The wait for an official tabletop version of Ubisoft's bleak post-pandemic shooter is almost over. Arkhane Asylum Publishing has confirmed that Tom Clancy's The Division roleplaying game launches on Kickstarter on Tuesday 12 May, after a short delay from the originally planned 28 April date.
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Find events near youThe game has been in development for three years at the French publisher, best known for the Vampire: The Masquerade 5e tie-in books. Players take on the role of activated Strategic Homeland Division agents, dropped into a collapsing New York City after a smallpox bioweapon brings society to its knees. The pitch is straightforward: protect, unite, rebuild.
Mechanically, the game runs on a custom system called GRIS, which uses only D10s. Standard d10s work fine, but the boxed sets include branded Agent and Coordinator dice. Rules cover firefights, an Integrity tracker for your character's morale and humanity, and Specializations that branch your agent into roles such as Sharpshooter or Demolitionist.
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Start organising for freeThe launch slate is heftier than most TTRPG Kickstarters. There's a Starter Set with three booklets, a player-facing Agent's Manual, a Coordinator's Manual for the GM, an Operations Pack with 13 scenarios set across NYC, plus squad boards, tactical maps and dice. A free Quickstart with a sample mission and five pregens is already up on the Kickstarter prelaunch page.
The delay also bought time for a tasty add-on. Thomas Parrott, who has written official Division novels for Aconyte, is contributing an exclusive short story about Rachel Levesque, one of the game's pregenerated agents.
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Sources: Tabletop Sentinel | Bell of Lost Souls | Arkhane Asylum on Kickstarter
