It’s Friday the 13th!
However, I think we’ll more or less manage to dodge zombie serial killers, haunted dice bags and other supernatural dangers in this weekly dose of RPG news.
There are quite a few big books about to be released; Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and Cyberpunk Red. As a result, lots of big sites are happily writing about RPGs, and I’ve tried to tersely curate some of that coverage below.
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Right, now let’s get going with the tabletop RPG news!
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RPG news from Geek Native
- Dungeons & Dragons deals abound in Amazon’s Black Friday sales.
- Humble Bundle is brimming with 2d20 Conan downloads.
- The Bundle of Holding as a Starfinder deal on.
- There are several RPG charity streams on right now.
- Defenders of the New Century is a free to download RPG quickstart about invading monsters and superheroes.
- Quality Games released a Pay-What-You-Want adventure for Lex Arcana called The Island of the Dead Sand.
- Goodman Games announced 500 more D&D 5e monsters with Dungeon Denizens.
- Eberron’s creator, Keith Baker, released the latest book for the D&D setting with Eberron Confidential.
- D&D got an updated errata.
- Paizo also has updated the Pathfinder errata.
- Pathfinder’s latest Beginner Box was this week’s top board game release at Amazon.
- Jonathan Hicks introduces Osprey Games’ latest RPG Those Dark Places.
- Luke Gygax joined the Bardsung guest writer team.
- Fantasy Grounds rolled out a sci-fi skin.
- Geek Native got an exclusive look at the Laidback DM’s Shotglass Adventures Kal-Zar’s Bane 2 – Mined Games.
- Geek Native talks to Silver Vine Publishing as they turn to Kickstarter to translate Japanese TTRPGs such as Summon Skate into English.
- Dragon Turtle released this chillax lofi carbon 2185 video.
- It’s all change at the World of Darkness as owners Paradox bring all development in-house and appoint Renegade Games the publisher.
RPG news from around the web
- Cubicle 7 are taking pre-orders for Warhammer FRP’s Middenheim Map and announced the Enemy in Shadows module for Foundry VTT.
- Cubicle 7 also shared their November update for Warhammer Fantasy.
- Polygon got into How Dungeons & Dragons’ next book deals with race.
- Chase Carter at Dicebreaker looks at Indie tabletop RPG Slugblaster packages its pulpy teen angst in an actual pizza box.
- Carter also covered the combat wheelchair coming to the Witcher RPG.
- Arc Dream announced that the Delta Green Black Sites will ship in hardback in February.
- Dicebreaker’s Matt Jarvis discovered that a Dungeons & Dragons Monopoly set is on the way.
- JP Chapleau shared an after-action report on virtual Game Hole Con.
- ComicBook’s Christian Hoffer points out at the D&D errata Makes Some Big Changes to the Artificer.
- Geek Culture rounded up all the Nightfall The Terminator RPG news.
- Critical Role announced a new Mighty Nein Origins graphic novel series.
- Marc Langworthy shared an EN Publishing Looking Ahead.
RPG reviews and interviews from around the web
- Let’s round up some of the Cyberpunk Red reviews. There’s Charlie Hall’s over at Polygon, Rob Wieland’s at Forbes and Matt Cebulla at RPG.net.
- Sword and Stitchery reviewed Sea Kings of the Purple Towns.
- Sami Yuhas reviewed Starfinder: Waking the Worldseed.
- Matt Jarvis wrote-up Mausritter is an adorable fantasy RPG about small mice on a big adventure, with an expanded edition out now.
- Rob Wieland shared Vaesen Explores Moody, Mythic Mysteries.
- Angel’s Citadel reviewed the Invisible Sun book The Gate.
- Jeff McAleer did a page through of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything.
- Rolling Boxcars reviewed Humblewood.
- Rolling Boxcars also reviewed Girl Underground.
- Handiwork Games and Beowulf’s Jacob Rodgers talked RPGs.
- Bleeding Cool’s Gavin Sheehan talked to Ivan Van Norman about Critical Role’s new publisher Darrington Press.
- Charles Dunwoody talked Rivers of London in an interview with Ben Aaronovitch.
- James Whitbrook of io9 talked about Kamen Rider becoming an RPG with Sam Kusek.
- James also shared a Tasha’s Cauldron peak with Meet Some of D&D’s Fanciful New Patrons Your Adventurers Could Work For.
- Davide Vincenzi interviewed Erik Granstrom about the Forbidden Lands.
- The Brooklyn Rail talked about D&D at the Lost Tomb of the Bitchin’ Chimera with Andrew Ervin.
- At d20Radio, Egg Embry interviewed Eric Bloat and Brandon K Aten about Dark Places & Demogorgons.
- Egg also talked to Murder Publishing’s Jordan Palmer about the Perilous Roleplaying Game.
RPG new releases
- Cawood Publishing released the 5e compatible Monsters of the City
- Now available digitally, Fandom Tabletop have released Cortex Prime.
- A team of D&D creators released Tasha’s Crucible of Everything Else (v1).
- Isaac Williams’ Mausritter rulebook is now in print.
- Monte Cook Games released the Jade Colossus 5e Conversion Guide.
- Paizo shared their November new releases.
- Evil Hat now has Fate Condensed as a print book.
- 9th Level Games published Business Wizards.
- Veiled Fury Entertainment has a God Best Seller with the Savage Worlds Sprawlrunners.
- Chris Valentine released Knightmares for 5e.
RPG ideas, tips and discoveries
- Looking to have a D&D character portrait done for free? There’s an AI for that.
- An interactive guide to help new players learn the D&D character sheet.
- Not interactive, but straight forward and an effective way to explain D&D ability scores.
- Lewis Pulsipher tackled Worlds of Design: Baselines Assumptions of Fantasy RPGs.
- Ranger Games Publishing wrote up The Finger Points of a Frankengame.
- Sean Fraser at Awesome Sticks put together Vampire the Masquerade Storyteller tools.
- Looper’s Mike Bedard found The Rick and Morty Dungeons & Dragons adventure you didn’t know you needed.
- Kobold’s Sarah Madsen shared Dungeon Tables: Fifty Unique Environmental Encounters.
- Tomas Gimenez Rioja offered up How To: Time Travelling in RPGs – The Unique Timeline.
- Reality Refractured wrote down Three Facts for an Intrigue Adventure NPC.
- Boing Boing’s Gareth Branwyn opined Read the authors that inspired Gary Gygax and the origins of D&D in Appendix N.
- Geek Dad’s Sumon Yule had 5 Questions to Help Pick Your Next D&D Adventure: Part 2.
- Adventure A Week shared d100 Arctic Finds.
- Green Ronin Publishing and Owen K.C. Stephens put together Shake Things Up – Adding Complications to Encounter Designs.
- World Anvil offered up Build Your Castles & Crusades and Fading Suns Campaigns.
- Michael Tresca kindly put together Working Through Grief with Role-Playing Games
- Mike Shea wrote-up Building Lazy Dungeons.
RPG Crowdfunding
You can see those Kickstarters and other crowdfunding campaigns that caught Geek Native’s attention over at Kickstarter watch. Here are some industry projects worth a mention;
- Beer Star Games and Brian A Liberge has social justice warriors and giant monsters game with Ace Adventure and the Flying Royal Flush.
- Cory J. Burns is working on a 5e-powered campaign module called Felbar’s Shoppe of Curiosities and Occult.
- Phil Stone has crowdfunded The Complete Illustrated Book of Transmutation.
- DM Workshop is putting together a book of lairs, spells and relics with Dragon Lore.
- Mike Hamm has funded an RPG about small-town teenagers with hoverboards who sneak into other dimensions. It is Slugblaster.
- Tim Brookes has a good idea and a mission to save a culture and the endangered Mongolian language with ULUS.
- Hammerdog Games have smashed their modest goal with a project to Build A Custom Screen for 5e or Pathfinder.
- Andrew J Lucas is trying again with the Savage Worlds and Endless Realms’ campaign setting New Bristol.
- EN Publishing has soared beyond their campaign goal with Advanced Rules Miscellany: 5th Edition Rules Modules.
- The Wanderer’s Guide is offering fantasy maps and world-building tools and they funded in three hours.
- Gooey Cube has over $70,000 pledged their 5e-powered Enthrawlling Adventures and Incredible World.
- Prideceratops Productions want you to come with them into a world of marvel and the mysteries of the spirits with Muohtaeana.
- XploringMap is offering up 10+ hand-drawn Dungeon Battle-Maps.
- Cabal of Enchantment is working on a 5e-powered Alchemy & Poisoncraft supplement.
- Jacob Daigle has met the goal for a rules-light RPG about skeletons trying to please their Lich King with Bones and Basements.
If there’s a source or news you think is worth monitoring, please get in touch or leave a comment below.
