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Osprey Games 🎲
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Osprey Games is a publisher of board and card games, wargames, and roleplaying games based in Oxford, UK, and New York, USA.

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🤔 What is a co-op roleplaying game with only one winner?

In Two Sides to the Coin by @bexrollsdice.bsky.social, you will all have a shared objective, but also your own personal goals.

Achieve your ulterior motives – by any means necessary!

// 20th Nov UK // 2nd Dec US // https://bit.ly/4kEOgAg
An image with various illustrations pinned to a conspiracy-style corkboard: a blurry skeleton, fantasy adventurers around a tavern table with a map, a wild west sheriff sat in front of a jail cell and wanted poster. Red threaded connects a post-it reading "A CO-OP ROLEPLAYING GAME..." with a point leading out of frame. The red thread continues into another image of corkboard, with a pinned illustration of professional thieves all in black during an art heist. A scrap of paper connected to the thread read: "WITH ONLY ONE WINNER!"
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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2️⃣ years 2️⃣ conventions @ Spiel Essen 2️⃣ games !

We demoed the first General Orders, World War II, back in 2023, and we were back this year to demo General Orders: Sengoku Jidai.

🔥 Sengoku Jidai – https://bit.ly/4jeCg8d
💥 World War II – https://bit.ly/4hZiYU4
A photo from the Essen SPIEL convention 2025, showing demo tables of General Orders: Sengoku Jidai on the Osprey Games stand, packed with people sat playing the game and others watching. A photo from the Essen SPIEL convention 2023, showing demo tables of General Orders: World War II on the Osprey Games stand, also packed with people sat playing the game and others watching.
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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🤔 Have questions about running Two Sides to the Coin?

The author @bexrollsdice.bsky.social has her second design diary up on our website full of advice for the game's would-be Narrators: https://bit.ly/3JDGdGB

// November 20th UK // December 2nd US // https://bit.ly/4kEOgAg
An image with the rulebook for the roleplaying game Two Sides to the Coin positioned on a cork conspiracy board along with stylised ripped-out pages with illustrations and rules texts, alongside a post-it reading: "FROM HIGH-STAKES HEISTS TO MYSTERIOUS INVESTIGATIONS, THERE ARE ALWAYS... TWO SIDES TO THE COIN"
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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War Story: Occupied France is the winner of this year's @sdhistcon.bsky.social Summit Award!

Huge congratulations to @djackthompson.bsky.social, Dave Neale, @kwanchai.bsky.social and the whole team here at Osprey Games 👏👏👏

Read more and find the other amazing finalists https://bit.ly/4qWpgbk
A photo of the box for the board game War Story: Occupied France, alongside the crest for the San Diego Historical Games Convention Summit Award. The cover art depicts an uncovered secret stash of espionage equipment under a floorboard, including a silenced pistol, a combat knife, a folder of documents, and a radio.
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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We were so happy to have Ayar designers @flopiano.bsky.social & @mandelafg.bsky.social on stand at SPIEL Essen for signings & demos!

The game was a sell-out success with packed tables all 4 days – we couldn't be prouder of the team 🔥🔥

Available now: https://bit.ly/4oFvT0y
A photo of the designers of the board game Ayar, Mandela Fernández-Grandon and Fabio Lopiano, sat smiling behind a table holding a copy of the game, with a banner behind them with the game's cover art.
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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We can't wait to be back at Dragonmeet this 29th Nov for its first year at Excel London!

We'll have 3 new 2025 RPGs for you at the show – including early stock of The Hooded Man.

Feast your eyes on art from all 3, by 🎨 Brainbug Design 🎨 @nathanandersonart.bsky.social & 🎨 @tachyonart.bsky.social
An illustration, all in shades of green and shadowy blacks, of a hooded masked figure wearing a mask and holding a dagger reverse-grip in one of their hands, as they grab a coin purse spilling out gold in the other. An illustration in bold, vibrant colours, depicting a fantasy rogue, fighter and wizard in a dark tunnel facing down animated skeletons armed with swords and shields. An illustration of an octopus in a close-fitting spacesuit, with pincers attached to the end of the tentacles section and two tubes connecting it to a long high-tech rifle.
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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📢 Historical wargamers!

Check out @goonhammer.com's article breaking down how best to use the huge range of @ospreypublishing.bsky.social books as reference works for your period of choice: https://bit.ly/4oyyrNm

🖌️ Photos from Absolute Emperor, Wars of the Republic, and With Hot Lead & Cold Steel
A photo of fully painted miniatures and terrain for tabletop wargaming: a Napoleonic army of infantry, cavalry and artillery advancing from some woods past a barn. A photo of fully painted miniatures and terrain for tabletop wargaming: an ancient army in a sandy valley, including archers, pikemen, and war elephants. A photo of fully painted miniatures and terrain for tabletop wargaming: a US Civil War Union army marching in a column through a farm behind a cannon.
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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🎲 We went to the largest board game convention in the world! Back for another year at SPIEL Essen, here's a little slice of our time at the show. We demoed our latest releases and showed off the first three games in our line up for 2026, did you spot them?
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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We have our first design diary for Two Sides to the Coin from author @bexrollsdice.bsky.social!

Want to know how this co-op RPG (with only one winner!) ticks?

👉 Read about the rules, design ethos & creative process: https://bit.ly/3LJ8BHO

👉 NOV 20th UK // DEC 2nd US: https://bit.ly/4kEOgAg
An illustration with three people in different brightly coloured suits with pistol holsters on their waists, in front of a corkboard covered with various bank heist plans and connecting string. The same three people speeding in a red open-topped car through a police roadblock. The car is full of moneybags and green dollar bills are exploding up into the air. The same three people back in their hideout, with the moneybags between them – and their pistols pointed at each other in a Mexican standoff.
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Do you choose good, or evil? 🤔🤔

A Champion of Light holding out against the forces of shadow... A nameless Dark Lord looking to conquer the known world...

Dragon Rampant: Second Edition lets you do it all! Large skirmish fantasy wargame battles for any setting.

📆 OUT NOW: https://bit.ly/46OMirj
An image with a background illustration of a knight holding a staff and glowing sword riding a dragon, its landing wreathed in flame on a rocky outcrop an army of fellow knights. Large white text reads "VANQUISH EVIL..." and the Osprey Games logo is at the bottom. A continuation of the previous image: the illustration shows a figure in a horned skull helmet and black cloak holding a scythe and shooting fire from their palm, at the head of a charging horde of skeletons. More text reads "OR LEAD ITS ARMIES", with the title logo for Dragon Rampant: Second Edition along the bottom.
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Who else is still recovering from SPIEL Essen ?? 😩

It was an incredible show – here's to all the fans, designers and reviewers who came by and helped make it special!

We'll be sharing some of our sneak peeks here soon for people who couldn't make it, so watch this space...
A photo of the Osprey Games stand at the Essen SPIEL convention 2025, packed with members of the public playing board games and browsing the shop, with a huge number of other board game stands in the distance. A photo of the Osprey Games team smiling and celebrating at the end of the SPIEL Essen convention 2025, in front of a wall decorated with printed art from various Osprey Games board games. A photo of two members of the Osprey Games team posing with the mascot of Essen SPIEL, Meeps, a man-sized bipedal bright yellow cat.
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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With Dragon Rampant 2E, we have a whole world of easy-to-learn but tactically rewarding large skirmish wargaming from the award-winning Daniel Mersey for you to explore: https://bit.ly/4qeipJR

🐲 DRAGON RAMPANT – Fantasy
👽 XENOS RAMPANT – Sci-Fi
🐎 LION RAMPANT – Medieval
An image with the rulebooks for Dragon Rampant: Second Edition, Lion Rampant: Second Edition & Xenos Rampant side by side, with text reading "LET YOUR IMAGINATION RUN RAMPANT" in large font and the Osprey Games logo.
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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📢 It's release month for our new RPG Two Sides to the Coin!

We're treating you to a peek behind the scenes of the amazing @nathanandersonart.bsky.social's work on the game... Check out this scene's journey from concept to completion 😍

// Nov 20th UK // 18th US // https://bit.ly/4kEOgAg
A black and white rough concept sketch depicting modern-day art thieves: a pair are making off in the background with a large painting held between them; in the foreground a third is holding a crowbar and holding a jewelled necklace – just as it triggers a red laser tripwire. The same scene but now tidied up and given more detail, no longer a sketch, but a clean and polished black and white line drawing. Some of the specifics of postures and set dressing have also been tweaked. The same scene but now fully coloured: the background is a variety of shades of blue, the figures are all in dark clothes, and the foremost one is lit up by a deep red glow from the laser alarm.
November 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN !

Try not to unleash any ancient curses or undead hordes... at least off the game table.

🎨 Art by Brainbug Design from The Silver Bayonet: Britain: Bones of Albion
An illustration, in black-and-white sketched style, depicting a skeletal hand covered in torn rags bursting out of the earth and framed against a full moon - surrounded by Stone Henge-like structures.
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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We missed you Dragonmeet!!

The UK's #1 TTRPG convention is back in 1 month & we're back this year as well: https://bit.ly/47oEyh3

Find us @ London Excel, Sat 29th Nov, for new games, old classics – & even early copies of The Hooded Man: https://bit.ly/442Riai

🎨 Brainbug Design
The cover of The Hooded Man: A Roleplaying Game of Medieval Outlaws, by Graham Rose and illustrated by Brainbug Design, with an illustration of a hooded, cloaked figure with a wrap covering their face and drawing the string of a longbow in their hands, with the trees of deep forest behind them.
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union 3E is available everywhere – but we still have one more design diary to share from our friends @warlordgames.com 👀

READ IT NOW: https://bit.ly/3ITwxaD

FIND OUT MORE: https://bit.ly/46IFKu3
A photo of fully painted miniatures and terrain for the WW2 tabletop wargame Bolt Action: a Soviet force of ranks, artillery and infantry advancing through a snow-dusted field in front of a small town.
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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💡 AYAR DESIGN DIARY

Join designers @flopiano.bsky.social & @mandelafg.bsky.social as they deep-dive into the fascinating story behind this rich and stunning eurogame: https://bit.ly/4qh0fXJ

Available now: https://bit.ly/4oFvT0y
An image with a photo of the box for the board game Ayar: Children of the Sun with an array of different coloured meeples lined up in front it, above the text "FOLLOW THE AYAR ON AN EPIC JOURNEY THROUGH THE ANDES" and the Osprey Games logo framed by green geometric patterning.
October 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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With Halloween on the way, we wanted to spotlight some ~ Hidden Horror Gems ~ across our board games, wargames & RPGs!

😱 ESCAPE FROM THE ALIENS IN OUTER SPACE: https://bit.ly/48vjs1G

😱 WHEN NIGHTMARES COME: https://bit.ly/471fECQ

😱 THE TERROR BENEATH: https://bit.ly/4bhoIDJ
The cover of the board game Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space, mostly a black background, with the outline of a human in a spacesuit looking terrified and the darker outline of a horrific mutated alien above them. The cover of When Nightmares Come: An Investigative Wargame of Supernatural Horror, with art depicting a crew of modern-day monster-hunters, one holding a gun and another's hand glowing with magic, cornering a monster in an alley past a dumpster: the creature is two or three times their height, vaguely humanoid, with a long spindly body and limbs, featureless yellow eyes and a flat noseless face. The cover of The Terror Beneath: An Investigative Roleplaying Game of Weird Folk Horror, with art depicting a figure in a trench coat and fedora standing in the blue glow of a street lamp down a cobbled street with tall houses on either side - and a giant black leafless tree on the horizon silhouetted against a red sky.
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Dragon Rampant: Second Edition is out now – but we still have one more design diary from the game's author Daniel Mersey 🔥🔥

Read about the design goals the new edition was built around: https://bit.ly/4qd764w

Available now: https://bit.ly/46OMirj
An image with a photo of fully painted miniature figures for fantasy wargaming: a knight in red armour on a horse charging a towering owlbear with red head plumage. Above is the text "FORGE A LEGEND"; below "ALL NEW SECOND EDITION", an image of the Dragon Rampant: Second Edition rulebook, and the Osprey Games rulebook.
October 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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In our RPG Two Sides to the Coin by @bexrollsdice.bsky.social you can play in any setting – fantasy, sci-fi, crime, horror – but there'll always be a betrayal...

This visual narrative by @nathanandersonart.bsky.social from the book felt fitting for the spooky season 👻😱

NOV: https://bit.ly/4kEOgAg
An illustration in a bold, vibrant style of three figures in Victorian era dress holding a gas lantern outside the elaborate metalwork gate of mansion, with lit windows against its dark silhouette and lightning cracking in the midnight blue sky above. The same three figures peering around a bookcase, each of their heads on top of the other, in the cobwebbed interior of the mansion. There is the bust of a pharaoh mounted on the wall and a hound-headed canopic jar on the shelf. Two of the figures removing the face wrappings of an Egyptian mummy, tied to a chair. They're revealing that underneath it is none other than the third figure who had been accompanying them.
October 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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🔥🔥 SPIEL Essen 2025 is 2 days in and in full swing!

At the show?

Find us on Stand 3.M600...

⚔️ Demo General Orders: Sengoku Jidai
☀️ Demo Ayar: Children of the Sun
👀 Check out our preview cabinet for 2026
🏷️ Shop hot & classic board games

We're here 10am–7pm today & Saturday, and 10am–6pm Sunday.
AN image with a background photo of a shelf of board games with bright star discount stickers on them, faded out behind purple. Text reads "DEMO GAMES / BROWSE THE SHOP / EXCLUSIVE PREVIEWS" in large font alongside a round sticker that says "STAND 3.M600" and above the Osprey Games and SPIEL Essen logos. An image with the board game boxes of General Orders: Sengoku Jidai and Ayar: Children of the Sun next to each other, under the title header "PLAY HOT NEW GAMES" and a banner reading "STAND 3.M600", all against a gradient purple background with a faint hexagonal pattern. Below are the Osprey Games and SPIEL Essen logos.
October 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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⚔️ OUT TODAY...

🔥 DRAGON RAMPANT 2E – Command orc warbands, armies of the undead, or mighty creatures & extraordinary sorcery: https://bit.ly/4qutzua

💥 BOLT ACTION: ARMIES OF THE SOVIET UNION 3E – Bring the full might of the Red Army to the WWII tabletop: https://bit.ly/4o3OLWk
An image with the cover of the Dragon Rampant: Second Edition wargame rulebook, against a faded background illustration of an epic fantasy battle scene, above text reading: "OUT NOW". An image with the cover of the Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union: Third Edition wargame supplement rulebook alongside the core Bolt Action: Third Edition rulebook, with a sticker reading "OUT NOW" and above the text: "FIELD EVERYTHING FROM THE HUMBLE CONSCRIPT TO THE MIGHTY IS-2 TANK".
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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PROMOS @ SPIEL Essen 🚨🚨

Essen SPIEL kicks off tomorrow – come to Stand 3.M600 to pick up promotional holographic stickers for our hot new release Ayar and its spiritual predecessors Merv & Sankoré!

We'll also have stock of Imperium: Horizons, Ofrenda and Battalion promos from previous shows.
A photo of holographic circular stickers with the cover art for the board games Merv, Sankoré and Ayar being held in someone's hand catching the light. Copies of the board games are in the background behind the.
October 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Order a copy of the exclusive, limited-stock collector's edition now to own your piece of Frostgrave's history.

🔹 Deluxe leatherette cover
🔹 Silver foiled cover & spine
🔹 Multiple ribbon bookmarks
🔹 Bespoke matching slipcase

Releases November '25: https://bit.ly/453SJa9
A photo of the Frostgrave: Second Edition special collector's edition, with a blue leatherette cover and silver-foiled title and author credit. The background is a snowy playmat and the book is surrounded by trees and ruins terrain and painted miniature figures of wizards and adventurers.
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Everything you need to know about us @ SPIEL Essen 2025...

📌 Stand 3.M600
🌍 Messe Essen, Germany
📆 23rd–26th October, 10am–7pm

DEMO Ayar, General Orders: Sengoku Jidai & Flip Pick Towers 💥

BUY hot new releases & old classics 🔥

PROMOS for Ofrenda, Battalion & Imperium: Horizons 👀
An image with cartoon portraits of five members of the Osprey Games team who are attending the Essen SPIEL 2025 convention, below large font saying "MEET THE TEAM" and a sticker reading "STAND 3.M600", alongside the SPIEL and Osprey Games logos, all against a purple background with faint hexagonal patterning.
October 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM