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Routinely Itemised: RPGs #293
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White Box Cyclopedia: Five decades of dungeon crawling fund on Kickstarter
The pitch is that the White Box Cyclopedia is that it’s not the original Swords & Wizardry White Box with extra content (some 200 pages) but a ‘what if…’ of D&D’s Dave and Gary remaining friends.
Rubber Duckies is a TTRPG of, yeah, rubber ducks
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.
First look: HANGRY, the sci-fi food hunter RPG, has a comic book
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.
Scale Mail: A solo RPG of deliverying the mail (by dragon)
Australian-based Mitchell Tierney has hit their funding goal on Kickstarter for Scale Mail.
TTRPG awards The ENNIES criticised for accepting AI content
The ENNIES, independent since 2019, are a prestigious TTRPG Award, which has been hosted at Gen Con since 2002.
Stellagama Publishing bundles FTL Nomad at a sensible speed
We’ve until February 11th to grab Stellagama Publishing’s FTL Nomad, a sci-fi TTRPG of space truckers, laser duels and mad robots.
Malediction: The world’s first 3d-printable MCG funds
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.
Leave your world behind: The latest .dungeon beckons
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.
