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Contributor: Andrew Girdwood

Continuing the archive of independent Andrew Girdwood reporting (Archive Page 354).

OGL architect: Hasbro does not have the power to do to D&D’s OGL what they seem to be doing

January 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

If that had been a power that we wanted to reserve for Hasbro, we would have enumerated it in the license.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: hasbro, legal, wizards of the coast

Free to Download: Tower of the Vampire for Legends of Gildor

January 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tower of the Vampire is the first in a series of sword and sorcery fantasy adventures involving characters driven by duty, vengeance, devotion, curiosity, or plain greed. It comes with pre-genned characters, so you can get going quickly.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: elemental, free to download, gildor games, vampires

Game Designers’ Workshop’s 80s classic RPG 2300 AD bundles an offer

January 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Specifically, 2300 AD is set 300 years after the Twilight War, and you can grab it between now and Monday the 23rd from the Bundle of Holding.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2300 ad, bundle of holding, bundles, game designers workshop, twilight: 2000

Starset: The Great Dimming – Hoodwink brings a grimdark isolation RPG to Kickstarter

January 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Josiah Mork notes that some gamers of their generation, post-COVID-19, are relatively satisfied with light isolation. This isn’t the core pitch for Starset, but it caught my attention.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Which tabletop RPGs are people looking forward to the most this year?

January 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I think EN World started this, and they’ve done it again with thousands of votes. It makes sense to share their results rather than reinvent the wheel.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Chaosium, crowbar creative, dragonbane, exalted funeral, Free League Publishing, household, Monte Cook Games, Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, mothership, old gods of appalachia, Pelgrane Press, pendragon, schwalb entertainment, shadow of the weird wizard, the walking dead, Tuesday Knight Games, two little mice

The Slow Second Life of the Retired Dark Soldier in His 30s changes title

January 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

He is said to be a demon and incapable of using magic, Dariel (30s), a dark soldier of the Demon King’s Army who was suddenly dismissed.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: Crunchyroll, trailers

Stillfleet: Grim and vibrant sci-fi RPG with fantastic art

January 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stillfleet takes place in a gloomy, lively, zany, and politically charged future when the Earth has two (super)continents instead of seven.

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: previews, stillfleet

Vaesen and Free League’s Forbidden Lands in bundle? You betcha

January 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The offer runs until about the 19th, starts with a Forbidden Lands card deck and scales up to a 10-item £14.55 tier. At that top end, there are over £130 worth of downloads.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, humble bundle, vaesen

JustWatch: But British this time – What did we want to watch?

January 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We see that UK and US movie tastes are similar, with the top 10s almost overlapping. B

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: justwatch, stats

Roll20’s top 10 best selling RPG products of 2022

January 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

2022 also saw OneBookShelf and Roll20 coming together to work as one. The result? We can also see the top 10 at Roll20. Actually, I’ve data for the top 12. So let’s do that!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, Paizo Publishing, roll20, wizards of the coast

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