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Visceral no-prep sci-fi RPG horror: You’re In Space And Everything’s Fucked
You know you probably won’t survive another run-in with one of those things, not with your arm in the state it’s in. Y
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #195
Routinely Itemised unearths of what’s been happening in the universe of RPGs with a round-up from many gaming blogs and mainstream news.
Do good and help an RPG family: Jonathan M Thompson Memorial bundle offers $629 of goodies for $25
This news piece is about supporting the Thompsons after the tragic death of Battlefield Press boss Jonathan M Thompson.
Necrotic Gnome cancel plans for a revised Old-School Essentials
Necrotic Gnome will continue reprinting the current Old-Schools Essentials tabletop RPG with new supplements and adventures.
Orelyn’s Opus of Outstanding Objects, by Catilus: 5e Highforging rules for items
Highforged items give gamemasters a new tool to add another layer of excitement and gameplay by creating balanced items with a range of customizable abilities.
Mystical Throne: A flash sale of historical RPG sourcebooks
Notably, there are no core rules here, but there are conversion guides for systems like Savage Worlds, Mongoose’s Legend and, of course, Mystical’s Entropic Gaming System.
How to Survive a Haunting is a Mental Health LARP from an experienced disability coach
In the game, the single player is “Stranger” – an entity with a ghost problem and a potential solution with the surprise discovery of an old journal written by someone who only refers themselves as “The Journalkeeper”.
Gaming rig retailer invents scale to judge computer game movie adaptations
The system is straightforward but compelling as Ebuyer has taken the combined scores of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic, along with box office gross and normalised them.
YZ Worldbuilding: Ruins of Symbaroum Call of the Dark
The Bell Tolls for Kastor, The Howling of Damned Gods, and What’s Bred in the Bone all deal with religious matters. The PCs must take sides, and their decision will profoundly affect the campaign world going forward. Religion and politics are intertwined in this world, and the final adventure in particular, marries the two into a complex and dangerous scenario.
