It’s strange to think that next week is October. Team Geek Native here in Scotland will already have been to two local Oktoberfest events, so I guess that makes sense!
Today’s summary of RPG news summaries are:
- UKGE is banning AI content and merch after rows in 2025.
- QuestXR has a Chaosium backer.
- Celeste Conowitch is leaving Kobold Press.
- Dan Ayoub has been sharing his savvy plans for D&D and trying to repair damage.
- It’s RollCon and there are deals!
I’m thinking of shaking up the ‘Quick Links’ in the right-hand nav bar as I’d like to add more conventions there. I think the Chat Portal could stay, but it’s more common for things like Cookie Policies and Social Media to be in the footer. What think thee?
As it’s the last week of the month, here’s a reminder for Patrons to vote for the RPG Publisher Spotlight. We don’t have the full Q&A interview back from the current honouree, Red Ruin Publishing, but we’re working on it. Patrons can use this private link to cast their vote.
The candidates are:
On with the TTRPG news!
Spotlight: Red Ruin Games.
RPG news from Geek Native
- Did we break this news? UKGE is banning AI-generated content from its halls.
- We pondered D&D boss Dan Ayoub’s thoughts on the future of D&D and saw de-risking.
- QuestXR has a memorandum of understanding with Chaosium to bring BRP into an augmented reality system.
- The huge geeky convention/village takeover Lucca is loaded with TTRPG this year and that includes big names from Daggerheart and D&D.
- SoulMuppet readies for the Homeric tragedy Atrapos.
- Fringe-favourite Dungeons & Shakespeare released Chaos in Verona.
- Son of Oak Studio launches a patron for the Mist Engine with MacDaire’s Journal.
- Free League Publishing is over a $1m funded as it expands The One Ring TTRPG.
- I had to ask – are your minis ethically painted?
- Once we stood Against the Darkmaster, now Open Ended Games are Against the Starmaster.
- The popular EN World news and community site was attacked by waves of AI bots.
- Sirius Dice put spaceships in d20s for their Star Trek MTG sets.
- D&D has five new releases ready for FLGS to be serious about.
- In a quick review, I became a frog knight and sang Ballads of the Lilypond.
- In crowdfunding, I took a look at the military Outside the Wire.
- It’s RollCon weekend.
- In bundles, Humble has top content from the DMsGuild.
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RPG news from around the web
- Kobold Press is losing its lead designer on Tales of the Valiant as it announces New Adventures for Celeste Conowitch.
- At Wowhead, SQUISHEI unpacks an Exclusive Look at Dungeon Masters Campaign Characters for D&D: World of Warcraft.
- Over at Rascal, the team highlights Years-Late RPG Adventure Project Embraces AI, Is Forced To Refund Angry Backers.
- For Wargamer, Timothy Linward reports on Liked the Resident Evil movie? Here’s a new RPG you’ll be dying to try.
- Tabletop Sentinel covers Modiphius Announce Star Trek Adventures 60th Anniversary Boxed Set.
- Dungeons and Dragons Fanatics offers a deep dive into New Dragonlance World Book Announced for D&D Icons Line.
- EN World has an excellent piece by Christian Hoffer on Check out D&D’s redesign of Bahamut.
- At EN World, Morrus pens a piece on Dystopian comedy RPG Paranoia takes aim at social media influencers in its latest adventure.
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RPG reviews and interviews from around the web
- The Kind DM shares a review of Be like a Crow.
- Wargamer’s Gab Hernandez reviews Plenum.
- Ill Met by Morrslieb has reviewed Trollslayer.
- Reviews from R’lyeh pens reviews of No Place Like Homebrew, Shadowrun: Anarchy, The Weaver & The Redcaps, Water & Mist, and Weird Ancestries.
- Over at TTRPG Insider, there is a new interview regarding Fight for Your Turf with Psychic Style in City of Espers.
- Superjump Magazine’s Benjamin Macready sits down to discuss Interviewing Writer Leon Richardson About Their TTRPG, Rangers of A Broken World.
RPG new releases
- Marvel released Marvel Multiverse RPG – Spider-Man Midtown Mayhem.
- Evil Genius Games published Return of the Living Dead Cinematic Sourcebook – Foundry VTT.
- The RPG Professor brings us So you Died. A 5e Undead Player’s Handbook.
- Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd. released Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum, Macharian Adversary Guide.
- Available now is Bloat Games’ DARK PLACES & DEMOGORGONS for 5e – Core Book.
- Windblown Vagrant has published Alien pets: always read the small print!.
- Available now is Green Ronin Publishing’s Cthulhu Awakens Complete Collection (PDF format).
- Available now is CZRPG’s The Republic of the Damned.
- DGS Games has released Ankala Oracle Guidebook.
- Arcane Quill Games has published the Nexaria Campaign Setting.
- New from Legendary Games is Legendary Planet: To Kill a Star (Tales of the Valiant).
RPG bundle deals
- Save $39.87 (57%) with the Return of the Ripper Judge’s Pack Print+Digital bundle from Strange Quark.
- Save $12.60 (30%) on Misfit Studios’ Bundle of Passion collection.
- Save $6.00 (33%) with Mythurgy’s Horror Subclasses bundle.
- Save $5.98 (23%) on Marvel’s Spider-Man Midtown Mayhem | PDF + NEXUS (Pre-Order) collection.
RPG ideas, tips and discoveries
- Vincent Baker investigates Apocalypse World & PbtA: a Conceptual Chronology, part 2 over at Lumpley.
- Over at Forbeck, Matts shares his thoughts on Spider-Man: Midtown Mayhem Is Here!.
- Bell of Lost Souls has published a piece on How Old Styles Of Play Can Add Fresh Air To D&D.
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:
- A Sliver of Evidence from Cairn Press introduces “A werewolf-inspired adventure for Cairn 2e, written & illustrated by Karly Andersen.”
- Random Rollers Start Up by Random Rollers is an upcoming supplement for “We are a D&D group of diverse creative storytellers. Please join us in building community and safe spaces for the dice to roll freely.”
- D&D 5e: 50 Unique Backgrounds & Story Hooks for Players is a project by Loots & Dragons that features “Expand your 5e games with 50 rich, ready-to-play character backgrounds, unique features, and engaging story Hooks for Players and DMs !”
- RPG Adventure Stamps: Graveyard Set is a project by Jorrit Schlüter that looks at “3D-printable stamps & tools set to quickly create playable TTRPG adventures, including maps & tokens for characters, monsters & more.”
- Pocket Roll: The Dice You Carry. The Fidget You Keep. is a project by Tactile EDC that promises “A pocket-sized mechanical companion for idle hands, game nights, and everything in between.”
- The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow from Laurie is working on “A 5e-Compatible American Gothic Adventure”
- Zero Hour from Ben Tobitt kickstarts “Tactical Survival Horror TTRPG”
- Dark Mythos | Cthulhuian Horror for use with Shadowdark from Jeffrey Jones offers “Three Occult Works: a resource book, adventure anthology, and fiction/GM guide for drawing the Outsider’s cosmos into your game.”
- LEVITATING LUMINAR — A D20 That Floats, Glows & Comes Alive is a project by Floating Dice that is described as “An illustrated magnetic D20 that levitates above a color-changing luminous base — made to roll, collect, and display.”
- Herd of Horns from Chris Gunning is launching “An Original TTRPG Celebrating Dinosaurs for Being Dinosaurs!”
- Primal Earth from Chance Clark shares “A d20 survival horror tabletop role-playing game; dinosaurs have reemerged & humanity fights to survive in a brutal prehistoric world.”
- World’s Largest Science Fiction Random Tables Toolbox from Offworld Frontiers shares “Spanning 3 volumes and almost 400,000 words it is the ultimate sci-fi TTRPG resource for GMs, players, and solo players!”
- Dante’s Shadow – for Shadowdark RPG from Erkyn Adventures has introduced “The bleeding hills of Tuscany – A Historically (In)accurate Setting for Shadowdark RPG”
- The Original Character Relationship Journal from Flux Destiny offers “A guided, interactive journal for original character creators to develop and deepen their characters’ romantic relationships.”
- NOVA 2 is a project by Spencer Campbell that is “Pilot mechs on a sunless world in this exciting second edition of the NOVA TTRPG!”
- Creature Companions Expanded from Underground Oracle Publishing brings us “Enhanced options to play with or as creature companions and former familiars in your Black Flag/5e-compatible games.”
- Viva La Dungeon! Rise of the Neckromancer is a project by Zontco LLC that features “One book. Three heroes. A Dungeon you explore, choices you make, dice you roll, and a story that changes with every run.”
- Worlds To Come is a project by Lexi Kohanski that looks at “The Hebrew roleplaying game”
- Doungim: The TTRPG Tabletop Games Console That Answers Back by Doungim is offering “Describe your world, set your rules, and it creates the rest: a living world for you. Runs any TTRPG or assists your Game Master.”
- 100 Unique Factions for D&D 5e Volume 2! by Realms of Wonder is currently raising funds for “The 2nd volume to the DnD 5E supplement packed with: Guilds, Cults, Orders, Houses, Leaders, 100+ pages for your Campaign or Adventure!”
- DARKER TIMES: Into the Night – A DnD 5e Zine by Erik Jorgensen is offering “A zine for those who like their adventures more dangerous and fun (TTRPG | Fantasy | OSR)”
- HALLOWEEN REALMS — 770+ TTRPG Maps for VTT & Print from Agnieszka Polanowska is launching “770+ Halloween Battle Maps — Witches, Pumpkins, Haunted Forests, Graveyards, Dark Carnivals, Castles, Dungeons & More”
- 1000+ Full Color Miniatures – 3D Printable STL + GBL from Virtual Diversions seeks funding for “Over 1000 full color, textured, Minis for you to 3D print! Pre textured for those fancy new full color printers, or paint them yourself”
- The Debt of Nine Winters 5E from Eric Bleney presents “A 5e one-shot manhunt in the high passes, for 3–5 characters of levels 3-4.”
- Lonely Timbers – Tire-toi une bûche is a project by Jason Pitre that is described as “A TTRPG about french-canadian lumberjacks in the early 20th century. Un JDR des bûcherons québecoises du début du XXe siècle.”
- One HONK: Bird Time’s The Charm – A Goose-Based TTRPG from Jack Dixon seeks funding for “The third entry in the khaotic TTRPG series!”
- Monster of the Month: Tigghare – a leaping lepus lord is a project by TGrejczik that invites players to explore “Charmingly lethal bunnytiger friend (or foe) for your D&D adventures – Creature stats, NPC/familiar stats + bonus item”
- Dungeons & Mythos: The Aeneid from Vlad Cernica has introduced “The perils and tribulations of Aeneas told through a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign | The Second Book in the Dungeons & Mythos series”
- October Twilight is a project by Joshua/Vera Mitchell that features “Occult Post Apocalypse Horror RPG”
- Fragged Aeternum 2 | ttRPG from Wade Dyer is launching “A violent and dark gothic ttRPG that plunges immortal PCs into the endless city of Aeternum to fight vile Fiends and otherworldly foes.”
- Tales of the Assemblance from Tom Astbury has introduced “A new fantasy roleplaying game”
- 1000 Fantasy Artifacts: A Massive STL Collection from Fantasy Bags is nominating “A massive collection of 1000 fantasy STL files featuring magical relics, treasures, weapons, books, crowns, artifacts and more.”
[What’s this chart? We use Kickstarter Heat to measure how busy the crowdfunding season is.]
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