Routinely Itemised: RPG #325

It’s Tabletop Scotland weekend, and I hope RPG news coverage volume is starting to make amends for news being a bit sparse during August.

Let’s begin with the summary of summaries!

• Umut Comak founded Feymere Games after leaving DRS Publishing.
• WotC’s President fancies a D&D MMORPG and talks franchise models.
• Based on the books by N.J. Jemisin, Green Ronin has released The Fifth Season RPG.
• You can win a £50 All Rolled Up voucher.
• Kickstarter is having a hot week.

DMIng the World Press won the RPG Publisher Spotlight for this month. The candidates for next month’s RPG Publisher Spotlight are:

• Bailey Records
• Stillfleet
• Nicholas Johnson
• Dark Wizard Games
• Codex Integrum

If you’re a hero patron, then you can vote in this poll. If you’re not yet a hero, you can still go on read-quickly random adventures.

And now, the Routinely Itemised TTRPG news.

Spotlight: DMIng the World Press

RPG news from Geek Native

• After leaving DRS, Umut Comak founded Feymere Games with grand plans.
• In support of Coyote & Crow Digital, we spoke to Kenna Alexander.
• There was a time when the undead were really spooky, and now they’re you. We talk to Chris Pickett about Danse Macabre.
• It’s Tabletop Scotland, we might have said, and from there we’ve got news of Gumpy Gorilla opening pre-orders on Rosebyrne Manor Revised Edition.
• Morware handed a convention debut to the print edition of Vomin’s Void.
• Indie publisher Dog Petrol brought the freshly printed Rising Star Championship Edition out.
• Wrenegade is planning to release free PDF Investigation content for Beyond the Veil.
• We covered that Chaosium will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a ‘Cthulhu in a Castle’ RPG vacation.
• Geek Native covered (or tried to) Araukana Media’s plans for Zephyr and the Salt States.
• Ain’t Slayed Nobody and Rusty Quill are at it again with a Cthulhu actual play called Push the Roll.
• MppApps has a free-to-download, D6-based but AI-art peppered D6++ Wild West RPG offer.
• At the Bundle of Holding, we’ve a Fragged Empire 2e deal.
• At Humble, there are offers too, and they look like the Top Content from the D&D Community and the Pathfinder Primer bundle.

Competition: £50 All Rolled Up voucher

RPG news from around the web

• At EN World, Christian Hoffer reports Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model.
• At Games Industry Biz, Lewis Packwood has the not-so-surprising news that The Wizards of the Coast president would love a new Dungeons & Dragons MMORPG.
• Rascal notes Tiny Table Index, A Directory For Small And Solo TTRPGs, Has Shuttered.
• Dungeons and Dragons Fan details D&D Heading Back to Brazil With New Partnership.
• Bell of Lost Souls notes RPG: Pathfinder’s ‘Monster Core 2’ Adds More Than 300 Monsters – From Peasants To Demigods.
• Mollie Russell, at Wargamer, explains Forget DnD, here’s a TTRPG that turns Scrabble tiles into Twin Peaks mysteries.
• D&D Beyond looks at Add Some Color to Your Rolls with the Power of the Unicorn Digital Dice Set.

RPG reviews and interviews from around the web

• Reviews from R’lyeh pens a review of Otherscape – The Mythic-Cyberpunk RPG Demo Game and GM Companion for ShadowDark.
• Ill Met by Morrslieb reviews Dark Heresy and Disciples of the Dark Gods.
• Grognardia reviews Rifts.
• TTRPG Insider writes Lying to the DM With Coyote and Crow’s ‘Ahu Tiiko’ Expansion.
• MJR RPG reviews Child Play.
• Halfway Station reviews Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition.
• The RPG Gazette reviews Goblin Quest.
• Throat Punch Games reviews Cypher Preview.
• Bell of Lost Souls micro-reviews ‘Starfinder’s ‘GM Core’ Puts The “Sci” In “Sci-Fantasy”.
• Grognardia has an interview with Jeff Talanian.
• At EN World, Andrew Peregrine pens Citing the Deep Magic: An Interview with Lew Pulsipher.

RPG new releases

• Green Ronin has released the AGE-powered and N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth-based Fifth Season: Roleplaying in the Stillness.
  • There’s also the Fifth Season Roleplaying Game Moderator’s Kit.
• Terra RPG has published the 5e and 2024e Terraa Handbook.
• Troll Lord Games has published the 37-page Castles & Crusades The Roleplayers Vault.
• Menagerie Press has released the Phoenician-inspired Sapphire Seas for Shadowdark.
• Nox Memoriam is offering players the chance to beta test Tactics Memoriam.
• Gorgon’s Grimoire has released the OSR Damsels, Adventurers, and Dragons.
• WillGriff fears no bandwagons and has published the pay-what-you-want KPop TTRPG Hunters.
• In physical releases and pre-orders, at shops like Forbidden Planet, you can now pre-order
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Stranger Things: Welcome To The Hellfire Club.
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms: Adventures In Faerûn Dungeon Master Guide.
  • Dungeons & Dragons: A Young Adventurer’s Guide: Warriors & Wizards Compendium (Signed Bookplate Edition Hardcover).
  • Dungeons & Dragons: A Young Adventurer’s Guide: The Warriors & Wizards Compendium (Hardcover).
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms: Adventures In Faerûn Dungeon Master Guide (Alternative Cover).

RPG bundle deals

• Save $142.43 (59%) in the Art of the Genre’s FAST Super Bundle Two.
• Save $25.94 (52%) with Arrowland Games’ The Realm of Gaian Enoch – Starter Pack.
• Save $12.00 (40%) with the Miskatonic Repository’s The Gaslight Adventure Path bundle.

RPG ideas, tips and discoveries

• Polygon pens I tried to fix D&D’s most annoying problem.
• Flirting with hot topics, XDA’s Simon Batt reveals that they explored D&D dungeons generated by Copilot, and they were wilder than expected.
• Reactor’s James Davis Nicoll writes up Four SF Book Series Adapted Into Roleplaying Games.
• RoleplayingTips.com helps out again with How to Create a Murder Mystery.
• Sly Flourish suggests The Secret of the Eight Steps of Lazy Game Prep.
• Vocal’s Richard Bailey suggests the Best D&D Campaign Hooks That Instantly Capture Your Players’ Attention.
• Bell of Lost Souls looks at Five Different Campaign Styles You Might Not Have Tried—But Should.

RPG Crowdfunding

There’s more! You can catch up with the Kickstarter campaign we’ve written up in more detail at Kickstarter watch. Here are some noteworthy industry projects to mention:

• Osmo’s Orb of Wondrous Power and Archedon Warlord of Death from Mark Taormino suggests “TWO SOFT COVERS + PDFS for 1E & 5E RPGS! READY TO PRINT AND SHIP! ANY reward $10 or more gets 37 BONUS PDFs of My Other Adventures!”
• Elemental Combat Dice from John Robinson introduces “Elemental Combat Dice is a dynamic two to four player combat dice game.”
• A Privatized Little Hell from WatcherDM pitches “A 5e Adventure for 4 – 6 Level 16 Adventurers. Corporate hell is waiting for you…”
• Stars Without Number RPG: Offset Reprint Campaign from Kevin Crawford suggests “A campaign to put the Smyth-sewn, offset-print edition of the game back in print.”
• Mice Of Legend: Play DnD as Mice! New Modules M4 & M5 from Paul Hoeffer suggests “A D&D Campaign Setting Guide and Adventure Modules for playing DnD as Mice. Compatible with OSRIC/AD&D, OSE/BX, 5e, and OSR systems.”
• The Isle of Tanna: A Tabletop and Narrative World from Pantheon Arts PDX kickstarts “A game world and story series published by Pantheon Arts PDX as they journey into the realm of Community Publishing with allies & you!”
• Crawling Deep — Expansion for Shadowdark RPG from Taylor Seely-Wright proposes “Descend into the unknown with new classes, monsters, magic, and GM tools for Shadowdark RPG”
• OsaKami Sein from Loki Akai suggests “A story driven tactical tabletop sci-fi RPG”
• Tabletop Toolkit: Detailed Campaign Notebooks & Dice Trays from Verena nominates “Storyteller and Player notebooks, suitable for any TTRPG, with matching dice trays.”
• FoldPlay: New dimension of a gaming table from Rapcom is working on “A designed gaming table crafted from exclusive materials, featuring numerous extras and enhanced functionality. Starting at €349”
• WICKED WORLDS: 3 Planet Modules for Mothership® RPG from Wicked Grin Interactive introduces “A 3-zine bundle of lethal sandbox worlds to expand any Mothership campaign.”
• Tactics Memoriam from Julian Hermano kickstarts “A new Strategic TTRPG about changing the shape of the afterlife with your blade, playable with just dice and a chessboard.”
• LoreFolke from Joe Nittoly submits “An original fantasy adventure tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG ) of epic-sized adventures for faery-sized heroes.”
• All the World’s Prey from Radmad RPGs is working on “An 1800s bounty hunting tabletop roleplaying game in mythic America”
• D100 Horror Events Lists for 5E – £1 from Jason DM introduces “500 Horror based events and situations for your RPG games. 5e compatible!”
• Hero School: Gear up for Glory! from TGrejczik offers “Zine of Roll tables of starter gear, spells, potions and trinkets for new players or adventurers in training – D&D 5E/2024 com”
• Steelheart: A Daggerheart Campaign from Mobile Game Design is working on “A Daggerheart campaign with 10 adventures and everything you need as a GM to start a campaign in a new world.”
• Starmork: A $349 Multi-Mission Game Table for Hosts & Gamers from Starmork proposes “$349 Game+Dine | 20+ Modular Attachments | Charging Hub & RGB Lighting | Perfect for RPGs, LEGO & Pizza Nights | Stain & Spill-Proof”
• You Were Made: A Solo Journaling TTRPG Experience from Deny Trudel pitches “Explore memory, identity, and lost futures in this solo sci-fi journaling roleplaying game of Echoforms and forgotten worlds.”
• The Black Wyrm’s Hoard: Vol 1 (5e Zine) from Michael Lorette raises funds for “A zine for 5e/5.5e with new magic items, monsters, and more to drop into your Dungeons and Dragons game.”
• Your DIY Foldable Leather Dice Tower from Benjámin Weisz raises funds for “Assemble your own leather dice tower. We’ve already done the hard part. We provide the tools. All that’s left for you is the fun. ;)”
• Tales from Elsewhere: Clockworld – Action Horror RPG from Tales from Elsewhere proposes “An action-horror, post-apocalyptic, weird west tabletop roleplaying game with a brutal injury system and dynamic, math-lite combat.”
• Dragonbane: Accidental Heroes from Revel Tales raises funds for “Meet Icuci, an Italian-inspired realm and the Accidentals, desperate souls whose dreams failed but whose courage never vanished!”
• Inn To The Deep: Deluxe Edition For Shadowdark and OSE from Bill Edmunds nominates “A box set of ready-to-run OSR adventures.”
• Light & Shadow: Adventure Duel – D&D DnD from AAW Studio pitches “A light-strategy card game that takes you into the magical world of DnD!”
• Korean Bestiary 5E from A4 Play is working on “Spirits, Demons, and Monsters Inspired by Korean Folklore.”
• Scorched Basin from HOMIEandTheDUDE introduces “A Mad Max/Dune-inspired System Agnostic TTRPG setting”
• The World of Kaladyn Campaign Sourcebook from Reynaldo Alvarado pitches “A fully realized 5E Fantasy World with new Class Options, Gods, Maps, Magic Items, Myths, Species, Spells, Treasures and more!”
• Japanese Inspired Maps collection : Battlemaps for any TTRPG from RebelRune suggests “100+ Japanese inspired maps transform you to Japan at any time.”
• Biomes in Maksur: Forests from Cave Gaming offers “TTRPG Resources for running Woodland Adventures!”
• Fathom TTRPG 1.5 Edition from DarkConsulGames crowdfunds “A TTRPG set in a submerged Earth, now fully revamped with original artwork and with softcovers available.”
• Ra/Apophis Class-ified – 2 D&D Original Classes! from DiceQuest submits “Two DnD 5e Classes Inspired by the Gods of Egyptian Mythology: Ra and Apophis.”
• Grimscar RPG Bestiary and Expansions from Crow Heart Roleplay Resources offers “The second Grimscar campaign features a Bestiary and New Expansions”
• Dual Dice 2.0 – The Dice Revolution is finally here! from Team K2 submits “The Revolutionary 2.0 multi-faceted six-sided dice which are compatible with normal D6s plus extra capabilities for RPGs and gaming.”
• Tendrils of Power: An adventure for 5e and PF2 from Kim Frandsen introduces “An adventure for 4-6 5th-level heroes for either or both systems (Pathfinder Second Edition and 5th Edition).”
• Pay What You Want, Medieval RPG Town Set 17 from 3DP4U suggests “3D Printable STL Files, Terrain for Tabletop, Role Playing Games, Wargames and RPG. Medieval RPG Town Houses – Set 17”
• Forest Battle Map Pack – 720 RPG Maps from Agnieszka Polanowska pitches “Forest RPG Battle Maps – 120 Variants and 600 Standalone Maps for Endless Adventures”
• Northlands: Norse Adventures for D&D 2024 and ToV from Kobold Press offers “Epic heroes, larger-than-life magic, and an adventure path from a simple fjord to the halls of Asgard! Raise your axe, heed the call!”
• Night of the Knife: A Campaign Quartet Adventure (5e D&D) from Steampunkette submits “Four new character classes for gothic and horror themed 5e-compatible games packaged with a one-shot themed adventure!”
• 5e 100 New Traits & Abilities: “Marks of Power” from Elven Foundry is working on “A compendium of 100 new Traits & Abilities for your characters.”
• 🔥 DEMON: Echoes of the Abyss from James proposes “A modular 5E adventure packed with demon-infested realms, deadly bosses, corrupted magic, and lore-rich content for epic campaigns.”
• Random RPG Tables: Romance & Relationships from Mobinet Games crowdfunds “A toolbox of romantic and relationship tables for fantasy RPGs and solo games. 100+ pages. PDF & Print. Includes the adult Red Book!”
• A CASE OF AGES – A Solo Detective Journaling Game from TuthRaught suggests “Become the Detective in a Dark City. Solve the Mystery Before the Trail Goes Cold.”
• The House of the Crescent Sun from Kevin Hassall crowdfunds “Shadowy conspiracies, high politics, and epic battles against infernal foes. A campaign for DnD 5e, Ars Magica, or Mythras.”
• Tales from the Outer Rim: A Sci- Fi Rumour Compendium from Samuel Steele is working on “1,000 Fragments of Gossip, Legends, and Forgotten Transmissions for any Sci-Fi TTRPG setting”
• The Lady Blade Series: 2 Novels and a 5th Edition RPG from Tom and Catherine Thrush nominates “Join Francesca as she fights her way from Italy to the New World in two novels, then step into her shoes in a D&D game module.”
• The Demon-Seed of the Plant God from Frog God Games crowdfunds “Lost Lore from the Lost Lands-Book 1”
• 🎲 Dice hub: NSFW Dice Set by Your Magic Dice from Desiree Stovall is working on “The Dice You Shouldn’t Bring to Family Game Night 🤭”
• Siege of the Midnight Grove: A 5E Adventure Module from Fable Forge Gaming introduces “Step In To Save The Grove & Discover Its mysteries”
• CAMP DEAD LAKE from Mitchell Tierney proposes “Solo Role-playing Gamebook – Horror, Adult Themes & Gore”
• Bree-YARC RPG Quickstart from Todd pitches “Funding art and an offset print run of the quickstart book of this upcoming game.”
• Bring Eldrath to life – 3D Files for your DnD Campaign! from Seerendip Publishing nominates “Bring Eldrath to life with highly detailed, pre-supported STL files for your tabletop adventures.”
• The Land of Bronze : The Dragon war from Black Lodrac offers “A D&D 5e epic adventure module. Save the land of bronze, explore the secrets of the past and face a Dragon and his army.”

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