It’s the last Friday before the UK Games Expo, the biggest tabletop convention Geek Native will attend this year. Not sure what that means for this RPG news summary next Friday, but for now
The summary of RPG news summaries!
- Critical Role’s Darrington Press’s and a Candela Obscura Quickstart Guide for their new RPG.
- Kobold Press is having a great time on Kickstarter funding their D&D-not-D&D with Tales of the Valiant.
- The cost of D&D books is going up.
- PazioCon Online is on right now.
- Wizards of the Coast share 2024 releases and more VTT info.
Zotiquest Games are in the Spotlight and interviewed!
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RPG news from Geek Native
- Kobold Games launch the Kickstarter for Tales of the Valiant with a free preview.
- Top-tier Geek Native patrons are getting a copy of The Lair of the Leopard Empresses RPG.
- Geek Native talked to Giovanni Poli about the dark solo RPG Anno Domini 1252.
- Geek Native also talked to Roleplay Elixir about Tales of Kings & Dragons.
- Steamforged Games and Kickstarter forge a partnership deal.
- D&D has licensed official mini backpacks.
- The Bundle of Holding and Green Ronin have a Freeport Pathfinder deal.
Spotlight: Zotiquest Games
RPG news from around the web
- Paizo kicks off with PaizoCon Online 2023 Kicks Off With Glimpses Into The Future Of Pathfinder, Starfinder, And More!.
- At IGN, Travis Northup covers D&D Creators Reflect on ‘Painful’ OGL Missteps: ‘We Did Some Damage to Trust’ .
- On a roll, Travis also offers The Biggest Changes Coming to D&D’s Core Rulebooks Overhaul.
- GameRant’s Eric Law has the news that Dungeons and Dragons is About to Get More Expensive.
- While Polygon’s Charlie Hall notes D&D’s next adventures are being designed to come apart at the seams.
- Benjamin Abbott follows up with D&D chooses chaos with new magical cards and reveals upcoming book info.
- At Dicebreaker, Matt Jarvis writes up Mirrorscape’s open-licence rival to D&D’s virtual tabletop wants to be “the Apple of VTTs” .
- While, Rob Wieland (read count burning click) has A Hands-On Look At Dungeons & Dragons Ambitious Virtual Tabletop.
- Tabletop Gaming News is quick with Chaosium Expands Miskatonic Repository to Roll20 Virtual Tabletop.
- TechRaptor’s Tyler Chancey goes with Alchemy RPG, VTTs, and A Focus on Roleplaying.
- Dynamite Entertainment run a crowdfunding campaign for new Starfinder and Pathfinder comics.
- Pop Geeks’ Peter Paltridge writes up Two Expansions Coming For Lord of the Rings Roleplaying.
- Game Talk Network has a Pathfinder Remastered Ancestries Preview.
- The Gaming Gang notes Full Details Emerge for Dungeons & Dragons: The Practically Complete Guide to Dragons.
- Arc Dream announce that Delta Green is now on Roll20.
- Challenger, Role now has Custom Dice.
RPG reviews and interviews from around the web
- Jared Rascher, on Gnome Stew, reviews Hard City.
- At Jared’s own site, he looks into Arcadia 27 and Candela Obscura, and part 6 of My Enemy’s Enemy with Agents of the Empire.
- The Other Side reviews the RPG Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space and the Limited Edition hardcover, not to mention the Doctor Who RPG supplements.
- Reviews from R’lyeh looks at the world of Okkorim with OS2 The Heart of Chentoufi, Treasures Of The Troll King and Ubersreik Half-Dozen.
- Throat Punch Games has Dungeon Crawl Classics Dying Earth #1: The Laughing Idol of Lar-Shann.
- MJR RPG pens Memorable Major Wounds – Critical Tables and Expanded Injuries for Call of Cthulhu.
- At Gizmodo, Linda Codega talks to Andrew Gills in Girl by Moonlight Is a Magical Girl Role-Playing Game About Hopeful Transformation.
- On Forbes (free read consuming click), Rob Wieland talks to Adrian Mejia in Koboa Brings South American Voices To D&D (And More).
RPG new releases
- Grab a free preview of Critical Role / Darrington Press’s new and not D&D RPG with the Candela Obscura Quickstart Guide.
- Fel-Dark Entertainment have issued the challenge of their sword and sorcery RPG Blood and Steel.
- Evil Genius Games have released another cinematic adventure for Everyday Heroes with the movie-based Total Recall.
- The Geek Lyfe introduces a world with the constant threat of chaos magic in the Emerald Templars Core Rule Book.
- B. Brother Press offers up a horrific setting for OGL games with Etibonisia City Under Oblivion.
- Akhelas and Austin Conrad have released the RuneQuest adventure The Queen’s Star.
- MS Edizioni has published the 320-page Fantasy World core book.
- Roll of the Dice have published their narrative-driven T.R.O.P.E..
- Leandro Zerbinatti de Oliveria offers a fully customisable IMAGINAERY RPG System.
- Desks and Dorks challenge you with A Fear Within: The Roleplaying Game.
- Bloat Games publish SURVIVE THIS!! Scorched – An Apocalyptic Science Fiction Roleplaying Game.
RPG bundle deals
- Save $156.62 (51%) with MmpApps’ ALL our Maps bundle
- Save $134.75 (77%) with Eldritch Osiris Games’ Eldritch Osiris Games DriveThruRPG PaizoCon 2023 bundle.
- Save $14.96 (50%) with Gallant Knight Games’ Tiny Taverns Complete Collection bundle.
- Save $8.55 (46%) with Elven Tower’s One-Shot Archive bundle.
- Save $1.98 (17%) with Darrin Drader’s Complete Ruins of Adebeth.
RPG ideas, tips and discoveries
- Hannah Alkadi shares Du’as and Dragons: How a Roleplaying Game Taught Me About Parenting.
- DungeonSolvers help with Unlock Your DM Toolbox: A Guide to Conditions in D&D 5e.
- Metal Hammer gets to the point with 11 metal songs inspired by Dungeons & Dragons.
- Sly Flourish asks and answers How Many Encounters Per Day in D&D?.
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;
- LOOM: Portent of the Vale from Jay Merritt raises funds for “Solo adventuring across an arcane land! The Print & Play game with a System Neutral setting for fantasy TTRPGs. Weave your own tale…”
- Monsters! | A Mörk Borg Supplement from Christian Eichhorn kickstarts “A collection of the most disgusting and terribly vile monsters!”
- Rook Towers from Bradlee Walton submits “Vertical movement platforms for TTRPG and board games”
- Knight from Mark Baker crowdfunds “Will you ride into legend?”
- The Bard’s D&D: Mercante di Venezia from Baldrick proposes “The 2nd adventure in the Shakespeare series, ‘The Merchant of Venice’. Will your party help or hinder Shylock?”
- Flat Dungeon Fantasy 3 : OpenLOCK Edition from Flame of Udun Studio suggests “3D printable & modular system ( openLOCK ). For tabletop games, D&D 5E, Dungeon Crawl Classics ( DCC ), board games and wargames.”
- The Flying Dutchman: A Dutch D&D 5e All-in-One Adventure from Creeps & Sheep suggests “All the content of a 5e boxset incl adventure, tokens, battlemaps, item-cards and more but in 1 budgetfriendly printable pdf.”
- Ted’s Bazaar of Magic for 5e from The Wondrous Quill crowdfunds “A supplement of 300+ unique illustrated magic items for 5th edition.”
- Action! System 2.0 from Neon Necromancer Games pitches “A new, updated version of the second commercially-supported OGL tabletop RPG. Multi-genre, crunchy tactical combat, late-’90s-style.”
- The World of Kedor from N E R D C A S T L E is working on “An RPG campaign world written by players for players. Kedor is a expansive world that offers high magic, wild west a steampunk alike.”
- Lost Fools of Atlantis from Newt Newport crowdfunds “A Dark Comedy Roleplaying Game of Conspiracies”
- The Gloaming Swamps & Wilderness from Printable Scenery nominates “Swamp and wilderness terrain for wargames and roleplaying games. Designed to print perfectly on your home 3d printer”
- The New Dark Age: The Death of Magic from Matthew David introduces “Take a pivotal role in the struggle for the future of magic in this dramatic and captivating D&D 5e campaign.”
- Dragon Dowser from Hatchlings proposes “Rescue and rear dragons in this solarpunk tabletop RPG for one player.”
- Nexaria – Campaign Setting for 5e/Pathfinder 2e from Luis Castro raises funds for “A campaign setting for 5e/PF2e. A godless world with dark secrets, eldritch creatures, and a blight that threatens to taint everything.”
- Epic Threats: High Level Monsters and NPCs from Morrus nominates “CR 11-20 monsters and NPCs to challenge your players in your 5E roleplaying games!”
- Arcane Imperfections Volume 6-10 from Eternal Echo Entertainment offers “Spells to add a little more flavor to your DnD 5e game.”
- Tales from the Smoking Wyrm issue 7 & 8 from Blind Visionary Publications nominates “Tapping into the DCC awesome sauce once again!”
- The Mechanized Wargear Catalogue Volume 1 from Diamond Recreational Studios pitches “A LANCER project”
- Wild Earth Dice : The Liquid Core Collection from Paintingswow submits “Handcrafted, luxury dice sets. An exquisitely designed collection of liquid core designs and chonk dice. A treat for the eyes.”
- UnFamiliar: Release the Tiny Beasts from Jerry Joe Seltzer is working on “Playable critters for 5th edition D&D”
- Night of The Werebear: A Horror-Themed Queer DnD Oneshot from Jack Dixon nominates “Leather-clad werewolves, dubious reverends and more in this pulp horror-themed TTRPG oneshot!”
- Even more Modern Day mapping content for MapForge software from Battlegrounds Games, LLC suggests “The goal: to provide GMs of tabletop RPGs with even more mapping content to make MapForge the “go to” app for creating Modern Day maps.”
- Forty Foes – A Cy Borg Compatible Bestiary from Crow Heart Roleplay Resources is working on “Features forty sci-fi foes, each with stats and backgrounds rooted in the dystopian future horror of Cy_Borg”
- La Torre – Alberver’s Redemption. D&D 5E and 3.5 Adventure from The Velar Company proposes “The epic DnD 5E and 3.5 Adventure into the fantastic world of La Torre”
- Rigo’s Register of Roguish Quests from Steven Chabotte offers “D100 Adventures and Missions to Designed to Delight the Thief in Your Party.”
- The Dice Gremlin from Laura Hammonds is working on “Tabletop gaming accessories for the mischievous dice collector in your life.”
- Tool Craft: Dump Stat’s Workshop of Tools for D&D 5e from Dumpstatadventures kickstarts “A massive book of homebrew for tools, kits, and supplies in D&D 5e! May 25th Launch Date”
- Artifacts of Legend from Douglas H. Cole pitches “Two volumes of epic magic items for your Dungeon Fantasy RPG campaigns.”
- Into the Wild Omnibus Edition from Todd is working on “A revision of Into the Wild, Filling in the Blanks, and A Guide to Thieves’ Guilds.”
- A new collection of 3 Print and Play games from Marco Salogni pitches “A new great collection of 3 Print and Play, Roll and Write games”
- They Came From the RPG Anthology! Tabletop Roleplaying Game from Richard Thomas pitches “The next They Came From tabletop RPG, containing Western, Noir, Costume Drama, Space Opera, Theatre, and Genres Voted on by YOU!”
- You Are Now Orbiting Trepis VII from Charlie Thompson crowdfunds “A setting and Archeology rules Supplement for Mothership RPG”
- The Guild of Beggars from Midlam Miniatures offers “A set of ten fantasy characters for all of your fantasy games.”
- HYPERBOREA RPG Map from Jeffrey Talanian offers “A 32 x 40-inch map of Hyperborea in poster and canvas”
- Adventures for Everyone, Everywhere. from Dead Channel Studios is working on “An epic collection for 5E, designed to slot effortlessly into your campaign. Featuring award-winning writer Darren W Pearce!”
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