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Continuing the archive of independent Games reporting (Archive Page 113).

Rubber Duckies is a TTRPG of, yeah, rubber ducks

January 24, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Branden Webb’s latest offering to DriveThruRPG is a little less fancy, though; it’s a Pay What You Want Rubber Duckies. It’s a Rubber Duck RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: pay what you want

First look: HANGRY, the sci-fi food hunter RPG, has a comic book

January 23, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

HANGRY is a computer game, a snack-and-slash RPG, from Game Pill. If Delicious in Dungeon made the fantasy version of hunting for food cook, then HANGRY seems intent on doing a slightly weirder sci-fi version.

Filed Under: Comics, PC Tagged With: Steam

Scale Mail: A solo RPG of deliverying the mail (by dragon)

January 23, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Australian-based Mitchell Tierney has hit their funding goal on Kickstarter for Scale Mail.

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

TTRPG awards The ENNIES criticised for accepting AI content

January 23, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The ENNIES, independent since 2019, are a prestigious TTRPG Award, which has been hosted at Gen Con since 2002.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, ENnies

Stellagama Publishing bundles FTL Nomad at a sensible speed

January 22, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve until February 11th to grab Stellagama Publishing’s FTL Nomad, a sci-fi TTRPG of space truckers, laser duels and mad robots.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Cepheus Engine, stellagama publishing, traveller

Malediction: The world’s first 3d-printable MCG funds

January 22, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The headline is that it took less than a quarter of an hour to fund a game that blends the strategy of a customisable deck builder with a skirmish game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card game, crowdfunding, gamefound, skirmish game, Tracy Hickman

Leave your world behind: The latest .dungeon beckons

January 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The original .dungeon is an award-winning game, but John is back with improvements. The text has been slightly reworked, there is art from Charlotte Laskowski, and a spiral-bound softcover is available.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Genre Police: Friends, NPCs And Countrymen

January 19, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I want to talk about how using the word ‘NPC’ actually means a lot of things. Because each one you introduce to any RP game has an intent, role to play and ways they can expand.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg tips

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Sad Fishe Games

January 18, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sad Fishe Games are the first RPG Publisher Spotlight winners of 2025. Last month, our patrons voted for them out of a short list of nominees.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, OpenQuest, parts per million, peter rudin-burgess, spotlight, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #292

January 17, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re halfway through the first month of 2025 and ready for the next round-up of TTRPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, jess lanzillo, routinely itemised, wizards of the coast

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