Official Lara Croft tabletop RPG Shadows of Truth pits your team against would-be tomb raiders

An official Tomb Raider tabletop RPG is coming in 2025, bringing the modern incarnation of a readily recognisable video game protagonist to the realm of pen’ n’ paper. Tomb Raider: Shadows of Truth will send teams of players into forgotten places in search of lost knowledge and those who would exploit the past for selfish means. Shadows of Truth is the latest project from Evil Hat, the tabletop publisher behind Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Apocalypse Keys. Rae Nedjadi, the designer behind the latter RPG, will head the creation of Lara Croft’s official tabletop adaptation alongside a team of contributors that include longtime producers and rising voices in the RPG industry: Josh Hittie, Sean Nittner, Sebastian Yūe, Agatha Cheng, April Kit Walsh, Fred Hicks, Brandon O’Brien, Liam Stevens, Tali Inlow and consultants Pam Punzalan and Sahoni. Players will first create a team from a selection of playbooks before creating their individual characters. Mention of ‘playbooks’ should tip readers off to Shadows of Truth’s using a Powered by the Apocalypse-based engine, much like a lot of Evil Hat’s biggest releases aside from Blades in the Dark. Players can choose amongst the Crafter, Scholar, Hunter, Companion, Legacy, Changed, and Reclaimer, but we don’t know much more at this point about what moves each playbook will contain. Like other PbtA RPGs, groups will need some six-sided dice. Other gamified resources mentioned include Truths, Maps, Aid and Lore - how these work is speculation at this point. Read more