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- Gloomhaven is getting a tabletop RPG
- Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast bosses defend their D&D and M;TG plans
- Conan RPG will end as license transfers
- Paizo has reshuffled their staff and introduced a new narrative team
- Iron Crown Enterprises publishes their Rolemaster Core Law.
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Now, the RPG news!
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RPG news from Geek Native
- The RPG Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed of will come to an end as Modiphius loses the license to Monolith and a new game.
- Enjoying Disney’s new Willow series? It references the old D&D Willow sourcebook.
- Green Ronin has released a mega-bundle of 3rd Era d20 content.
- Mystical Throne has released a free to download quickstart for Judgement Day 2e which uses the Entropic Gaming System.
- D&D also released a freebie this week with volume two of the Dragonlance Creatures and Monstrous Compendium.
- The D&D movie as a new feature about animatronic monsters.
- The Bundle of Holding has offers on Rowan, Rook, & Decard’s Spire: The City Must Fall and Heart: The City Beneath.
- There’s also a Bundle of Holding deal on Blades in the Dark.
- On Itch, there’s a large indie RPG supporting Ind of the Year bundle.
- Humble has an R. Talsorian Games TTRPG bundle loaded with The Witcher downloads.
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RPG news from around the web
- There’s a Gloomhaven RPG on the way, and GamesRadar notes the use of combat cards to minimize randomness.
- Reshuffles done, Paizo has today introduced the new narrative team.
- D&D Beyond is running an actual play special event to celebrate diversity with Galesong: Dragons’ Convergence.
- Darjr kindly writes up Hasbro’s ‘fireside chat’ with Chris Cocks and Wizards of the Coast boss Cynthia Williams, noting Hasbro bets big on D&D.
- EN World is also doing their popular and exciting Most Anticipated RPG of 2023.
- Fari Games has created an SRD for Hopes & Dreams.
RPG reviews and interviews from around the web
- Jared Rascher writes even more first impressions of Shadow of the Dragon Queen, and you can get to part four, part five, part six and also The Shadow of Canon.
- Jared also found time to look into Unearthed Arcana: The Cleric and Revised Species.
- Heavyweights Polygon and Charlie Hall noted D&D’s Dragonlance campaign is excellent, but the physical products disappoint.
- James Maliszewski penned a retrospective on D&D’s Creature Catalogue.
- Rob Wieland, at EN World, reviews Eternal Night of Lockwood and CY_BORG.
- TechRaptor reviews the DMsGuild’s Beneath the Waves.
- Reviews from R’lyeh writes up Game Angry: How to RPG The Angry Way and the LoFP In Deadly Fashion.
- SaskToday looks at the new Sherwood RPG with The Meeple Guild: New RPG reminds of tales from our youth.
RPG new releases
- Free League Publishing’s Nordic Horror RPG Vaesen gets festive in its own way with Seasons of Mystery.
- Iron Crown Enterprises has one of the week’s hits with a gold best seller and Rolemaster Core Law.
- One of the DMsGuild’s big hits is back with a sequel as V.J. Harris and Adam Hancock publish An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby 3.
- Onyx Path has a silver best seller already with Exalted’s Collected Edition of Adversaries of the Righteous.
- EDGE Studio also has a silver best seller with Legend of the Five Ring’s Imperfect Land.
- Basic Action Games has released their companion guide to BASH! Ultimate Edition with Awesome Powers Omnibus.
- At the DMsGuild, Stephen Bull has released a series of books based on years of research into Dragonlance. Samples include;
- The Aesthetics Guide to Ansalon – Abanasinia and Qualinesti.
- The Aesthetics Guide to Ansalon – Bestiary and Dramatis Personae.
- The Aesthetics Guide to Ansalon – Catalogue of Magic Items and Artifacts.
- The Aesthetics Guide to Ansalon – Palanthas and Solamnia.
- The Aesthetics Guide to Ansalon – The War of the Lance Quest Guide.
- The Aesthetics Guide to Ansalon – The War of the Lance vol.1: Autumn.
- Pay What You Want for Sealight Studio’s RPG of strange magick called Right Hand Path.
- Stellagama Publishing has an electrum best seller with the newly published Cepheus Deluxe Enhanced Edition.
- R. Rook Studio has an RPG based on the Robin of Sherwood TV series, which you can pick up at Itch as a quickstart, with a name-your-own price tag, or at DriveThruRPG in full.
RPG bundle deals
- Save $33.00 (34%) with Studio M–‘s Two Years of Studio M– celebration bundle.
- Save $24.97 (83%) with the DMsGuild’s Ravenloft Villains & Random Encounters bundle.
- Save $24.94 (71%) with Lester Smith Games’ GMA Weird Horror/Bookmark Cthulhu bundle.
- Save $15.82 (44%) with Chaosium community content Snowed In bundle.
- Save $5.00 (25%) on the DMsGuild’s Smoke & Thunder Collection: Firearms and More! bundle.
- Save $3.90 (33%) on the DMsGuild’s Spelljammer Light of Xaryxis Adventure bundle.
RPG ideas, tips and discoveries
- Charles Dunwoody writes for Geek Native YZ Worldbuilding: Into the Odd – A Whole Campaign in One Book.
- ScreenRant’s Megan Bojarski publishes their take on Dungeons & Dragons: Best Virtual Tabletops To Play The Game.
- At Bell of Lost Souls, J.R. Zambrano compiles D&D’s Five Most Important Unwritten Rules.
- Flames Rising hosted Gabriel Hatcher’s Narrative Taxes to help highlight the designer’s recent Astinus’ Ledger of Unknowns.
- CBR’s Cameron Muylaert offered up Dungeons & Dragons Fans Find Clever Ways to Play the Game Solo.
- Deen of Geek’s Alana Joli Abbot shared What You Need to Know About Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonlance.
- Sly Flourish pens Building Stronger Friendships through D&D.
- Shannon Applelcline looks into the history of MegaTraveller and HIWG’s Imperial Lines.
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;
- Inquisitor’s Orders – A 5E/PF2E Monster Hunter Campaign from Quest Gaming, LLC proposes, “The Inquisitors’ Guild offers characters the opportunity to accept a variety of 1-Shot based 5E & PF2E adventures, released monthly.”
- From Beyond the Grave from Mauro Indini nominates “A print and play, roll and write game. Choose your Savior and embark on a maddening journey made of lies, greed and suffering.”
- Constellation Dice: Discovery from Gio Lasar Design introduces “A collection of high quality dice celebrating space, using stars, craters, constellations and galaxies as numbers.”
- Oath of the North Pole and Other Holiday Sub-Classes from Chamomile Has A Project crowdfunds “Five sub-classes for 5e with Christmas spirit”
- Nutcracker: A Seasonal 5e Digital DND Adventure from The Board Hoard is working on “The weather outside is frightful, but the atmosphere within Baron Nutcracker’s mansion is just as bad! a 5e DND adventure with STLs!”
- The Weather Outside is Frightful: Chilly D&D Resources! from Morrus suggests “Chilling monsters, cool subclasses, dangerous encounters in the frigid wastes, and a cold-hearted adventure for DnD 5E”
- The Ballad of Aerin – The Chronicles of Ivria – 5E adventure from Galandir’s Pit is working on “A new homebrew Dark fantasy supplement, 5E D&D compatible adventure from level 1 to 5 – Digital Edition”
- Fernsby’s Museum of Outlandish Oddities (5e one-shot) from Andy Hand introduces “A #dnd5e one-shot adventure/murder mystery set in a small, local history museum. Written for level 2 characters.”
- A House Asunder – 5E Campaign with Corresponding 3D printing from Madcap Miniatures kickstarts “Explore the Underdark with an in depth 5E D&D campaign with corresponding STL files for 3D printing.”
- The Pallid Fields: A mini-hexcrawl in Faery from Todd nominates “A 48-page hexcrawl and guide to the Realms of Faery”
- Misery & The Deck of Ruin & Revelation [Mörk Borg] from STONEworks Gaming raises funds for “Whisper Blasphemous Prophecies, Trigger Ruinous Miseries, & Foretell Forgotten Doom in a Dying World. A vile supplement for Mörk Borg.”
- Legionnaire | NHPs in Lancer RPG from Katherine Stark is working on “A supplement for Lancer RPG focusing on NHPs and related entities.”
- Venatoria: A DnD 5e hunting supplement from Gobbo’s Hideout submits “The DnD 5e Hunter’s guide to everything: Monster, One shot, Subclass, Magical and Non-Magical Item, Pet and New Fantastic Optional Rule”
Do you know of an RPG news source that I don’t? Let me know, or leave a comment below.
