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Modiphius launch 2d20 World Builders third-party publisher program

January 14, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 2d20 World Builders community content program from Modiphius and DriveThruRPG provides rules and a platform for third-party publishers to create and sell content.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2d20, drivethrurpg, legal, Modiphius Entertainment, world building

Gorilla My Dreams: The Marvel Multiverse RPG gets a third-party setting

January 14, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gorilla My Dreams is a webcomic about a depressed gorilla called Knockaound-Guy who sees himself as a superhero, and it’s now on Kickstarter to become an RPG.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #187

January 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A brief recap of RPG news and OGL drama from Geek Native and around the tabletop community. This week mass and mainstream media are allover our turf.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: mindjammer press, routinely itemised, stiff whiskers press, the lair of the leopard empresses, weird frontiers

Award-winning Nightfell setting summons Children of the Moon

January 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Children of the Moon have already been summoned by the Kickstarter community, smashing targets and Mana Project Studio are on board to help.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, Mana Project Studio, nightfell, werewolves

On Game Jam Culture and Minimalist RPGs

January 13, 2023 by Guest Writer 2 Comments

W.H. Arthur (he/佢) started game design in a 200 word RPG jam in 2018. Since then, he has released a number of small RPGs on itch.io, and contributed to a few popular indie RPG projects.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: grant howitt, Honey Heist, itch.io, james d'amato, john harper, lasers & feelings, w.h. arthur

Carnival Row 2 trailer hits just as the Carnival Row RPG Cypher System gets some love

January 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The setting has a free RPG through a marketing collaboration but does require the Cypher System engine to run. That’s not free but there is a free preview that might be enough to get you started.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs, TV Tagged With: amazon prime video, Carnival Row, cypher system, Orlando Bloom, trailers

Paizo will go to court to stop WotC and OGL 1.1

January 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

Paizo has said they’ll go to court to argue that the OGL cannot be deauthorized by Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Green Ronin Publishing, kobold press, Legendary Games, Paizo Publishing, rogue genius games, wizards of the coast, Wyrmworks Publishing

Dungeons on Demand: Instant adventures back on bundle offer

January 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Bundle of Holding has Dungeons on Demand again. It’ll hang around until the 25th.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Action-Heroes RPG: A Kickstarted toolkit to turn fan favourites into games

January 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Action-Heroes is a hybrid of old school and contemporary design ideas and aesthetics.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Outland Entertainment

Advanced 5E investigates divorcing 5e’s OGL

January 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

EN Publishing’s Level Up: Advanced 5e was a Kickstarter success and well-received by the community. As the name implies, Advanced 5e builds on the core 5e rules for D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, level up, woin

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