room: The Game base set to play.👥 3–5 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 16+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

The alarm is blaring. Gobgob is looking for the code.Escape Room: The Game – Puzzle Adventures: Secret of the Scientist is a mix of escape room and jigsaw puzzle from Identity Games. You're a rookie police officer locked inside a strange mansion with no door handles and a mystery to solve. Read the story, crack the riddles and earn the jigsaw pieces for each room, one at a time. Play against a timer if you like pressure, or take it slow and chat it through.Gobgob's favourite bit: The box opens like an advent calendar. Five room puzzles build into one big picture of the mansion, and a puzzle-style decoder tells you if your answers are right. Gobgob likes to open all the doors at once. That is not allowed.👥 1–2 players  |  ⏱ 150 min  |  🎂 Ages 16+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

The sand is pouring in. Gobgob is pretending that's fine.Escape Room: The Game – Tomb Robbers is a co-op escape room expansion from Identity Games. An ancient map has led your team into the tomb of Osiris, but the moment you step inside, sand starts pouring from the ceiling. You have one hour to find the treasure and get out. Solve the puzzles together, then use the Chrono Decoder to check your answers against the clock.Gobgob's favourite bit: The whole room is a giant hourglass. Every wrong answer costs precious time, and the Chrono Decoder ticks away the whole hour. Gobgob now dreams about sand.🔑 Heads up: this is an expansion. You'll need the Chrono Decoder and keys from the Escape Room: The Game base set to play.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 16+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob hears groaning. Gobgob is running.Escape the Horde is a fast-paced zombie card game where two sides battle it out in the Wastelands. The Survivors team up and use weapons, cunning and strategy to outrun Patient Zero and the zombie horde, while the Infected attack and try to turn every last Survivor. Survivors win if they last until the final card is drawn, or until the Countdown Clock runs out. The Infected win if everyone gets turned.Gobgob's favourite bit: Nobody gets knocked out. Get infected and you switch sides and start hunting your old friends, so every player stays in the game right to the end. Gobgob was bitten on turn two and has never had more fun.👥 2–4 players📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob locked the front door. Now the whole family has to think their way out.Escape Room: The Game – Escape Your House: Spy Team is a family escape room game from the Escape Room: The Game range that turns your own home into the puzzle. Pick one of six spy missions, hide the puzzle cards around the house using the set-up card, then fit the timer door lock onto a door handle. The lock counts down 15 minutes while your team solves the clues to find the key that opens it.Gobgob's favourite bit: It's a real lock with a real timer on a real door in your house. Don't worry, there's an emergency key. Gobgob keeps it in a very safe place. Somewhere.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 15 min per mission  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob recommends this for date night. Loser gathers the berries.Everdell Duo is a two-player take on the woodland city-building board game Everdell, from Starling Games and designers James A. Wilson and Clarissa A. Wilson. Place workers to gather twigs, resin, pebbles and berries, then spend them to play critter and construction cards into your own little city. Compete for the most points, or team up and play co-operatively through the chapters, all across four seasons.Gobgob's favourite bit: The sun and moon tokens. You can only play meadow cards that are touching them, and every turn you move them along. Timing is everything, and Gobgob always seems to be one space short.👥 1–2 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube