DISHONORED RPG
Designer: Various | Publisher: Modiphius
With its whalebone charms, masked assassins and Victoriana steampunk aesthetics, the world of the Dishonored videogames is certainly a compelling place to spend an evening. Whether this tabletop take will be able to convince players coming back for more, however, probably depends on how deeply they love the setting.
The setting is question is the Empire of the Isles – a land of weird magic, dark intrigues and incredibly fancy coats. It’s a world of opportunity and danger, with plenty of cool steampunk-ish technology and twisted mythology that can stoke the fire of inspiration into an inferno.
Even better, where the videogames restricted their leads to assassins and royalty, the RPG is much more freeform. With a bit of thought you can brew up a team of ex-military mercenaries, a band of thieves or even a mess of relatively normal citizens caught up in the chaos between the game’s dizzying array of factions.