Routinely Itemised: RPGs #95

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RPG news from Geek Native

• UFO Press merged into Rowan, Rook and Decard.
• Free League Publishing announced Vaesen: Mythic Britain.
• Edge Studios and Fantasy Flight Games seemed to announce the Twilight Imperium: Embers of the Imperium RPG.
• Modiphius released the digital edition of the 2d20 Dune RPG.
• SR 16 released this play over the phone horror sci-fi RPG Incoming Call.
• Goodman Games has bought Dark Tower from the unpleasant Judges’ Guild and while stocks last they are also giving away Conan books with physical orders over $25.
• Geek Native reviewed the forthcoming Tri-Forge RPG LokDown.
• dScryb launched on Foundry with a membership giveaway.
• The 5th edition of Chivalry and Sorcery is available on the Bundle of Holding.
• $10 will get you $90 worth of RPGs you may well not have and support designer Tiago Rolim.
• Handiwork are giving away six D&D 5e monsters.

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RPG news from around the web

• UltraPro announced their Dungeons & Dragons Class Character Folios.
• Paizo revleaed their Pathfinder Society release schedule.
• D&D Beyond announced that The All New D&D Beyond App is Coming.
• Kobold Press was announced as a co-sponsor of Dungeon Con Online.
• Dicebreaker’s Alex Meehan covers the news that Venture Maidens actual play podcast launches its own RPG sourcebook for D&D 5E.
• Evil Hat’s Sean Nittner shared AGON’s epic journey to Roll20.
• Icarus Games has announced a new monthly RPG magazine called Sidequest.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Refereeing and Reflections reviewed the gamebook Star Bastards.
• Angel’s Citadel reviewed Band of Blades.
• Paul StJ Mackintosh reviewed Brittannia Game Design’s Chivalry & Sorcery supplement Land of the Rising SUn, 2nd edition.
• Throat Punch Games offered up a ring side report – RPG review of Planet Apocalypse.
• Just Push Start’s Oliver East reviewed Candlekeep Mysteries.
• Sean Hillman wrote up Black Sword Hack: First Impressions.
• Nerds on Earth reviewed Lost Omens Ancestry Guide For Pathfinder 2nd edition.
• Savage Spiel posted Terminator Quickstart Reviewed.
• Egg Embry interviewed Mike Myler about Legendary Adventures.

RPG new releases

• Possum Creek Games’ released a PDF version of Jay Dragon’s pastoral RPG Wanderhome.
• Modiphius published Black Cat Gaming’s The Spy Game RPG.
• Tritonis Games released the Powered by the Apocalypse RPG Colony: SALEM.
• Gulix published the GM-less RPG Facing the Titan.
• Cubicle 7 released the complete Wrath & Glory Litanies of the Lost and the Soulbound adventure Through Fire and Smoke.
• Darkworm Colt released the Dungeon World RPG Bound for Glory.
• Micro RPG’s Micro Chapbook RPG: Quickstart Edition is out with a $0.50 price tag.
• Game and a Curry released an RPG where each player has two characters. It’s Questlings.
• Long Games released the solo RPG Blind Luck – The Last Engineer.
• Onyx Path Publishing released in PDF and print the 5e Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad Collected Volume.
• Tibbius released a Tunnel Goons based adventure game called Blood Sky.
• Last Redoubt Games published the rules-lite cyberpunk RPG Augmented and mysterious Weirdwood.
• Gallant Knight Games released the second edition of For Coin & Blood.
• Accessible Games published Accessible Gaming Quartley Issue 4.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• The Genre Police looked into the importance of player roles at the table.
• EducationalAd3185 has shared this pair of impressive Theros maps.
• Roll With Me is an impressive digital dice roller.
• SendingStone is an even more impressive video chat suit and virtual tabletop.
• Geek Native asked (and found an answer for ) What’s the opposite of dump stat?
• Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan shared some Reality Hacks for the Esoterrorists.
• GameRant’s Anthony Puleo wrote up Dungeons and Dragons: The Case for and Against Releasing 6e.
• Tribality’s Kevin Victor Rae shared 5 tips for outlining a TTRPG session.
• Sly Flourish offered advice on Running Session Zeroes.
• Theo Kogod at CBR wrote up How to Scale Candlekeep Mysteries’ Adventures for Different Levels.
• Cross Planes whisked up Star Frontiers: Dralasites for Cepheus Quantum.

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;

• Moonmares Games have unique dice on offer with intricate layers and Japanese symbols. TERA DICE (2nd Edition) – Japanese Architectural Design Dice
• Jason Hughes has crowdfunded a tiny Powered by the Apocalypse RPG set on Devil Dice Island.
• Tabletops and Tentacles has Kickstarted a conversion with A Bug’s Guide to the Shimmer for Troika!
• Miracle Manufacturing has dice set in a maze. It’s Rolling Maze—a metal dice set for RPG with the conception of
• Eric Smith has a solo or co-op campaign for 5e called Seidkona Saga: Wizards of the High Tower.
• Wider Path Games have hit their $10,000 goal to fund the family RPG Adventure Builder.
• Marc is on Kickstarter to fund the production of a D&D/RPG Organizer for Dice Fanatics.
• Flamberga’s adventure will ask players to pick sides. It’s LORD: a Mörk Borg Adventure.
• TheAlpineDM is a blog that helps GM and has now funded the Ekemon’s Exotic Mounts | A 5e Compatible Supplement.
• RN Estudio is offering pre-supported 3d models for printing with Mythexplorers – STL.
• Galaad is a sculptor offering 33+ Into the woods, 3D printable miniatures.
• Utopia Tabletop is looking to fund interlocking, wet-erase and reusable titles for tabletop RPGs. It’s Utopia Terrain: Tiles for DnD.
• Stratation Design wants to help you immerse into tabletop games with Original Collection of STL Tabletop Decors.
• Hal Kennette and Studio M – have a supplement for the Akashic class in Pathfinder 1e called The Soulforge.
• Jerry Joe Seltzer is an illustrator and one-time regular contributor to TSR’s Dragon magazine. He has funded playable critters for 5e with UnFamiliar: Release The Tiny Beasts.
• Ralph Levi Clark is funding a box set of D&D goodies with 5E Magic Items: Special Magical Mystery Collections.
• The Cantrip Cast have smashed their funding goal for a 5e sourcebook with new guests, classes, races and monsters. The project is The Codex of Quests.
• Edward Spettigue worked for Games Workshop for 22 years and is now offering a range of wagon models with 15mm Baggage Trains, Wagons, Camps, Accessories and More!
• Christian Augustine is working on AI-powered mapping software that’ll create worlds for you. It’s Ageless Chronicles – A Tabletop RPG in an Infinite World.
• Ania Konczak has a book of eight romantic adventures and rules for relationships in 5e. It’s What a lovely adventure – romantic LGBTQ+ one-shot anthology.
• Jon Koliner is working on simple dice that drive complex and unexpected narratives in RPG. They’re Spiral Dice.
• Morrus and EN Publishing are offering a softcover of dragons with Here There Be Dragons: Unique Dragons For Your D&D Game!
• SL MacLellan has an OSR-inspired RPG about braving the wilderness to defend the innocent with Rangers of the Midden Vale.
• Pariah Miniatures is offering a set of 28mm scale undead pirates and water monsters for 3d-printing with The Blighted Privateers.
• Steve Darlington is funding an RPG designed for two players about the mystery of TV. It’s Partners.
• Arthur Wang and wide are offering hand-polished Fantasy solid metal coins for DnD & RPGs by TrueBlack Forge.
• Paddy Finn and Penny Dragon Games have hit their campaign target for a 300-paged D&D book, a 200-paged adventure and more with Aizendore’s Vault of Tragic Treasure – Magic Items for 5e.
• Aradia Miniatures have raised more than CHF 70,000 for their resin minis with Ultima Thule: the Battle of Hyperborea.
• Andrew Taylor has made target for Agimori, Lunars, Ducks and Character Figures.
• Fabled Antics is offering a complete boxed set adventure for kids aged 6+ with The Mysteries of Coral Cove: 5e adventure.
• J.R. Holland III has a modern style tabletop with steampunk technology and magic. It’s Fable Time Book 1 – THETA.
• Giochistarter is an Italian publisher who think you can do better than cardboard coin props and are offering Historical metal coins, wave 3
• Realmwarp Media return to Kickstarter for their 5e setting Cities of Myth (5e): Atlantis Divided.
• Twisted Image Publishing has an indie RPG about travelling to the North on an ancient road. Venture into The Bleakness.
• On Indiegogo, Kabouter Games has launched the OSR-ish Spears & Spells.

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