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Contributor: Andrew Girdwood

Continuing the archive of independent Andrew Girdwood reporting (Archive Page 346).

Weirdly cute or just ugly? Gollum phone and controller holder

January 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Firebox says the figure will be coveted by all who see it. That might work for magic rings, but I’m not so sure.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: firebox, Gollum, lord of the rings

They came for the geeks: Magical Girl Destroyers has a mobile game

January 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Magical Girl Destroyers KAI, you’ll be Otaku Hero and leading the battle to save geek culture. T

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: trailers

Savage Worlds’ Legend of Ghost Mountain: Martial Arts RPG kicks Kickstarter target

January 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Ghost Wardens draw magical power from strong emotions. Rage. Fear. Joy. Disgust. Sorrow. Only a handful of candidates pass the harrowing trials to harness these emotions—a process that turns their hair white. Those who succeed are privy to mystical martial arts techniques.

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

Audio EXP: #181 – Burning Bridges

January 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast offer a Creative Commons alternative, apologising but pushing on with their plans to change the OGL. There’s lots to speculate on in this week’s RPG news podcast.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: audio exp, geek native, podcasts

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #188

January 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

A brief recap of RPG news and (more) OGL drama from around the TTRPG. This week mass and finance media are in on the news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: routinely itemised

FandomSpot benchmark: One in ten D&D players have quit for good

January 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

FandomSpot wisely run a survey to benchmark the impact of the D&D OGL crisis.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kobold press, pathfinder, powered by the apocalypse

The Väruld RPG comes to Kickstarter with a system-agnostic world core book

January 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Screenwriter Désirée Nordlund is back on Kickstarter with an RPG that lets you pick the rules you want. Väruld is system agnostic and book one is the world book.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, sci-fi

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Catilus

January 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Catilus is an artist whom you can support through Patreon, but there’s also a growing collection of tabletop RPG successes.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, spotlight

Alternatives to D&D race into the Bundle of Holding

January 18, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s rare to see the Bundle of Holding so busy, but it’s unusual times in the tabletop RPG world – and in the marketplace of games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles

The Towninator smashes it

January 18, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A year after not hitting Kickstarter goals, The Towninator from Andreas Barbesgaard is back. It’s an approach to generating single-sheet towns and tracking how RPG PCs interact.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kickstarters

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