Issue the Third is yet another thick, slick brick of that magical brew of old and new across the spectrum of our common interests: game design essays, refereeing advice and procedures, weird AF encounters and NPCs, a mini-game or two, and of course a helmetload of random tables for all sorts of uses.
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D&D 5e-powered MMO The Wagadu Chronicles is signing up alpha testers
You can get the core rules for free, by signing up for news. Twin Drums, the company behind the project, are primarily a computer game maker and have an MMO for The Wagada Chronicles in production. That’s a massively multiplayer online game.
Genre Police: Deep Think
Roleplaying can be a really emotive, cathartic and challenging experience if you want it to be.
Eldermancy’s 5e adventure setting Sunken Isles sails through $200,000 on Kickstarter
Looking for a new pre-written 5e adventure? Logan Reese, aka Runesmith from YouTube and the designer of Stibbles’ Codex of Companions, has teamed up with Hawaiian values consultancy Purple Mai’a and Eldermancy for Sunken Isles.
Poor Wizard’s Almanac: The latest TSR re-release gets mixed reviews
These RPG supplements are set in D&D’s first setting Mystara and begin in the year 1010 AC. The following books advance the year by one.
The Royal Cartographer: A world-building, map-making RPG you can play by yourself
There are two versions of The Royal Cartographer; a solo RPG, in which the Regent’s will is an obstacle to accuracy, and a two-to-four player version.
A look inside: Wickerpunk – a folk horror RPG 5e conversion
Crow Land Publishing’s Wickerpunk is barely off the digital press and is already a metal badge best-seller at DriveThruRPG.
The World Anvil announces the Bitter Chalice RPG inspired by Dark Souls and Bloodborne
You have ventured into a place from which no one has returned. What twist of fate brought you here? And what hope do you have of getting out?
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #139
There’s money flowing in all sorts of directions in this week’s RPG news and shop fronts stepping away from NFTs. All the acronyms, huh? Oh, and Dark Souls news.
Clockpunk RPG: Gran Meccanismo brings spies and robots knights to the world of da Vinici
Gran Meccanismo is a roleplaying game of swashbuckling swordplay where Florence’s winding alleys swarm with sinister Venetian spies and Milanese mercenaries, as an army of robot knights marches past on their way to the Vatican.
