Brittannia Games has made Colin Speirs’ 22-year-old Essence system a free download.
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The Fallout tabletop RPG was a best seller at the end of the year
Modiphius’ Fallout: The Roleplaying Game was released in September 2021. That’s fairly late in the year, but it was enough for the RPG to become the second best-selling sci-fi on DriveThruRPG. Dune, also from Modiphius, beat it to the top position. Now, ICv2’s survey of North American retailers has revealed that the RPG also made […]
Pre-orders open on Geek Gamers’ Solo Game Master’s Guide
The Solo Game Master’s Guide contains system-neutral tricks for those moments of discovery in games when you don’t know what comes next.
The Slow Knife: Play the baddies getting their own comeuppance
The Slow Knife is inspired by The Count of Monte Cristo, where a quick death was off the cards.
Magpie Games the Root and Avatar: The Last Airbender RPG publisher launches superhero bundle
Masks is a creatively adapted Powered by the Apocalypse tabletop RPG, and Masks: A New Generation is all about young heroes. Think Young Justice. Think Teen Titans.
Mind Weave RPG releases a Pay What You Want treasure map puzzle
James Eck and Mind Weave take advantage of a little known feature of DriveThruRPG to sell functioning bits of software.
YZW: The One Ring Diving Bell Landmark
Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs, many of which use the Year Zero system (Year Zero Engine OGL).
The Speechless Bard’s D&D tracker is a work of physical beauty
There are three base colours for the leather; brown, grey and red, for the faux pages, you can go for clean, stained or gold, and there are eight different colours for the creature tokens and matching initiative trackers.
Doom and dark water: Pirate Borg is no Kickstarter washup
You don’t need Morg Borg to play Pirate Borg and you can use Pirate Borg as a sourcebook for other systems. There’s even a 5e Bestiary Zine as an add-on kicking around.
5E fantasy bundle: Goodman Games is trusted by RPG veterans
One of the publishers that tabletop RPG veterans are likely to recognise and think highly of is Goodman Games.
