Minecraft TTRPG, written by Marvel Multiverse author, coming in July 2025

Open-world survival phenomenon, Minecraft, is set for its own D&D style Table Top Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) penned by Marvel Multiverse TTRPG author Matt Forbeck. There are scant details about how the game will play, but it looks as though it will primarily be a solo adventure that will see the hero battle to take on a mob of illagers to save an isolated Minecraft village.

Due for release in July 2025, the game will include four dice. Buyers also get an adventure book that includes an extensive bestiary and adventure locations as well as a removable character sheet and a quick rules reference.  

The Minecraft phenomenon

The full version of the Minecraft video game was launched in 2011, after two years of development based on forum feedback. The voxel crafting game lets players destroy and build any blocks in the game to adventure, fight mobs, and craft new equipment.

In 2014, Mojang, the Swedish studio behind the game, was purchased by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. The game has enjoyed ongoing updates and improvements since its launch, and the title not only garnered positive reviews from most critics but has gone on to become one of the best-selling and most widely played games of all time. It is the best-selling game of all time and even 13 years after its full release, Minecraft still attracts 170 million monthly active users.

Minecraft has also become a merchandising phenomenon with novels, LEGO sets, and a host of other items proving very popular. And, in 2025, we will see the launch of A Minecraft Movie starring Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, and Jennifer Coolidge. Ravensburger has also produced at least four tabletop board games as well as expansions.

Minecraft: Roll for Adventure: The Temple of the Charged Creeper

Although Minecraft itself has included a Dungeons & Dragons crossover and the idea of a tabletop roleplaying game has been mooted on forums and blogs, there hasn’t yet been a direct Minecraft TTRPG. But, thanks to Matt Forbeck, and his son Marty, that will change next year.

Minecraft: Roll for Adventure: The Temple of the Charged Creeper is written by Matt Forbeck and Marty Forbeck and published by Penguin Random House. It is available to preorder from a host of online and offline stores, including directly from Penguin and is slated for launch in July 2025.

According to the game’s description, an isolated village is being raided by illagers. Illagers are hostile enemies from the Minecraft universe and were featured in Forbeck’s Minecraft Dungeons: The Rise of the Arch-Illager novel in 2020. Players are called upon to help defend the village. According to the game’s listing, players receive four dice which will be used to determine the results of adventuring, battling, and crafting. The listing also suggests that the removable character sheet enables another person to act as narrator, suggesting that the game will be a solo title.

Matt Forbeck

Forbeck isn’t new to the world of tabletop design. As well as being a New York Times best-selling author, he designed and created the Marvel Multiverse system. Marvel Multiverse uses a three-dice resolution system, with two dice of one color and another dice of another color. Players can create and level up characters, and the character development is diverse and robust.  

There is no doubting Minecraft’s popularity, and its merchandise tends to do very well. This is a solo adventure that seems to be geared towards younger players, with a basic role-playing rule set that could offer a great way into the tabletop world for young adventurers.

Forbeck certainly has a pedigree for sympathetically and accurately translating existing IPs into different formats, and for creating TTRPG systems, so Minecraft: Roll for Adventure: The Temple of the Charged Creeper could prove a big success. And there are enough colons in the title to suggest there will be further adventures and scenarios to come.