Back in 2018, Monolith Games announced a tabletop game featuring a massive amount of miniatures. Now Monolith is back and has announced that they are developing a role-playing game based in the Batman Universe. Batman Gotham City Chronicles: The Role-Playing Game features Gotham City as the main character of the game, with all of her dangers, heroes, and exciting adventures. The game will provide several story books to guide you along your journey, which provide you with rules, descriptions, and the adventure that takes you deep into the streets of Gotham, beyond just the heroes.
Much of the game is still in development, but you can check out some of the work-in-progress game components below, which show off the rich detail of the game. It will be released in the next few months and will be available in English and French. The game art is painted by Enrico Marini, creator of Batman: The Dark Prince Charming. You can find the full announcement from Monolith Games below.
It’s Batman Day! It’s time for the Warner family to treat us to sneak peeks at projects that are currently in production—on the big and small screen—with films like The Batman, The Penguin series, Peacemaker, Gotham Police Department, and video games like Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad!
Printed media’s in on the celebration, too, with Batman The World book, which brings international artists together in commemorating the influence of Batman across the globe.
And now for our contribution: a preview of Batman Gotham City Chronicles: The Role-Playing Game (which we’ll talk about today), as well as Season 3 of the board game of the same name (which we’ll discuss tomorrow).
Warning: SPOILERS!
The role-playing game pays tribute to its main character: Gotham City, with its risks and challenges of varying intensity. Players can create their own characters as well as play as iconic figures:
– Dive into the city’s everyday life while confronting extraordinary situations as Gordon, Bullock, or Montoya.
– Explore the shadows of Gotham City as highly-trained and gifted humans like Nightwing, Huntress, and the Riddler.
– Confront situations that defy logic, using the varied, evolving powers of meta-humans like Black Canary, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, or Clayface.
We’ve created several books to accompany you along this journey to Gotham City. Heroes of Gotham is an introduction to the universe, with all the rules and tips to create and bring to life the game’s characters and scenarios.
The Gotham Chronicles is a collection of a dozen turnkey scenarios that bring exciting and intense adventures to your table!
The Gotham Guide is a love story to the city! It takes you deep into the heart of its neighborhoods and secrets, a must for those who want to dig deep and gather everything they’ll need to immerse themselves in the atmosphere and make the story theirs.
You will find here some excerpts/Work in Progress for each of the books, as well as a character sheet template used for the GCPD characters. They are not all available in English, as we are still in the intensive phase of translations and proofreading.
We can’t wait to show you more. For now, we will be bringing this experience to life through crowdfunding and are hard at work acquiring all the necessary approvals from Warner (in both languages). We’re looking at a few months now, at most. By launch time, your invitation to Gotham City will be fully secured.
Some of you got to watch a live game in French from Mahyar—a member of our team—on his Twitch channel last night. In the next few weeks, you’ll be able to watch it on YouTube, with subtitles. We’ll keep you posted as soon as it’s up. Keep a look out for other programs, in both French and English!
https://www.twitch.tv/mahyars
Finally, let’s take a look at the work of the many artists who are taking part in this incredible adventure with us, starting with a game screen from Enrico Marini !
Happy Batman Day. We’ll see you tomorrow to learn more about the Gotham City Chronicles Season 3 board!
