When we got this one in, we had to check to see if it had happened before, because it sure sounds like the kind of thing that should’ve existed already. But no, no one’s attempted it: a Godzilla tabletop game. Until now.
Here, it depends on what you mean. A Godzilla-themed game of Clue was just announced not too long ago, and that’s a tabletop thing, technically. But we mean specifically the role-playing type, the one people typically most think of…IDW is, somehow, the first to do it.
IDW owns the Godzilla comic book license, and we guess the terms allow them to make tabletop RPGs as well. The Godzilla Roleplaying Game will be based on their comic. Jervis Johnson, Mark A. Latham, and Gav Thorpe, most known for their work on Warhammer, are teaming up to design the game, which will not use dice — it works with 52-card decks instead, and yet it is not exactly a card game. The Godzilla RPG “puts a team of players in the midst of kaiju attacks with character sheets, collaboration, and playing cards as their tools to defend humanity.” More details are forthcoming.
“Working on a Godzilla RPG is something of a dream come true – and the fact that I get to team up with Jervis Johnson and Gav Thorpe again feels like getting the band back Together!” says co-creator Mark A. Latham (Warhammer, The Walking Dead, Harry Potter). “It’s really exciting to have total freedom in developing a new system: something that really fits with the G-Force era of Godzilla stories, and truly encourages immersive storytelling and character-driven narrative. I think players and DMs alike are going to be very surprised by this game.”
The crowdfunding campaign for The Godzilla Roleplaying Game will launch sometime in March of 2026. In the meantime, IDW plans to kill Godzilla and resurrect him again.
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