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Bite Club bundle of RPG material to pay vet and ER bills

October 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Bite Club bundle offer represents 66% off, which equates to savings of about $21.66. There are several bestsellers in the collection as well.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, dmsguild, Dungeons & Dragons

Night Train turns 25: PEG brings the dreaded Deadlands adventure back to Kickstarter

October 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pinnacle Entertainment Group (PEG) have the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition and anniversary update of Night Train on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: deadlands, kickstarters, Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Onyx Path’s post-apocalypse 5e setting lands in the Bundle of Holding

October 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once, the gods and titans warred for supremacy, and vast armies of mortal creatures fought beside their creators.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Dungeons & Dragons, onyx path publishing, Scarred Lands

Dragon jumper: Dungeons & Dragons ugly Christmas sweater

October 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The official D&D ampersand logo is emblazed against the moon as dragons fly and dice decorate the helm.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: christmas, Dungeons & Dragons, fashion, merchoid

New horror: Ellen Datlow Presents Tales of Terror

October 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s more than three decades worth of anthology content here and 4,700 pages. Authors include Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Thomas Ligotti, Ramsey Campbell, Tim Powers and Joe R. Lansdale.

Filed Under: Books

Headless horrors and local writers: Backwards: Regional American Gothic Horror

October 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Backwards Tabletop publishes the 5-star rated Backwater: Southern Gothic Horror Tabletop Roleplaying and has expanded it once through Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backwater, kickstarters

Mattel wins the race to sell the first board game with integrated AI

October 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s Google tech. Mattel’s new Pictionary uses the “Quick, Drawl!” artificial intelligence, which I’ve used loads and helped train the AI. It’s free to play.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, board game, google, Mattel

A look inside: Dungeons & Dragons Lore & Legends

October 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The book has more than 900 artworks, including photography, digs into the history of D&D and has been sculpted by an impressive team of writers and researchers.

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Jon Peterson, previews

Can an RPG go viral? Don’t Play This Game horror chain letter might

October 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once an Event is completed the Entity will select another. This repeats and your story unfolds until either you complete the game and are free, or you lose and, well, then really bad things happen…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, kickstarters, parable games

Aconyte Books brings Marvel Zombie’s The Hunger to DriveThruComics

October 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sister site to the DMsGuild and DriveThruRPG, DriveThruComics has Aconyte Books as a publisher, and they’ve just published 352-pages of zombies.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: aconyte, zombie

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