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Phil Reed steps aside as CEO of Steve Jackson Games, Meredith Placko steps in

April 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

My excitement at joining the team at Steve Jackson Games is something I cannot express in words. Mostly dinosaur-esque screeching noises.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: steve jackson, Steve Jackson Games

Bundle offer: Hold-up! Mork Borg 2 isn’t what you might think

April 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stand down. There’s no Mork Borg 2 RPG, and Mork Borg 2 is the name of an all-new third-party Bundle of Holding offer. It’s love until April 24th and has titles like Cthork Borg, Dire Mutterings and Galgenbeck: Sacrifice.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, mork borg

Putting the D&D into BDSM: Kinks and Cantrips funds

April 1, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Not everyone is comfortable openly playing with kink themed 5e content, but many might wish to use the rules found in this book in their normal games

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #198

March 31, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s nearly the end of the month and I’ve not yet seen D&D: Honour Among Thieves (spelt with a U in the UK, officially). Why haven’t I? It’s only just come out.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, routinely itemised, snowbright studios, virtual tabletop

Swords & Wizardry: A tabletop RPG using D&D’s original 1978 rules crushes its crowdfunding

March 31, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The tabletop game uses the original rules from D&D, and the pitch promises easy-to-learn rules

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, Mythmere Games, Old School Renaissance, Swords & Wizardry

Bundle: Independence Games explores the Clement Sector with this Cepheus Engine deal

March 31, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Cepheus Engine, a popular OSR sci-fi, is based on the first edition of Mongoose Publishing’s Traveller tabletop RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Cepheus Engine, Independence Games, traveller

Free to Download: Planar Character Options for the Cypher System

March 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

From a Warrior who Strikes With an Amethyst Fist, channelling power through a psionically resonant prosthetic, to a traveller character with a mysterious cosmic map imprinted on their skin, to a character with the Limbo Touched ability, who can change objects at will—characters with ties to the planes are just a bit different.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bruce Cordell, cypher system, free to download, Monte Cook Games, planebreaker

Heroic Maps: Space stations and starships in a bundle

March 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Full-colour battle maps for virtual tabletops (or printing) sci-fi RPGs aplenty and lost in space.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, cartography, heroic maps, sci-fi

Funded! Nightfall expand their Terminator license and launch their Judgement Day Kickstarter

March 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Andrew E.C. Gaska and the entire writing team are back, as are Dave Allsop’s art team. We have got a lot more cool to add…not least of all, playable T-800s and the ultimate ‘cool’ T-1000.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Nightfall Games, s5s

Superhero RPG awards: BAMFSIES 2022 announced

March 29, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 2022 BAMFSIES are on a new website that looks to be still in development, so we’ve spotted these candidates quickly.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awards

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