Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s RPG news round-up for the week, unearthing headlines from trusted news sites and smaller blogs, review sites, and Kickstarter.
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Whispers of the Woods: A TTRPG of Slavic legends, Rackham art and von Goethe’s writing
The RPG will have simple and advanced rules and a hex map generator, complete with plot hooks.
Tabletop Mentorship Program joins Unpub
Unpub is striving to bring more to game designers than just playtesting. Our long term approach is to have playtesting, pitching, mentorship, and education, all under the Unpub umbrella.
Free to Download: Murkdice release a quickstart for Void Above
ZineQuest is coming back to Kickstarter and will run in February. Publisher Murkdice are clearly on the ball as they’ve already released a free to download quickstart for their contribution Void Above.
With Breath and Sword: New solo-RPG helps players fight real-life anxiety
The RPG publisher Psychhound Games is Luka Brave, and Luka was a disability coach for years, working with neurodivergent teens and adults before returning to academia to teach gaming-themed courses and take a Masters in therapeutic applications for gaming.
New York Game Awards: 2023 nominations revealed
The 13th annual New York Game Awards will be held on the 23rd with hosts Reggie Fils-Aime and Harold Goldberg, who will honour Neil Druckmann, the Israeli-American writer behind Uncharted and The Last of Us.
Savage Saturday Cinema: PEG tease single session adventures
The announcement explains the Savage Saturday Cinema adventures will be full colour and have been written by various PEG luminaries, and it promises more information soon.
The (undying) Dying Earth RPG bundle from Pelgrane returns with the iconic Jack Vance setting
Vat-grown beauties, charming rogues, and boastful magicians stage their final acts on a sun-scorched, dying Earth.
Eldritch Automata: Gehenna Gaming’s horror TTRPG blends Evangelion and Pacific Rim
Characters in Eldritch Automata are pilots and survivors. The world is one in which both Horrors and Seraphs have arrived, both terribly dangerous and responsible for the post-apocalyptic setting.
The Midderlands: Old school and dark RPG from MonkeyBlood gets a bundle deal
Designed by ENnie-winning writer-artist-cartographer Glynn Seal, the Midderlands setting is a green-hued, dark-fantasy, late-Middle Ages, early-Renaissance land based on Glynn’s home in the United Kingdom, the Midlands.
