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Continuing the archive of independent Andrew Girdwood reporting (Archive Page 202).

Fabula Ultima: The Bundle of Holding has the West’s best selling TTJRPG

January 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In 2023, Need Games’ Fabula Ultima Atlas: High Fantasy topped the best selling fantasy RPG charts on DriveThruRPG. Now, there’s a whole bundle in the Bundle of Holding.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, Fabula Ultima, fabula ultima atlas: high fantasy, need games

Recreate Christmas with the smell of new board game (candles)

January 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

New board games, just like new books, have a wholesome and charismatic aroma. I can’t describe it, but now, thanks to GameNightPrints on Etsy, I can recreate it.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: candles, Etsy, household, shopping

The Majestic Fantasy RPG slated for a 2025 Kickstarter

January 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bat in the Attic Games published the 204 pages of The Majestic Fantasy RPG in 2021, and it has 5/5 stars after over a dozen ratings on DriveThruRPG. However, it’s not finished.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: judges guild, Swords & Wizardry

The top selling Roll20 modules on DMsGuild in 2024

January 2, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this cut of the data we’re looking at the Roll20 module top sellers on the DMsGuild.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dmsguild, Dungeons & Dragons, jeff stevens games, roll20, stats, the wild beyond the witchlight, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast

Why was Nosferatu banned?

January 2, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 1922 Nosferatu original, which didn’t have any nudity, was banned.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bill Skarsgård, law, Nicholas Hoult, nosferatu, vampires

Breaking the Vault of Viditya Voleti: A TTRPG about horrible people does something good

January 2, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Breaking the Vault of Viditya Voleti, the players begin by collectively agreeing on the genre and setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: charity

Patrons can now vote in the February RPG Publisher Spotlight

January 1, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I know we’ve only just made it into January but the patron-only poll for February is now live.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: geek native, Patreon, spotlight

Your dice aren’t random, and probability probably does not exist

December 31, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If someone tosses a coin, what’s the chance of it landing head-up?

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: dice, science

Dungeons & Dragons made this obscure Scottish word well-known

December 31, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To be more confusing, Scots is a different language from Scots Gaelic. The former is a Germanic language and the latter Goidelic.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Jack Vance

The top selling products on DMsGuild published in 2024

December 30, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

But what happens if we restrict the top sellers list to just D&D products published this year? We could do that for DriveThruRPG, and the good news is that we can do that for the DMsGuild, too!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dmsguild, Dungeons & Dragons, greyhawk, heroic maps, jeff stevens games, Keith Baker, planescape, Ravnica, stats

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