While I’ve been recently writing about the dark in games, my newest campaign has been, in fact, running a far more whimsical experience.
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Worldbuilding Amazing Adventures: Yog-Sothothery
The player characters in Amazing Adventures are heroes living at the end of the 1930s and facing off against the cultists and monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos with fists and guns.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #291
In a year marked by climate catastrophe and industry shifts, the TTRPG world saw Critical Role cancel streaming despite a new distribution deal for Darrington Press, Chaosium celebrate 50 years, and researchers leverage D&D expertise for AI development.
Chthonstone Essential Enemies bundle: Weird monsters for Old-School Essentials
A porcine faerie of the darkest kind. Her hut drags itself along like a slug. The centipede-bodied Grumblewyrm shares her taste for the flesh of dwarves.
Top selling titles on the Storytellers Vault in 2024
So, there are new game options for 2025, but what did well in 2024? The team has been kind enough to share their top 10 sellers.
Free to Download: Occult intrigue in the weird cyberpunk of Chromatic Shadows
Matrix Ghost Games’s Chromatic Shadows Basic Rules have been out for over a year – and they’re free in PDF.
Serenissima Obscura cover reveal and the horror of Venice
Vortex Verlag has revealed the cover of the forthcoming fantasy horror Serenissima Obscura.
Critical Role’s Darrington Press cut Macmillian deal for TTRPG sales and distribution deal
Macmillian Publishers, part of the German Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, have partnered with Critical Role and Darrington Press.
The top selling titles on DriveThruCards in 2024
I dread imagining how many great card games or decks were not made because the designer left it as a failed Kickstarter rather than coming to this site to try their hand anyway.
Runecaster TTRPG: Draw runes and blow yourself up!
The game designers and writers known as Pangur Ban Collective has launched their first Kickstarter. The campaign is for a TTRPG called Runecaster.
