{"id":376970,"date":"2026-09-05T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=376970"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:54:35","slug":"godzilla-the-roleplaying-game-is-coming-in-fall-2026-it-uses-cards-instead-of-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/godzilla-the-roleplaying-game-is-coming-in-fall-2026-it-uses-cards-instead-of-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game is coming in fall 2026: it uses cards instead of dice"},"content":{"rendered":"

IDW Games has locked in Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game for fall 2026<\/strong>, giving the long-running kaiju series an official new tabletop RPG. The Kickstarter page places it in IDW\u2019s Kai-Sei Era, where players step into the shoes of survivors and specialists trying to get through a world shaped by kaiju attacks, mutation, survival, and city-wide destruction, not just giant monster brawls. The campaign is already funded, and fulfillment is still expected in fall 2026.<\/p>\n

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The system also does one thing a little differently. Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game swaps dice for a standard 52-card deck<\/strong>, and it uses a Crisis Clock to keep major events moving and raise the tension in a more cinematic way. Early convention demos and playtests point to a game that moves quickly, keeps the rules easy to pick up, and gets some extra tactical mileage out of the card-based setup.<\/p>\n\n

The Kickstarter page also lists 12 classes<\/strong>, with Soldier, Thief, and Scientist among them, along with playable mutants and half-breeds. On the kaiju side, the lineup includes Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Anguirus, Hedorah, Kamacuras, Kumonga, Manda, Rodan, Biollante, Destoroyah, and Megalon. If you’re after a Godzilla game with more of a story focus, this one looks like a good pickup.<\/p>\n\n

You can look for Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game from IDW Games in fall 2026. And if you’d rather go the video game route, Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered<\/a> is also set for 2026.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IDW Games has locked in Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game for fall 2026, giving the long-running kaiju series an official new tabletop RPG. The Kickstarter page places it in IDW\u2019s Kai-Sei Era, where players step into the shoes of survivors and specialists trying to get through a world shaped by kaiju attacks, mutation, survival, and city-wide … Continue reading “Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game is coming in fall 2026: it uses cards instead of dice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9341,"featured_media":376969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-376970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376971,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376970\/revisions\/376971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376970"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=376970"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=376970"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=376970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}